The New Stansted Express Rolls Out of Liverpool Street
Once again, my lovely conductor friend @theflob has provided me with some fantastic photos for the blog. Here are some pictures he took of the shiny new Stansted Express before…
Monday 7th March 2011 | Last Week in Trains
I begin with a story I saw yesterday, when @GoldenTours tweeted it. 19 year-old mother Ulrike Kracht was taking her luggage off a Deutsche Bahn train in Germany, when the…
February 28th 2011 | Last Week in Trains
I begin this sombre Monday morning with news that Arriva Trains Wales are striking. They'd threatened to strike during the rugby but had been criticised to the point of calling…
Monday 21st February | Last Week in Trains
It gives me great pleasure to begin with a lighter piece. This is the news that last week, a train driver was attacked by a seagull as he walked along…
Monday 7th February | Last Week in Trains
Bonjour. Nothing to report about French rail, just mixing things up. So. walesonline.co.uk took a rather damning view of Arriva Trains Wales 'climbdown' from its threat to strike on the…
Monday 24th January | Last Week in Trains
There was some hilarious news in @TheFactCompiler's blog recently, if you want to go and check it out. But I've got amusing angles on otherwise mildly mundane news. Yippee. Though…
Monday 10th January | Last Week in Trains
A train driver who ignored the fact his neck was broken and bleeding in the name of passenger safety, is getting married. Hailed as a hero by the Lennox Herald…
Tuesday 4th Jan 2011 | Last Week In Trains
So it's a New Year. Happy New Year. People with synesthesia everywhere got excited when it struck 12am and became 01.01.11. (or perhaps the lack of variety made it less exciting...)…