Located in what was once the bustling area of Tiger Bay in Cardiff docks, Cardiff Bay railway station (Bae Caerdydd) is the southern terminus of the short Butetown Branch Line, …
Cardiff Bay railway station in old Tiger Bay quietly rots away… Read More
The New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn is a great place to visit if you’re in New York and have a bit of an interest in old trains, mechanical things, old …
Old trains galore at the New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn Read More
The High Line offers a fabulous walk through the heart of lower Manhattan, with the park being built on the tracks of a long abandoned elevated railroad route.
A walk along the High Line, Manhattan NYC Read More
Purchased for the princely sum of £1.25 on eBay, this old British rail ticket is for a journey which can no longer be made, as East Brixton station has long …
Brixton’s lost railways – East Brixton station to Battersea, 3rd October 1969 Read More
Pictured above is Brixton Railway Station, photographed on 11th December 1960. The tracks to the left run to Loughborough Junction, while the tracks nearest the camera are on the London Victoria to Orpington line.
Fifty years of Brixton railway station Read More
Blasting its way over Borough Market and thrusting its metal loins over Borough High Street is Network Rail’s rail improvement works. Tasked with improving the old Victorian track layout around …
London Bridge rail redevelopment charges across Borough Market Read More
Gleaming in the glorious Brixton sunshine is this excursion train headed up by a BR standard class 7 70000 Britannia locomotive.
BR 70000 Britannia loco thunders through Brixton Read More
Seen earlier today at Farringdon station, central London, was this heavily graffiti’d train carriage on a northbound train. Only the last carriage had been painted. Scroll down for more.
Pics of the day: graffiti train, Farringdon, London Read More
We raved about the fantastic service and lovely staff when we took a trip on the line and vexed like an angry rapper when we heard the news what it …
Wrexham & Shropshire railway campaign update Read More
Filmed in the 1950s, this fascinating amateur-shot footage (below) shows a tantalisingly short glimpse of steam trains thundering through a Brixton station still controlled by mechanical signals.
Brixton station in the steam era (1950s footage) Read More
Photo taken on a Ricoh GX100 digital compact, with a slow hand-held exposure (0.4s). I leant the camera against a bannister to keep things sharp. I took a few photos of the scene (that’s …
Photo of the day: trolleys, St Pancras station Read More
I’m a big fan of Victorian railway architecture, and although a lot of fine vernacular buildings have been senselessly destroyed since the 1960s, it’s always heart-warming to find some inspiring examples still standing.
The châteauesque glory of Box Hill railway station Read More
This is really sad news. The Wrexham & Shropshire railway company – the best railway company I’ve travelled with for years – has just announced that it is closing for …
Wrexham & Shropshire railway company closes Read More
Although it’s a station on the busy main line from Paddington to Penzance in Cornwall, St Erth retains the air of a Victorian country junction.
St Erth for St Ives railway station – a country junction Read More
Abandoned for at least 30 years is this old ‘accumulator tower’ at Royal Mint St, by Tower Hill, London E1, which had been used for storing hydraulic power. “An accumulator …
Accumulator tower, hydraulics and bonded stores, Royal Mint St, E1 Read More
The optimistically named Oxford and Rugby Railway managed to build a track from Oxford only as far as Banbury, with line being absorbed by the Great Western Railway before it …
Closed railway station: Aynho for Deddington, Oxfordshire Read More
My train back from Cardiff yesterday ended up taking a curious diversionary route into Oxfordshire, with the HST ending up at Banbury station for 20 minutes before reversing out in the opposite direction. With the station …
Banbury railway station: fog, semaphore signals and trainspotters Read More
I had to take a trip to Hendon last week. It wasn’t very nice.
Behold! Hendon Broadway and station Read More
Closed in 1986 after a long and lingering death, the once bustling terminus at Broad Street was in a parlous state at the end, with its extensive canopies cut back, …
Remembering Broad Street railway station, London Read More
After a lovely long walk across snow-covered parks and – unwittingly – over a frozen lake or two, I decided to catch the train back to my hotel in the …
Deserted 57th Street station, Chicago, winter of ’99 Read More
A deceptive façade at 23/24 Leinster Gardens, Paddington, London W2
The incredible fake houses of Paddington Read More
With so much going on every night on Brixton, I rarely venture south for a night, but I was glad I made the effort to go nearby Tulse Hill for …
‘Folkaoke’ at the Railway, Tulse Hill Read More