-
Recent Posts
- Unravelling the Rand Revolt Casualties
- Call An Ambulance!
- Unlocking Lockdown
- OTD: Start of the Korean War
- Remembering Pauline
- OTD: Commemorating HMSAS Parktown
- OTD: Soweto Riots Begin
- On Being an Otaku
- Thinking About Lions
- Somewhere in June
- I Can’t Breathe
- Past Pics
- Day 7356474
- Why I trashed my Kobo
- Covid-19. The story continues
- Remember the War
- VE Day: 2020
- And now: The Shipping Forecast
- Remembering the Dorita
- Return to Muffinland (2)
Most Viewed Posts
- Krugersdorp Concentration Camp Cemetery (2,442)
- The joy of Model Railways (1,692)
- Heidelberg Transport Museum (1,598)
- Visiting Vic’s Viking Garage (1,555)
- Johannesburg Park Station. A 2012 view. (1,527)
- Visiting Rebecca Street Cemetery: Pretoria (1,470)
- Voortrekker Memorial at Emma Park in Linden (1,309)
- Let’s go by bus! (954)
- Irene Concentration Camp (906)
- Triang Minic Ships (818)
- Southampton Shipwatch 44: Britannia (756)
- Heidelberg Concentration Camp Cemetery (746)
- Bad teeth no bar (661)
- Vereeniging Concentration Camp Cemetery (623)
- Modelling the Union-Castle Line (1) (590)
Tag Archives: GWR
Striding out to Stroud (2)
Having left Painswick in the dust I was now in Stroud. My goals were many, I had planned a possible visit to the war memorial, St Laurence Church, a hobby shop and of course the local cemetery. It really depended … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery, Cheltenham, Churches and Cathedrals, CWGC, Gloucestershire, Heritage, Photowalks, United Kingdom, War Grave, War Memorial
Tagged Cemetery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GWR, Painswick, St Laurence, Stroud, train
Comments Off on Striding out to Stroud (2)
GWR War Memorial, Paddington Station.
The War Memorial to the Staff of the GWR may be found next to platform 1 against the wall and close to the statue of Paddington Bear. The statue features an Unknown Soldier reading a letter…. A campaign was launched … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, London, Memorials and Monuments, Military, Transportation, United Kingdom, War, War Memorial, World War 1, World War 2
Tagged Great Western Railway, GWR, Paddington Station, train, Unknown Soldier, War memorial
Comments Off on GWR War Memorial, Paddington Station.
Walking to Winchcombe.
On all of my trips with the GWR we have always stopped at Winchcombe, but I had never been to have a look at the town. One of my workmates said it was an interesting place to see so I filed … Continue reading
Posted in Cemetery, Churches and Cathedrals, Gloucester, Heritage, Heritage Rail, Hobbies and Interests, Personal, Photowalks, War Grave, War Memorial
Tagged Abbey, Cheltenham, CWGC, grave, GWR, St Peter's Winchcombe, Station, train, Winchcombe
Comments Off on Walking to Winchcombe.
Return to the GWR
I returned to the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway (GWR) this morning as it was their Heritage Diesel Weekend. Regular readers of this blog may remember that I first travelled on this line on 15 August 2015 . Make no mistake, I … Continue reading
Posted in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Heritage, Heritage Rail, Hobbies and Interests, Personal
Tagged Class 37, Diesel, electro-diesel, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway, GWR, heritage rail, Toddington, Winchcombe
Comments Off on Return to the GWR
Traveling with the GWR (1)
While gravehunting recently in Prestbury Cemetery in Cheltenham, I kept on hearing a steam whistle, and I had read that there was a heritage rail operation in the area called the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, it was time to investigate, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Heritage Rail, Hobbies and Interests, Personal, Retrospective
Tagged Cheltenham Race Course, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway, Gotherington, GWR, heritage rail, Laverton, Steam engine, Tank Loco, Toddington, train, Winchcombe
Comments Off on Traveling with the GWR (1)