Wednesday January 18th to Tuesday January 24th 2023 “It was very cold. To keep themselves warm they sang Pooh’s song right through six times, Piglet doing the tidily-poms and Pooh doing the rest of it, and both of them thumping on the top of the gate with pieces of stick at the proper places.” ~… Continue reading Cold Cats
Month: January 2023
Birthday Week
Wednesday January 11th to Tuesday January 17th 2023 There has been a huge impact on rail services to and from London, Bournemouth and Weymouth as over the weekend, heavy rain washed away a clay embankment northeast of the Hampshire railway station of Hook situated between Basingstoke and London Waterloo. Passengers were advised against all but… Continue reading Birthday Week
Winter Warmer
Thursday 4th January to Tuesday 10th January 2023 With no trains running in Dorset until Sunday 8th January, it was down to the Swanage Railway to provide railway based entertainment, which they did admirably with their Winter Warm Up event over the weekend of 7th / 8th January 2023. The timetable involved four locomotives running… Continue reading Winter Warmer
New Year 2023
Thursday 22nd December to Tuesday 3rd January 2023 The UK rail network wound down for the Christmas break early on 24th December in 2022 because of industrial action. Several South Western Railway (SWR) Class 444 Electric Multiple Units and a Great Western Railway (GWR) Class 165 diesel multiple unit spent Christmas parked up at Weymouth… Continue reading New Year 2023