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The annual North West Ship Show will be hosted by the Merseyside Branch of the World Ship Society on Saturday September 21st at Old Christ Church, Waterloo, Liverpool. Full details on the attached flyer. The location is 8 to 10 minutes walk from Waterloo Station on the Southport Line. Doors open...

The extension into of the Bala Lake Railway into the town centre has finally been been approved by planners, having been rejected in 2023. Work can on the railway once work on the water treatment works is concluded in March 2025. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jpy6yzl6zo

It appears that Llangollen Railway has a serious feral cat problem with about 25 on the Pentrefelin carriage works site. One wonders if other railways have attracted such a large feline presence? I must admit on the countless visits to Llangollen Railway I have made I have not even seen a...

Par Signal Box has been retained and has now been opened as a training facility. Good to see this. Anyone know what is happening the with the other boxes in Cornwall which have been recently been made redundant? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51yzn6r181o

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company have announced that the annual "Round the Island Cruise" will take place on Saturday July 20th, 2024. This will be the first RTI to use the impressive new ship MANXMAN. Full details are on the company's web site. If you are planninbg on going book early...

I have just uploaded over 250 photographs taken during the Ffestiniog Railway Society AGM Weekend including the Members' Special at the rarely used Platform 2 at Blaenau Station. Also featured are the ongoing developments aroundn Boston Lodge Works as well as the visiting locos. Ffestiniog...

Something which has puzzled me in the transport world during the past 30 years. Since the disappearance of British Railways we have seen some TOCs adopt the identities of the old railway companies - GWR, Southern, LNER. However, in the bus world so many of the old operator names have...

It has been annouced that the Bridgnorth Castle Hill Railway which provides a link between the higher and lower town areas of the Shropshire town and Britain's only working inland cliff railway is finally due to reopen next Monday - March 4th. The railway has been closed since a retaining wall...

GWR web site showing cancellations today between up to 20:00 on services between Plymouth and Liskeard / Gunnislake. This is due to an unexploded 500kg Luftwaffe bomb being discovered in a back garden earlier this week at Keyham. The bomb is due to be removed and taken out to sea for...

Apparently someone attempted to start a fire at Penzance Station. The article has a photo of two broken windows in part of the building between platforms 3 and 4 and also police tape on the fencing near the buffers...

Apparently GWR Night Riviera stock is being conveyed between Penzance and Laira by road for maintenance by the well known "train truckers". Looking at the location one presumed the driver took a wrong turning and tried to cross the A30 over bridge at the A30 / B3260 junction west of Okehampton...

A car collied with the parapet of the Prescot Road over bridge near Aughton early this morning. It was a good job this happened during the early hours as the outcome could have been quite nasty. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/gallery/driver-ploughs-car-railway-bridge-28356651

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This was a very sad accident. People have walked along the sea wall for years - the "all options" comment is worrying as it might mean a popular vantage point might end up being closed off as a kneejerk reaction...

Apparently a car has crashed through a hedge and onto the tracks between Sylfaen and Welshpool Raven Square stations resulting in services being limited to Llanfair Caereinion and Sylfaen today...

Some interesting news - the VoR is to acquire the Brecon Mountain Railway. Of course it was the Brecon Mountain Railway which bought the VoR from British Railways - though eventually the partners Peter Rampton and Tony Hills went their separate ways and the VoR became a separate entity. Full...

Just reflecting on the fire at Luton Airport Multistorey Car Park which has been extensively reported. I notice from photos that this car park appeared to be of the same light weight mainly metal construction as the Kings Dock multistorey car park in Liverpool which suffered a major fire in...

Just a heads up to a forthcoming transport event for those interested in Ports and Shipping. The North West Ship Show will be held at Old Christ Church, Waterloo, Liverpool L22 1RE on Saturday September 23, 2023 between 10:00 and 15:00. A good number of exhibitors and traders will be present...

I have just tried to buy a 3 in 7 day Devon and Cornwall Rover. This is a ticket I have bought before online from the GWR website. Most recent one was purchased on April 24th, 2023 with a start date of May 8th. However, the system now appears to only allow booking on the day and up to five...

Those using rail services out of Liverpool will probably be aware that the Liverpool to Crewe line passes over the Liverpool Ring Road Queen's Drive near Mossley Hill Station. Construction of what was then known as the Queen's Drive Subway, as it was then known, was undertaken in 1914 and...