A summer catch up (part 2) Traveling For my wife and I the spring and summer has been an eclectic mix that seems to have involved much traveling for us to and from Yorkshire, our knowledge of motorway snarl-ups increased several times. The trips have been for both business and pleasure/family reasons, and to this… Read More »
Railway modelling – a summer catch up (Part 1) A layout refurbished The summer to date has seen me getting back into active railway modelling. This was initially courtesy of sprucing up the train set I originally made for my daughters circa 1990 so that my grandsons could use it. As a piece of modelling… Read More »
My new layout – Plum Hollow, Illinois. Plum Hollow, set in Illinois and to be built in N gauge, is the replacement layout for my former Reindeer Landing layout and supplements my Pebbles End layout. There is a running overview of Plum Hollow on the main website but unlike previous layouts the updates will be made… Read More »
A pot pourri for November November for me is always a strange month so a pot pourri of miscellany for this blog entry. This year the month has been even stranger than usual due to dealing with the aftermath of a broken central heating boiler at my mother’s house. The month marks the true onset… Read More »
Trains Trains are an interest, last week I even rode on one just like that pictured above. For people who know me well, or sometimes visit this blog, that probably seems an obvious statement. I am PRO for a railway society (The SLS) and manage the website for two other rail related groups so train… Read More »
General status update A general status update as it has been a while since I posted anything here so time to get back onto the blogging trail. It has been busy summer including helping both my daughters make family house moves, two brief holiday breaks, one in the Lake District and a second in Scotland… Read More »
WCRC sentencing outcome The court cases following the incident at Wootton Bassett in 2015 are now resolved and sentences issued. Both parties pleaded guilty at Swindon Crown Court yesterday. Glad to see the prison sentence was suspended. Link to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) official statement. BBC Press News report on the outcome.… Read More »
WCRC – update During the site update earlier tonight I noticed that the fact the operating suspension of WCRC has been lifted was not reported. Out of fairness to WCRC that omission is now rectified with this short post. The earlier post is here. The Crown Court and other proceedings remain live and no-comment is made regarding… Read More »
WCRC – Legal constraints update This legal constraints update is a follow up to my blog entry of 5th January this year regarding the West Coast Railway Company (WCRC). At that time the company’s operations were under the spotlight due to the pending court case action arising from the Wootton Bassett incident of 7 March… Read More »
Primary research I have carried out suggests that journalistic staples in the Christmas build up differ from reality. Recently on Storify I published two posts, the first outlining how journalists predicted Christmas rail misery, and the second describing how shopper behaviour impacts on retailers. In the background, I also posted two research questionnaires surrounding those… Read More »