Glenanore A well preserved plantation railway siding in Sri Lanka

Glenanore

A well preserved plantation railway siding in Sri Lanka

By

Gyan C A Fernando

Plantations railway sidings or estate platforms on the Sri Lankan Railway are little used nowadays, some have become stations and some have completely disappeared.

In the supplements to his book “Railways of Sri Lanka”, David Hyatt gives a comprehensive list of these halts.

Peruvian Railway Pictures

Great Railway Journeys

Peruvian Railway Pictures

Pictures of Peruvian Trains from my travels in Peru

The PICTURES ARE HERE
Peru 2003 

Peru 2010

and 
the story may be found here LINK

Estación Central General Artigas, Montevideo, Uruguay

Estación Central General Artigas,

Montevideo, Uruguay

 George Stephenson is alive and well in Montevideo!

I visited Estación Central General Artigas on the 4th of October 2008.

My pictures of the station and the statue of George Stephenson are here PICTURES

Estación Central General Artigas 

is the former central railway station of Montevideo, Uruguay, situated in Aguada.

Designed by the Italian engineer and architect Luigi Andreoni, it was opened to the public on the 15th of July 1897 and was closed on 1 March 2003.

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Why Boys Love Trains and Girls Love Dolls

 

Why Boys love Trains and Girls love Dolls

Gyan Fernando takes a humorous pseudo-scientific look at this age old Gender divide!