Jan Ford's World

On the 1st September 2009, I was part of a small group of passengers from the 'Road to Mandalay' who made a day trip to Maymyo. On...

The extensive market at Maymyo With our arrival at Shwe Kyet Yet on the previous day, our cruise had come to its close. But our adven...

Sunday, 30th August 'Road to Mandalay' cast off from its midstream mooring at Bagan around 10:00 a.m. to sail upstream back to M...

On Sunday, I took breakfast reasonably early because I was going ashore for a while before the ship cast off at 10:00 a.m. to cruise back u...

After we'd visited Mount Popa and enjoyed an excellent lunch, it was agreed that we'd visit Ti Pu, one of the villages where 'R...

On this trip too much was happening and, at this point, I failed to keep the postings up-to-date so I didn't write the following report...

Thursday 27th August 2009 Where was I? In the last episode, we’d just walked round the delightful ‘Pottery Village’ and then we took the ...

I write this, in haste, at the end of a hectic week in the Union of Myanmar (which used to be called Burma). The easiest way into and out o...

I started the day with breakfast on the terrace at my hotel. It's hot, just how I like it. The river teems with ferries, longtail boats...

Jet Airways operated a Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) on the Heathrow - Mumbai leg, powered by two huge turbo-fans. Their 'Premiere...

The Jet Airways Boeing 777-300ER at Heathrow, just prior to boarding Once again, I'm off to the Far East. As I write, it's 08:15 o...

The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI) hosted a nine-day Transport Festival in August, 2009. As you can see from the rath...

In the past, locomotive coaling on Peak Rail has been carried out at the Darley Dale yard. For some years, an electric coal elevator was em...

I've been involved in the management of a small commercial woodland in Wales for the last twenty years or so. Ty Gwyn is a 66-acre pla...

Arriving at Wolverhampton to travel to London, the first service south was an Arriva Cross Country which I decided to board, intending to c...

Back in the '60s, when I worked signal boxes unofficially, I was used to seeing long-distance express trains on the Stour Valley line, ...

Robin models a 'tin hat' as a down train pauses at Darley Dale. I was driver on Sunday 2nd August 2009 on the second day of the Pe...

'Lionsmeet' is a peripatetic event, moving from year-to-year between the tracks of different model engineering societies. To even ...

This panorama from the Liverpool Overhead Railway 'Map and Guide of the Railway and Docks' shows the extensive docks. Click on the ...