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There are a couple of speed-traps near me at the bottom of quite steep hills; these were bad enough when the roads were 30mph, one really needs to watch the speedometer now they're 20mph. Some years back I was caught by a trap in Catford; it was sited just after a narrow road in the town centre...

Surely today's technology enable differing vehicle tax to be easily calculated for different types of motor; all that's needed is for each model's data (weight, etc, etc) to be input, along with other relevant criteria (electric or internal combustion, etc, etc) at the DVLC, and a suitable...

It's bad enough having all the main roads reduced to 20mph around here without one's being stuck behind someone who insists upon going at 15mph. And the only suitable stretch to overtake has two speed-traps, and very sensitive ones at that, along it. 1742591586 That's weird. When going straight...

North Ealing is more like a countryside station than a stop on the London Underground. 1741714546 Stamford Brook has only three platforms, the up Piccadilly Line doesn't have one. This is because the station was originally built for double track with a platform for each track (it was a joint...

The two sidings are very much overgrown these days, with saplings growing up in the four foot. This suggests that they've not been used in a long time. They do look as though they're still connected, would the conductor rails still be live?

It's been sorted out now with some trimming, but the up Windsor line from North Sheen to Mortlake had until recently bushes that scratched noisily along the side of the carriages. I was once on a Waterloo service that went on the relief line around the back of the flyover near Queenstown Road...

I once saw a large blast of smoke emerge from behind the old repository building when I was on a train from Waterloo; a look on the Internet when I arrived home showed that it was from a steam special from Victoria which went on to the Windsor lines at Clapham Junction. There's also the...

Following on from Kenilworth and its footbridges, the footbridge at Kew Gardens is unusual as it is external to the station, with the foot of the steps on both sides outwith the station buildings. There is also a subway, but one needs to go through the ticket barriers to gain access to it. I...

That's not quite the case with Surbiton. This station has two island platforms, one serving the down slow and fast lines, and the other serving the up fast and slow lines, and in between a down through line that doesn't have a platform and permits down fasts to overtake semi-fasts that are on...

I don't have any information to add to this thread, but will offer a comment. Industrial railways, be they the odd private siding, a yard or a complete system, are -- or in most cases, it's a case of were -- the kind of thing that made railways interesting. Looking at old large-scale OS maps and...

That's a bit of an exaggeration! A couple of hundred yards, I would reckon. No further than the distances between the three West Hampstead stations, or from some Underground platforms to the main-line stations upstairs.

I must admit that when I read, on the National Rail 'Status and Disruptions' site, that animals had caused delays on the North London Line, my immediate thoughts were: 'How on Earth do cows get on the railway in Hackney?' It puzzled me until I read here that the offending animal was a swan.

Isn't that called rewilding these days?

I was at Waterloo once when everything was held up because a dog ran off the end of a Windsor line platform, and his owner ran down the track in pursuit of it. Trains started moving again when a member of railway staff managed to catch hold of the dog, which by then had reached the junction with...

The proposed new runway at Heathrow will be to the north of the Bath Road, and thus its approach when the wind is in the west will be over scruffy Brentford and not affluent Richmond and Kew. With an east wind, the approach will be over Slough, and Staines and Windsor won't be subject to more noise.

It's the same with me. Plus on my motor, locking the driver's door with the key sometimes opens both the front-door windows. Why this happens is a mystery. I'd not heard of some of these features mentioned in this thread, such as an electric handbrake, mandatory lane departure warning, hill...

Looking at the various reports and at Google Earth, it seems that the motor broke through a parapet on a footbridge in the centre of a big roundabout, which takes a footpath over the railway. I doubt if the folk responsible for designing the bridge thought that a motor would be hitting the...

Jonathan Meades once did a programme on the telly about the Isle of Lewis, which he called the 'Isle of Rust' because of all the abandoned motors lying around in fields.

That would seem to be most likely route. But would it go from Roehampton via the Green Man at the top of Putney Hill to Tibbet's Corner, or along to the A3 and directly there? The South Circular can indeed get clogged badly, so for that part of the route the SL won't be much faster than the 493...

When I was young, there used to be quite a few old motors dumped by the roadside. We'd used to play in them when we were little; then, when we started to have motors of our own, we'd loot them for spares. Eventually, the council would take them away (I was going to type 'tow them away', but the...