While tidying up a drawer in my desk I found a small stash of railway related postcards, and one of the more interesting ones is this LNWR postcard that looks like it was originally a black and white image and has been hand colourised and labelled before printing. The engine is described as an eight-coupled […]
I recently needed to travel up into the city during the November 2020 lockdown and I was amazed at how quiet it actually was. I ended up travelling during what used to be called the rush hour and even had to catch the Central line between Mile End station and St Pauls. This is one […]
If you have ever caught the Circle, Metropolitan or Hammersmith and City lines tube from Farringdon station you might have been unlucky to have heard ghostly screams coming from the tunnels, especially if you are on your way home late from the pub. Many people have reported these screams so you wouldn’t be the first, […]
I visited the London Transport museum in Covent Garden last weekend (Feb 2020) with my young grandchildren and they really enjoyed being able to touch the exhibits and in lots of cases climb stairs on buses, sit on seats in carriages and just generally touch everything. I enjoyed it too especially the small exhibition on […]
Here is a random video where I commute in rush hour traffic from Aldwych to East London at 20x normal speed. I take a detour up into Queen Victoria street and then down Cannon Street even though there were roadworks, then its a trip along the Highway, under Canary Wharf and then onto the A13, […]
During the Blackfriars redevelopment in 2010 I noticed that the hooks of the cranes that were being used were all helpfully painted in dayglow orange. It appears that the hooks themselves were rated for a load of 50 tons. So here are a few gratuitous photographs of the business ends of the cranes. And a […]
Occasionally you come across some interesting images and these two were in a batch of American railway transparencies I purchased years ago. The images show a slice of 1950s life and there are some great examples of period cars in the images but unfortunately because they were just extras in a batch of images I […]
Here is an image captured from a railway carriage of another photographer videoing the railway. Image copyright Ian Blair 2003
On Sunday 19th January 2020 during a walk in London I came across this crane in Fenchurch Street. I am always a big fan of large civil engineering although it was one of those sunny days where it was bitterly cold so I didn’t hang around for too long. I couldn’t get the whole crane […]
Reading the news stories on MSN on a new Edge tab I came across this advert. I didn’t realise times were that hard that the US had to get rid of its most iconic airplane. Although it does look a lot smaller in the picture than I remember.