On the Milwaukee Road #2
This is the second part of a look at whats left of the railroad’s 440 mile route through the …
On the Milwaukee Road #1
A tour featuring some of the highlights of the 440 mile electrified length of the Milwaukee Road be…
Electric railroad: Rockies #2
Most of the westward extension has now vanished and many of its structures have been demolished, sa…
Electric Railroad: Rockies #1
Forty years ago one of America’s most iconic and controversial transcontinental lines closed …
Brindley, Wet Earth Colliery, nr Manchester
I am writing this because I have seen two of Martin Zero’s videos on the excellent work by Ja…
Five get to Bristol briskly
Last week most of Central London had copies of the Evening Standard with a special feature cover fr…
The County Donegal Railways #3
The third part of the CDRJC feature covering the line’s closure and what can be seen of the r…
Noisy Barbican tube trains #2
Historical knowledge of rail vibrations London Underground has known for decades there is a problem…
Those noisy Barbican tube trains!
Briefly, this is an overview of the problems of tube trains running beneath the Barbican Estate in …
The Tōkaidō Shinkansen
While we in the UK battle wits over whether a new high speed railway should be built or not, I thou…
The County Donegal Railways #2
This is part two of the tribute to the famed County Donegal narrow gauge railways which closed on t…
The County Donegal Railways
Sixty years ago this week the last passenger trains rain on the County Donegal Railways. Its popula…
Whatever happened to Brunel's bridge?
The famous (since 2004) bridge was dismantled and taken to Portsmouth where it currently resides at…
Coventry Canal #2
The Coventry Canal opened in 1769, that’s 250 years ago. Its architect, James Brindley, worked on t…
Coventry Canal
The Coventry Canal was one of the country’s earliest waterways to be opened following the suc…
Liverpool Street Shenfield anniversary
Its seventy years since the Liverpool Street – Shenfield electrification first began. The sch…
Central Line: beyond Caxton Road #2
Remember the popular post Central Line: Beyond Caxton Road published more than two years ago? This …
The Blue Train
Britain’s newest train, can be said to be ‘blue in the face’ because its had so m…
Toddbrook Reservoir
The dam at Toddbrook. Source: Twitter By now many will no doubt be aware of the calamity that occur…
The Moon 1969
You’ll know what this is about! Its fifty years since humans first set foot on the moon. But …
A 1956 tube stock mystery
A special post about the 1956 tube stock. Piccadilly Circus station staff sent a tweet (one of thei…
Piccadilly Circus tube’s BSL
Piccadilly Circus tube station, one of the busiest on the tube, certainly in terms of tourism, is a…
Build Crossrail’s City Airport station!
Again & again it’s been said Crossrail should have a City Airport station. This week the …
Southwold Railway
The Southwold Railway – England’s premier three foot narrow gauge passenger railway! Th…
The Southwold Railway
The Southwold Railway – England’s premier three foot narrow gauge passenger railway! Th…
Marylebone station’s anniversary #1
The 120th anniversary! The first official train left Marylebone 9th March and the station opened to…
Marylebone station’s anniversary
The 120th anniversary! The first official train left Marylebone 9th March and the station opened to…
Runaway tube trains #3
The third part of the runway tube trains series. Waterloo & City, Island Line and other inciden…
Runaway tube trains #2
In the first part of this we looked at runaway trains on the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Piccad…
Runaway tube trains
Imagine a tube train that somehow finds its own way through tunnels. People may think it never happ…
Rare mixed track Baker Street #3
Another installment in the Baker Street track replacement works series! This time we can see the en…
Old tube station reveals itself!
Fifty years ago in February 1959, the last tube trains to served this particular station were withd…
Rare mixed track Baker Street #2
The very unusual mixed rail track at Baker Street is no more. It lasted probably just one day! What…
Rare mixed track at Baker Street
The UK’s railways have one type or another of rail which are flatbottom or the increasingly r…
Tube Xmas posters and pictures
Now that Xmas is most definitely over, can we move on and look forward to the New Year? Not just ye…
St Pancras at 150 #2
A follow on from Monday’s feature which showed mainly aspects of the station and the railway …
St Pancras at 150
Today its 150 years since St. Pancras station opened its doors. These pictures range from the const…
The Grand Surrey Canal #2
In the first instalment of this two part series, I looked at Oxestalls Road bridge, the Timberyard …
The Grand Surrey Canal #1
The Grand Surrey Canal is South London’s lost waterway. It stretched from the docks down towa…
King’s Cross Thameslink’s tunnels
The history and construction of the lines that make up Thameslink are of considerable importance be…