This sculpture is called The Meeting Place and can be found at St. Pancras Station in London. I think it's pretty cool, especially the...

On a recent trip to the UK, I walked through the Innocent Railway Tunnel in Edinburgh. Closed to rail traffic since the 1960s, the route...

Jukkokutoge Cable Car I love funiculars, especially those built in 1956.

Trains 221 and 238 are preserved at Kofuku Station in Hokkaido. I love the orange colour, I love the headlamp, I love the wooden floor, I...

A lovely bridge across a lovely valley in a lovely part of Japan

This is a Diagrammatic Time Table from October 1965 - not for the faint-hearted! It's a small book about the size of a smart phone with...

Kofuku Station in Hokkaido was in operation from 1956 until 1987. It's probably Japan's best known former railway station. Buy a ticket...

The peaceful remains of Kasuga Station

This lovely train served the Hakone area for an incredible 100 years, from 1919 until 2019. It is now in service at the Nippon Institute...

This is Shiomi Station. Well, it was. The station has now sadly closed so no more trains will ever stop here. But the simple building is...

Okaribe Station in Hokkaido. A simple breeze block shelter right next to the sea. The last train to stop here was in 2015 before a series...

In 2015, storms destroyed this railway bridge on the Hidaka Main Line in Hokkaido. This and other damaged sections of the line were never...

Churui Station in Hokkaido stopped being a railway station in February 1987 when the Hiroo Line closed. But the building was preserved so...

In the heyday of freight on the railways in Japan, these brake vans were a common sight at the back of the train. But that was a long...

Hama-Taura Station in Hokkaido. It opened in December 1959, with a little girl giving flowers to the driver of the first train to stop...

Yume Kukan, meaning Dream Space, was a set of three luxury carriages that were in operation between Ueno and Sapporo during holiday...

Kaga-Ichinomiya Station (加賀一の宮駅). It was originally called Jinjamae Station when it opened in 1927, but was renamed Kaga-Ichinomiya in...

Waiting patiently at the level crossing

Pathways beneath railways are usually grim, grimy, grubby & grotty. But going through this underpass near Tachikawa Station is an...

A handsome train, cherry blossom, blue skies and views of the mountains. Lovely!