Christmas Maths Fun! Highly honoured to be asked to take part in 'Mathematically Complicated Secret Santa' again for 2025, organised by Tom7 this year, where I used Least Used Station stats to generate my random number to take part. Delightfully nerdy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG8...

The Wimbledon Traincare/Depot Video! With SWR .. a documentary behind the scenes of what goes on. Some Sunday viewing! youtu.be/8EqcH1NOWqs

inside SWR's Wimbledon depot!

Had a look around inside South Western Railway's Wimbledone Traincare Centre, like this .. VIDEO! youtu.be/8EqcH1NOWqs

New VID! Went behind the scenes and inside Wimbledon Traincare Centre, with South Western Railways. thanks for letting me visit! Proper Documentary style stuff ... youtu.be/8EqcH1NOWqs

New Video Thing! Into the Decades of the 1990's, to be more precise when the Jubilee Line Extension opened in 1999, so I've been down to Southwark Station ... youtu.be/OLywiIGs6vQ

Just a quick plug for @tubemapper.bsky.social new 2026 Calendar, which I have a copy of and is as excellent as always! Grab your copy from the link here if you want it on your wall for the new year! tubemapper.com/buy-tube-map...

The New GBR Livery / Logo was launched at a display at London Bridge yesterday ---> youtube.com/shorts/s8801...

Historically speaking, here's as far back as I can find - the Least Used Station of every year, and the number of passengers that it had: 2009/2010 Coombe Junction, 42 2010/2011 Teesside Airport, 18 2011/2012 Teesside Airport, 14 2012/2013 Teesside Airport, 8 2013/2014 Teesside Airport, 8

Oh! I almost forgot. it's LEAST USED passenger figures today, as the ORR release their new stats for the year. Here's the new Top 10 list of least used stations - Elton & Orston is back to being the least used! Download the data here: dataportal.orr.gov.uk/station-usage

Heads up! This week is new Office of Rail and Road Stats week, which means the new list of Least Used Stations will be out ... this Thursday morning, December 4th. dataportal.orr.gov.uk/station-usage

Ooh! Look ... A new zoomable interactive Rail Map is online! railmap.nationalrail.co.uk#/mapview

VIDEO! I went and rode the once-a-week Wednesday only Ghost Bus beween West Ealing and West Ruilsip ... youtu.be/NSGPYl4Om1o

Who You Gonna Call ?? Ghost .. err .. Bus.

VIDEO! I went and rode the once-a-week Wednesday only Ghost Bus beween West Ealing and West Ruilsip ... youtu.be/NSGPYl4Om1o

Come for a ride on the Post Office Underground Railway! behind the scenes / documentary, of Mail Rail ...

New VIDEO! Let's go ride on the Mail Rail, and go for a tunnel/tracks walk, plus the exclusive 'Train Graveyard' area! youtu.be/UUAZegAKM14

For my friend, Ian Marchant. www.youtube.com/post/UgkxBam...

The DLR from the 1980s is all kinds of splendid! [ let me know which Thumbail you see! youTube is picking three in rotation ... ]

New VIDEO! We're going back to the 1980s to Tower Gateway & the DLR which all opened in 1987! youtu.be/XGDc3Q1ZqEA

Gosh, after a seven year absence, my friend @dananddanfilms.bsky.social is back! I mean - i'm thrilled that Dan is back, but i've never much liked Dan to be honest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1K...

The "When Was Britain's First Railway?" timeline updated, new version .. click for the download! geofftech.co.uk/downloads/Fi...

Give the vid a click! The replica Locomotion up close and everything else at the Stockton & Darlington railway 200 weekend ...

New VID - Stockton & Darlington R200 weekend!

VIDEO! The replica Locomotion at Railway 200 and the whole of the Stockton & Darlington weekend ... youtu.be/gApVb-NBOko

We're up the the 1970s in our 'Decades' series and that means NEW VIDEO! of a rather brutalist Hatton Cross Station ... youtu.be/gfJ_UxaeIdU

New VIDEO! Britain's newest station is open ...

Neeeeeew VIDEO! for a Neeeeeew Station! Beaulieu Park in Essex is now open, and I popped along yesterday for the official opening event ... youtu.be/GgTiAYQIMNE

[ posted this earlier, but removed and typos corrected! i think this is good now ] NEW STATIONS! with Blyth Bebside opening last weekend, and the new Beaulieu Park opening tomorrow there will be a total of 2,589 stations on the network!

Microsoft introduced the Office 'Ribbon Bar' in 2007. Which is 18 years ago now, and in EIGHTEEN years I *still* find myself having to Google things like "Where is the Find function in Word?", because 18 years later, I still can't find it, I still want to use the 'Edit' menu where it used to be ...

Give the Chiltern Class 68 + Mk5a carriages some-click-play viewing, thanks!

VIDEO - Chiltern Railways new Class 68 Loco Hauled trains are here! There was a press launch, so i popped along ... youtu.be/zNRiRtvIESU

So this is just superb ... features Wuppertal Train Action! youtu.be/bleCT1zaeKQ?...

Bluesky ... RANDOM! 2 months ago, the Youtube Algorithm threw me up a brilliant video of a guy in Wuppertal riding the Schwebebahn, but the video was actually about him tracking down a rare flavour of a Magnum Ice Cream! I cannot find the video anymore, does anyone else know what the channel is?

New VIDEO! The new Bakerloop BL1 bus has started! So we took a ride ... youtu.be/Fncf6EuZh_E

Videoooo ... of the new DLR trains, which have now started in service!

VIDEO ... Oh look! The new Docklands Light Railway trains are here, and now in service! Let's go for a ride ... youtu.be/WjcCgSMLi7g

VIDEO! - Where are the Tube Stations where it's possible to exit on both sides of the train? Let's find out ... youtu.be/rrsIPtSN2Co

I've finally updated my Request Stops map! We're DOWN from 135 to 113. Who want to check for errors? 😀 - All Greater Anglia ones removed! - Shakespeare Line ones, removed! - Wales lost a few, but Scotland is the same? - is Plymouth Dockyard still request? - And what about Ferryside and Kidwelly?

New VIDEO! I went to meet Jamie, the Hull History Nerd and we rode the Hull to Scarborough Line ticking off every station ... youtu.be/-a6QMFhB4EI

VIDEO ... To the top left of the Tube Map, and beyond! When the Metropolitan Line used to go beyond Amersham, at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre youtu.be/2XJxyuWTU8Y

VIDEO! GWR took their battery train out on an overnight trip to see if it could travel 200 miles and set a new World Record ... youtu.be/t87nt9m5MPc

VIDEO! It's the 1940's in the Decades series, and i've been to the utterly iconic Gants Hill station on the Central Line ... youtu.be/aDOFC_r-erE

It was -> The Greatest Gathering ... ever! youtu.be/9K-e5Cr62vg

VIDEO - So, this is a bit special. I think I need to lie down for a week after three intense days of the events, AND! putting this together. Enjoy 😀👍 youtu.be/9K-e5Cr62vg

there'll be a video somepoint this week ... ;-) [ photo credit : Alstom ]

New VIDEO! We're on the Cambrian Coast in Wales ticking off request stops ... in two different styles. Which do you prefer? youtu.be/gl5Oxib_O4k

Folks! Am doing an update to my Request Stop map, not been updated for quite a while! have any NEW Request stops come along recently, or have previous Request stops now become regular ones, do we know? thanks all.

New VID! The magnificent Arnos Grove is our 1930's episode in the 'Decades' series ... youtu.be/Tf_B4nUI0AE