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Back in March 2020 I had planned a trip taking in what delights Victoria State’s railway system offered for the discerning railfan. However, the looming threat of covid, engineering work and time constraints meant I still had some railway lines still on my wishlist. In the intervening years a...

Planning started back in October(2019). I had got fed up travelling on charter trains trundling around the UK with unexciting motive power and only the odd bobbins of excitement track wise. Someone on one of the many forums I frequent posted an alternative to railtours in March (2020) that...

To cut a long story short the late afternoon of 28 December 2018 found me at Reggio di Calabria Airport railway station having flown in from Heathrow courtesy of Alitalia via a change of plane at Rome's Fiumicino Airport. A bonus of this flight was a Mount Etna fly past in glorious sunshine...

Railroving 1980 style In enjoying reading about other people’s recent meanderings around Great Britain on various threads my mind wanders back to when I went in search of new track to grice and traction to red pen by whatever means open to me; service train or excursion, empty stock or even...