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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!
Georgian interlude
Spring cleaning my work files on the computer, I came across these shots in 2007 of Borjormi, Georgia (the ex-Russian one, not the US state). I was meant to be looking at the small river that passes under the station. The … Continue reading
Hobby of the Gods
I have always been convinced that railways are a divinely inspired invention. You only have to think of Thomas’ author, the Rev. Awdry… I recently found some family photos of a holiday in Crete, where we were taken to visit the cave said to be … Continue reading
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