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Because of engineering works, there are no services between New Malden and Surbiton on the weekend of 6-7 June. A replacement bus has been laid on between the two stations, some of which also call at Berrylands en route. On Saturday, the half-hourly Shepperton and Kingston Loop via Kingston...

This posting appeared on my Facebook feed. Rather than depicting a Stanier 8F, what we have here seems to be a truncated, both locomotive and tender, Stanier Black Five. It refers to 8F no 48666, but the number on the illustration is 49666, which was a Fowler 7F 0-8-0. This isn't the first...

This made me laugh.

By chance I noticed on Real Train Times a freight routing 4L73 Tinsley > London Gateway today which struck me as unusual. It went via Doncaster and Lincoln as one would expect, then at Peterborough went across to Ely, then went via Cambridge, Cheshunt, Turkey Street, Seven Sisters, South...

I understand that whenever a steam loco started off, the driver would always give a short blast on the whistle (I was asked to do this when I drove Baxter up and down the line at Horstead Keynes on a fund-drive trip some years back), but this doesn't seem to apply to DMUs and EMUs. I'm not sure...

A double-deck learner bus had its roof chopped off when it attempted to go under the railway bridge in the A215, Portland Road, near Norwood Junction station. The bridge is 12' 3" and there are several warning signs. BBC report here.

Something that has intrigued me for a while is how the BR Standards locomotives were received by the workforce, in particular drivers and firemen. Prior to nationalisation the main companies had designed their own locos; were the Standard classes popular or otherwise with the workforce, in...

I noticed that services through Streatham Hill this afternoon (18 November) have been diverted because of a failed train. The London Bridge > Victoria via Crystal Palace services are being diverted between Sydenham and Balham with little or no delay or gain in time. Any idea of the route they...

I've noticed over the years that although when at or near an airport jet aeroplanes are considerably more noisy than turboprop ones, there's quite a difference between them elsewhere. For example, I live about four miles to the south of Heathrow's approach, roughly when they're at about 1500...

Looking at the New Adlestrop railway map, I noticed that as a result of the closure of lines in Yorkshire, the junction north-west of Pontefract, shown in a box on the attached map, was rationalised in such a way that removed a direct route from the line through Knottingly through to Leeds via...

I saw somewhere on the internet that South-Western services on the Windsor Line had been disrupted because of animals on the line between Mortlake and Richmond, and was puzzled as I know the area well and was unable to think of anywhere any farm animals might have gained access to the track, as...

Some ten months back I posted the following: Travelling through Strawberry Hill station the other week, I noticed that brackets had been attached to the fencing posts on the up (towards Twickenham) platform; travelling through this week, I noticed that a solid fence of fairly substantial timber...

A motor car has somehow ended up on the track at the West Barnes Lane level crossing between Motspur Park and Raynes Park, the picture below has been borrowed from a local gossip site. The motor has a 'P' -- newly-passed driver -- sticker on it, which might be relevant. It is also very close to...

I'm wondering how much the introduction of 20mph zones across boroughs has affected bus travel timings. This thread expands the discussion on the 20mph zones in Wales here. The 65 bus, Ealing to Kingston, runs from Kew Bridge to Kingston entirely along 20mph roads in the boroughs of Richmond...

I've long been intrigued by Gustave Doré's famous drawings of Victorian London of the early 1870s, and have never been able to work out precisely where the scene he drew in this one actually was. There are, as can be seen, two parallel viaducts, a few hundred yards apart. But where in London...

About as regular a 'silly season' feature in the press as Lord Lucan discovered (again) or another 'big cat' seen, we have the latest call for a railway link to Heathrow from the south. A couple of quotes: I'd like to see a railway link from the Staines or Feltham area to Heathrow -- indeed, I...

I came across this postcard on a North Wales Nostalgia Facebook page, and I think we can be fairly sure that Barmouth was never visited by an A4.

In various local boroughs, such as Richmond and Kingston-upon-Thames, the council attempts to repair pot-holes and other damage to road surfaces by employing a couple of men in a small lorry with some hot tar-macadam in the back. The hot tar is thrown down on the road by shovel and crudely...

Looking at some pictures of old London Transport buses, it occurred to me that at some point the old style of seat, with a single cushion and back for two people (or three or more for bench seats), was replaced by the individual seats we now have on all London buses, one for each passenger...

On Sunday, 11 June, as part of the London Bus Museum's programme of bringing heritage buses to the roads of London, this event sees heritage buses dating from the 1940s to 1970s running alongside the normal daily service on route 65, Ealing to Kingston and on route 71 between Kingston and...