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- Canoeing Along the Thames in the Dark
- Goodbye Russett
- The British Library explores the dark arts of Propaganda
- A look around an empty office block in Victoria
- Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June
- How to get tickets to the 2013 Last Night of the Proms
- A few Crossrail construction site photos
- Public Tours of HMS Illustrious Next Weekend
- Tom Daley’s swimming trunks become a Museum artefact
- Cyclists wanted to test “Dutch Roundabouts”
steam train Archive
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Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June
Posted on May 11, 2013 | 2 CommentsTickets for another of the London Underground's 150th anniversary events have just gone on sale, and include some pretty decent prices for trips in a luxuriously restored Victorian steam carriage. -
London Underground to run a Steam Train again in May
Posted on April 3, 2013 | 1 CommentThere are some chanced to take trips on a vintage tube train and a steam train next month, and tickets go on sale today for trips on a steam train. -
Take a ride on one of London’s Miniature Steam Trains
Posted on March 30, 2013 | 6 CommentsWe al love a steam train, and while the big beasts make occasional weekend trips though the city, there are a surprisingly large number of miniature steam trains chugging around parts of the city as well. -
Best places to photograph London Underground’s heritage steam train trips
Posted on January 7, 2013 | 37 CommentsThis coming Sunday, London Underground will send a steam train along the original Metropolitan Line and parts of the District Line - so I wandered out to check where the best places will be to watch it. -
Look out for four steam trains in London this Saturday
Posted on December 6, 2012 | 1 CommentThis weekend is a good one for fans of steam trains, as there are four locomotives visiting London on Saturday - with one making a fairly rare visit to East London. -
Tickets for the Underground’s 150th anniversary steam trips
Posted on October 28, 2012 | 3 CommentsLast year, I wrote that London Underground were planning to run a steam train along the underground network as part of its 150th anniversary. Turns out I was right about... -
Take a trip on a miniature steam railway near Heathrow
Posted on October 12, 2012 | 1 CommentSlightly to the north of Heathrow Airport can be found a memory to an older form of transport – a miniature steam railway. Set in an orchard within a residential... -
One step closer to seeing Steam Trains at Epping tube station
Posted on July 19, 2012 | 10 CommentsThe recently restored Epping Ongar railway in North-East London, while running steam trains from Ongar, doesn’t actually go to Epping. Although it used to – and has just announced that... -
Steam Trains return to the Epping Ongar Railway
Posted on May 29, 2012 | 3 CommentsOver the weekend, the inhabitants of Ongar in Essex got extremely excited as the disused railway linking the town to Epping returned to life again – as a steam railway... -
Steam Trains to run along a disused Tube Line
Posted on May 18, 2012 | 4 CommentsIf you live out near Ongar on the furthest north-eastern edges of London next this weekend, listen out for the sound of steam trains chugging along a disused part of...