Tim Hedley-Jones

I do like the trains and trams of Soller - this is my kind of place.

Obviously I couldn’t!

If you can tear yourself away from Scarborough’s funicular railways, there is an excellent exhibition on at its Art Gallery on the town’s lost aquarium, the place to go for performing cats and fernmania!

We also found his parents’ grave in Montford.

Been in Shropshire over the weekend - they embrace their famous son Charles Darwin everywhere….except perhaps here. Is this an anti-plaque? Love the capital letters!

A relic of our mining heritage and Leeds Engineering rusting away beside a field in Rodington, Shropshire

York Platform 5 this morning

Part of the early development of the Mulberry Harbour took place in Garlieston and Rigg Bays in Galloway - this structure is the last surviving part of the ramp onto the prototype pontoons constructed to prepare for Operation Overlord.

Attempting to survive Storm Floris in Kirkudbright by wandering round art galleries and eating cream cakes - it’s a bit blowy but I’ve not got my big coat on yet! Especially liking the paintings of Charles Oppenheimer who designed posters for BR.

Plus a delightful corrugated iron house just down the road.

Good to bump into you Simon - glad you were enjoying your holiday - lovely little station and viaduct. You never who you might meet in the Highlands!

They are very proud of what they have achieved and their trophy cabinet shows that off well.

It’s perhaps best known as Frank Hornby’s home station, but now it’s worth visiting for the coffee shop which was very busy when Inwas there

Last week I visited Maghull Station on my way to Ormskirk - there’s a reason why it won the World Cup of Stations in 2024 and I strongly recommend a visit. The rain certainly didn’t dampen the upbeat feel of this station.

Nice #Beatles themed safety poster on the Merseyrail network

A visit to Leeds City Museums Discovery Centre and Store, only open for selected tours - not everyday you see a genuine Dodo beak - centre, top photo!

Not usually a fan of the artwork in big brand hotels but this from the Mercure Grange Park Hull caught my eye - a drawing of one of the Humber Forts. I like it.

Looking a bit out of place in Doncaster

The blast furnaces of Port Talbot across the River Avan and in local street art.

There aren’t many historic features left at Gloucester Station but here’s one former BR sign that’s survived 29 years of privatisation! Spotted yesterday on way home from the Rhondda Tunnel.

I went to Poppleton Railway Nursery near York this morning to stock up on bedding plants. Do visit and support this unique charity and piece of railway heritage which has its own two-foot narrow gauge railway and a model railway of itself. It moved to Poppleton in 1941.

The marker where the River Ouse becomes the River Ure north of York near Aldwark

It’s 22.5.2025 so it’s #225day. Classiest livery of all.

The rather poignant memorial in Goole Cemetery to those who died in a Zeppelin Raid in August 1915. Good interpretation board showing the route of the Zeppelin.

Victorian tiled railway maps restored at London’s Victoria Station Two nearly 130-year-old railway maps at Victoria station have been restored by Govia Thameslink Railway, with funding from Network Rail and a grant from the Railway Heritage Trust.

Victorian tiled railway maps restored at London’s Victoria Station

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Two nearly 130-year-old railway maps at Victoria station have been restored by Govia Thameslink Railway, with funding from Network Rail and a grant from the Railway Heritage Trust.

In London Victoria this morning and came across the British Pullman looking very splendid - not going on it myself I am sorry to say.

Nice to see new Abbey Line CRP posters at Watford Junction on my way to Bricket Wood - lovely illustrations.

Our 40th anniversary exhibition is on the move again. A huge thank you to the Vale of Rhiedol Railway, Aberystwyth for displaying it for us over the next two weeks. Do visit if you can and see the excellent work they do. Our unveiling this morning…..

Always a pleasure to change trains at Shrewsbury and especially so to see my favourite current livery.

Completion of renovation works to 36 Holgate Rd, York. I think this an improvement but something at the back of my mind is a bit sad at the loss of another small business in the heart of the city. If this just becomes another Air BnB, is that progress? #York