A homage to loading screens.
Like a train, this post is slightly late
A couple of days ago, it was the hundredth anniversary of a significant event in British railway history. If you’re a train nerd, you’ll know what it was from the title of this post. If you’re not, let’s start with this photo of the Severn Valley in rural mid-Wales.
In which the area is notorious for something
You often see stuff about road safety on the telly. Less often, things about specific roads. And it’s very rare for this area – the Forest, if you like to think of the Symbolic Forest as a physical place – to get on the telly at all. So when I heard that there was an hour of Channel Four last night solely devoted to road safety in this area, I had to watch it. Even more specific than that: it was purely about one road, the one from here down to Somerset.
In which we go over some railway history
More notes on the Lambrigg and/or Grayrigg train crash from a couple of weeks ago. Continued from here.
In which we delve into railway history following a recent accident
Some notes on the Lambrigg rail accident (also known as the Grayrigg crash in the media).
In which I am driven into
It’s Friday lunchtime. I’ve popped into town just to get out of the office for an hour, and now it’s time to head back to work. Into the car, and I’m gently drifting through the car park towards the exit with an Add N To X album playing loudly on the stereo, when…
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