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Red Onion. The iron framed boat has now been removed and is going to be fully refurbished and put on display at a local museum.

While in Aberdeen this past April I managed to get to three sites of the old Aberdeen-Inverurie Canal and add photos from these visits to my web pages on the canal. I thought that this concluded all the available sites but there is still one to the south of Inverurie that I need to cover...

I have corrected the error in mistaking two branches as one and they are now represented as two individual branches. These are at Link 12 and 13. The Wellsway colliery branch and Incline and a branch that ended as a single line stop block near Old Welton Colliery. I have not been able to find a...

Thanks for your comments, Malc-c and Cowley. It's nice to hear some personal contacts with these branches. The problem with the Wellsway section is not the actual information but the fact that the branch wasn't linked to the S&DR but was a GWR connection and for some reason I didn't notice this...

Found a serious mistake in regards to the Wellsway Colliery branch and another branch that went to a quarry near Welton Colliery. Please ignore the information for Wellsway Colliery. I will try to get the updates completed before too long but it requires another visit to both areas for some...

Driver's know which way they are booked to go and are always mindful when approaching any junction. In most cases the route is signalled giving a visual indication in advance and you would know the wrong indication had been given well in advance. Likewise being given flashing yellows prior to a...

I found that I had not updated link 8. Ludlow Colliery to Mount Peasant Coal Depot. This has now been completed.

Here is a link that should work directly.... Radstock Coal Mines and their railways

It's been nice to get back to outings visiting the old coal mines and their tramways in and around Radstock once again. I have completed the mines in Radstock with only a few to cover around Midsomer Norton. They were all under the Radstock Coalmine sector and most connected by narrow or...

I remember when we first got Class 47's from brand new at Didcot. When on a local stopping service to Reading they would manage to get up to 90mph between Didcot and Cholsey and still manage to stop in the station all right. They were fantastic machines both on Express duties as well as on...

Thanks again.

Thanks, DK1. I appreciate your response.

Many of us stretch things a bit when going around taking photographs of old station sites. In this instance I am referring to taking the change when going on to private land to reach a particular site. No thought of damaging or removing anything is ever intended or to take any photo that would...

How does this extension until September work! Do you just keep using this year's card until it is completed past the end of June. I have seen nothing in writing about this and would appreciate knowing more about it so that I don't get caught out.

For me it had to be the 800's and Western Hydraulics. They were horrendous and which I would say, gave me Tinnitus for the rest of my life. I remember going home one day and when in bed could hear the sound of the 800 we had that day in my head all night long.

I took my motorbike(s) on the train throughout the 70's up to 1982. I never had any problems. My first bike was a Lambretta followed by two Suzuki's. You had to keep the tank quite low with just enough to get you to a garage on arrival. The bike was tied up to the window bars with those hooked...

I have walked the Ex Somerset & Dorset track bed from Bath to Chilcompton and from that got interested in the incredible number of Ex coal mines that also had their own standard and narrow gauge lines including inclines. There were over 70 mines in the Radstock-Midsomer Norton area. For my walks...

At Didcot we had the daily Fawley to Bromford Bridge petrol trains "Long Toms". These were always double headed. We also worked numerous other freight trips with 33's too and from Eastleigh. In the middle 60's we also a regular freight working to Oxley sidings via Birmingham Snow Hill and...

We all have our favourite railways and the railways in and around Dundee are among mine and I have walked much of the closed lines in Angus. However, as well as bringing prosperity, for some, it caused serious problems as well. I found this interesting report in today's Dundee Courier. You...

There is the Up & Down 'Chester Line' at Didcot. Up until the mid 60's there was services directly too and from Chester.