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Larry’s Diary – Week One Hundred And Seventy-Nine

19th March 2023 Going Postal 0

Monday A good Monday morning to you all. Very dull and chilly this morning, I thought it was supposed to be meteorological spring! The talk of the office this weekend has been the Rich Boy’s [more…]

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Riding the donkou through Japan

4th February 2023 Joe Slater 0

  When you read about Japanese trains, the first thing that comes to mind is probably the shinkansen, the world’s first bullet train and still a wonder to behold and to ride in. Or you [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Sixty-One

2nd October 2022 Going Postal 0

Monday Good morning folks. It’s a bit grey and chilly this morning which is a pity really as it would have been nice if it had been bright and sunny for the Queen’s funeral. Well, [more…]

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Postcard from Sunny Skeg

15th December 2021 SharpieType301 0

The announcement over the two-carriage rattle-trap train’s tannoy told us this we’d reached the terminus and bid us ‘Welcome to sunny Skegness’. Bearing in mind this was December on the East Coast, these wry words [more…]

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Welcome once more to Dingleberry

8th July 2021 Going Postal 0

We return once more to the land of the lost and weary traveller that is Dingleberry, a curious place of indeterminate location, populated entirely by people who wish they were somewhere else but are unable [more…]

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Postcard from Romania – Part Four

9th June 2021 SharpieType301 0

Part Three of the Postcard from Romania covered our visits to the indoor and outdoor sections of the terrific Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei), a jaunt to Satu Mare on the wild [more…]

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Britain’s Forgotten Railways – The Stainmore Railway – part 1

7th June 2021 Going Postal 0

My grandfather spent his working life as a fireman on the railways and my father, having grown up living next to a busy railway line, was a big railway enthusiast so it’s perhaps not surprising [more…]

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Postcard From November, Part 5

12th May 2021 Going Postal 0

Happy Birthday to Me My birthday is November 4th and as a child my main memory of it was always of my parents laying on a party for my friends who all turned up bearing [more…]

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Dingleberry, Part Two

11th May 2021 Going Postal 0

Part two, How To Drive a (Model) Train Welcome back to the sleepy town of Dingleberry, “somewhere” on the UK rail network, a destination found only by the terminally lost and those who were foolish [more…]

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