Saturday 15th November 2025 Farnborough's another station pair I hadn't included in my original list for this series, thinking that with North Camp close to Farnborough Main and Farnborough North, it made for a town with three stations, rather than two. But then I was contacted a few weeks ago by the wonderful Mike Knott... Continue Reading →
Thursday 6th November 2025 Taking day trips by train north from London always brings home the huge inconsistency of rail ticket pricing, especially if you want to leave the capital around 09:00 to make the most of your day and enjoy reasonably priced fares. One of the worst culprits for setting unreasonable fares is East... Continue Reading →
Saturday 4th October 2025 Here's something a little different for this fortnightly series. A place which has two names with each enjoying the presence of two stations. As you can see from the map below, Epsom and neighbouring Ewell are one continuous urban sprawl in Surrey and famously resisted being included in Greater London on... Continue Reading →
Sunday 20th April 2025 Yeovil Pen Mill I'm back on the fortnightly wander around places with two stations today and following my visit to Wakefield a month ago, here’s another pair of stations between which trains run in public service, albeit here in Yeovil, not very many. Yeovil Junction Timings of the limited number of... Continue Reading →
Saturday 22nd February 2025 Neither of Dorchester's two railway stations are particularly busy when compared to the six stations featured so far in this fortnightly series (Hertford, Canterbury and Wigan) but Dorchester South, which arrived on the scene first, in 1847, beats its near neighbour, Dorchester West, by virtue of hosting South Western Railway's twice-an-hour... Continue Reading →
Saturday 21st September 2024 We're now into the top three of this year's run down, month by month, of Britain's busiest railway stations, using the Office of Road and Rail’s statistics for the year ended March 2023. Which brings us to Waterloo. Pre-pandemic and pre-Elizabeth line, Waterloo always proudly held the top spot, but nothing's... Continue Reading →
Thursday 12th September 2024 What is going on with the Isle of Wight's railway? The Island Line’s first closure of recent times was between 4th January and 1st November 2021. Originally billed to last three months with a March reopening, it dragged on through the summer season and lasted for a total of 10 months.... Continue Reading →
Thursday 25th January 2024 I know I’m late to the “let’s finally welcome SWR’s new Arterio trains into service” party with lots of online coverage already available following SWR's 'soft launch' a fortnight ago of one train running a limited service, but 14 days is nothing compared to the four year wait to see these... Continue Reading →
Thursday 4th May 2023 Moves are in hand to refresh and regenerate the area outside Aldershot railway station. But in a move that's described as "access improvements to Aldershot station and town centre" the adjacent bus station is about to close. I know, I was puzzled too, so took a wander over to the town... Continue Reading →
Thursday 17th February 2022 I’ve been meaning to enjoy the freedom offered by a Waterside Wanderer Day Ranger ticket since November when Nigel at the Image Team kindly contacted me to let me know about its "soft launch" that month. Last Saturday I finally found time to travel over to Southampton and give it a... Continue Reading →
Thursday 27th January 2022 Continuing my 2022 odyssey around England’s mid sized towns to check out their public transport offering brought me to the post war new town of Bracknell in the ceremonial county of Royal Berkshire. It's surrounded by (clockwise) Maidenhead, Slough, Windsor, Egham, Woking, Camberley, Wokingham and Reading. 1998 saw a local government... Continue Reading →
Saturday 4th December 2021 When I heard the news First Group and MTR Corporation had won the South Western Railway (SWR) franchise back in March 2017 I did a double take on hearing the deal included scrapping the fleet of thirty brand new five car Siemens Class 707 trains Stagecoach had only ordered a couple... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 2nd November 2021 It’s taken over six months longer than planned but after a £26 million upgrade and four of the five ‘new’ two-coach trains delivered it’s good to see the Island Line up and running again between Ryde Pier and Shanklin on the Isle of Wight. I won’t repeat my thoughts expressed when... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 18th August 2021 It's always impressive to read corporate vision documents. You know the kind of thing. Glossy photos of staff helping smiling customers and paragraphs full of glowing statements about the company's unbridled commitment to customers and how we're at the heart of everything the company does. Sadly they seldom match up to... Continue Reading →
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