A few things…

As the title suggests, a few things you might be interested in. First, at stations.stupidstupidity.co.uk you will find a little web app that I’ve developed in order to allow people to track what stations on the UK railway network you have visited. Still in its trial stages, contact me if you want a go. Secondly, [...]

May 8, 2012  Tags: , , ,  Posted in: Photographs, Public Transport Geekery, Railways, University   No Comments

Sound, or some thoughts from my trip to London today

I’m afraid this is going to be fairly railway related like the list of ‘things I’ve never done before today’ list that I made a year ago, but there is also some audio-related stuff in this that wasn’t there last year as well. The aim of the day was to go to London, and interview [...]

March 20, 2012  Tags: , , , ,  Posted in: Life, the Universe and Everything, Public Transport Geekery, Radio, Railways, University   No Comments

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