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I had occasion to visit Silver End in Essex recently, a village between Braintree and Witham. Half way along Silver Street there is a lane that leads to a sports ground, and embedded in the pavement are embedded two short lengths of rail. A search of old maps does not show any signs of a narrow...

I have two GWR-published books from 1926, titled Castles and Abbeys. No, nothing to do with trains but with actual castles and abbeys in England and Wales - mostly situated in the areas served by GWR. There was a third volume: Cathedrals; but that never came into my ownership. Hardbacks, each...

I've had this British Rail oil-lamp for 35 years or more, given to me by my brother-in-law. It has two clear lenses on opposite faces, with the other two faces having mounts to hang it onto a bracket. Having to be side-mounted, and showing white lights front and rear, my thought was that it...

News from Network Rail that it is to improve access to platforms 8-11 at Euston, which suffer terribly from overcrowding at times. Hopefully, this will be reversing the awful change made 20 or so years ago... Multi-million-pound platform access improvements for Euston passengers...

In the last couple of years three stations have either closed, or been mothballed, that are located on private land: Newhaven Marine, IBM Halt and Redcar British Steel. That got me to thinking about how many other stations could have their services withdrawn if the landowner closed off access...

Having a tidy-up at home and came across this. No idea where I acquired it from. As it's unused I doubt that it was from my sole trip to the quay.

I'm not that familiar with London Underground signalling, but there is one thing at Barbican that puzzles me. At the west end of the westbound platform there is a small box in the four-foot that contains two flashing orange lights. These flash whether or not there is a train in the station, and...

With the move of the Stena ferries to Cairnryan in 2011, the only use of the Pier at Stranraer has been for the trains. As the current railway station is not really well sited to serve the town, would the economics make a case for reopening the short stub of line to the old Stranraer Town...