London Upside Down! Or is it?

Modelling

• Windcutter takes a look at one of Hornby’s new wagon releases. Find out if it’s any good.
• Hornby also release some snaps of it’s upcoming Class 92 release.

UK Rail

• Crossrail tunnelling has reached Liverpool Street. Next: Central London.
• The Londonist’s Geoff Marshall has the latest on this month’s DLR route and timetabling changes. Diamond Geezer also gets in on the action.
• More on the NRM’s Playing Trains exhibit. How the dolls house influenced model railways.
• Happy 100th Birthday to Kilburn Park and Warwick Ave.
• (and happy 100th post to me!).
• Did you know there was more than 500 miles of heritage railway in the UK? You do now. A nice write up of The Kent and East Sussex Railway and their planned expansions from LocoYard.
• London is upside down! Or is it?
• The Mirror claimed there was ‘shock and disbelief’ one morning as commuters were greeted by a Polar bear. They failed to mention it was staged at a disused part of Charing Cross.
• The real shock was that part of Thameslink had flooded.
• Have you seen Britain’s longest train?
• And a British Rail Flying Saucer? No really.

Featured image “Whistle” on K&ESR by Oast House Archive.