Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Railway Signalling in Burma - Part 6: Signal Boxes with Electrical Interlocking

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The British built the extensive metre gauge railway network in Burma.  Around Yangon and on main lines there's double track which is ...
Monday, 25 March 2013

Railway Signalling in Burma - Part 4: Manual Control of Points and Interlocking

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In the previous article on railway signalling in Burma Part 3 - Control of Trains , I reviewed my understanding of the origins of the syst...

Railway Signalling in Burma - Part 5: Signal Boxes with Interlocking Frames

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The British built the extensive metre gauge railway network in Burma.  Around Yangon and on main lines there's double track which is ...
Friday, 22 March 2013

Back to Yangon

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Events of Friday, 22nd February 2013 The Aureum Palace Hotel provided a good cooked breakfast so, by the time my guide and driver arrived...
Thursday, 21 March 2013

An Evening in Napyidaw

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Events of Thursday Evening 21st February 2013 We'd driven down from Mandalay that morning and spent the afternoon looking for, and f...
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...