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Now this looks like a good use of technology. Only came across this story a couple of days ago... https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-drone-capability-with-launch-of-seventh-remote-site/

Bit late notice... Monday 24th August on BBC4 at 11.55pm, you can watch Metroland by John Betjeman. If you are not familiar with it, it's about the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway into the countryside, and the suburbs that grew up around it. No doubt it will be on iPlayer as well.

Before the Sex Discrimination Act came into being who remembers when season tickets bought by ladies had a "W" stamped on them? As seen bottom left in the attached photo. If I remember correctly, it was to stop women using their husband's season ticket at the weekend - no W on the ticket and a...

Who can remember when British Rail and SNCF were joint owners of a cross-channel hovercraft service. Put paid to buy the opening of the Channel Tunnel. Came to mind today when I found a couple of old Seaspeed drinks coasters (see photo).

Recently came across this picture online, showing the extent of the overnight sleepers in 1974...

This Murray's ABC pocket timetable has been languishing in my railwayana for many years. I've not seen another copy of it anywhere and I can't remember how it came into my hands. Valid between 7th November-4th December 1966, in amongst all the adverts, it shows the fares and timetables between...

Well, here's a new one for me. Went to the Canal Boat Festival at Crick (in Northamptonshire) yesterday. In amongst the historic boats on display was one carrying the "LMS" moniker. Evidently, the LMS was once the owner of the Trent & Mersey and Shropshire Union Canals. Not something that I was...

Been going through my boxes of nostalgia/junk (delete as applicable) and came across this North London Line badge. Got mine on an outer London railtour that was supposed to be a protest against the building of the M25. The basis of the protest that there were suitable lines around London on...

Photos of a few signs rescued from inside and outside Mk1 coaches in a scrap yard in the late 1970s. That some coaches had signs indicating the type of wood paneling, I could only think was to allow repairs to be made with the same type of wood should any of the panels get damaged. The Out of...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/altnabreac-station-and-the-various-legal-disputes-around-it.257526/ I do wonder how much longer this charade can go on. I also wonder if, and when, the residents of the station cottage will use the "Freeman of the Land" defence...

Back in 2023 there was a thread on here about the possibility of reopening Castlethorpe station, on the WCML a few miles north of Wolverton. I think that any possibility of that has now ceased as houses have been constructed on what was the station's entrance road (as shown in this rather poor...

Does OpenStreetMap know more about line reopenings than we do? (image shows current map of Northampton station with the legend Northampton to Bedford Railway).

Between 1984-87 I worked at the British Railways Board HQ building known as 222 Marylebone Road, which was original the Great Central Hotel. Just before it was turned back into a hotel, I took these pictures of two of the stained-glass windows in one of the staircases. They show the coats of...

I'm slimming down my library, so these books are on offer... 1920s GWR Books Two books published by GWR, complete with map inserts. Castles: 1st Impression, printed in 1926 Abbeys: 2nd impression, printed in 1927 These are histories of actual castles and abbeys, not locos that may have been...

I am currently going through my grandfather's archives from his WW1 service and the following few years. He was de-mobbed in May 1919 and resumed his railway service on the LNWR. Prior to getting a permanent position at Northampton he spent a couple of years acting as a relief ticket clerk at...

It's a good job that Mr Bear stepped in, otherwise we could have expected a request for help here from one R.Mouse... Picture shows extract of Rupert Bear cartoon from the Daily Express.

I had occasion to visit Silver End in Essex recently, a village between Braintree and Witham. Half way along Silver Street there is a lane that leads to a sports ground, and embedded in the pavement are embedded two short lengths of rail. A search of old maps does not show any signs of a narrow...

I have two GWR-published books from 1926, titled Castles and Abbeys. No, nothing to do with trains but with actual castles and abbeys in England and Wales - mostly situated in the areas served by GWR. There was a third volume: Cathedrals; but that never came into my ownership. Hardbacks, each...

I've had this British Rail oil-lamp for 35 years or more, given to me by my brother-in-law. It has two clear lenses on opposite faces, with the other two faces having mounts to hang it onto a bracket. Having to be side-mounted, and showing white lights front and rear, my thought was that it...

News from Network Rail that it is to improve access to platforms 8-11 at Euston, which suffer terribly from overcrowding at times. Hopefully, this will be reversing the awful change made 20 or so years ago... Multi-million-pound platform access improvements for Euston passengers...