E05B - Station design

Did You Know?

Personal recollections of railways

Paddington nearly wasn’t!

The famous terminus could have been elsewhere. . . . . . . Proposals for a railway between the capital, London, and the country’s “second...

Junctions past and present

Some railway junctions and the need for them. . . . . . It’s an interesting business researching railway history – any history, come to...

Read all about it……..

A memory of an old railway line and its closure. . . . . . If you are reading this you probably have a long interest in railways and...

Under the station clock

The story of the building of St Pancras and the churchyard alongside it . . . . . . Old photographs again, this time showing the building...

1947 - The last year of the Great Western Railway at Paddington Station

1947 was, of course, the last year of operation for the “Big Four” railway companies before the 1948 Nationalisation. Despite having had...

Watching the Clock

Keeping time on the Great Western Railway. . . . . . . The Great Western Railway (GWR) timetable for January 1841 explains railway time...

Strange Morning at Marylebone

The opening of Marylebone station and the history of the Great Central Hotel. . . . . . ‘Good morning, sir.’ He said it as he touched the...

Sleeping Over

Summary: Railway lodging houses and stories. . . . . . . . I came to this subject a long way round in my oral history interviews. I...

Durham coast resignalling

Operative from: 02.00 hrs on WEDNESDAY 10th FEBRUARY 2021. . . . . . Affecting the lines between Stockton and Sunderland South Junction,...