Northern Railway is running a Class 158 train from Darlington along the scenic heritage route of the Weardale Railway on Sun 22 Feb to support some great local charities. Tickets for this unusual railtour type trip are here weardale-railway.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...
I’ve researched and presented a TV programme on it… it’s on UKTV U Player these days still
Omg I knew I’d seen you afore
The GCR in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire are separated by 500 yards of missing bridges and embankments at Loughborough. In this video Tim Dunn looks at the project, already well under way, to close that gap.
Thanks for having me on, mark! X
Love "Secrets of the Underground" & "The Architecture the Railways Built"? Listen to @mrtimdunn.bsky.social explain how he got the gig & why he's so fascinated by it all. Plus how his parents met across a crowded platform...& why he also loves #modelvillages! www.vectisradio.com/podcasts/cat...
Phwoar. Would you just LOOK at the spandrels on THAT. (By which I mean of the iron and glass canopies on Skipton rly station, designed by Trubshaw for the Midland Railway. Long-time fan, here.)
Last chance to book for tmrw night! “Reels and Rails” #BFI London SouthBank. 2 hours of British railways, shown on the big screen. 1890s gems, 1930s action #flyingscotsman, #britishtransportfilms eg #nightmail, 1925 Railway Centenary & more: train chat in bar after whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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*try the veal, etc
Today the arrival of #NaoSantaMaria in London was giving *serious* Monty Python Accountan-sea vibes. But it did feel unfair to ask if the Crimson Permanent Assurance crew was aboard, as even on this replica Columbus ship, NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition. (It’s here all month*, open for tours)
Our July seminar celebrates #trains at the #seaside for #railway200. The fantastic @mrtimdunn.bsky.social will be talking miniature railways, Susan Major is discussing excursions and Richard Furness is looking at railways and resort development. BOOK NOW! 🚂🏖️
seasideheritage.org.uk/events/upcom...
I just knew that was coming next. Or just KNEE that, should I say!! Haha!!
Bluesky? Not at titting sillyoclock in London today it wasn’t
He’s not the only one by a long way. Some really interesting research in this for community rail proving its worth in the NW a few years back
Looks like the 210 doors and the tartan ish moquette follows as the units went to Scotland for a bit . Pretty sure the video is filmed on GWML hence HSTs, a London bus depot and I think the west Drayton sidings with wagons in, as well as Paddington. Easy train & route to book from production/BR POV!
person outside cities might never knowingly meet another unless they went by train. Trains have been the way so many lgbtq ppl travel to seek others like them, acceptance, a home. One gay friend who grew up in isolated NE, doubts quite genuinely that without the railway, he’d still be alive today.
No it doesn’t miss the point at all. The song screams in the heart of so many ppl - esp gay men. it screams in mine. We are always running, never settling, wary of each stop, forever looking for a destination and a place that we can belong. This 1984 song is pre-internet. Back then a young lgbtq…
Hi hello hi it’s me again and welcome back to the tried and tested formula see you next week with more of the same
As we hurtle north, autumn seemingly surrenders and Home Counties hills fall away. Sun flickers and flashes through the carriage catching faces, drawing them westward. For a lingering moment, an entire train is lost in thought. Then, we tilt. Darkness falls, & we return to our lives. #TravelByTrain
#TravelByTrain –the “I’m so proud of my friends” edition. Yesterday, a friend since we were kids working at Bekonscot Model Village arranged for me to join him at work: in the cab of 50008 “Thunderer” across southern England. He’s living his dream & he generously shared it with me. Thank you, Mikey.
