Jan Ford's World

I was quite sorry to be leaving the St. Regis Hotel. I took breakfast around 7.00 a.m. and then returned to my room to try to finish off th...

I arose about 6.10 a.m. and had a decent breakfast in the restaurant. I then worked on the computer until around 9.20 a.m. when I went to r...

The alarm went off at 6.00 a.m. but I decided to sleep a little longer. It was half past seven when I woke and I still felt a little fragil...

With diesel traction on the front we left the station at about twenty to one in the morning. I slept until 2.00 a.m. to find the train had ...

I'll give you a very brief description of the train journey. I appreciate that not everyone is a railway enthusiast, so I'll try to...

Buffet Breakfast was served in the lobby restaurant at the hotel. The array of food on offer was remarkable – mainly Chinese-style but I ma...

As we started our descent into Beijing, there were signs of major building work – mainly very tall apartment blocks. The weather was very o...

It wasn't as hard as I feared to get to my gate. The  rectangular main building at terminal 5 had the Departure (upper) and Arrival (lo...

"The journey of a Thousand Miles starts with a Single Step" is a Chinese Proverb. Particularly appropriate today, I thought becau...

A view from the Tea Tent during the afternoon. A Vintage Garden Party was held on Saturday 6th July 2013, in glorious weather. This was ...

Click here for other sizes The drawing of the locomotive included in the British Empire Exhibition publication [reference 5] The railwa...

The DMU waiting for 'Sir Gomer' to clear the single line. The Battlefield Line ran a '1940s weekend' on the weekend of 1...