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Tag Archives: Trains
The Railway Queen who met Stalin
From the end of WW1 to the early 1980s the likes of cotton mills, coal mines and railways crowned girls and young women Queens of their industries in a PR effort to distract from worker dissatisfaction and trade union disputes, … Continue reading
An Iron Age murder victim is uncovered
I’ve written before about the importance of archeology conducted when big new works are constructed it happens almost on a daily basis in the U.K. and I noticed another fascinating one a few days ago relating to the works surrounding the High … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, News
Tagged Archeology, Murder, Skeleton, Trains, Wellwick Farm
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Why our trains are on the wrong track?
I should be living around 35-40 minutes from the centre of London using public transport. As the years go by it is becoming less reality and more theoretical. In fact it can often take me 2-2.5 hours each way and … Continue reading
Posted in Life, London, News, Opinion, Travel
Tagged Arriva Buses, London, London Euston, London Underground, Nationalisation, Overcrowding, Privatisation, Public Transport, Trains
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When did travelling become such hell?
I am a little unusual I admit, I quite like travelling by public transport and I always have. I don’t see driving a car as superior and much prefer to pay someone to do that for me so along with … Continue reading
140 London Underground Facts
Some people say that we are living in a post-fact world. This epic list of facts relating to the London Underground says otherwise! So whether you use it every day or just see it on movies, here are some facts … Continue reading
Nazi Gold Train Found In Poland After 70 Years?
As has happened a few times in the history of this blog, an event which I wrote about from a historical standpoint is now unravelling as a live event. A few months ago I wrote on the treasures of the missing … Continue reading
The British Schindler Sir Nicholas Winton and the Kindertransport
Not many people have heard of Sir Nicholas Winton even in his own country but his actions undoubtedly mean that thousands of people are alive today that would not have been without him. The Kindertransport has its origins on 15th … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, WW2
Tagged BBC, charity, Geertruida Wijsmuller, history, Jewish, Kindertransport, Life, refugees, Sir Nicholas Winton, Trains, UK Politics, war, WW2
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We’re all going on a summer holiday
It’s that time of year where many of us are bombarded with advertisements urging us to make bookings for our summer holidays. For us it is the same routine most years with November to February mapping out great big ambitious … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Adventure, Dreaming, holidays, Life, Planes, Trains, trans-siberian, Travel, vacation, World Cruise
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Dungeness – Britain’s only desert
You’d be forgiven for thinking that I have over-indulged this holiday for putting two seemingly mutually exclusive terms in the same sentence, Britain and desert. Yes I too thought it a bit strange, even more so as it is pouring … Continue reading