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I went for a walk in the country with a friend last weekend. On a country road about a mile out of Edenridge, we came across an old Georgian-looking mansion with what appeared to be a two-foot approx gauge railway. It started in the driveway and then curved out of sight. Don't want to give the...

Possible, I suppose, but lumps can be many, many other things. I had one in my mouth once and it turned out to be a cyst; a mate of mine had something the size of a grape on the side of his neck which turned out to be a blocked sweat gland. As for cancer running in the family, I was told by a...

I used to take my VW to a back-street place run by a young guy who really knew his stuff. But I noticed that he started to have a lot of elderly family members hanging around the place and things really started to go downhill. For example, ignoring my instructions to deal with a warning light...

Main line station fires are pretty rare events, in this country at any rate. Excluding London Underground, I can't recall any in a large mainline station building, though I do remember a couple of airport terminal fires in other countries. Given the amount of combustible material and the fact...

As a toddler, compartment stock behind a tank engine on the Amlwch branch, circa 1963. I remember the seat covers pricking the backs of my bare legs. Clouds of steam as we puffed along; sheep; electricity pylons and many other wonders. Now you can all work out my age...

This is quite a few days old, but I don't think it's been mentioned on here before - according to a press report, the Snaefell Mountain Railway should be open again at the end of March. New braking systems are being fitted. http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=37828&headline=Fail-safe...

No, I've used it, and I have full use of all my legs and arms (except on Friday nights). There's no one there to control entry and exit. I guess lifts don't count as they're vertical.

The funicular does - and the shuttles run on concrete rails.

The owner of the house in South London where I lodged in the mid-1980s was a passenger on the train. He mentioned once that some sort of compensation payment had come through - about 20 years after the event. CL

The funicular railway at the end of the London Millennium Bridge? Broadening the definitation of railway, the shuttles at Gatwick and Birmingham airports - possibly others as well.

Which it was - the station was named after it. Norwood Junction used to be called the Jolly Sailor for the same reason...

Here are a couple more: The Sheringham branch (reversal at Cromer). Clacton/Walton - reversal en route at Colchester Town. Does the Sheffield-Penistone line still involve a reversal (not in a station)?

The Far North Line at Thurso - arguably a branch line. A long-closed branch that had a reversal built-in from the start was the Bishop's Castle line. It was planned as a route from Craven Arms to Montgomery with a short branch from Lydham Heath to Bishop's Castle itself. However, while the...

If I could choose a specific time, it would be the Lord Ailsa era (1967?) when they were running steam-hauled container freight and suchlike...

I travelled over a long-closed line only last October - from Douglas to Peel on the Isle of Man, plus most of the branch to Foxdale. Took me all day and very muddy it was too in places...

The Manx Electric railway if you can count that as a 'preserved' railway and if you include all the little halts that are just a sign on a pole...

There have been some attempts to use rubber tyres on monorail systems too, notably the Brockhouse Uniline system that was tested in the 1950s. This used what amounted to a rubber-tyred diesel shunter running on a concrete track with a steel guide rail in the middle. The idea was to allow...

Menai Bridge station was the other side of the Menai Straits to Menai bridge town. Although the station could arguably be said to be named after the bridge, not the town.

Yes, the notes would be great and thanks for the info. I can't work out how to PM someone on here but if you know how to send them to me, great.

I'm going to be making my own Isle of Man trip at the end of October. One of things I'd like to do is explore the trackbeds of the closed and lifted sections of the IoM railway but it would all be quite a long walk in the time I've got available. Does anyone know, is any of the trackbed...