The Second City Revisited
Posted in Railways on 6th October 2012
Today could have been a very different day if it happened a week ago... I wasn't going to head for the Severn Valley today. It didn't feel like the right thing to do from the very outset of the morning. A frantic dash around the house to create enough time...
Not Afraid of the Dark: The Old River Lea
Posted in London on 29th September 2012
There is a fairly certain sense to my London wanderings, built around a particular set of trains and a surprisingly uniform pattern of travel. I haven't, in the main, set out to do this consciously - more it's a mixture of necessity, comfort and the repeated urge to walk certain...
Lost Weekend: At The Burnside
Posted in Railways on 22nd September 2012
There are hints as I write that we might just be emerging from the summer of strangled trips and cancelled plans, and that the autumn and winter might in fact be something of a renaissance. It's early days, and as I headed for Crewe last night after work I reasoned...