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Historian, geographer, team #Railway200. Presenter @UKTV #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt & #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground, Trainspotter &🏳️‍🌈. Own views, obv
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Trevithick’s locos (& many other inventions eg world’s 1st steam road car) didn’t catch on, but his ideas did. He died penniless. So as we approach 2025 & celebrate George Stephenson as the father of railways, maybe remember Richard Trevithick: as the father of steam locomotives.

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6th October 1829: the Rainhill Trials began! Organised by the Liverpool & Manc Rly (who’d planned to run cable-hauled trains) to test locomotives, 10 machines were entered, 5 competed: 4 were a bit shit, so Rocket won. Here’s me & doing an selfie with Rocket

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2nd August 1870 - London’s Tower Subway, a tiny one-carriage cable-hauled railway beneath the Thames - opens to the public. It was effectively the first “tube” railway. The tunnel now carries cables, but last yr I went hunting & found southern entrance site, off Tooley St.

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My pics of London's extraordinary vaulted Crystal Palace Subway (built 1854 by LB&SCR to join two now-demolished buildings: its station & vast Victorian tourist attraction). Today I learn from that restoration plans have been approved! https://t.co/MAzrQCDsZz

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Those interested in the history of London's tube network may enjoy "The Truth Stops Here" a new musical play about a woman's fight for the truth about the covered-up 1943 Bethnal Green disaster. Esher, Surrey, 6-8th January. Tickets: https://t.co/SOIFOY0hB2

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The winter sun setting over Margate’s Tidal Bathing Pool (exactly 1yr ago tonight) after filming the episode of history documentary that’s on tonight! Join us at 8pm on to see the story of Margate, Ramsgate & their railways

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There are a lot of fans of 's linocuts on twitter so I thought you'd like to know about these new mono versions of some of her remarkable commuter-life works. These & more on display at on Bermondsey St SE1 for the next week https://t.co/Od2nn9QL9M

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If you visit may I urge a short stroll to see LBSCR’s Battersea Park Station gem of 1867 too? Pevsner calls it “Lush Italianate”. Its lofty ticket hall by C.H.Driver is an *incredible* survivor. Note too, original ironwork and the wooden Platform 1.

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VERY impressed with the attention to detail of already this morning - we’ve even got a cow on the line, just like in the 1954 book! (Tho this time the engines are Sir Handel & Peter Sam, not Henry)

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