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I have had several rides Leeds-Lancaster or vv. via Bentham which as mentioned above was lively on the jointed track sections, and the squeal on the sharp curve at Carnforth! I remember a journey in mid-1990s of a service from Scarborough direct to Sheffield via York & Sherburn in Elmet which...

04:20 arrival at Lancaster shown on the Euston departures section is a lot worse !

“The Ghan” is on again on Sunday 20th at 8pm on BBC4

I have been on a few services without lighting. Most were the morning starters from Letchworth sidings. One I think it was a fault with the rear unit (2 x313). As the front unit Had lights - in the 2nd unit we were in the dark. Another time the whole train was dark. Normally Noticed by...

From memory, the GA first appeared in Swallowdale which was first published in 1931.

The setting is partly fictitious. Rio is based on Bowness but some of the other locations in the books are in the Coniston area - I think the island that became Wildcat island is on Coniston Water. Kanchenjunga is the Old Man of Coniston. So either Coniston or Lakeside or Windermere could have...

University of Cambridge Library has released 1500 aerial photographs of Britain in their online photo archive. https://www.cam.ac.uk/aerialphotography Including this fascinating photograph of Cambridge station in 1959. It shows Station Road and the area now occupied by the Cambridge University...

I recall reading somewhere that a single 86 loco was permitted north of Royston, when operating light engine only.

A guard's van for prams and bulky luggage. Sending luggage in advance - we sent a trunk when we went to stay with my Grandparents in Dorset (usually for 2-3 weeks). Originally BR would collect and deliver, then it was cut back around 1980 so we had to take to the station but they still...

Don't know if it still operates - a bell would sound at Canterbury West a few minutes before tha arrival of a train towards Ashford & London when I was at Uni in the mid 1990's.

I have a book at home on the history of the Victoria Line. I recall seeing in there various route options in the planning stage in the 1950s. One of these was to run it as a BR service from Hitchin to East Croydon. The tunnel route for that would be via Bond Street & Hyde Park corner I think...

yes, that makes more sense - can't count! the National Archives site indicates that post-nationalisation records for specific employees have not been retained but there may be a mention in some pre-1947 ones in local archives. You may need to look at local newspapers but the 1960s ones pobably...

I assume the date on that certificate is 1866? I take it that you have found him in the 10-yearly census records for 1841 onwards? This page on the National Archives website may be of help. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/railway-staff.htm Also there may be a...