Whilst driving through the country roads of Pennsylvania, I happened to pass an incredible abandoned train station, which sparked a fun little research project about some of the abandoned stations and rails in and around Allentown. The station in question is Mertztown, and it was formerly a stop on the East Penn Branch of the […]
Category Archives: Tubes and Trains
No visit to LA is complete without a visit to the stunning and historic Los Angeles Union Station. It was opened in 1939 and was the first time one major station had been opened to serve the major rail routes and companies heading into Los Angeles. At the time, these were the Union Pacific, Atchison, […]
The latest tube adventure was the excellent Farewell to the C Stock Tour, a 5 hour C Stock extravaganza around London. The tour was the final trip of the C Stock on London Underground, and took in the stops that C Stock operated in during its 44 years in service. As the C Stock served […]
Since it’s #MuseumWeek, I’ve been digging through my own archives of museum visits — and I realised I had somehow forgotten to post about the gem of a transport themed Aladdin’s cave that is the Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum. It’s one of the strangest, but most charming, museums imaginable — but it’s also terribly hard to […]
I don’t use the term “best day of my life” often, but in this instance it’s pretty accurate. I was lucky enough to get tickets to go to a London Underground Jubilee line depot – Stratford Market Depot – during Open House London 2013, and it was a wonderful experience. The day was particularly sweet […]
I finally got to go to Tube Mecca. On November 3rd, 2013 I visited the holy land for tube geeks, and it was wonderful. The London Transport Museum Depot at Acton is – as the name suggests- an extension of the excellent London Transport Museum. It hosts extra objects that are not always on display […]
Some submissions for the amazing Look for Longer contest, round two! The below are all station names in London – can you guess what they are? I won’t be providing answers though, as I’m hoping to find out whether or not they’ve been selected come October 31st, and I wouldn’t want to ruin all the […]
Leslie Green was a British architect who was tasked with designing stations for three London underground lines under construction. At the time they were known as the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (today’s Piccadilly line), The Baker Street and Waterloo railway (today’s sensible named Bakerloo line) and the Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway […]
The latest round of tube visits and ventures are taken from the absolute bible for tube worshippers, Ben Pedroche’s ‘Do Not Alight Here’ and will include a history of and photos of the abandoned stations from his Camden Borough Part 1 walk. What won’t be included are any directions or guidance to get to the […]
Now as I’m sure most of you know, the London Transport Museum is literally my favourite place on earth, and it also houses my favourite gift shop on earth. Here’s a collection of some of the lovely fonts you can find there!
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