A Valiant Tart

And with that, the last train of the 2025 season has departed Wharf.

Thank you to everyone that has supported us this year by visiting, and huge round of applause to all our wonderful staff and volunteers who keep the wheels turning on our Railway with a Heart of Gold!

"That black suit in your closet that you only wear to funerals"

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Yessssss it’s an annual fave!

"Person who won 6th prize in Bingo"

(His prize is a bag of "umaibo" extruded corn stick snacks, which cost around 50 cents each)

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Snippet from Real Time Trains showing the Azuma was one minute up from Fletton Junction onwards, and arrived at Huntington 3 minutes after it was originally due to pass.

Whatever else comes out once the attack on the ECML train last night, this alone is a credit to the train crew, driver, and signalling team.

Huntingdon was the first possible stop. In a highly stressful situation and improvising a plan the train lost just 3 minutes vs line speed to get there.

This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts

A horse drawn carriage comes towards me down a Dartmoor bridleway

FFS, lost my concentration on a walk again and mistakenly took the path that said "1825" instead of the one that said "2025".

As a dad who loves maths and Christmas (and bad jokes) I could not love this more.

This poster, By Metro to Watford, promotes the new electric service operating from the City, via Baker Street to Watford. It boasts 140 daily trains, starting at 5.12am from Baker Street and finishing at quarter past midnight. The illustration has an insert showing the town centre of Watford with market stalls and a Metropolitan Railway (Met) train, destination Watford.

#OnThisDay 100 years ago the Met Line's Watford branch opened. It was intended to end on the High Street, optimistically seen in this 1925 poster. The current Moon Under Water pub was purchased for the station but the extension stalled leaving today's remote terminus. Poster: LT Museum collection

Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music

“There is a type of girl who, while incapable of cleaning her bedroom even at knifepoint, will fight for the privilege of being allowed to spend the day shoveling manure in a stable.”

Your reminder that it was Mrs Benz etc

A quick reminder that tomorrow morning is the Old Crocks London to Brighton run.
If you’re near the route, it’s worth getting up for.

@oldenoughtosay.com I know you like a listing

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Finally, someone talking about the fuel poverty that matters

The lyric "STOP Hammer Time" indicates that U Can't Touch This may have been the first song to be written in BASIC.

Oh, and the fact that the UK and US versions of Dennis the Menace were first published on the exact same day, without either one knowing the other existed.

The greatest coincidence of all time.

Its never too late for honesty

Nothing about us without us doesn’t just apply to Autistic people

It’s sex workers too

and any other marginalized group

listen to the people you want to help, ask them, heed their message

otherwise you’re not “helping”
you’re just being oppressive

nothing about us without us
any of us
all of us

Does it fire sheep from that right hand side?

We seem to be in the Exclamation phase, otherwise known as What The Fuck Now phase

A black and white photo of a crowd with some people surrounded by a swirling mass of movement blurred by a long exposure

Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris in 1959 by Frank Horvat. This is a remarkable image.

YouTube video by WoodyHaldrugold Al Wilson - The snake (with lyrics)

Al Wilson, The Snake
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Plans? Have you seen ferrari's strategies? He's in one!

Sitting on a train near someone chatting on speakerphone like...

The voice of Dick Dastardly, Paul Winchell patented an early version of an artificial heart, along with Henry Heimlich of manouevre fame.

If you get stabbed with a pin only once during a dress fitting, that's a win, right? #PuttingTheTInOuTAndAbouT

WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!

With it's large majority, introducing PR is something that this Labour government could do at little cost.
And with the party hovering at 17%, it would actually benefit Labour.
It would also prevent Farage getting into No.10.