Tuesday travels. . . Swindon, The Steam Museum of the Great Western Railway

On my recent visit to the UK I was based in Swindon for two weeks.  I had chosen Swindon as it was on the train line to London and it was central to the south west region of England.  I bought a South West Flexi Rail pass and that meant I could have eight days…

Tuesday travels. . . Alford, Aberdeenshire

This very recognisable call box, Dr Who?, is to be found at the Grampian Transport Museum in Alford, Aberdeenshire.  It is one of the exhibits remaining from an exhibition on Future Travel held at the museum in a previous year. Another remnant from the the same exhibition was this dalek.  Apparently the public enjoyed the…