Railpassion

Good and normal? All were earthquakes

Class 37 at Pickering #nymr

Russia Today was thrown out of the UK because the level of misinformation it peddled was a danger to UK democracy. However, it never called for the overthrow of the UK government. This loathsome creature and his cesspit platform should face an immediate ban.

The monster Trump

'Waterloo line must be dualled' - demands East Devon MP Richard Foord as rail chaos continues Delays, reduced timetables and longer journeys spark calls for urgent rail investment between Exeter and London

He's right and all. A few miles redoubled at Whimple would change a lot. This summer, the sight of seriously well-to-do people being discombobulated on the platform at Axminster
www.exetertoday.co.uk/news/exetert...

Ive never seen a logging truck on the main road in Finland

It was a buzzword in social care a while ago. Training in cherishing was available. I kid you not!

In North Yorkshire, 1 in 3 adults are over 65.

Canada as Lebensraum.
Mein Trumpf

Thatcher had a poor start. People seem to forget this.

Street View

It's a great read, which is very thorough in drawing together so many sources. If only the crossing had been saved to match the enormous western end. Much of the woodwork is at Leake, but the fine stalls, or parts of them, are probably somewhere in the north.

Reconstructing Bridlington Priory: Richard Pollard's Suppression Survey and the Evidence of Antiquarian and Current Research Bridlington Priory, one of the first phase of Augustinian houses established in England, has remained largely unknown, though it retains the nave of its thirteenth century church and its late fourteen...

Many thanks. I've literally just seen this newish paper by Stuart Harrison
www.academia.edu/129852774/Re...
He suggests a shorter plan than Earnshaw, based on Pollard's pacings.

Gouldian Finch.

The Gouldian Finch (Chloebia gouldiae), also known as the Gould's Finch or the Rainbow Finch, is a colourful passerine bird that is native to Australia.

📷: @tracksbirding

Name a better sounding locomotive… I’ll wait 😉

JR Earnshaw had a go. But how long was the quire? 6 or 9 bays. JRE went for 9 but Purvis thought 6.
JRE's model here..

Could you recreate the missing quire and transepts of this?
#BridlingtonPriory

Just a normal sunny Sunday at Saxmundham @eastsuffolklines.co.uk @suffolksnaps.bsky.social @thattallbloke.bsky.social @gerbil1978.bsky.social

West Coast Railways 86401 "Mons Meg" brings up the rear of a FOOTEX yesterday through long buckby station.

56090 passes through Nottingham on 0F55 Doncaster Colas Sidings to Colwick Colas.

37608 'Andromeda' with 93001 and 93002 in tow storms through Derby on 0Q26 St Andrew's Siding to Worksop Down Yard.

2p on income tax for defence, etc. Labour boxed in by the low tax Tory b/millionaires at the last GE.
Too timid by far.

Help me with my fiction addiction

Excellent! Well done Vermont!

🇮🇹 A new luxury train to tour Italy: “Orient Express, La Dolce Vita” leaves the workshop.

A dining & sleeper train from Orient Express for Italy, 3 day trips €8,000.
www.orient-express.com/la-dolce-vita/
(State rail has Treni Touristici for €300 if you’re not in that league! www.fstrenituristici.it)

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

It's almost an emergency

Drill baby, drill

Maybe he'll one day be fElon Musk

The Art of the Meal

A masterclass in how to be eaten for lunch.

Next chapter: serving up others for dessert.

February 18th, 2025: a nadir to remember.