Colin Churcher's Personal Pages

Welcome to my home page. I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I have been interested in railways for many years and have been fortunate to pursue a railway career. In these pages I set out various aspects of my interest. As of November 2016 my railway pages have been migrated over to the C. Robert Craig Memorial Library web site. The new URL is http://churcher.crcml.org/  No data has been lost and the relevant links on this page have been changed to those on the Craig Library website. Personal   Several thousand of my pictures, railway and non-railway, now available on Flickr.   My Blogs   My Railway and Trip Diaries from the 1960s   Articles I have written, mainly on railway subjects, since 1960.   My curriculum vitae.   Growing up in Orpington I was born in Orpington, Kent, England.  My mother Kate Churcher (nee Foster) wrote this account of the Orpington she knew as a girl. Railway History   Ottawa's Railway Heritage - a new listing of railway artifacts in the region now no longer used for railway purposes   The Thurso and Nation Valley Railway was the last logging railway in eastern Canada. It ran north from Thurso, Québec on the Ottawa River to bring out lumber for the Thurso mill. I saw the line in its last years and these pages will present some of the flavour of this interesting short line railway.   Walter Shanly's Reports on the survey of the Bytown and Prescott Railway       Railway Maps of the Ottawa Area      Department of Transport 1941 Maps showing location of railways with their original names   First Trips and Early Excursions in the Ottawa Area   Railways Projected in the Ottawa Area - it is amazing how many lines were projected and even authorized, but were never built.   A Train Journey Through the Ottawa Valley - an imaginary rail trip using images from the Mattingly Collection of the Canada Science and Technology Museum.  A review of Ottawa area papers from 1847 to date.      By railway subdivision      By Year  A review of Ottawa area items from the Railway and Shipping World   A listing of regulatory orders, orders in council etc., relating to the railways of Ottawa Significant Railway Dates   Significant Dates in Canadian railway history.   Significant Dates in Ottawa railway history.   Significant Dates in Ottawa/Hull Street Railway History.   Significant Dates in Kingston, ON, railway history. Prepared by David Page.   Brockville Railway History - a set on Flickr Ottawa Railway History Circle   Ottawa Railway History Circle   FINDINGS of the Ottawa Railway History Circle - this contains an enormous amount of information about the history of the railways of Ottawa.   Articles written by Members of the Circle   Royal Trains in Canada - a work in progress   Railway Accidents in the Ottawa area   Last Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives to Operate out of Ottawa   Sunken Locomotives in Canada Ottawa Area Railways   Ottawa Central Railway - The Spareboard.   Salient Features of the Ottawa O Train Route. Mount Royal Tunnel   The Mount Royal Tunnel Electrification   “From a rolling museum to a Phoenix arisen from its ashes.” This is part of an excellent presentation given by Mark Walton to the Bytown Railway Society on June 6, 2000. Industrial Locomotives and Locomotive Cranes in Canada    Industrial Locomotives in Canada  (except BC) - an extensive listing. Travels Around the World   Guayaquil and Quito Railway, Ecuador.   Picture Gallery of trips in 1988 and 1993.   A coconut railway visited in Honduras in 1997.   A narrow gauge train ride between Talca and Constitucion in Chile. February 2001.   Railway Inspection Trips in Bolivia.  February 2002.   Le chemin de fer du Blanc a Argent in France in September 2002 and January 2007.   Trip to Ireland September 2006   Parisian Living, December- 2006/ January 2007   A Journey across northern Spain on El Transcantabrico, a luxury narrow gauge train   Broad Gauge Railway Relics in the Azores (June 2008)   Travel to Siena and Firenze in Italy, October 2008. Fiction Treacle Mining Links   Links to sites I have found interesting and useful

   
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