Recent content by Beebman

I’ve wondered that too. The masts on that section were originally numbered in miles from Glasgow Central but were renumbered in km from Euston when the electrification from Weaver Jct took place. (It was definitely Mark 1 type OHLE.)

NHK World has today posted an update in English on the accident which confirms that it was essentially caused by miscommunication between the two lookouts: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260824_05/ The linked article has an embedded video which has much the same info as in the...

Munich's transport undertaking MVG has a YouTube playlist of official cab ride views on its services, mostly U-Bahn trains but there's also some trams: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2GMwqd5p-2uBCKQVhrOthbxgort4GNyr

My Dad took advantage of the tickets which I'm sure were £5 day return and we went on a family trip from Euston to Glasgow and back. The outward trip was hauled by 87001. It was my first ever visit to Glasgow and we did a circuit of the subway which still had its original cars and I remember...

I believe it acted as the relief lines for the 2-track section between Winwick Jct and Golborne Jct so in theory freight should have gone that way on a regular basis.

There's a very good BTF film about the project called 'Wires Over The Border' (which I remember being shown at the time on BBC2) that thanks to the Bennett Brook Railway channel is available for viewing: It covers not just the electrification work but also resignalling, track renewals and...

I keep an piece of paper with my name and address on in my suitcase just in case I get separated from it.

He alighted at Kukullaga Station and said that he could have continued on the Metro but chose not to, instead he took a combination of funicular, Metro and tram. He has a map in the video showing his route but it's not clear to me especially as sadly I've never been to Bilbao.

Jo Kibble of the YouTube channel 'Travelling Turtle' last year travelled all the way from Hendaye to Ferrol on a 3-day journey (but crossing Bilbao on local transport):

In Japan there's a station near Yokohama called Umi-Shibaura which only has exits that lead to buildings owned by Toshiba Energy Systems and staff ID cards are required to use them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umi-Shibaura_Station

At Ealing Broadway there used to be a track connection between the District and Central Lines which had these prominent zig-zags. On 02/09/79 I was on a 1967 Tube Stock Railtour which traversed it and as might be expected it was a very rough and noisy experience!

The excellent Tim Traveller YouTube channel has a video made a few months ago of the remains of Boulogne Hoverport including the former railway station as well as some history of the hovercraft service (plus an appearance from fellow YouTuber Geoff Marshall who accompanied him that day):

Funnily enough, only yesterday I was watching a video about the Ikawa Line in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan which used to be connected to another line, the Oigawa Main Line (both using the 'standard' Japanese gauge of 1067mm) but since 2022 it's been isolated following typhoon damage and...

In 1961 a Cravens DMU paid an unwelcome visit to 13 & 15 High Barn Street, Royton.

Video from the Taitset Channel of the first day in service (includes some footage of the older trams that are being replaced):