Jan Ford's World

I've written a number of posts describing some of the railway traffic movements in the West Midlands in the 1960s. Most of the observat...

In the post 'The Train Register Book' , I talk about the log books kept in signal boxes recording exactly what happens. But some of...

Click on any picture below to see the un-cropped image. In the post 'Royal Visit to the Museum of Liverpool' , I described the s...

Click on any picture below to see the un-cropped image. The Museum of Liverpool nears completion in July 2011. On Thursday 1st Decembe...

For well over a century, the Train Register Book has been a feature of railway signal boxes following British practice. When I started visi...

Click on any picture below to see the un-cropped image. On 26th November 2011, I made a trip to Llandudno, on the North Wales Coast. In P...

The sweep of the bay at Llandudno, with the Great Orme in the background. I've always lived in the Midlands of England, where the se...

There's an introduction to Tipton Curve box here . Tipton Curve, Saturday 10th July 1965 All the signalling staff in the area have...

I started to write this article back in June 1964, using a typewriter. For some reason, I never finished it but below I reproduce what exis...

These are the notes I made at the time of a brake van ride from Tipton Curve to Wednesbury and back. There's more about Tipton Curve h...

There's an introduction to Deepfields box (with a signalling diagram) here and more detail here . Deepfields, Saturday 24th October...

There's an introduction to Deepfields box (with a signalling diagram) here and more detail here . Deepfields, Saturday 17th October...

Friday, 4th November 2011 Breakfast at the Oriental. After a comfortable night at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, all that remained wa...