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Episode 7: “Murder in Mind”
Mavis often got angry... very angry. But one day, she noticed that if she thought *really* hard, she could make things happen. Like landslips. Or bridge-collapses. Or flipping a lorry over, literally killing any competition to her branchline monopoly.
📣🚂New Ivor The Engine!
New Xmas audio recordings of the classics (by Daniel Postgate, Rhys Ifans, @EddieIzzard @RobBrydon @cerysmatthews @GeorgiaRuth & @NigelRefOwens) to raise money for a children’s cancer charity. Listen:https://t.co/vRjMwOwCNs
Donate:https://t.co/e13nJ7dEpR
Foster'n'Friends'n'Co have proposed a temporary “double-decker” crossing for Hammersmith Bridge with truss structure inserted so the bridge can be reconstructed around it https://t.co/vtfZZHCERv
Great heritage tourism news! Dartmouth Steam Railway, in glorious Devon, is setting up temporary screens -with allocated window seats- so trains & boats can start running again from Monday 6th July. Extra mist-cleaning too. All v practical.💯Bookings open: https://t.co/S4CHhM7tJt
Fun fact! Remember the bridge on the old £5 note?
It's Skerne Bridge: the OLDEST continuously-used railway bridge in the WORLD! It's on the Stockton & Darlington route now maintained by @networkrail. (& it's on "The Architecture The Railways Built 8pm tonight @yesterdaytweets TV)
@PippaGoldfinger Much to dislike but much for many to enjoy too. I always liked Toby wearing a skirt and Mavis always looked fabulous.
There is a very splendid new poster/ad for #TheAberdonian steam trains this summer - by @smillership - with @60163_Tornado and the Forth Bridge. Absolutely recalls the style of midcentury travel posters. You may also recall his work on @Dorothy_UK's "lost destination" posters
Shipwright’s Arms, Tooley Street SE1. Right by London Bridge station. Splendid HUGE 1884 tiled mural of Thames shipwrights working and surrounding tiles extant by one door - by Charles Evans & Co (“Artists in stained glass tiled and mosaics”). Grade II Listed by @HistoricEngland
Tonight @markovenden and @TubeMapCentral launched their beautiful new book - "Airline Maps: A Century of Art and Design". It's published by Penguin, and I think that you might enjoy it. More on it here: https://t.co/n01rIZJE33