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Turns out I am autistic as well, albeit with the mildest possible diagnosis. In infant school (year 1-2) what really ticked me off was how one bully of a kid played with the wooden train set, pushing it along while loudly yelling 'choo-choo Thomas!' over and over at me. Even though I often...

I've been looking for a thread like this for a few months, glad to see someone took the initiative to take on this topic. It seems it is a common rite-of-passage for anybody seriously interested in trains. I've observed that my own experiences are quite different from others, though. I spent...

This is a ride I recorded last year on the Severn Valley Railway. The train is composed of six Collett GWR coaches (built between 1932 and 1938) with a GWR Nondescript Saloon and BR Mk1 coach. We ride in the Saloon, which dates from 1912. The locomotive is a British Railways Class 52 - D1015...

Back in the late-2000s I went through quite a lot. Already having undergone a traumatic inter-continental move at the end of primary school, I then lost a friend who meant more to me than anyone else ever had. To try and cope with all of this, I decided to start writing my own escape from...

Vengaboys - We Like To Party

It's disappointing you won't get to do the full trip, but similarly I didn't get to either. Last year I took a cross-country trip to Ontario from Edmonton, and did it thus. Rider Express bus from Edmonton to Saskatoon. VIA train #2 from Saskatoon to Winnipeg (7am to 9:30pm). Ontario Northland...

Chiswick Park has some good views towards the city with both 'tube' and 'sub-surface' stock on the route (Piccadilly and District).

It's been a while since I last posted here. By chance I logged on and found this thread. I'm autistic, albeit with the mildest possible diagnosis (PDD-NOS). I've started writing down a lot of the feelings I endured as a kid with my novel project about a young train enthusiast with similar...

I had heard about this too and it has been on my bucket list for quite some time. Finally this summer I took the train from Hamburg as far as Rödby, the DSB IC3 train boarding the Prinsesse Benedickte at Puttgarden. Then recorded the ride back to Hamburg that afternoon, with the...

I went back to the UK in 2018 and 2019, both trips were about three weeks in length. Here's my "Very Best of UK Trains", filmed in 2018 and 2019.

Posted this last week - quite a bit of information on German Electric Locomotives, DMU/EMUs and ICEs, as well as some foreign visitors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbz8_WJEd-o (It seriously took hours of searching to get all the info for this video. I had planned to put in...

Just to complement my earlier post of Trains in the UK last summer, here's some of the best clips from Trains in Europe (France and Germany).

Very Best of UK Trains Just posting this here, a compilation video of some of the very best moments I filmed this summer around London and the South East. Sadly I did not get many chances to venture any further north or west this year. Locations are (in order of appearance): Cheshunt...

Found a good station in Germany to watch trains and planes at the same time - Dusseldorf Airport station. (Filmed August 23rd, 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErBKGi-2vfo

Uploading a lot of 2009 videos; four of them are of Peterborough (such as this one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POPmetDLamY Others include Ely, Stevenage, Welwyn North, Roydon and Broxbourne. More UK and EU train and bus videos will be filmed and uploaded in August.

https://www.youtube.com/user/welwyn22 Plenty of UK and EU train action coming up in August and September. In the meantime, enjoy my latest videos from Calgary, Alberta, Canada - as well as previous uploads from British Columbia, and the US States of Washington, Oregon and California

What I've never been able to understand, is how on earth the gangway at the front/rear is going to be used - especially in rainy weather! All of the other trains I've seen with a gangway have all been straight - even if the cab isn't.

This indicates that the tanker truck was empty when crossing the tracks... My condolences to the driver and passengers of DMU '156417' (Judging by the photograph), and a speedy recovery to everybody who was injured in the latest level crossing disaster.

Last year, I spent some time at both Stevenage and Watford Junction, and I can safely say that at Stevenage, there was at least a 15 minute gap in-between intercity trains there. At Watford, maybe 10-12 minutes. As has already been stated, all I can see that could possibly cause a train-jam is...

When I had heard that East Coast had taken over from NXEC, I envisioned a return to the midnight-blue scheme, with an indigo stripe and perhaps a white or blue "ECML" in place of the golden "GNER" initials.