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I've added several hundred photos to my website from recent trips to London and Wales. Follow the link to see which galleries they're in. http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/recent.html
Hi Folks,
I've added several hundred new pictures from all around the country taken In the past couple of weeks, including a run on one of the new Crossrail Class 345s, a trip on the Borders railway and a look at progress on electrifying the line to Blackpool. Follow the link to see which...
I've added another selection of images to my website, taken yesterday in Sheffield & the Hope Valley. Follow the link to see which galleries they're in; http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/recent.html
Now that Hs2 construction is beginning I've set up a dedicated gallery on my website to document the work. The first pictures are from Euston and Birmingham Curzon St. http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p502543478
I've added lots of old rail slides from a visit to Sri Lanka in 2004, along with present day shots from checking out electrification progress in Bolton yesterday and a visit to the Tyne valley the day before.
Follow this link to see which galleries have been updated with pix...
I've added a huge range of pictures (old and new) to my website over the past few days. There's now over 49,000+ pics to browse or buy.
Yesterday was a trip on the first Eurostar e320 in public service working through to Brussels. You can find shots of the event - including pics from the cab...
Here's a gallery of pictures from the Railtex exhibition in Birmingham. Most of the train builders were there with a fascinating range of models and products.
http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p419468923
I've added a large selection of new pax & freight shots taken in the Colne & Calder valleys in the past couple of days. Follow the link to see which galleries they're in.
http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/recent.html
New blog detailing how the StopHs2 campaign have made complete fools of themselves in the past couple of days with claims the Tories would include cancelling Hs2 in their election manifesto
https://paulbigland.blog/2017/04/29/theres-deluded-then-theres-joe-rukin/
I've restarted scanning my old slides and adding them to my website. You can find out which galleries they've been added to by following this link.
http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/recent.html
So far this week I've added the following;
The last Pendolinos being built at Washwood Heath
A...
Here's a new blog looking beyond the weekends media froth about 'cancelling' Hs2, https://paulbigland.blog/2017/04/24/the-weekends-hs2-media-froth-explained/
I've added 30+ historic rail pix taken between 1990-2003 to my website. Follow the link to find out which galleries they're in. http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/recent.html
Work started this month on the next stage of the £100m modernisation of the Calder Valley line. Work will continue until 2018 and result in the abolition of the signalboxes at Hebden Bridge, Milner Royd Jn, Halifax and Bradford Mill Lane. I've blogged about it here and included some details of...
Hi Folks,
I've added pictures to several galleries on my website recently. These are:
Thameslink/Great Northern; http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p712217497
Grand Central; http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p504876175
Arriva Northern; http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p1022298857...
I'm back in the UK now, so here's a variety of stuff. Firstly, the penultimate update to my Asia rail/travel gallery:
http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p59137905
Secondly, the first new UK rail shots can be found in these galleries:
GWR. http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p347427640
TSGN...
There's now over 1000 rail & travel pics from Thailand, Bali, Java, Singapore and Malaysia in this gallery, with many more to add.
http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p59137905
Plus, here's a blog about travelling on Thailand's new Chinese built sleeper trains which takes a look the pro's and...
I spent a day looking around the Jakarta suburban network a couple of days ago. It's a fascinating (and very busy) metre gauge network. You can find pictures of this (and many new travel shots from the city) here; http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p59137905
I've added a selection of Indonesian rail pix to this gallery, which includes some of former Krupp locomotives dumped at various locations. http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p59137905
I've added another selection of rail pix from Thailand taken last month, you can find them here; http://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p59137905
Meanwhile, there's a blog (with pix and video) about a level crossing in Bangkok that makes Lincoln look like the...
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