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
In the 1930’s The English Electric Company produced a series of booklets about its electrification projects of railways worldwide. No.51 (1932) covers the Bombay Suburban lines, the first to be electrified in India. These scans are of the original booklet. Thanks for reading. Check out my other posts on travel, heritage railways and more.Please click… Read More Indian Railways Electrification
I found an envelope of old GWR papers at a recent car boot. Accident reports & letters from/to the Great Western Railway regarding staff injuries. Mostly dated about 1927. I’ll scan and post more soon, however this one stuck out. “With regard to injury… in handling lard” . Thankfully it’s not a problem we encounter… Read More Beware of Lard
Recent arrivals at the Chasewater Railway are two Simplex Rail Motors. These unusual looking rail vehicles were built by the Bedford based Motor Rail Ltd. Although painted in BR livery to resemble LNER Class Y11 shunters, these ones were industrial locomotives, built in 1919 and 1920, and spent their lives in foundries and industrial sidings.… Read More Simplex rail motors
“Mass Transit” – the Vaser Valley Railway, Romania has a very random assortment of converted vans that run on its 760mm narrow gauge track. Built between 1933-35, partly wrecked by the Nazis in WWII and rebuilt after, it was mainly a forestry railway, running for 50km in the Maramures region of Northern Romania. The converted vans… Read More Mass Transit, Romanian Style
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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
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