Medway Meander (Part 2)
It would be criminal to leave Kent’s county town without talking about the ferocious battle that occurred here in the Seventeenth Century, or mentioning at least one of the wrong’uns who’ve spent time in the local clink.
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Medway Meander (Part 1)
After those unfortunate events in the St. Gotthard Pass and the so-called ‘River of Tears’ incident in Calabria, I thought it wise to mothball Tally-Ho Corner Tours for a spell. Now the press has found new whipping boys, and memories…
Rat Run (Part 2)
When I put down my microphone last Friday we were just about to plunge into Shildon Tunnel. In Locomotion, the Dr Who script I’m almost ready to pitch to the BBC, navvies digging this hill hole in 1840 unwittingly rouse…
Rat Run (Part 1)
Few parts of the UK have had such a profound impact on the world as the mineral-rich corner of North-East England I’ve picked as the venue for this Tally-Ho Corner rail tour. A pioneering rail network conceived and constructed two…
Chalked Up: Wandering Wessex in an FS2020 Beaver
Last Friday the first FS2020-powered Tally-Ho Corner air tour bimbled from the Uffington White Horse in southern Oxfordshire to the Bulford Kiwi on the south-eastern fringe of Salisbury Plain. Today we head for the Jurassic Coast, following a flight path…
Chalked Up (Wandering Wessex in an FS2020 Beaver)
Stretching from The Wash to Portland Bill, England’s sash of grass-topped chalk is emblazoned with dozens of huge hillside geoglyphs. Accompany me on the very first FS2020-based Tally-Ho Corner air tour – a hundred-mile jaunt from Oxfordshire to the Dorset…
Dawn Donkey Ride: Preston to Blackpool by TSW Pacer
“Good morning, Cornerites. On behalf of Tally-Ho Corner Tours I’d like to welcome you aboard this chilly (Get the heater on, Roman!) bus-based Train Sim World diesel multiple unit. Very shortly, assuming ‘nodding donkey’ number 142033 plays beach ball, we…
Berlin Bisected: Part 1
On behalf of Tally-Ho Corner Tours I’d like to welcome you aboard this nonagenarian Class 476.3 electric multiple unit. Today, with a little help from your imagination and my copy of Train Simulator 2021, we will be traversing the southern…