Recent content by Elmers End

Indeed so. We had a round the world ticket booked through Trailfinders. Exact itinerary was LHR > Tokyo > Brisbane > Auckland. Auckland > LA > Vancouver > LHR. It was a stroke of luck that we were homeward bound in that direction. A strike by AirNZ staff whilst we were in Tokyo meant leaving...

I would agree, a very fulsome and accurate summary. I have just returned from a trip to NZ and went on all 3 of the Kiwirail loco-hauled 'tourist' trains. Expensive to be sure but very interesting. The Ta Huia flew by heading north when we were going south on the Northern Explorer. It was...

I'm reminded of our journey from Lisbon to Faro last year on CP, where the buffet car guy was almost a sommelier, recommending very quaffable BOTTLES of wine. Food prices were reasonable as well. It made a long journey more memorable.

I think it is I who was mistaken. The IoW seems to have annexed itself from Hampshire as an administrative county in 1890(!) but shared the same Lord Lieutenant until 1974 and still shares its Police, Fire and Rescue services with Hants.

The Isle of Wight was a county I believe before it was subsumed into Hampshire. If it wasn't for the outrageous ferry fares I would visit far more often. Being a shiny-trousered soft Southerner I feel duty bound to offer Surrey as a county with attractive countryside (e.g. the Surrey Hills)...

The SWT/SWR London Waterloo Uprgrade enabled me to do Wimbledon > Clapham Junction via Southfields and the East Putney spur. SWT often used that route out of Waterloo as an engineering diversion of very late trains, but not AFAIK into Waterloo. Furthermore my train terminated at an...

Thank you for this response. My fuzzy recollection of my sighting is from the early 1960's so could be wrong but I don't think the stock was of continental origin as illustrated in your link. I'm pretty sure the coaches were in Southern Green of pre-war vintage. I recall seeing patients in...

Excellent thread. So evocative I decided to join and add my own recollections, albeit a little dull compared with most. 4EPBs with a whole carriage locked out, to be filled with mail sacks at London Bridge, and being emptied out at Clock House on the Mid Kent Line. Periodic flooding at...