Branching Out

Posted in Railways on 9th February 2007

Despite good intentions to plan ahead, I'd left much of the thinking-out of today's order of play until last night. In my slightly uncomfortable but perfectly adequate hotel room I'd pieced together a few bits of planning I'd done into an itinerary, and realised I needed a much earlier start...

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Flying North For The Winter

Posted in Railways on 8th February 2007

Over the last couple of days I've been pottering around the house and generally enjoying being on leave and having nothing to do. Because I had a fairly substantial trip planned for the coming weekend I was content not to do too much else. Then, sometime yesterday, things started to...

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Sleeping Late

Posted in Railways on 3rd February 2007

Planning a lazy weekend before next week's Scottish excursion, I stumbled out of bed much later than planned. Started to pick through some email, and noted entirely by chance that there were a couple of message mistakenly flagged as spam which were about last night's 1C99 down Night Riviera. It...

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