Please share & sign my new petition on the Government petitions website to keep ticket offices open. The RDG letter sent recently states ticket offices will be “repurposed” & staff are to be “multi skilled” (which they are already!) This is seen as turning ticket offices into cafes/shops. Our station staff do far more than… Read More Keep ticket offices open!
New film on the Armagh rail diaster. Making this was an interesting illustration of how little survives of some railways like GNRI, including artifacts & photos. So various images of other railways had to be used purely to illustrate the film. There’s a detailed history here, including some of the accident reports. And this is… Read More The Armagh Rail Disaster
The Glasgow Subway is getting a major upgrade over the next two years, with a fleet of 17 new trains. They are expected to be in service in 2023 as part of a £288m upgrade plan including platform edge doors, tunnel improvements and resignalling, and will be the first trains to operate in the UK… Read More New trains for the Clockwork Orange
How far can you get by rail across Europe in 1 to 5 hours? This is a very cool and useful tool. It shows you how far you can get by rail in 1-5 hours across Europe from large towns & cities. Certainly shows the big differences between countries and their provision of high speed… Read More Five hours on a train
New film, showing some of the more unusual railways in Dublin’s past and some new developments If you’re visiting Dublin take a look at the accommodation on offer through Booking.com. This link pays a small commission if you book your stay and helps to pay for the production of this blog & these films … Read More The Random Railways of Dublin
A vintage Walton Films Super 8 film entitled “Railway Scrapbook”, just uploaded to Youtube. It includes the last days of the Mumbles Railway, the Festiniog Railway Centenary, Flying Scotsman being purchased by Alan Pegler, and more. Thanks for reading. Check out my other posts on travel, heritage railways and more.Please click like and subscribe for… Read More Archive film, Railway Scrapbook
After many years, trams are returning to the Belgian city of Liege. Since 1967, the only trams in the city have been residing in the Museum of Public Transport of Wallonia. Liege had the first electric tram in Belgium, which started operating in 1893, It quickly developed and by 1905 there were 4 lines that… Read More Trams are returning to Liege
A short film about a few of the interesting items on show at Rail Live! 2022, the UK railway industry exhibition held at Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre in Warwickshire. Thanks for reading. Check out my other posts on travel, heritage railways and more.Please click like and subscribe for more random railways content. Follow me… Read More Rail Live 2022
New film on Youtube. Archive footage from 1928-1955 of the SMJR, “The Shakespeare Route” Thanks for reading. Check out my other posts on travel, heritage railways and more.Please click like and subscribe for more random railways content. Follow me on Twitter and Youtube. If you would like to help me with a small donation towards producing more content… Read More Stratford & Midland Junction Railway
The Welsh Government have just announced they won’t be resuming flights between Cardiff & Anglesey (Pre Covid they subsidised it) but are looking into improving public transport connections instead. There’s been pressure for some years to reopen the Carmarthen-Aberystwyth and Bangor-AfonWen lines to provide a Nouth -South Welsh route. Currently the Cardiff-Bangor rail route is… Read More A New North-South Welsh rail link
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