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Some ten months back I posted the following: Travelling through Strawberry Hill station the other week, I noticed that brackets had been attached to the fencing posts on the up (towards Twickenham) platform; travelling through this week, I noticed that a solid fence of fairly substantial timber...

A motor car has somehow ended up on the track at the West Barnes Lane level crossing between Motspur Park and Raynes Park, the picture below has been borrowed from a local gossip site. The motor has a 'P' -- newly-passed driver -- sticker on it, which might be relevant. It is also very close to...

I'm wondering how much the introduction of 20mph zones across boroughs has affected bus travel timings. This thread expands the discussion on the 20mph zones in Wales here. The 65 bus, Ealing to Kingston, runs from Kew Bridge to Kingston entirely along 20mph roads in the boroughs of Richmond...

I've long been intrigued by Gustave Doré's famous drawings of Victorian London of the early 1870s, and have never been able to work out precisely where the scene he drew in this one actually was. There are, as can be seen, two parallel viaducts, a few hundred yards apart. But where in London...

About as regular a 'silly season' feature in the press as Lord Lucan discovered (again) or another 'big cat' seen, we have the latest call for a railway link to Heathrow from the south. A couple of quotes: I'd like to see a railway link from the Staines or Feltham area to Heathrow -- indeed, I...

I came across this postcard on a North Wales Nostalgia Facebook page, and I think we can be fairly sure that Barmouth was never visited by an A4.

In various local boroughs, such as Richmond and Kingston-upon-Thames, the council attempts to repair pot-holes and other damage to road surfaces by employing a couple of men in a small lorry with some hot tar-macadam in the back. The hot tar is thrown down on the road by shovel and crudely...

Looking at some pictures of old London Transport buses, it occurred to me that at some point the old style of seat, with a single cushion and back for two people (or three or more for bench seats), was replaced by the individual seats we now have on all London buses, one for each passenger...

On Sunday, 11 June, as part of the London Bus Museum's programme of bringing heritage buses to the roads of London, this event sees heritage buses dating from the 1940s to 1970s running alongside the normal daily service on route 65, Ealing to Kingston and on route 71 between Kingston and...

On one of the fare-dodging threads in the 'Fares and Prosecutions' section, someone wrote that ticket barriers at Underground stations have a detector that flashes up Freedom Passes so that barrier staff can assess the ticket-holder in order to see whether he or she looks sufficiently old to be...

Has electrification reached one of the furthest outposts of the railway network, the Machynlleth to Aberystwyth line? Have a look at this screenshot from the National Rail 'Status and Disruptions' page: 'Damage to the overhead electric wires at Borth...'.

Travelling through Strawberry Hill station the other week, I noticed that brackets had been attached to the fencing posts on the up (towards Twickenham) platform; travelling through this week, I noticed that a solid fence of fairly substantial timber boards, around half an inch thick and over...

I've noticed that the Airbus 340 500s and 600s are increasingly rare these days, and that there seems to be more of the A340 300s still flying than the later versions. I get the feeling that the earlier versions will even outlive the later ones. Can anyone give other examples of this phenomenon...

I'm not sure if this has been discussed previously, but I'm wondering which stations have been renamed the most times. Looking at Connor and Halford's Forgotten Stations of Greater London, I notice that today's Clapham High Street opened as Clapham, then became Clapham and North Stockwell, then...

In the Southern Electric Scrapbook, Volume 2, there is a photograph from 1960 of an example of wrong-line running, with up train on the down main line at New Malden because the bridge for the up lines over the road was being replaced. I have vague memories from the 1960s of being on trains...

I was travelling the other day along Kingston Road by Merton Park station on the Croydon Tram and noticed that although there are signs warning that trams are crossing the road, there are none giving the height of the OHL. I've seen signs on railway level crossings on lines with OHL that give a...

One of the problems that the Beeching Report addressed was that of unremunerative branch lines. However, it seems to me that as a result of both the Beeching report and other previous and successive decisions we have ended up with the creation of quite a few branch lines through the closing of...

Does anyone know how fast electric bikes can go? I'm intrigued, not because I wish to buy one (I'm happy with my ordinary bike), but because I was driving down the A316 (Lower Mortlake Road) from the Gasworks Bridge at 30mph and noticed that the electric bike -- one with a big rear hub on an...

Following on from my comment on a closed thread about the bay platform at Twickenham: 'Twickenham has two up (east-facing) bays, one of which has been disused for years and the track half-lifted, the other has been fairly recently been relaid. The latter is odd as it can't be accessed from the...

I don't think this has been reported on this forum: the decking of a footbridge near Barking collapsed on 21 August, and a man fell on to the track. The report mentions a 'live rail', but this is the Grays line so it's OHL: the man was lucky not have hit the wires. Looking at RTT, there does not...