This Web site is intended as a spot of fun. It consists of a series of anecdotes of events that have taken place during the last 60 years or so. All of these events have a common theme. There is always a (sometimes vague) Railway connection. In fact most things that I have done over the last 60 years have had a Railway connection. The wife will vouch for the last 44 years. I am without doubt a Railway addict.. 

Every so often, I shall add a few more pages. I hope that they amuse you.

 
 

 

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Dawlish Warren in 1955

90mph on a Class 58

Six over Mid Wicket

The Tamworth Field

Nameplates..Missed Opportunities

The Bulleid invasion of Snow Hill

A double dose of Crimson

5023 Brecon Castle

Western Railrover: 1964

Class 50 Bashing: 1988 to 1991

Cornubia at Talybont: 1949

Favourite Trainspotting Locations

East Devon Branch Lines

Off to Butlins Filey: 1959

The Royal Scot: 1955

A Thunderstorm in 1960

Blackwell Signal Box..1954

Train Driving Simulator

Sunrise at Creech St Michael

A trip on the Palatine

Railcar to Tenbury Wells

The Finest Sound on Earth..A sequel

Three trips to Oxford in 1964

Football Excursions

Holland from a Steam train

Sound Recordists Chauffeur

Mobile Phones on Trains

Waiting for the Glasgow

Centro to Tyseley

Railtour Passengers

Dorridge Bob

Western Railrover: 1958

Talcum Powder: 1961

Tractor Travel

North Wales Land Cruise: 1954

France from a Steam train: 1981

Day trip to Deal

Lads trip south

Whitmore Water Troughs

The Best Steam Gala ever

Come with us, please!

The 1953 Fishing Trip (part 1)

Arrivederci Darling

Tench from Berrington

The 1953 Fishing Trip (part 2)

Off to Butlins Pwllheli:1957

Post War Blackpool

Maudes 1984 Adventure

Getting Home the SLOA way

New Street Centenary: 1954

Shirley Swain

A job on the Dudley Zoo Railway

Jakes Forest of Dean Tour: 1954

Circles around New Street

Time Warp on the Mawddach

My first Railway Journey

Micromodels

Conwy Valley Magic

Osteomylitis

Wartime Holidays at Blackpool

Snow covered by the Onny

Windermere Day Excursion

Golden Rail Short Breaks

1955 Summer Saturday at Exeter

A Brush type 2 to the rescue

Dawlish Warren in 1972

London Station Visits in 1954

Picnics beside the Lickey in the 1970's

Over the Somerset & Dorset

Class 37's on the Cambrian

Twice to Carlisle 1961

Footplate Rides

By Bus to Heritage Railways..Part 2

My last Stanier Pacific

Reliving the past..Blackpool 2007

By Bus to Heritage Railways..Part 1

Network Day in 1989

Yorkshire Shed Bash

Returning from London to Birmingham

Cromptons to Exeter

Stanier Pacifics at Snow Hill

Diversion Day at International

Cheap Day Return to Wareham

Chasing the Schools

Welsh Highland Railway to Rhyd Ddu

An evening at Eastleigh in 1960

Cops

A tree across the line in Kent

Railway Careers Officer

A spot of bother at Geneva

The Crewe Muck-Hole

Milepost 138

Fog on the Isle of Wight

Euston to New Street in 82 minutes

Wrong Road at Oxford

Freezing at Madeley

Rugby Great Central 1952 & 1953

Hard Working Steam: Classes 7 & 8

Waverley Railtour 1965

Switzerland by Rail 1990

No Banker at Yetminster

Hard Working Steam: Classes 5 & 6

A pair of King Arthurs

Failure on the Heart of Midlothian

 Failure on the Settle & Carlisle

Rail Freight Liveries

 Hard Working Steam: Classes 3 & 4

50 years ago

 66 seconds to the Minute

Named Expresses

A Spot of Bother

Jubilee finale on the Lickey..1964

Steam Journeys: Late & Crowded Trains

Hard Working Steam: Classes 1 & 2

Switzerland by Rail: 1986

Land and Ferry Cruise to Iona: 1984

Rail to Evesham: 1959

My highest speeds behind Steam

Sounds of Halesowen

Bredon Pick Up Goods

The Finest Sound on Earth

Up the Junction

 

 Year by year Rail Dairies

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Links to related website    LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE  which deals with UK Steam and Modern Traction Train Timing and Performance from 1954 onwards, and also  includes  Trainspotting records and Photo Galleries.  Also   SCENIC PHOTOGRAPHS
  

   

Site launched 14th March 2004: Last updated  24th July  2008