Recent content by 70F

For those of you unfamiliar with how much Haverhill has expanded I’ve attached a ‘side by side’ screenshot of a 1930s map and a present day satellite view.

I moved to London in 1978, and soon became familiar with the various railway bookshops that were around at the time; I was working in Covent Garden and found a transport bookshop quite near, the location lost in the mists of time. I soon discovered The Smokebox at Kingston, owned by former BR...

It might be worth checking the settings for your satnav; many years ago I used to have my company car nav set to ‘shortest route’, and it would send me down what were virtually farm tracks - the reason for that setting was that we were able to claim business mileage based on Google Maps, thus...

I would have taken a lot more note of what I was being hauled by in the late ‘70s and early 80s when I got back into railways….

I‘ve only flown twice - to and from Jersey in 1988; didn’t like it, so decided not to do it again; my wife tried to persuade me to go to Australia six years ago to visit our son when he was living there, but I refused, and doubt very much if I’ll ever try flying again, quite happy to stay in the...

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I’m not in a position to be driving an electric vehicle (rented property, parking area separate from house), but have noticed the huge depreciation of smaller electric cars; recently seen adverts for Peugeot e-2008s on 73 plates for half their original list prices and a year old Vauxhall Mokka-e...

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I worked for a contractor doing repairs and refurbishment on three seperate occasions during the 1980s and early 1990s. We refurbished what had been the revolving restaurant area, turning it into an area to be used for corporate entertainment, and the floor still revolved. Whilst engaged on a...

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Growing up in Portsmouth, I was always fascinated by the unusual Crossleys, plus the Provincial exotica across the harbour in Gosport, together with the Lodekkas etc to be found in Fareham and the Southdown Queen Mary’s.

Just came back from LST on the 1628 to CBG, 10 cars, fairly busy.

Renault Modus - my late father had an 06 plate one which is still going with my father in law; Mark 3 Mondeo’s headlight bulbs were very hard to change - I took one of the two I had to Halfords for new bulbs and they wouldn’t touch it….

Whilst driving on the A47 between Peterborough and Wisbech on Saturday I saw two garages that had a 30p difference between petrol and diesel, and one with a 31p difference.

My best car is probably the one I have now, a 2020 Kia Niro HEV - great fuel consumption, excellent build quality and well equipped; favourite was a 2005 Skoda Fabia vRS bought at six months old and 5k miles, did over 70k in three years, in gear acceleration could put many far more expensive...