Milwaukee Road: Seattle/Tacoma
Avery is of course the western end of the noted 440 mile long Rockies electrification. However the company also ran another electrics division that traversed the Cascades in Washington state, and these tracks led to Seattle and Tacoma. The latter was of course the absolute extremity of any of the…
King’s Cross tunnels & canal aqueduct #3
The final part of the King’s Cross station remodelling took place between Easter and early June 2021 with the west side of the station being closed and the tracks and platforms upgraded to longer sections as well as better track geometry. Unfortunately the design has left the former platform 10…
King’s Cross tunnels & canal aqueduct #2
That darned canal aqueduct at King’s Cross is a major factor why the railway layout at this prestige London railway terminus has problems. Its not just that, there’s also the Camden sewer which also caused problems too by being right across the entrance to the three Gasworks tunnels. As we…
King’s Cross tunnels & canal aqueduct
The King’s Cross upgrade is a complex project because of the proximity of the adjacent tunnels known as Gasworks to the main line station and its platforms. This is why the layout was hugely rationalised in the seventies – in order to provide more flexibility – however that came with…
Tower Subway gets filmed!
London’s mysterious Tower Subway, which opened in August 1870 and was the site for the city’s very first tube railway even though that was a small narrow gauge line with just one carriage carrying a few passengers a time under the Thames, has been the subject of curiosity for decades…
Seventy years of main line signalling in London #2
The Central Section resignalling scheme which we looked at in the first part of this feature was conducted in a number of stages between 1950 and 1955 and it covered the main lines out of both London Victoria (actually Pouparts Junction) and London Bridge (actually Bricklayers Arms Junction) towards Purley…
Seventy years of main line signalling in London
The recent decommissioning of the London Bridge power box on 24th July 2020 was in many ways a missed occasion despite the fact it was the final change over of control of this part of the Southern network to Three Bridges control. Even though the power box hung on a…
South Shore Line Michigan City
The Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Line (the South Shore) is America’s last interurban line – and what is more surprising is it still operates a substantial section of on-street track. The railroad once had other street sections too which have since been diverted – however this in Michigan…
MILW picture gallery #2
The second part of this special gallery of Milwaukee Road scenes! Most are from Flickr pools – and not even featured on Google’s pages. Many fascinating pictures – and great photographers who captured these scenes! Drummond between Deer Lodge and Missoula. One of the few stops on the Rockies division…
MILW picture gallery #1
I thought I’d do a gallery of Milwaukee Road scenes! Most are from Flickr pools – and not even featured on Google’s pages. Many fascinating pictures – and some very lucky guys who captured these scenes! The eastern terminus of the 438 miles of electrification at Harlowton. Large marshalling yards…