Showing posts with label Trains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trains. Show all posts
Monday, 27 July 2026

A Trip to the Dorset Seaside

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Monday 20th July I had a brief trip to the seaside in Dorset before all the schools broke up for summer and fo...
Thursday, 26 June 2025

The Night Riviera

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The Night Riviera is a sleeper train which runs from London Paddington to Penzance in Cornwall (and from Penza...
Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Doing the Locomotion, a trip to Darlington and Shildon.

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I’ve been to the National Railway Museum in York twice, first on a school trip around 1977 and again in  2017 . I’d never been to the other ...
Sunday, 31 December 2023

My 2023 in Review

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  2023 was my first whole year as an idle sod (officially) so I've taken a look back through my calendar to see what I actually did and...
Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Exe-ploring in Devon. Part 1.

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Saturday 26th March 2022 The end of the annual leave year and a goodish wether forecast means time for a little railway trip holiday. I mig...
Saturday, 7 August 2021

Spa Valley Railway

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 Tuesday 3rd August 2021 As things are opening up again - permanently or temporarily, who knows? - I decided that a visit to a heritage rai...
Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Norwich, Norfolk 'n good.

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7th February 2020 Hmm, seems to have taken me a couple of weeks to get around to writing about my quick trip to the unofficial capita...
Sunday, 22 September 2019

Tram, train, rain, tram.

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Friday 6th September 2019 Manchester's Metrolink Tram system extends far beyond the city to the surrounding suburbs and nearby tow...
Tuesday, 30 July 2019

The Heart of Wales Line

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23rd July 2019 The rail trip from Swansea to Shrewsbury via what is now known (and promoted)  as The Heart Of Wales Line is high on any l...