The Oldie

Just occasionally new technology blends in perfectly with community spirit to create a great new concept.  That’s how Parkrun was ...

What is the most disgusting thing you did today? The most likely answer is that you wiped your bum with ...

Early Victorian Excursions, the million go forth, by Susan Major Pen & I love books that debunk myths. Just as ...

The English Railway Station Steve Parissien English Heritage £25 Railway books tend to fall into two categories: those that provide ...

A hybrid bill is a Parliamentary procedure to pass legislation that affects both private and public matters. In other words, ...

There are lots of choices to make before taking the Transsiberian, the world’s longest railway which stretches 5750 miles between ...

It all started with a text message, as many things do these days. During the last London mayoral election in ...

Charles Loft, Last Trains, Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England, Biteback Publishing, £20; Richard Faulkner and Chris Austin, ...

BBC DVD 180 mins, three 60 minute films  £19 99 (£7 from bbc shop online) It’s not leaves on the ...

If you live in London, a little bit of Soviet Russia will be coming down your way during next year’s ...

Frank Binder, Sown with Corn, Farthings Publishing, £12 99, 412 pages Christian Wolmar We all know the story of Hitler’s ...

Porthmadog on the North Wales Coast is about to achieve a world first, having no fewer than three narrow gauge ...

Michael Williams, On the Slow Train, twelve Great British railway journeys, Preface Publishing, £14 99. Britain’s love affair with the ...

Matthew Engel, Eleven minutes late, Macmillan, £14 99, 324pp Matthew Engel is in despair. But it's his fault. The former ...

Underground, a two set DVD, Yesterday’s Britain’s No 41, Beulah, £24 95. They used to build new Tube lines. Now ...

Geoff Andrews, The Slow Food Story, Pluto Press, £14 99.   It all started with a bad meal in an ...

Andrew Hosken, Ken, the Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone, Arcadia Books, £15 99, 435 pp. In losing the recent ...

Many people already recognise that schools are too obsessed with testing and exams rather than education. But it is not ...

I used to think that climate change would only affect my yet to be born grandchildren, so I didn’t bother ...

Dow’s dictionary of railway quotations, compiled and edited by Andrew Dow, John Hopkins. ‘A common sheet of paper is enough ...