Blogs about Trains

In the spirit of full disclosure, which is part of my mission as a mental health public speaker, I will share that I am once again struggling with my life as it is, mainly due …

Saturday 4th May 2024 A brand new 850 space Park and Ride site in Oxfordshire has recently been constructed at a cost of £51 million but it won’t be used for “a number of years” …

Arrow level boarding platformsat San Bernardino, CAComments to old posts on this blog are stored in a moderation queue that your author doesn't visit often enough. Over a year ago, commenter jpk122s discovered quite a …

London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866 (GOLD)Sliding top-light installation continues with the half way point officially reached this week when the fourth and final window on the seaward side received its sliding …

Initial analysis from MTC’s Connected Network Plan reveals the service gaps that transit users experience on the southern transbay bridges between San Mateo and Alameda Counties. For the first time in history, the Bay Area …

As outlined on our sister Hicks Car Works blog here and here, the Illinois Railway Museum has gotten its Illinois Terminal line car, IT 1702, operating for the first time since it left the IT …

The guard scanned my e-ticket. He looked at the results. "You've come all the way from Liverpool to go to Bromsgrove?""Yeah," I smiled."Never mind." He walked away.Bromsgrove started well enough. It got a new station …

I've been holding myself back. I have a million ideas and a dozen things in progress and I can't finish any of them, because they have to be perfect. It's a problem.