E83 TRAINS

Simon Stokes the Boiler. Bruce Inspects the Bogeys.

Do you like trains? We do. They are to travel what podcasts are to entertainment. You can do lots of other things whilst enjoying getting from A to B. Or in the case of this episode, from Stockton to Beijing. As always, click the pics for lots more information.

The Wedding Dress Train

Early Steam Engines

Thomas Newcomen's Engine

Stockton to Darlington

Locomotion One - Stevenson

Catch Me Who Can

Indian Railways

The Story of the Ugandan Railway to Lake Victoria and Man-Eating Lions

The Lumiere Brothers Train Film

Midnight Plane to Houston

The Original (by the Composer)

List of Train Songs

...and click here for Train Films

The Rainhill Trials and Stevenson's Rocket

The London Necropolis Train to Brookwood

The Blue Train

A painting of the race by Bruce's late Father-in-Law, Benjamin Payne, that still hangs in Bruce's study

Panoramic Trains

Switzerland

Canada

Bullet Trains (Shinkansen)

Kishi Stationmaster, Tama

The Leigh Creek Monster

The story of Thomas

Early Underground Trains

Train Records

The Scarborough Bench

The Welsh Station

The Chinese Maglev Train