Wednesday, 20 March 2013

Lunar New Year Preparations at Than's Home in Vietnam

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The Lunar New Year (often called the 'Chinese New Year') is a very important festival in Vietnam. My visit to Vietnam in 2013 coi...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Manchester Piccadilly Station - Behind the Scenes

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Manchester Piccadilly, showing the restored trainshed and a 'Virgin' Pendolino. On Tuesday, 12th March 2013, I joined a group f...

By Rail to Manchester

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Sundry Notes and Musings, divided (approximately) into two periods Pre-1980: I don't believe I travelled to Manchester in the stea...
Thursday, 14 March 2013

'Blazing Saddles'

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'Blazing Saddles'? No, not the 1974 Mel Brooks film but the name given to the March 2013 Gala at Peak Rail. John Alvin's p...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Mandalay Area Railways

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Introduction Mandalay Central Station (shown as a black square on the map below) is an important rail hub. It forms the northern end of ...
Monday, 4 March 2013

Sunday Diesel

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Events of Sunday, 3rd March 2013 The Battlefield Line had planned to operate a steam-hauled service on the 2nd and 3rd of March. However...

Saturday Steam

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Events of Saturday, 2nd March 2013 The Power Hall, showing the sectioned Beyer Peacock 2-4-0T 'Pender'. I was rostered as dri...
Friday, 22 February 2013

Napyidaw

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Events of Thursday 21st February 2013 At 8.0 a.m. I was collected by a charming young lady guide from Yangon called Miss Khin Khin Chaw ...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

More Mandalay

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Events of Wednesday 20th February, 2013 I'd arranged with my guide that we'd make one more excursion, travelling to the ever-bea...