And we had fun celebrating the fact on the 09:50 ex-EBN to AFK and 11:24 return!
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What a great collection!
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You do this too? ๐
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Still got it tho! ๐๐
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An aerial view looking down on the 1960s station as if it were a Hornby set - with level crossing, taxi, porters and pedestrian bridge
The railway station in Ladybird Land - captured in Treasure magazine, 1963
(Artist: Don Harley)
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Fun?
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Iโd be worried about those wine bottles! ๐๐
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And with the reactor dome of Sizewell B power station seen in the distance!
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HNY! Thanks for what you do! ๐
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Thatโs later than 1990, thereโs a Virgin Trains logo and reference to Connex South Central on the station name board on the left.
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Was watching this earlier with my Dad!
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Excellent book, that! ๐
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Well, I had cobs plural at actual team time! ๐
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One or two dubious choices in that set I feel! ๐
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BLS tour from Kingโs Cross!
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Itโs known as a โNanna Napโ in our house! ๐
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Walked past (and stared at) this only yesterday!
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Is there only one hipster pub in Bradford? I donโt know whether Iโm pleased or displeased! ๐
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Porter on the railway platform pulls a trolley directly towards the viewer. Beside him is an open train door, and the person behind it part visible in the glass.
โThe Porterโ (1972)
This was the first piece of Ladybird artwork I ever bought. It drew me in.
Artist: John Berry
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It hadnโt opened at that point
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Walked past it todayโฆ quite big inside!
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Maybe Iโll see/ignore you in this one then! ๐
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Look at that map (behind you)!
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Chimney at Didcot Power Station, photographed by Martyn J Bull.
"I thought of how, as a child, Iโd used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."
'Landscapes of Power'
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/landscapes...
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This has been fascinating to follow ๐
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No!
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My comments were largely positive and, hopefully, helpful!
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Two children, Peter and Jane, show their tickets to walk onto a train platform. Janeโs anorak is green and Peterโs is blue.
The Ladybird look
The quilted anorak, 1973.
(Did we all have one?)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
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Do you send via the postal system? ๐
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Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
tombolton.co.uk
๐Atomic Albion
๐London's Lost Rivers Vols 1 & 2
๐Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods
๐Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
๐Camden Town: Dreams of Another London
โ๏ธTheatre for Plays International
โ๏ธMusic for The Quietus
Australian digital product strategist in London. Lover of tech, craft beer, urbanism, and Cities: Skylines - I help run @cslmodd.ing. He/him, ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
English photographer documenting Britainโs surviving interwar architecture.
Books: 226 Garages and Service Stations out on FUEL, Trackside Transformation on Kickstarter now.
Historian @ Queenโs Uni Belfast
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell 2019)
AHRC PI of Queer NI: Sexuality b4 Liberation
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Human Geographer (retired, sort of);
Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things
Curator, transport manager and occasional writer. Snapshot of vehicles, heritage & other interests. Views my own.
A magazine for #Sheffield by Opus. Local news and culture. Online only (for now). Got a tip-off or want to write? Get in touch.
๐ nowthenmagazine.com
The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
An educational charity working to map the urban histories of ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ in partnership with local historians & communities.
Former train dispatcher turned Train Conductor Based at Southern Regionโs 74D Depot, Voice actor. No tweets during safety critical work, All views are my own๐
The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged. Guardian, Architects' Journal, whatever, STATE PENSIONER.
EU politics and sustainable transport, especially railways.
Brit who became German and lives in a village in France. When he's not escaping it on a train or a folding bicycle.
Teaches at College of Europe, still writes a blog, photographs with a drone.
Where the parallel lines of trains & music meet. Home of 'The Train Kept A-Rollin' - How The Train Song Changed The Face Of Popular Music' by @SpencerVignes.bsky.social - visit http://www.spencervignes.co.uk/ to find out more.
An annual literary journal launching this year, featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Cultural wing. Amusement without vulgarity.
Exploring London's history starting with my father's photos from 1946, to the present day.
https://alondoninheritance.com/
Photographer and YouTuber with a passion for railways and transport subjects. Please check out my YouTube channel if you get a chance www.youtube.com/@LinesideSouthEast
Transport policy wonk in the North of England. Own views.
Cares too much about assurance frameworks, devolution and cats.
Cars for work, trains for leisure. I like good bread and good butter. I make pizzas and take pictures. Occasional rugby-goer and prolific selfie-poster. Secretary of a rugby club. Partnered. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Views my own. He/him.
