Links to Other Sites

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The web is a dynamic environment.  These links went where we expected when this page was last checked.  Broken links are a perpetual hazard, one does what one can.

'Big' Railways

• Heritage Railways is an excellent place to look for other UK websites.
• There is a new nominated website about the London Undergorund: Underground History.
  District Dave's view of the London Underground has not been updated for a long while!
• The Signal Box is a site all about railway signalling.

Miniature Railways

Our local 'Miniature' tracks

• Harrow and Wembley Society of Model Engineers are our local group.
• Northolt Model Railway Club have a track nearby, but their main website has vanished.  Until they fix it, here is a link to their live steam section.
• Harlington Locomotive Society also have a track, but not quite so near!
• Ickenham and District Society of Model Engineers have managed to fit a lot of track into a small area.

Other Miniature Railways

• The Great Cockcrow Railway is spectacular!  We thought it well worth a visit.
• The Little Red Train is not steam, but an excellent example of its kind all the same.
• The Model Engineering Clearing House especially their Lost Models Directory.

Narrow Gauge Railways

• Ruislip Lido Railway only has a short track, but is still an interesting site.
• The Leighton Buzzard Railway is a classic example of its type.
• The Basingstoke Canal Railway was an engineers' support line.  Many such examples have existed over the years.

Unusual Steam Engines

• The builder of these 'things' just calls them Steam Creations.

Places with Steam Engines

• Hollycombe has lots of steam engines of all types and sizes.
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum is well worth a visit.
• Crossness Pumping Station has just the one beam engine restored to working order (so far), but the site itself is a Grade 1 listed building - and with good cause!
• Kemption Steam Trust are also working on big beam engines.

Places with a Green flavour

• The Centre for Alternative Technology in mid-Wales.
• The Eden Project in Cornwall.

Other Interesting Places

• The Royal Gunpowder Mills.
• The Paper Trail are still working on their visitors facilities, but even now they are well worth a visit.
• Who can resist the charm of Bekonscot?
• Four miles from Sheffield city centre you can find Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet.  They do have a small steam engine, but it is not the main reason to visit.

Friends

• Tim Hall.

Music

• Hounslow Light Opera Company
• The Gilbert & Sullivan Archive

Organisations we Support

• A link to St. Alban's, North Harrow, our local Church of England will be back as soon as the site is back up to date again.
• Diabetes UK.
• The National Trust.
• RSPB.
• Sustrans.
• Practical Action, previously known as the Intermediate Technology Development Group.
• Tall Ships Youth Trust really exists to get 16 to 25 year-olds sailing, but they also have 18 to 75 voyages.
  The Jubilee Sailing Trust exists to get crews of mixed physical abilities sailing together on an equal basis.

Indoor Leisure

• Board Game Geek
• Civilization: The Expansion Project

Humour

• Improbable Research, the body reposnsible for awarding the Ig-Noble prizes.
• Pathetic Motorways - including motorways that stop in mid-air, have public footpaths literally across them, hide, died, or just failed to get built.
• Advice to Evil Overlords
• The Urban Legends Reference Pages are the place to check out those strange stories and wierd photos one sometimes encounters.
  Warning: this site is prone to spinning off adverts in extra frames.  However the main site is good enough to put up with this, just use a pop-up blocker.
• One has to know the IT industry to understand the humour in Waterfall 2006, but if one does, it's a hoot!

Commercial Sites

Miniature Railways

• Polly Model Engineering

Music

• Catherine Orton.
• Mary Rose Langfield.

Indoor Leisure

• Looney Labs.
• Ragnar Brothers.
• Rio Grande Games produce English translations of some excellent German table games.

Green Companies

• The Tank Exchange make used fruit juice tanks available as water butts.
• Chelsfield Solar arranged our panels.