Archive for the ‘Railways’ Category

What Richie G did in 2011

I know I did this a while ago when I realised that I hadn’t updated my site in a while. Unfortunatley, as I’ve not transferred all the posts over quite yet (these past couple of weeks would’ve been ideal but I left my PC laptop in Poole which is where they are) I can’t remember [...]

January 1, 2012  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything, Photographs, Public Transport Geekery, Radio, Railways, University   No Comments

Why would anybody steal signalling?

OK, this is a bit of a rant really. I’m currently sat on a train at Taunton station, and at the time I write this paragraph my computer tells me it’s 10.00am. I left Tiverton Parkway station at 9.04. This train was due into Paddington at around 11.30. The reason for this delay is because [...]

December 19, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything, Public Transport Geekery, Railways   No Comments

Radio stuff

For reasons that I’m not going to go into at this time (and I would rather those people who do know don’t spill the beans at the moment too!) I’m going to start to put a load of my radio stuff online here. I’m going to put them onto a page on their own as [...]

December 12, 2009  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Public Transport Geekery, Radio, Railways   No Comments

Overheard

Overheard on a train.В  A man and a woman have just walked through the carraige, it’s late night (around 10). Conversation between two people behind me. A – Did she just say ‘is this second class’? B – I think she did A – I’ve got a good mind to go up to her, crush [...]

July 12, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything, Railways   No Comments

The Accident Rating and Punctuality of Sodor Rail

I’m not entirely sure what brought this to my mind today, I think it could have been when I was in the library earlier and a number of Thomas the Tank Engine books were returned. Sodor Rail – the Fat Controller’s new privatised railway company serving the Island of Sodor – must have the worst [...]

May 9, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Railways   No Comments

Revenue Protection?

This weekend I have been in London.В  As usual, I took the train between Tiverton Parkway station and Paddington. Today, I returned, and I found myself contemplating about several things actually, but one of which I am about to mention to you. Although I had a completely valid ticket for the train on which I [...]

March 22, 2009  Tags: ,  Posted in: Public Transport Geekery, Railways   No Comments

Eggesford and Honiton

At the end of the day on Friday, I was given one of the Nikon D40 DSLR cameras by one of the students who had experienced some problems focussing it.В  This was the excuse I needed to borrow one of said cameras over the weekend so that I could take some random photographs. So yesterday, [...]

March 15, 2009  Tags: , ,  Posted in: Old Website, Photographs, Railways   No Comments