Sunday, 13 September 2020

Operations at the Battlefield Line in 2020

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Following The  Cold Turkey Gala  on the 4th/5th January 2020, there was a planned closure of the line until Easter, allowing significant per...
Friday, 26 June 2020

Infrastructure Problems (3)

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This post is one of what appears to be becoming a series about infrastructure and 'the built environment' in the United Kingdom. The...
Wednesday, 24 June 2020

Power Signal Box, Togyaunggalay

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Events on Sunday 5th May 2019, Yangon area   In the post  Return to Burma , I mentioned a visit to Togyaunggalay (Romanisation of Myanmar w...
Sunday, 21 June 2020

Infrastructure Problems (2)

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The road which passes the side of my garden, Sandy Lane, carries a formidable volume and variety of traffic so road 'patching' of po...
Tuesday, 16 June 2020

Titfield Thunderbolt Film Posters

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Some months ago when I was browsing on Abebooks (my first choice for books, particularly second-hand railway books) I came across BENITO O...
Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Brewood Village Road Re-surfacing

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The road which passes the side of my garden, Sandy Lane, carries a formidable volume and variety of traffic so road 'patching' by th...
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Train Movements at Euston (2)

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At the time of writing, the world is suffering from the serious, new respiratory disease Covid-19 and the U.K. is currently in 'Lockdow...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

The Mersey Railway: Historical Notes

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In the post Early Days of the Mersey Railway I outlined the construction of the tunnel and, in 1886, the opening of the line using steam t...