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I was at Didcot yesterday and witnessed a GWR 2-6-2 tank loco being moved off towards Oxford sandwiched between two class 66s. Anyone know where it was headed? I would also be interested in knowing the technical details about how such a consist is braked.

I would be interested to know about the machines that rolled into platform 7 at Reading on Tuesday. They looked fairly new and were in NR yellow with "Milling" written on the side. It was a German sounding name starting with L. Is this the same as a rail grinder or some other process? Any...

I was wondering about doing a day trip to the KWVR from York (by rail), so have a couple of questions. Firstly, would there be enough time to do this and be back at a reasonable hour? Secondly, could we use either route (Harrogate/Church Fenton) to get to/from Leeds? We both have Senior...

I just missed a steam movement through Slough this morning at about 09:35. Anyone know what it was?

I've not been on the above road since 2006. Can someone clarify how it works now? I'll be going northbound from the M42 and coming off at the A38 for Lichfield. The website says there are card payment lanes and those turning off before the end get a lower rate. Is the toll just automatically...

I intend to visit Elsecar in September and would be interested to hear comments on the Heritage Centre and the presumably still defunct railway there. I believe there is a beam engine nearby as well.

An appeal has been launched after substantial faults were found with the Stanway viaduct between Toddington and Broadway: "Over the next three years, work will be needed to re-waterproof the surface and repair the damaged brickwork at a significant estimated cost of £1.5million. More...

I found some interesting references to an accident in about 1965 involving D350. It is referred to as a "Tomato Train" and a US Fighter aircraft was mentioned as well as a newspaper train. This was at Preston le Skerne which is near Newton Aycliffe. Is anybody able to point me to some more...

I will be going to Nottingham later this month from Slough via Paddington, Kings Cross and Grantham. I would be interested to know what sort of timings would have been possible when the GCR was open using Gerrards Cross as a departure point. My modern day journey is about three hours to the...

I saw the above at Princes Risborough today. It stopped on the up platform for a few minutes. Anyone know where it was headed?

I called into the Café at Quainton Road last week (it's open even when the Centre isn't). An information board stated they were hoping to take over part of the old Metropolitan route to Verney Junction as a short running line. This would replace the present set-up where they run up and down...

I was watching "Railway Murders" on TV today and Ash Vale station was shown as the site of a gruesome incident in 1952. A ticket clerk was murdered by another railway employee who was subsequently sentenced to death. When was the old three level station building replaced with the rather drab...

I am planning a short break in Norfolk this autumn. I'd be interested to hear comments on the Bure Valley and Bressingham. Are these basically miniature train rides aimed at children and casual day trippers? Or is there something for the more seriously inclined?

I resided in the Werl area in the 1980s and was intrigued by a street near Werl station called "An Kleinbahn". Embedded in the road near the level crossing were three rails long disused. It looked like dual standard and narrow gauge. I can find nothing in English but I found the following...

I read of a case where a steam loco carried a car along on the front. A crew diving at night noticed a thump as they headed for a terminus. I believe it was a Midland Railway type which had quite a gap between the bufferbeam and the smokebox door. As they pulled up to the buffers a manager was...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-54613405 A large investment for Reading West is planned by GWR. Amusingly, the BBC have got one image the wrong way round (at time of posting). Tsew Gnidaer will have 3.3 million pounds spent on improving the facilities. The building looks...

I had a walk around the Thame station site at the weekend and had a walk along some of the Phoenix Trail. Afterwards I did a bit of research on the Thame Branch and found the following Oxford Mail article: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/8228113.students-got-thame-branch-line-back-in-action/...

On my travels I have noticed quite a few former railway houses now in private ownership near to stations and sometimes out in the sticks by the lineside. Last week I was in West Hampstead and noticed what looked like former Midland Railway houses lined up across the road from the Thameslink...

I grew up in Newton Aycliffe during the sixties and remember the line when it was still in operation. I can clearly remember the track being lifted in the Clarence Chare area though I'm not sure which year that would have been. The line had been electrified between about 1913 and the mid...

I was walking in Oxford recently when I spotted what looked like a disused railway bridge across the river. After a bit of research I discovered it served a gasworks in the city up until about 1960. The bridge seems to have room for two tracks and underneath the gas mains ran between the works...