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Wednesday 3rd – Great to be back

 Hi everyone, it’s great to be back after the festive season. To be fair so many did the Santa specials, it must feel to them never ending. We know however the Santa experience was immensely successful .Today we were very few in number for various…

January thinking

 And so to opening again. I closed for the usual annual oh no it’s not season. Either no one comes here anymore or everyone sussed this and (this time) didn’t moan about it. TBH I did consider closing for good, but after six weeks of not touc…

Transpennine Route Upgrade proceeds apace

It has been the familiar limbo between Christmas and New Year. Yet, even as the festive season unfolded, Network Rail’s Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) project carried on regardless. The project extends well beyond the early days of January, into 2024 and beyond. The multi-billion-pound initiative aims to revolutionise rail connectivity between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds, and […]

‘Chinese investments in EU infrastructure need to be better understood’

The European Parliament’s Transport and Tourism Committee (TRAN) commissioned a study on Chinese investments in non-maritime infrastructure in Europe and the possible risks they might entail. The biggest risks identified concern Chinese influence on EU countries which, according to the study, needs to be better understood. The main conclusion that can be drawn from it […]

The Summer of regrowth…

It has been a summer of regrowth on Philden Beach. Both literally and metaphorically. Exactly one year after starting down the path of converting my HO scale Australian shelf layout from its former inner-city Melbourne setting to a slice of railfan par…