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Category Archives: Prototype
Prague trams, 2007
Another batch of photographs. In 2011 I went on a study tour of Prague and Vienna (I did pay for the privilege!), looking at flood defences and hydropower schemes. I was delighted to have a hotel room in Prague overlooking one … Continue reading
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West Highland Railway, 1975
A long day down in the UK West Country yesterday, looking at computer models of flooding in the Somerset Levels. So I’ll post some more of my old holiday snaps! I hope to post another traction design article in a … Continue reading
Black Swans? Dispatches from the front line of climate change.
It seems there are three things not to talk about in polite company – politics, religion and climate change. I can’t be that polite, as only politics is off limits…. However, this article gives a good history of the Dawlish … Continue reading
Somerset levels, February 2014
The damage to Dawlish is a bit of a side show to the ongoing flooding of the Somerset Levels. I did learn last week that ‘Somerset’ is a derivation of ‘Summer Land’ – in days gone by people only lived … Continue reading
Dawlish flooding
The latest gales and high tides have wrecked the iconic ex-Great Western Railway line along Dawlish Warren and the seafront of Dawlish town. It’s a far cry from the usual picture of GWR Kings and Castles on a sunny summer’s … Continue reading
Severn Valley Railway, 1971
A few more snaps from the Bartlett archives. These were taken on a school railway society trip, I recall. Again this was the early days of preservation. A lot of my film was taken up with the carcass of 70000 … Continue reading
The (very little) night mail
Fascinating article from the BBC on the Post Office Railway (otherwise known as mail rail). This driverless narrow-gauge line carried mail for over six miles from sorting office to sorting office under the streets of London from 1927 to 2003. That fount of all knowledge … Continue reading
Ffestiniog railway 1970
Another simple blog. But here are two pictures taken in 1970 at Porthmadoc on the west coast of Wales. The Ffestiniog was primarily a slate carrier, and ran on a tad under 2 foot gauge. Although preservation of the line … Continue reading
Welshpool & Llanfair 1970
I am going to opt for an easy post (or two) this week, posting a few of my old holiday snaps. Nothing racy or revealing, I’m afraid, just boring old railways. So here are four snaps of the 2′ 6″ … Continue reading
Java junction
Keeping the overseas flavour, here are four shots of Banjar, Java, and some Indonesian trains. A modelling point I liked are the grassed areas between tracks. You don’t see those at Clapham Junction!
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