Weekend 596.0
Table 1: Top 20 most used stations in Great Britain, 2022-23 Station Entries/Exits Change from 2021-22 (% +) Liverpool Street 80,448,194 150 Paddington 59,182,926 148 Waterloo 57,789,780 40 London Bridge Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Railroads
Weekend 591.0 (Fabulous Harry, I love the feathers)
(1) A quote from British Rail: The Making and Breaking of Our Trains by Christian Wolmar “In setting out what I see as this corrective to the history of British Continue Reading →
You are here (and the feeling that it’s all a lot of oysters but no pearls)
It’s a grim post for a title but as the dust settles on the festive period realities start to preoccupy. It’s like the feeling you have late Sunday afternoon after Continue Reading →
Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles
Railfan, train buff, railway enthusiast, railway buff, trainspotter, or ferroequinologist? Watch ‘Railways for Ever’ (1970) by Sir John BetjemanVisit the National Railway Museum in YorkFind ‘Waterloo Station’ (1967) by Terence Continue Reading →
Football via Rail (in the US)
The Challenge: Recreate a typical UK football weekend in the US using mass transit. The destination was Foxborough, Massachusetts for a New England Revolution versus Orlando City SC match. The Continue Reading →
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
It was tough getting flights back to JFK from São Paulo because of visibility related to the Canadian wildfires so some quick re-routing had us in Washington DC and then Continue Reading →
Weekend 567.0
(1) How to Play: Race the Rails the TfL Card Game (YouTube) (2) Ebbsfleet International to Stratford International / British Rail Class 395 Javelin (Train Sim World 3) (2a) Limestone Continue Reading →
Weekend 566.0 (Black Umbrella)
(1) Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary Vinyl LP Box — Translated Yoko Shimomura Interview (KH13 · for Kingdom Hearts) (2) Why Did It Take 13 Years To Build The Elizabeth Line? Continue Reading →
Weekend 563.0
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Hotels in England
A quick list of my top five. Here’s a link to a previous post with the different cities visited during my two-years in the UK. (1) The Midland in Morecambe Continue Reading →