Archives for the 'transport and travel' Category
New (W/Y)ork
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
I was recently lucky enough to spend a week working in New York City.. here are some pics from the trip. A sample:
Information systems are complicated according to First Capital Connect
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
I recently wrote to First Capital Connect, who manage the railway station at Loughborough Junction. I wrote because the so-called real time train information is frequently incorrect for services operated by train companies other than FCC. I regularly catch Southeastern trains from this station, and while the trains are routinely late, the display will continue [...]
Curiously Canadian
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Last week I returned from a trip to Canada and New York. It was great and the autumn colours were incredible. Here are some photographic highlights: Montreal’s biosphere: A sunset over the Hudson river, viewed from the Adirondack train between Montreal and New York (for reference, possibly the most picturesque train journey ever at this [...]
bikes on trains – now book online!
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Three years ago I ranted about the inability to make reservations for cycles on thetrainline.com. Long distance rail operators insist that cyclists make a reservation for their bicycle in advance of travelling, but in order to do this one must reserve tickets by telephone or physically at a station. GNER have changed all this. Today [...]
north west scotland: i like
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Sarah and I just returned from an excellent trip to North West Scotland. Sutherland and Wester Ross and thoroughly recommended. My photos are available. Some highlights include: Scottish figs: Award winning beaches: Smoo Caves: Generally incredible views: See the whole lot.. **update** Sarah describes the trip in extensive detail here
Cool Camping
Monday, May 28th, 2007
The bank holiday weekend took us on a long weekend break to the Isle of Wight. We opted to stay at in Brighstone at a camp site that Sarah once took an extended break at as a child. It just so happens that this camp site, beautifully situated at the edge of a cliff at [...]
a right on bus
Saturday, May 19th, 2007
It’s not quite clear how anybody manages to crash so square onto the corner of a building. This one happened on the corner of Gresham Road and Coldharbour Lane in South East London.
bikes on trains
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
No time to blog properly, other than to say that this campaign is critically important, and should be of interest to anybody who uses or might use the combination of bicycle and train: http://www.ctc.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4801 Good.
most transported
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
I have recently been analysing some National Statistics data taken from the 2001 census. I was pleased to observe that Lambeth, the local authority region that I live in, has the highest proportion of journeys to work made by public transport (over 58%) in the UK. It also has the fifth lowest rate of two [...]
what you looking at?
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
There’s more to see in the missing photos department. I even thought these pictures had gone missing during the move from one laptop to another, but I found them backed up. Here we have a moderate sized gallery of pictures from our adventure across Denmark in September. The route took us to Newcastle, Gothenburg (by [...]