@RailwayMagazine Senior Correspondent. Married to @Movingonup19. 'Dad' to Greek cat Ariel. Aspiring novelist. Ex-BBC, ITV and ILR journalist.
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❤️🐈😍 Goodnight to all my fur friends sweet dreams 💤 love from Rusty 😍🐈❤️
#CatsOfTwitter
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Can anyone answer us this…
Teddy has abandoned his massive memory foam bed for a tiny plastic bowl on the window ledge.
Is he just a cat, or are we missing something?
#StandTall #PCTeddy #MerpolMounted #PoliceCat #IfTeddyFitsHeSits
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Fall was your season, sweet Kevy.🍂🍁As soon as the heat came on, you would settle in to your fave spot by the fireplace and purr happily. Miss mew and Skippy so much. We wish we could hear those cozy little purrs again. 🌈
#ThrowbackThursday
#SNELovesPets
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Book on go across to station grab my envoy start to walk back hear the unmistakable sound of a 37 opening up at Kettering South junction 37425 Concrete bob heads 3Q29 derby rtc to derby rtc via the world #Tractortuesday
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56090 & 56113 top n tail the RHTT passing through P6 at Crewe working 3S71 Coleham LMD to Coleham LMD 17/10/26 #class56 #grid #rhtt @ColasRailUK
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A major milestone for the @_ECDP!
The first-in-class retrofit of ETCS digital signalling on @GC_Rail's Class 180 fleet has now received authorisation, bringing high-speed, digitally signalled passenger services one step closer.
More 👉 ow.ly/SnKr51008RF
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Every autumn something sweet happens. My four cats realise the weather is changing & go into ‘winter mode’. Our girl cat, Coco, has the biggest change. Spring/summer she loses her thick coat & spends most of her time outside. Soon as the fire goes on in Oct she’s a fluffy lap cat
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Baxter is a male black cat, aged around 4-5 years old. He is looking for a new home as sadly he was left behind when his owner was evicted.
He has been looked after since by a cat charity and their friends, however as the colder months are now here, he would need a cosy warm home to call his own.
He is very friendly and stays close to his female carer. He will also eat anything, not fussy.
We have very limited information on Baxter due to the circumstances of his life.
He would make a great companion pet for someone who is on their own, no other pets or young kids - older children 9+ would be okay.
For more information or to offer Baxter a new home please email [email protected]
Graeme Pickering retweeted
When DCMS bothers to talk about public service media, 'supporting the UK's creative economy' is always an easy get on the bingo sheet. Recent White Paper gossip & muted reactions to more brutal BBC cuts suggests that support still starts and ends with nothing but bromides
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An 'end of film' shot but it has some historical value - ex-Works 43157 & 160 ready to leave Derby on 22/12/1983 on a 'back to back' test run (to Burton-on-Trent?). If all went well they'd be reunited with the trailer cars & go for another test run up to Darlington or Newcastle.
🤖 Made with AI
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#ThrowbackThursday and ITV filming with Selina Scott at Berney Arms 05 Oct 2006- getting the outside TV team to this location was a bit fraught. Selina ended up stuck at Reedham station, and the TV crew on the A47 near Yarmouth with no mobile phone signal; we had to liaise with the RSPB and English Heritage, who were also part of the subject for 'A day at Berney Arms'. Let's just say that production started late!
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Day 21: apples
No bad apples here, just the sweetest pick of the bunch!🍎🍏🌳 #NationalAppleDay 🍎🍏
#SNELovesPets #CatsOfX #CatsOfTwitter #WhiskersWednesday #Hedgewatch
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Friends! Is anyone still awake? It’s been a quiet day on here - possibly the quietest day we’ve ever had. I’m wondering why, and it’s keeping me awake. I might not be as interesting a cat as I used to be. I’m older now so I don’t do as much. Maybe that’s why? 🩶
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Colas Railfreight shed 66848 up front, and Freightliner 66553 on the rear, prepare to depart from Leeds with 3S26 to York.
#Class66 #Shed #ColasRailfreight #Freightliner #LeedsCityStation #RHTT
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#OnThisDay 171 years ago the Wimbledon & Croydon Railway opened, partly using the 1802 Surrey Iron Railway route. A real railway backwater, this 1980 @jerrycee55 image of Beddington Lane captures it beautifully; unrecognisable today as part of London Trams buff.ly/8yQWrsJ
ALT 2EPB unit 5737 calls at the single-platform Beddington Lane station in 1980, one of the original 1855 stations on the route, with the signal box, semaphore signal and level crossing visible in what could be mistaken for a rural scene.
(+ ALT which was saved and posted but won't now show!) I tried to post this and then it appeared it hadn't posted after all. 56105 and 56078 on the 3J77 Carlisle Colas Yard-Carlisle Colas Yard RHTT on Sunday, having just passed under Ellison Road, Dunston. 📸: ©️ Graeme Pickering
ALT With trees lining the cutting now several shades of green and a few reds, pinks and oranges just ahead of the train as it rounds the left to right curve a very stained 56105 and more lightly dirty 56078 (trailing) work the Rail Head Treatment Train, spray emerging from the tank just behind the leading loco and a slight bit of exhaust above the trailing loco.
I tried to post this and then it appeared it hadn't posted after all. 56105 and 56078 on the 3J77 Carlisle Colas Yard-Carlisle Colas Yard RHTT on Sunday, having just passed under Ellison Road, Dunston. 📸: ©️ Graeme Pickering
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There's a lot of chatter about mobile noise on trains, and I occasionally see comment that things were quieter in the past.
The 1960s wants a word.
Then, transistor radios were considered a plague, to the extent that British Railway's Western Region produced this poster.
ALT A poster. In a note is this text: "and she shall have music wherever she goes." Below it "But, noisy transistors and blaring refrains may annoy other people using the trains. Please remember - it is an offence to operate a portable radio (or other musical instrument) to the annoyance of other passengers."
🤳 Reels blaring from the seat behind?
📢 A video call on speaker that the whole carriage didn't ask to join?
'Loudcasting' on public transport has become a daily annoyance for many passengers.
Share the carriage, not the noise:
👉 bit.ly/47y8czM
ALT A person sitting on a train using a smartphone. Next to them is a large speaker with sound waves emanating. Text reads: "Share the carriage. Not the noise." Additional icons suggest using headphones, keeping calls off speaker, and watching videos quietly.
I've only ever seen a RHTT stop at Dunston twice for a tweak to the treatment equipment. Once was today, when it wasn't there long enough for me to get a shot, but I WAS at the station when 37609 and 37602 happened to stop with their train back in November 2017.
