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Railway Photographs

Lostwithiel 1988-1998
Par 1988-1998
Cornwall 1999
Par 2002
BLS 1991

Other Stuff

Timelines
Cornish Speedlinks
Die Wominseebahn

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Welcome to the Trains Page!
Handing over the single-line token

After much delay, I've finally got round to moving the railway pages to my new site. The old CompuServe site has finally been retired, and has gone the way of most of EWS' Class 37 and 47 fleet.

It's mostly a collection of railway photographs and links; you can see what's here from the table of contents on the left.

Recent Changes

A page on my current N-gauge project, "Wominsee". Just a track plan at present, I will add some photos as construction progresses

Some notes on the formations of Cornish Speedlink freight trains in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Not complete yet!

There are a few new photos on the BLS page

Just supposing: what might Britain's motive power situation be like had motive power policies taken a different turn. Go here and find out some possibilities

Net Communities

I'm a member of these forums and mailing lists, these are good discussion places, mostly free of the spam, idiots and flamewars you get in Usenet.

  • The TrainNet forum, formerly on Compu$erve, now on the web following Beeching-style cuts at AOL.
  • The Ngauge mailing list, for discussion of all things N-gauge.
  • The ModMod mailing list, for the discussion of modelling the post steam-era British railways. Was originally the DEMU list, DEMU standing for Diesel and Electric Modellers United, but was renamed to make it clear the list wasn't closely associated with the society.
  • The N Gauge Modern mailing list, run by one called "King Pot Noodle" (but not to his face), specifically for discussions about modelling post-steam era in N-gauge.
  • And finally, the SwissRail list, a prototype-based list about Swiss railways.
Other Railway Links

An assortment of railway-related web sites that have caught my attention

  • There are a couple more photographs of mine on The Network Southeast Page and on The Unofficial GB Railway web site. See if you can find them!
  • A lot more Cornish photos can be found on the Unofficial Cornish Railways Website.
  • The The N-Gauge Society, dedicated to N-Gauge modelling.
  • The New York Subway Resources page, everything you ever wanted to know and more about the NYC subway. Why do I care about the NYC Subway? Go here!
  • The incredible Tehachapi Webcam. There is a camera located on the Tehachapi pass in California, that uploads a new picture every time a train passes. Pity all the trains are ugly American things. Perhaps someone should create a similar webcam in Britain, at somewhere like Shap or Stourbridge Town. There is a list of other train-related webcams. There are a few European ones; Finse station in Norway, and one onboard a Swiss Re460.
  • Finally Railtrack's on-line timetable. Find out train times for any pair of destinations anywhere in Britain. A word of warning, it does occasionally recommend some very strange routes (Crewe to Slough via Hereford?)

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