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A recent discovery of mine -- happened on by chance, in pursuit of something totally else. To wit, the Ardkinglas Railway -- per the rather meagre relevant information findable via Wiki, possibly the first miniature railway in Britain: predating Sir Arthur Heywood's earliest doings, by several...

An item which I recently came upon by chance -- pretty trivial, maybe; but to me, intriguing. It involves the Great Western's "Titfield Thunderbolt" line: Limpley Stoke -- Camerton -- Hallatrow, in Somerset. Although I had been aware that the route's longer segment, east of Camerton, had come...

One discovers frequently, the great and various number of subjects knowledge and expertise of which can be found among participants on RailUKforums. I have some hopes, thus, that someone might shed light on the following -- admittedly rather abstruse -- matter which has aroused curiosity. A...

A bit of difficulty deciding whether to put this in this sub-forum, or in "International Transport"; but it's essentially nostalgia that is involved here. Different enthusiasts will have different definitions of what on the rail scene is "real", and what "artificial -- tourist-and-gricer-bait"...

I initiated -- date of first post 13 /5 /2020 --a thread on Railway History & Nostalgia, titled "Rowrah & Kelton Fell Railway -- atlas-featuring". Chiefly looking at "why did this particular 'stand-alone' mineral line, get to feature in the rail atlases showing pre-Grouping ownerships?"; but...

I don't drive, and nowadays rather seldom travel as a car passenger; which may contribute to a thing witnessed recently, having struck me as strange. Spent a couple of days recently in Dorset, travelling around with a friend -- he the driver, me the passenger and assistant with navigation...

A recent chance find on my part, of a one-time public railway totally new to me; occasioning mild astonishment. I had always assumed that the only public railway which there had ever been on the island of Borneo: was the -- still active today -- Sabah State Railway, formerly the North Borneo...

Am wondering whether out of those of us, now in or approaching our "twilight years", who were born sufficiently long ago to have known British Railways steam in regular service; and that before its very "last knockings" -- anyone other than myself, has the regret of not having witnessed...

A considerable amount has appeared on these Forums over the past few years, touching on the Talyllyn Railway fairly shortly before, and after, the preservation society's taking it over as of 1951. Hoping that not everyone will feel that this is something which has been discussed to death: recent...

There was a thread on this sub-forum in July 2019, about incidences -- overall, never immensely numerous -- of the 3-feet gauge (a personal favourite gauge of mine) in Great Britain: going in different ways, beyond the very few conventional public railways on that gauge which ever ran on "our...

Definitely a trivial matter: only, something a little odd which I have just noticed in the caption of a postcard bought years ago at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, with its fine railway collection. Card depicts the Belfast & County Down Railway's 1910-built Beyer Peacock 4-4-2T No. 30, an...

Thoughts given rise to, by a thread on another board: I've wondered at times, how it has come about that Far Eastern nations, which write their languages in essentially non-alphabetic scripts, dealing largely in ideograms; nonetheless employ for locomotive classification, Roman alphabetic...

Prompted by a recent discussion on another message board: thoughts given rise to, about the French word "gare", for railway (and subsequently, other-public-transport) station. Since railways' coming to be: various words in various languages have come about, for "the designated place where one...

A query concerning a section of the one-time LNWR route Wichnor Junction -- Lichfield (Trent Valley, then City) -- Walsall -- Wolverhampton. I have observed recently (from adjoining roads) that track is still down on this route, as at a mile or less south-west of Lichfield City station...

Prompted by a recent conversation with my brother: where the subject came up, of steam enthusiasts who own traction engines. We wondered about standard regulations as for private motor vehicles -- licensing, insurance, tax and what-have-you; and whether these differ in any way for, specifically...

An intriguing oddity noted in an item in a 1950 issue of The Railway Magazine: on a highly-detailed, somewhat confusing, but fascinating map accompanying an (itself highly interesting) account of a rail journey made in 1949, from Haydarpasa [Istanbul] to Baghdad on the Taurus Express. The map...

A to me, fascinating and hitherto unknown matter, lately come upon in a book of "railway trivia"; concerning a minor branch line in my childhood home area. This is the former Great Northern branch from Holme to Ramsey (North). I'd been aware that this branch lost its passenger service in 1947...

A recent frustrating and exasperating experience of mine -- as per my thread title -- has prompted this post: am wondering whether anyone else has found themself in a similar predicament in similar circumstances; also, whether knowledgeable folk might be able to reveal to me why something...

I suspect that the Memorabilia, Media & Publications sub-forum might be more appropriate for this post; but reckon International Transport likely to reach a greater number of interested and possibly in-a-position-to-help, folks; admin, please move post / thread if you wish. I have a matter with...

I'm in some puzzlement, re a particular stretch of railway in Croatia. Namely, the line from Karlovac to Sisak via Glina. After the break-up of Yugoslavia, this line -- running through an area particularly heavily affected by the horrors attendant on that break-up -- was for many years, out of...