Epidemic the Old Vic Tunnels
This week I've visited the tunnels beneath Bristol Temple Meads (which you will hear about soon) for a ghost tour, and those beneath Waterloo station to watch a play called…
The Trans Mongolian and Babushkas
What is the greatest rail journey in the world? The Ghan, the Orient Express, the Caledonian Sleeper, Copper Canyon? Or the Trans Mongolian? What can compare to heading East to…
The Shiny New Network Rail Picture Archive
Network Rail have a shiny new website with archived railway images on it. The images are really quite beautiful, from Brunel's Bristol Temple Meads... To the roof of Paddington Station...…
Valentine’s Day and Trains
Love has a history on trains - the mention of love in relation to trains may get you thinking in black and white, imagining glamorous 20s era strangers coyly catching…
Charles Dickens, His 200th Birthday, Trains and Death
Today it is 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens. While it might be a little morbid, then, to mention events leading up to his death. This story is…
Bob Dylan Likes Trains
Artica Galleries, part of the Castle Galleries group is selling limited edition prints of Bob Dylan's 'Train Tracks' from the 'Drawn Blank' series. There are 295 lithographs of the originals.…
East Anglia, Where There Are Villages With No Mobile Phone Signal
There are four-and-a-bit days left of the National Express East Anglia sale. It's a pretty good one, with one way seats for just £5. Unfortunately the National Express website is…
High Speed Two in Slow Motion
There were two pieces of news 10th January which are tenuously linked yet worth reading with the other in mind. One was that the ambitious £32 billion High Speed Two…