What’s the best bit of train-birding you’ve ever had? My thanks to everyone who responded to my recent blog about the Stour Estuary, as observed from a train on the Norwich-London line: now you’ve got me wondering about other birds seen from other trains. One of the train-traveller’s great pleasures is that lightning — but… [Read More]

Train to London from Norwich; I had to record the last two programmes for my radio series (it starts on Monday)  Everything You Think About Sport Is Wrong. Got a seat on the Eastern side as always; left side of the train in this direction. Read the paper. Ate sandwiches. Read the scripts, mouthing the… [Read More]