If you’ve ever watched “The Fugitive” with Harrison Ford you will, no doubt, remember the train crash. No models involved, all full size, some of it is still on location. It was filmed on a private/heritage railroad, the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad. Though their website barely mentions ithttps://www.gsmr.com You can see it on Google Maps:… Read More The Fugitive train crash
In its heyday Builth Road was a thriving community in its own right. The junction of the Central Wales Railway and the Mid Wales Railway was built on two different levels, with a spur linking the two. The Central WalesRailway’s High Level Station opened for traffic in 1866. The Mid Wales line ran from Brecon… Read More Builth Road Station
Something I find invaluable when travelling is a decent left luggage facility. Sadly, most facilities in the UK are now run by private companies not connected to the train operating companies, and are not always open at convenient times. For example, the St Pancras facility is operated by The Excess Baggage Company. It charges £12.50… Read More Continental Left Luggage
Ever wanted to know what destinations are served by a station? In a similar manner to those “departures from this station” posters you see on the platforms, this site gives a list of departures by station. I’m finding it useful for trip planning. I live within ten miles of several stations, so if I’m looking… Read More Stations and Destinations
The Eichenberger Waldbahn (Forest Railway) was founded in 1986, when 18 narrow gauge enthusiasts bought 2 Henschel diesel locomotives from a local factory. Three years later they rented a former rail maintenance yard adjacent to Eichenberg main line station, in central Germany. The main focus of the centre is preservation and operation of 600mm gauge railway stock… Read More Eichenberg Forest Railway
This is one of my favourite lines, the trip from Dovey Junction to Pwllheli is best done on the late afternoon train, to experience sunset over the Cambrian Coast. The line runs along the coast for much of the 53 miles, giving spectacular views of both the Welsh mountains, and the shoreline. The single track… Read More Cambrian Coast Line
This is the scene that got me pondering about the view from a train. It was a snatched photo taken in the early 1990’s in from a District line train, between the River Thames & East Putney Station. The car is no longer there & the company that owned the building at the time have… Read More You can’t see this by car
I spent some time last week looking at saving money on rail travel. How many places can I get a ticket online? As well as all the Train Operating Companies, there’s another handful of companies that just sell tickets, giving us almost 40 different places you can buy a ticket online. And the there’s various… Read More Not so cheap day return
Coming shortly – a mostly rail-centred blog, with some transport issues thrown in. No doubt my early memories of the numerous oil trains running past my garden to the Thame depot had an influence, until we moved away just before my 5th birthday. I watched the tracks being lifted through Winchcombe some years later, and… Read More The Journey Begins
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