Marylebone Circus
There’s London’s famous Oxford Circus (which was formerly called Regent Circus), Piccadilly Circus, and not forgetting Cambridge Circus, Holborn Circus, even the lesser known Arnold, Battersea, Finsbury, Ludgate, Mill Hill, Savoy, St George’s, St Giles, Westferry and Queen’s Circuses. And there’s Marylebone Circus! There’s no such place in London! The…
The Eiffel Tower's Edoux Lifts
Gustave Eiffel’s new tower, to be built in Paris for the anniversary of French Independence in 1889, wasnt just something that could be put up at a whim. No-one had to that date ever built so high, and worse no-one had ever built lifts that could climb such heights. Originally…
Any remains of Beach's subway in Broadway?
In this second part on New York’s Beach Pneumatic Transit, I investigate whether any remains still exist. This post can be considered an update to what is currently known about the fate of Beach’s subway. As far as things go it does seem that there is nothing left of Beach’s…
A Welsh mountain railway’s Catalonia twin
It’s often been thought the locomotives for the Snowdon Mountain Railway were a one-off batch from the SLM works at Winterthur, Switzerland. However further locomotives were built alongside the 1922 and 1923 builds for Snowdon (No.6 Sir Harmood/Padarn, No.7 Aylwyn/Ralph and No.8 Eryri) and these additional builds were acquired by…