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There is one particular publisher based in Gloucestershire which seems to churn out many transport, local and industrial history books of this ilk. I hardly ever even consider buying their titles any more.
Also in Gloucestershire is another publisher of transport and industrial history books...
Yes I know that Colin Maggs has produced other works and thought I would see his take on the subject. Perhaps its the new stretched format that makes it lightweight as one can get more in on the page. Anyway not finished it yet as I became distracted with another book for past few days. I do...
I bought a copy of the recently released Severn Bridge Railway when I was at the Welshpool and Llanfair Rly the other week and noticed it was in a larger format that the original series.
The Severn Bridge has always fascinated me ever since reading an article on it in the Railway Magazine in...
I really dispair when I see things like this.
Part of the problem in the past two decades have been the media for putting "Banksy" on a pedestal. Thus criminal damage has become "street art". It despoils the environment and is a particular blight in some areas.
I have no problem with people...
I sometimes wonder if Llangollen Railway plc had organised its own auction of assets they may have raised enough to survive and avoided paying the receiver's their hefty fees. I gather the auction raised more than was expected.
The following story popped up on my news feed late last night. I must admit I have never got round to visit the NYMR, though I have seen it many times on various TV dramas and documentaries over the years.
Could they be going to go the way of Llangollen...
Shortening of lines appeared to happen in a few places, making passengers walk further is a great disincentive to getting them to use the railway rather than the car.
Also rationalisation of freight could have made for improved passenger only facilities.
Two Western Region lines which I...
The Sunday morning programme was "Steam Horse Iron Road" which I recall opened with some film from the Titfield Thunderbolt Knock and Rolt were among the presenters of the idividual episodes which covered the history of railways.
Liverpool Central High Level, whilst it might not have seen rail use with the connecting of the link line to the ex CLC line the trainshed could have been used as a city centre exhibition centre as happened at Manchester Central. With direct rail access to the underground platforms it would...
Station Road in Okehampton has a lot of Victorian houses without drive ways, thus a lot of on street parking. Since the original station reopened traffic has increased significantly and buses are making their way up and down to the station. The station car park is not that big either. When I...
Exeter certainly was an odd choice for HQ but perhaps WNOC/SNOC always hoped for what eventually happened in 1970 - the acquistion of Devon General when National House turned out to be well located almost in the heart of the empire.
Though a BET operation I note that old timetables as with...
Obviously someone paying too much attention to the Sat Nav!!!
About a decade ago I bought my first car with a built in sat nav.
Having never used one before I set it up for a journey from my work place to Liverpool Costco about 4 or 5 miles out of curiosity to see if would take me the route...
Going back to GWR Broad Gauge days there were several single sided stations with two platforms on the same side with a cross-over.
I can't recall which ones but I have seen photos, diagrams and models.
Yes but the individual company / fleet names were maintained even on the white coaches. The standardised poppy red / leaf green usually went to bus companies in Tilling and BET groups which had used either red or green as their primary colours. The real casualty of the change was dropping shades...