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Genova (Genoa) - A Telfer For a very short time Genoa had a Telfer. 'Telfer' or 'Telfere elettrico', was a monorail railway line built in Genoa in 1914, the first of its kind built in Italy. The name was derived from the English term 'telpher'. This article highlights the short-lived experimental line. .... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/11/14/genoa-a-telfer/

In this second article we look at Par and its harbour, include some information about Treffry's Tramway which transported goods to and from the Port and take note of St. Blazey Loco Shed. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2025/02/01/the-cornwall-minerals-railway-part-2-par-its-harbour-and-st-blazey-engine-shed/

This post results from reading Issue No. 30 of the "Railway Archive" Journal. It contains an article about the locomotives originally purchased for the Cornwall Minerals Railway. That company dramatically o ver-ordered motivate power and when its lease was taken over by the GWR, 50% of its original order were returned to the manufacturer Sharp, Stewart of Manchester. Eight if these locomotives found their way to the Lynn & Fakenham Railway and eventually onto the books of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway. This first post about the Cornwall Minerals Railway highlights these locomotives. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/05/17/the-cornwall-minerals-railway-part-1

The Principe–Granarolo rack railway (Ferrovia Principe-Granarolo) is a rack railway that connects Via del Lagaccio, near the Genoa Piazza Principe railway station, to the Granarolo hills. The line is sometimes erroneously described as a funicular. The line is managed by AMT Genova, which manages the city's public transport. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/11/13/genoa-rack-railway-ferrovia-principe-granarolo-genova/

In November 2024, my wife and I spent a few days in Genoa and surveyed a lot of the local railways. This first article is about the Funicular Railways in the city. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/11/13/genoa-funicular-railways/

[b]Some East Indian Railway branches and the Kalka to Simla Narrow Gauge Line.[/b] A further article about the East Indian Railway appeared in the July 1906 edition of The Railway Magazine - written again by G. Huddleston, C.I.E. Huddleston looks at a number of different sections of the network and after looking at what he has to say about each we will endeavour to follow those railway routes as they appear in the 21st century. We will go into quite a bit of detail on the journey along the Kalka to Shimla narrow-gauge line. The featured image at the head of this post was taken at Taradevi Railway Station on the Kalka to Shimla line, (c) GNU Free Documentation Licence Version 1.2. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/11/01/some-east-indian-railway-branches-and-the-kalka-to-simla-narrow-gauge-line/

[b]Part 2[/b] This second article about the line completes the journey, covering the length from Sawdlincote to Ashby-de-la-Zouch. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/31/the-burton-and-ashby-light-railway-part-2/

The June 1922 issue of The Railway Magazine celebrated its Silver Jubilee with a number of articles making comparisons between the railway scene in 1897 and that of 1922 or thereabouts. In celebrating its Silver Jubilee, The Railway Magazine was also offering, in its June 1922 edition, its 300th number. Reading through the various celebratory articles, a common theme encountered was comparisons made between 1897 and 1922. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/29/the-railway-magazine-silver-jubilee-july-1897-to-june-1922/

The featured image for this short article is the petrol motor-car used by the Croydon District Engineer of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, in connection with his duties. The car was block-signalled in the same way as a train and carried head code discs. It was included in The Railway Magazine of July 1906. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/27/early-small-petrol-powered-rail-inspection-cars/ Examples come from a variety of jurisdictions ...

A contemporary account of the completion of the additional rail bridge over the River Tyne. This is the Bridge that became known as the King Edward VII Bridge. It is a Grade II listed structure and has been described as “Britain’s last great railway bridge”. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/26/the-new-high-level-bridge-at-newcastle-on-tyne-the-railway-magazine-july-1906

In the Railway Magazine, August 1922, an unattributed article about these LNWR units was carried. From 6th February 1922 a 'reversible' or 'push-and-pull' train was in use for working locally between Manchester (Victoria) and Atherton. Courtesy of Mr. Ashton Davies, M.B.E., General Superintendent (Northern Division) of the LNWR, The Railway Magazine was able to illustrate and describe the equipment of the train employed: http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/25/lnwr-reversible-steam-train/

This second article in a short series looks at that eastern end of the line. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/09/the-manchester-and-leeds-railway-the-railway-magazine-december-1905-part-2/

An update on newspaper reports about both standard-gauge and metre-gauge railways in East Africa in 2024. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/24/october-2024-news-about-railways-in-east-africa/

Part 2 This is the second article in a series about the Border Counties Railway. ... https://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/23/the-border-counties-railway-part-2-chollerton-to-redesmouth-junction/

[b]Part 1[/b] An article by Seymour Glendenning in the July 1906 issue of The Railway Magazine focussed on the newly opened Burton & Ashby Light Railway. The light railway was a 3ft 6in gauge electric tram line supplied with electricity from a diesel generator plant near Swadlincote. The power plant sat alongside the tram depot there. This is the first of two articles about the line: ...... https://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/19/the-burton-and-ashby-light-railway-part-1

At the end of 1905, G. Huddleston, CLE., was Deputy Traffic Manager (Goods) East Indian Railway. This article is based round the one written by him in the December 1905 Railway Magazine. https://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/16/the-east-indian-railway-the-railway-magazine-december-1905-and-a-journey-along-the-line/ This first article about the East Indian Railway follows the length from Kolkata.

The Railway Magazine of December 1905 included a photograph of a road vehicle powered by steam. The picture in The Railway Magazine is the featured image for this short article. https://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/10/gwr-steam-motor-road-vehicles/

An article in the Railway Magazine in December 1905 prompted a look at the Manchester and Leeds Railway. For a number of years my parents lived in sheltered housing in Mirfield which is on the line. Looking at the line as it appeared in 1905 and again in the 21st century seemed a worthwhile exercise! Part 1 of this short series provides a short history of the line and takes us from Manchester to Sowerby Bridge. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/10/06/the-manchester-and-leeds-railway-the-railway-magazine-december-1905-part-1/

The last length of the Whitland & Cardigan Railway is covered in the linked article below. Before completing the journey to Whitland, the article also looks at Locomotives and Rolling Stock used on the line. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/08/30/railways-in-west-wales-part-2c-the-whitland-cardigan-railway-rolling-stock-locomotives-and-llanglydwen-to-whitland/

The December 1905 Railway Magazine focused on Shrewsbury Railway Station as the 34th location in its Notable Railway Stations series. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/09/22/shrewsbury-railway-station-in-1905/ [Quote]The Railway Magazine carried an article about the relatively newly refurbished Shrewsbury Railway Station which started by remarking on the debt Shrewsbury Station owed to the construction of the Severn Tunnel: “it is to the Severn Tunnel that Shrewsbury owes the position it claims as one of the most important distributing centers in the country if not the most. In telephonic language, it is a “switch board,” and those on the spot claim that more traffic is interchanged and redistributed at Shrewsbury than even at York.”[/Quote]

[b]Light Railways in the UK – the early years after the 1896 Act – The Railway Magazine, August 1905.[/b] … A note in the August 1905 edition of The Railway Magazine mentions a 1904 report from the Light Railway Commissioners and comments from the Board of Trade in 1905. The Regulation of Railways Act 1868 permitted the construction of light railways subject to '…such conditions and regulations as the Board of Trade may from time to time impose or make'; for such railways it specified a maximum permitted axle weight and stated that '…the regulations respecting the speed of trains shall not authorize a speed exceeding at any time twenty-five miles an hour'. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/09/17/light-railways-in-the-uk-the-early-years-after-the-1896-act-the-railway-magazine-august-1905/ "The Light Railways Act 1896 did not specify any exceptions or limitations that should apply to light railways; it did not even attempt to define a 'light railway'. However, it gave powers to a panel of three Light Railway Commissioners to include 'provisions for the safety of the public… as they think necessary for the proper construction and working of the railway' in any light railway order (LRO) granted under the act. hour (mph) often associated with the Light Railways Act 1896 is not specified in the act but was a product of the earlier Regulation of Railways Act 1868. … However, limits were particularly needed when lightly laid track and relatively modest bridges were used in order to keep costs down."

Much Wenlock Civic Society I completed the series about this line which ran from Wellington to Craven Arms via Much Wenlock just a couple of weeks ago. This was just in time to allow me to pull together a talk for Much Wenlock Civic Society on Tuesday 17th September 2024. That talk can be found by following the link below: http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/09/04/much-wenlock-talk-17th-september-2024/ While asserting copyright, I have no objections to the file being downloaded and used. Hopefully you will feel something of the joy I found in drawing the photographs and the journey together.

'Demountable Flats' – The Railway Magazine – February 1922 – and developing methods of reducing freight handling costs in the 20th century. … The Railway Magazine of February 1922 introduced its readers to the advantages of 'demountable flats'. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/09/17/demountable-flats-the-railway-magazine-february-1922-and-developing-methods-of-reducing-freight-handling-costs-in-the-20th- century/

This article follows on from seven other articles earlier on this thread, which covered the Wellington to Severn Junction Railway and the Wenlock Branch from Buildwas to Harton Road Station. It is the final article in this series. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/09/17/the-wenlock-branch-from-harton-road-station-to-marsh-farm-junction-and-craven-arms/

I was reading (in August 2024) the July 1903 Railway Magazine and came across an article about the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway. The article marked the opening of the line at the beginning of April 1903. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/09/17/welshpool-and-llanfair-light-railway-again-the-railway-magazine-april-1903/