Paul Bigland's blog page.

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Todays (quick) blog with pictures of railways in the snow from the Calder and Hope valleys. https://paulbigland.blog/2024/11/19/chasing-the-weather/ #photography

 

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Today's blog. Out and about with the camera around Lancashire, beer - and problems at Manchester Victoria. https://paulbigland.blog/2024/11/26/rolling-blog-out-and-about-with-the-camera/

 

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I didn't expect to be doing a rolling blog today, but then I didn't expect to be travelling by rail from West Yorkshire to Cardiff this evening - in the aftermath of a storm. It's 'interesting'. https://paulbigland.blog/2024/12/09/rolling-blog-more-wels-wandering/

 

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Today's blog. I end up in some of the strangest places, an old Welsh opencast mine that's becoming a rail centre's one of them. https://paulbigland.blog/2024/12/10/welsh-wandering-part-2/ #railways #photography

 

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Today's blog. Another day with Furrer and Frey at the amazing GCRE site in South Wales - and the journey home. How's this for a trainset? https://paulbigland.blog/2024/12/11/rolling-ish-blog-welsh-wandering-part-3-and-home/

 

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Today's blog. Yesterday's travels on the West Coast mainline. Station bars old and new, restored canopies at #Lancaster - and details of tomorrow's annual railway carol service in #London. https://paulbigland.blog/2024/12/18/17th-december-pictures-of-the-day/ #photography #railways

 

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Today's blog. An interesting time to be travelling back North via the WCML. https://paulbigland.blog/2024/12/28/rolling-blog-northbound-again/

 

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I've spent the past few days in Norway on a press trip with Siemens, looking at their ERTMS installation.

Here's a the relevant blogs and links to pictures.

Free time in Oslo.

Due to the logistics of getting so many members of the railway press corps to Oslo for this event, it doesn’t actually kick off until noon today, which has meant I’ve had a free morning…

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Siemens and Bane Nor present digitalizing rail in Norway.

Our event has kicked off at Bane Nor’s Campus Nyland, just outside Oslo. One of the reasons for the event is today the two companies are celebrating the first 100 days of operating a digital …

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Another busy day…

09:00 (Norway time). The group have breakfasted and checked out of the (rather nice) hotel, now we’re gathering ready to head out on our rail trip to explore the first Norwegian railway line …

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Oh, bugger…

Remember yesterday when I said it might be touch and go making the last train to Halifax from Manchester Airport? Well, it was less touch and even less go… My plane was late leaving Amsterdam…

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A day at home…

After getting home at 07:30 this morning much of my day has been spent catching up on some sleep! A shame in some ways as the weather’s been glorious for a change. Ah well… The rest of …

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