Just published to “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” – a visit to the North Ings Farm Museum, in deepest Lincolnshire, home to a wonderful little 2′ gauge railway with a home-made steam tram loco, and coaches whose height is greater than their length… Visit “North Ings Narrow Gauge“, 1 April 2007
Category: Railways…
…and trams, traction engines, buses, ships, boats, canals and other transport subjects
More monorail from Robin
Published to “monorail“, another page of the late Robin Barbour’s b&w photos from the days of steam – “Scottish scenes, highland and lowland“. Callender, Killin and the Aberfeldy branch; 46115 at Quintinshill, Black 5 action at Riddings Junction – and some Scottish shed scenes (help required here…)
monorail: Robin Barbour collection
New on the “monorail” pages, the first of many from another northern railway photographer, Robin Barbour of Hawick on the old Waverley Route. Robin sadly died last year, and the proceeds from the sale of his railway book collection have paid for an eccentric crank for the new A1 “Tornado” – what a great legacy!
Visit page 1 – “Wandering Willie” on the monorail pages.
Rail Diaries – Metrolink
Just published to “Rail Diaries” – “Lowry and trams” – an illustrated account of the trip on 15 February 2007
Trams and Lowry
A little trip to Manchester, by rail from Shropshire, and by tram from central Manchester to “The Lowry”, the gallery established on the derelict docklands to display, among other things, the works of L S Lowry. Can’t say the “other things” were quite my cup of tea – World Cup photography and football art (!), but it was great to see the originals of those “matchstalk men and dogs” which we’ve been familiar with for many years.
The new(ish) Metrolink tramway through the docklands is great fun – lots of ups and downs and tight curves. The rail journey? – bang on time both ways, but the crammed conditions in two- and three-car trains are hardly going to tempt motorists into greener habits…
Rail Diaries redesign
Instead of a new year’s resolution – a new year’s redesign. It’s a new front page for Geoff’s Rail Diaries. Well, there were 150 entries on the original front page… So here’s the improved version – looks a bit neater, I think.
Freight in the Peak District, 22 August 1996
Just published to “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” – an account of a day with a couple of diesel-oriented friends, photographing and recording (mostly) freight trains in a scenic part of the world. Visit “Freight in the Peak”
Tame and Thame (and Long Marston too)
Published to Geoff’s Rail Diaries – “Tame and Thame” 17 October 1987, an account of a railtour which turned out, in more ways than one, to be a branch line outing (the clue is in the date – the day after the infamous hurricane…)
The tour visited the Long Marston MOD depot – so, as a bonus, there are a few photos from a trip to see their steam in action, back in 1972…
Rainy day in Lancs and Yorks
Just published to “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” – “Lancs and Yorks – a rainy day“, 25 October 1989. A selection of pictures from a not very memorable trip to northern England… (Doesn’t exactly sound enticing, does it? I should have been in advertising… Perhaps not.)
Dover and Folkestone departed…
Posted to “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” – an account of a railtour, on 26th June 1993, which took us to some now-departed* outposts of the railway network – the fine old terminus station at Dover Western Dock, and Folkestone Harbour station, at the foot of that remarkable incline. Have a look at “Dover Distributor“
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