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Photo Special (part one)
Time for a winter holiday photo special, as I’ve spent the day with The Parents, looking at steam trains. Much like I did last Christmas, in fact; except last Christmas I was still using a film-powered...
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Some notes on the Lambrigg rail accident (also known as the Grayrigg crash in the media). Facing points are a bad thing. Facing points have always been known to be a bad thing. This has been known ever...
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Readers’ letters
Here at Symbolic Towers, we pay attention to our readers. If they send in tips, we pass them on. Mr E Shrdlu of Clacton writes… The Plain People of the Internet: You say what? You had a letter? From a...
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From the recent search hits: “sir thomas bouch blog”. Somehow, I doubt Sir Thomas Bouch is likely to have a blog. For one thing, he’s dead.* Secondly, he was always more interested in building railways...
View ArticleReview Time
Every month I promise myself to start Blogging Properly again, and every time I’m tired. I still haven’t mentioned much about last Saturday: a mysterious midwinter pop festival, somewhere on a train...
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Steam trains
A spare weekend: we went wandering, in the car, and on foot. We drifted through the moorland village of Levisham, as untouched a village as you’ll find in Yorkshire, with one road wandering through it...
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Memories
A fortnight after our holiday, I’ve finally managed to start uploading our holiday photos. We went to Bristol, and photographed outlying parts of the large and rambling railway station.
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Photo post of the week
We discovered, the other week, that occasionally, just sometimes, if you drag yourself out of bed early on a Saturday morning and get down to our local railway station (1 train an hour if you’re lucky,...
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Photo post of the week
Another day with no morning bus services, and the roads gridlocked. I walked K to work, taking the camera with me, and watched a lorry get stuck on the hilly part of Bedminster Road. Trying to get...
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