RSVP Archives - WebTrain Savvy - talking about Trains on the Web

Welcome – I extend an invitation to you to join in the WebTrain Savvy railway blog: a new place to talk about what is important to people – in the world of the Web and the world of Trains (especially anything remotely train related). The blog also forms part of my “TheWebTrain” site, where you can also find a dedicated railway image gallery covering both prototype/real world and model railway pictures. Continue reading “A WebTrain Savvy Invitation”

British Railway Freight Sectorisation and Branding

This article covers the evolution of British railway freight sectorisation: from regional operation to sectorisation and privatisation. Freight sectorisation refers to the sub-brands that British Rail (BR) created in the 1980s and early 90s, when it was reorganised from a regional structure to an operational sector based structure and finally into business sectors. The strategies […]

29th Street Wharf: US HO

My first model railway exhibition layout is 29th Street Wharf, an HO scale, “freelance”, box theatre-style representation of a typically rundown railroad yard located on a West Coast USA city sea-front. The exhibit has been gradually evolved over 5 years, to depict a fictitious US railroad scene and associated industry activity, over the period 1960s – 1990s. The scenario […]

Switzerland Railway Pictorial – SBB and RhB

Welcome to “Switzerland Railway Pictorial – SBB and RhB”, an image-rich feature of some of my photos of two of Switzerland’s fascinating railway systems. The SBB is the Swiss Federal Railways, the national railway company of Switzerland, whereas the RhB (Rhätische Bahn) is the independent metre gauge railway of the Graubünden (or Grisons), the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. They […]

92203 Black Prince

The first post for this blog deserves to be about the locomotive featured in the @theWEBtrain header above. 92203 Black Prince was one of nine class 9F 2-10-0 steam locomotives (out of a total of 251) that were saved from the breakers yard when British Railways (BR) decided to cull all its steam power in […]