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The above-cited reference work, attempting comprehensive furnishing of (within the bounds of common sense) dates of all passenger-service withdrawals -- lines, and stations on lines which overall remained in passenger use -- in Great Britain: is often invaluable to those whose interests lie in...

This perhaps belongs more appropriately, in "Railway History and Nostalgia"; but as it's about "somewhere foreign" ... Recently perusing the "Insight Guide" to Cuba (said tome plainly declaring itself accurate as at the early 2020s); in particular, the book's short section on "Cuba's Transport...

Re thread title: for me -- aged 75 -- it's slovenliness / messiness. I tend to burden my everyday life with a lot of physical "stuff" -- largely, very mundane: "paperwork" and books of sundry kinds. Have long been aware of the maxim "a place for everything, and everything in its place" -- can in...

Having had a lifelong love of the Ffestiniog Railway: for many years in times past, I belonged to the supporting Society. Shortage of cash caused me to let my membership lapse; a situation which has long obtained. A recent unexpected "windfall" has had me considering re-joining the Society...

A recent-ish couple of "General Discussion" threads in which the subject of cheques arose, have been closed to further posting; thus, starting this as a new one. I (in my mid-seventies) am one of probably not very many people, who enjoy using cheques in circumstances -- not very common nowadays...

I start threads once in a while, about general English-language matters which bother me, if only to a slight degree. (This one perhaps prompted in part, by the current "evolution-of-the-English-language" thread.) The noun "sloth" -- probably most used nowadays, in respect of lovable animals...

My brother is a keen home aquarist; a couple of weeks ago, he purchased some fish -- which have given him much pleasure -- called "rummy-nose tetras"; so called, I learn, because of their having bright red (only) noses: suggestive of humans who over-indulge in alcohol, in this case specifically...

Prompted by a couple of posts in the ongoing in "General Discussion" thread, England's late 20th century good old days... ; a poster muses as to whether people were perhaps friendlier in the 50s and 60s: did people use to then, as a general rule, engage each other in a friendly fashion in the...

A seeming unsatisfactory -- and not merely "a one-off" -- matter encountered, on a visit by me to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway on April 18th just gone. I was looking (in my case, just a non-essential "twiddly bit" to my travels) at taking the last scheduled journey of the day, on the line's...

Feel that I appear to make rather a lot of posts on Railway History & Nostalgia, to do with the Tallylyn Railway in its eighty-five years of pre-preservation history; but it does strike me that, especially for such an essentially modest and out-of-the-way concern: the TR has in its career...

Am maybe at a loose end -- but; remorse prompted by an item which recently happened to show up. At a time of family crisis, I lived for a couple of years in my early teens with (very kind, and much-loved) relatives. Teenagers -- even non-riotous ones -- tend to be in various ways, annoying...

I live very largely "under a rock", and readily admit it: with matters as they are "near and far" -- I find this a necessary strategy against the temptation to commit suicide: possible eschatological consequences of which, bother me. Thus, a lot of modern-day expressions and concepts pass me by...

(Not sure whether this is the appropriate sub-forum; mods, please move if wished.) June 24th 1914 can be pinpointed as the date of an incident -- at a station, now closed, between Kingham and Moreton-in-Marsh -- which inspired Edward Thomas to write a poem now very greatly loved by British...

A recent discovery of mine -- happened on by chance, in pursuit of something totally else. To wit, the Ardkinglas Railway -- per the rather meagre relevant information findable via Wiki, possibly the first miniature railway in Britain: predating Sir Arthur Heywood's earliest doings, by several...

An item which I recently came upon by chance -- pretty trivial, maybe; but to me, intriguing. It involves the Great Western's "Titfield Thunderbolt" line: Limpley Stoke -- Camerton -- Hallatrow, in Somerset. Although I had been aware that the route's longer segment, east of Camerton, had come...

One discovers frequently, the great and various number of subjects knowledge and expertise of which can be found among participants on RailUKforums. I have some hopes, thus, that someone might shed light on the following -- admittedly rather abstruse -- matter which has aroused curiosity. A...

A bit of difficulty deciding whether to put this in this sub-forum, or in "International Transport"; but it's essentially nostalgia that is involved here. Different enthusiasts will have different definitions of what on the rail scene is "real", and what "artificial -- tourist-and-gricer-bait"...

I initiated -- date of first post 13 /5 /2020 --a thread on Railway History & Nostalgia, titled "Rowrah & Kelton Fell Railway -- atlas-featuring". Chiefly looking at "why did this particular 'stand-alone' mineral line, get to feature in the rail atlases showing pre-Grouping ownerships?"; but...

I don't drive, and nowadays rather seldom travel as a car passenger; which may contribute to a thing witnessed recently, having struck me as strange. Spent a couple of days recently in Dorset, travelling around with a friend -- he the driver, me the passenger and assistant with navigation...

A recent chance find on my part, of a one-time public railway totally new to me; occasioning mild astonishment. I had always assumed that the only public railway which there had ever been on the island of Borneo: was the -- still active today -- Sabah State Railway, formerly the North Borneo...