by Miles Taylor | Oct 5, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
SEPTA! Stop opening up new Regional Rail platforms! Let me get through my backlog without having to schlep up to random stations every couple of days! And you picked a real good place for me this time: Levittown. One of the first master-planned suburbs, and one with a...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 2, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Okay…time to do the 20, but in the opposite direction! Yeah, sorry if the 21 ends up being a bit redundant… Yikes, what an unflattering angle. So we headed straight up Federal Street, leaving downtown Greenfield pretty quickly in favor of more suburban...
by Miles Taylor | Oct 1, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
Yes, I know I’m late here – Paoli’s new platform opened over a week ago, and this one is a much bigger deal than Secane. I go through these phases where I’m really busy and don’t have time to write, so…well, anyway: Paoli! Being...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 24, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA, Miles on the MBTA
After our adventures in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the urban part of my family’s Scotland trip was essentially over. It was time to take a train way up into the Scottish Highlands, and on the eponymous (West) Highland Line, no less – widely considered to be...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 23, 2019 | Miles on the MBTA
Ben sent in his take on the Grafton Commuter Rail station. Thanks, Ben! Grafton station. It’s a nice little station on the Worcester line. The station itself is in the middle of absolute nowhere, near the Shrewsbury town line, off of State Route 30. The station...
