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"The UK's best designed railway stations" in @umbrellamag is a good read (it might be better-titled "The best-designed bits of UK railway stations") and features 10 cracking artworks by @JoeRampley . You'll find interest here: https://t.co/Vzv41PTF5i
A cutaway of Mail Rail's Paddington station parcel transfer system - from from British Rail to Mail Rail. (C) Royal Mail Group Ltd
Superb cutaway of Piccadilly Circus tube station by Renzo Picasso, 1929. It's almost spot-on... bar one detail: the traffic & trains have been reversed, just as the artist would have been used to seeing in Italy. My piece on London Cutaways for @londonist:
https://t.co/Sxgsxp0cb9
Good morning from Salford!
Apparently some bloke & @siddyholloway are on the @BBCBreakfast BBC1 sofa from 09:45… Do watch if disused tube stations, museums & #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground are your thing…
Happy bloody 70th birthday, the Royal Festival Hall (yes I know it is a building so technically doesn’t have a birthday & indeed cannot read Twitter). I miss my weekly visits and I miss your ace views and I miss your cheap wine but mostly I miss how your carpet makes me feel joy.
Your occasional reminder that we really do need to bring back tram decorating competitions
1861 French cartoon showing the characters found waiting for "an English excursion train" at Bolougne station. Check out the classic mauvaises dents anglaises...
Oh this is nice. @Hornby's just announced the release of two #Trainbow pride-liveried trains for 2021: of @AvantiWestCoast @GWRHelp. 🏳️🌈
10. “Better Late Than Dead”
Peter Sam was a gormless idiot. Thinking about bunny rabbits, one day he left early - leaving Mrs Lady behind. Uh-oh.
“I’m the Controller’s wife!” she exclaimed, catching them up. “I’m having YOU scrapped!” So she did. The other engines were DELIGHTED
9. “Everyone Hates Oliver”
Oliver was an irritating prig; Sodor had enough.
So late one night, staff chalked “SCRAP” over him & smothered his chimney. Douglas towed him to the scrapyard: he was cut up. Douglas told the others. "Ha!" laughed the Fat Controller."I never liked him!"