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A Suitcase That is a Backpack

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:June 12, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

Train travel is not always easy to do with a regular suitcase, or so I thought. So I said I’d review a suitcase that doubled up as a backpack. The concept is winning, the product was not. It is good in some ways but had a couple of niggling issues.

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Epidemic the Old Vic Tunnels

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:May 22, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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The Trans Mongolian and Babushkas

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:March 16, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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The Shiny New Network Rail Picture Archive

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:March 2, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

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...…

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Valentine’s Day and Trains

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:February 14, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Charles Dickens, His 200th Birthday, Trains and Death

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:February 7, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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Bob Dylan Likes Trains

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:January 30, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

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.…

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East Anglia, Where There Are Villages With No Mobile Phone Signal

  • Post author:Sophie
  • Post published:January 23, 2012
  • Post category:Blog

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…

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