Jan Ford's World

Events of Saturday 7th October 2017 Indawgyi Lake is the largest lake in Myanmar and one of the largest in South-East Asia, about 8 mile...

Events of Friday 6th October 2017 I started the day at the Palm Spring Resort Hotel in Myitkyina with a walk around the well-tended garde...

Events of Thursday 5th October 2017 It was raining again when I got up. Google insisted on telling me the outside temperature (though I h...

Events of Wednesday, 4th October 2017 During the night of Tuesday/Wednesday, I was woken by a bright, flashing light. I realised that the...

Events of Tuesday, 3rd October 2017 The Horizon Club Lounge at the Sule Shangri-La Hotel has a good elevated view of Yangon's famous ...

Events of Monday, 2nd October 2017 Late on Sunday, I'd managed to make contact with my friend, Captain Myo Lwin. He'd been unwell...

Events of Sunday, 1st October 2017 My room on the 21st floor at the Sule Shangri-La Hotel was a 'Horizon Club' room. These rooms ...

Events of Saturday, 30th September 2017 After a pleasant interlude in the 'Emirates' lounge at Birmingham (described here ) we bo...

Events of Friday, 29th September 2017 I'm starting out on another long-distance trip and, once again, the destination is Myanmar (as ...

There is a series of posts in which I attempt to summarise my observations of railway signalling on Myanma Railways. Railway Signalling in...

To facilitate further analysis of the signalling principles used on Myanma Railways (MR), I have assembled a number of albums of my photogr...

In a post here , I talked about the locomotive designer Dugald Drummond and the genesis of his 'T9' 4-4-0, introduced in 1899, for ...