Does feel like the "could" here is doing a lot of heavy lifting if other small station builds are anything to go by...
Architects Foster+Partners have released a mockup image of how they think Littlemore Station on the reopened Cowley Branch Line could look. The illustration, part of a commission for the Ellison Institute of Technology, shows a long covered platform next to a curving track. #mindthegap
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Does feel like the "could" here is doing a lot of heavy lifting if other small station builds are anything to go by...
New Ghibli script just dropped...
To put the size of London into even more perspective:
If all the cats in London moved to the countryside and founded a city...
...it would INSTANTLY be the second or third largest in the UK.
(Allowing for general fuzziness on "metropolitan areas")
If all the cats in London moved to the countryside and founded a city...
...it would INSTANTLY be the second or third largest in the UK.
(Allowing for general fuzziness on "metropolitan areas")
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New Ghibli script just dropped...
Okay what am I missing about the "first new station in 100 years" story, because I can think of a few other ones.... 🍑
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Okay what am I missing about the "first new station in 100 years" story, because I can think of a few other ones.... 🍑
Had the privilege at the weekend of helping run Andy Gautreys little slice of 1950s Cuba at the Taunton model railway exhibition
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Had the privilege at the weekend of helping run Andy Gautreys little slice of 1950s Cuba at the Taunton model railway exhibition
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Gilded Age ass president
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Gilded Age ass president
Not very Network Rail looking signals, but what a fabulous photo
October 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Not very Network Rail looking signals, but what a fabulous photo
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See stoat, say stoat, stoated
having lived on an upland farmstead and seen one or two things, I have to reluctantly get behind this, but then we keep a cat so any logic is out of the window
October 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
See stoat, say stoat, stoated
Some "railfanning pics" of our layout RS Tower from Stafford show at the weekend...
September 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Some "railfanning pics" of our layout RS Tower from Stafford show at the weekend...
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New this month: Exeter’s train stations are now your starting points for exploring the beautiful Green Circle walking route!
More: news.exeter.gov.uk/new-project-...
More: news.exeter.gov.uk/new-project-...
September 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New this month: Exeter’s train stations are now your starting points for exploring the beautiful Green Circle walking route!
More: news.exeter.gov.uk/new-project-...
More: news.exeter.gov.uk/new-project-...
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We are planning some positive communication about the Dryden Road stretch of the E9 cycle route.
We would love to hear your experiences and stories of the difference this quiet route has made to your journeys over the past five years.Comment below or email @[email protected].
We would love to hear your experiences and stories of the difference this quiet route has made to your journeys over the past five years.Comment below or email @[email protected].
September 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We are planning some positive communication about the Dryden Road stretch of the E9 cycle route.
We would love to hear your experiences and stories of the difference this quiet route has made to your journeys over the past five years.Comment below or email @[email protected].
We would love to hear your experiences and stories of the difference this quiet route has made to your journeys over the past five years.Comment below or email @[email protected].
Next off the workbench and having the decider tweaked, IC6071, a unique and historic loco, the real one is now preserved - I've set this up to run with the WC SD45 behind to be a mid 00s Canadian National pairing...
August 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Next off the workbench and having the decider tweaked, IC6071, a unique and historic loco, the real one is now preserved - I've set this up to run with the WC SD45 behind to be a mid 00s Canadian National pairing...
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Great Western Railway battery train breaks single charge distance world record
www.railmagazine.com/news/great-w...
www.railmagazine.com/news/great-w...
Great Western Railway battery train breaks single charge distance world record
GWR unit beats previous world record for longest journey on a single charge by running for 200 miles.
www.railmagazine.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Great Western Railway battery train breaks single charge distance world record
www.railmagazine.com/news/great-w...
www.railmagazine.com/news/great-w...
I seem to be in a fairly productive modelling phase at the moment, one thing I've started working on is a long term (I expect a couple of years work largely due to budget) project to build a military train for the RS Tower layout...
Finished this a few weeks back
Finished this a few weeks back
August 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I seem to be in a fairly productive modelling phase at the moment, one thing I've started working on is a long term (I expect a couple of years work largely due to budget) project to build a military train for the RS Tower layout...
Finished this a few weeks back
Finished this a few weeks back
This is in no way a confusing message to be giving out on a shared use path. 🤷🙃
August 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is in no way a confusing message to be giving out on a shared use path. 🤷🙃
Nice to see the scaffolding deck hiding the roof at Bristol Temple Meads is finally coming down.
August 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Nice to see the scaffolding deck hiding the roof at Bristol Temple Meads is finally coming down.
It'd be rude not to....
August 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
It'd be rude not to....
You'd get a nice view of Moor St station and the HS2 site from the Primark cafe if it wasn't for the stickers over the windows!
August 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You'd get a nice view of Moor St station and the HS2 site from the Primark cafe if it wasn't for the stickers over the windows!
The station is a lye.
August 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The station is a lye.
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Govt sources told @politicshome.bsky.social that content creators have now become embedded into every government department’s communications strategy
July 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Maybe they accidentally bought a city. 🤷
(I'm curious about the use of "Rival" too, can't imagine a high percentage of their businesses are in direct competition!)
(I'm curious about the use of "Rival" too, can't imagine a high percentage of their businesses are in direct competition!)
well on a positive note this will finally end the practice of journalists shortening NS to just "norfolk"
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Union Pacific to reshape US freight rail with $85 billion deal for Norfolk
Union Pacific said on Tuesday it would buy smaller rival Norfolk Southern in an $85 billion deal to create the first U.S. coast-to-coast freight rail operator and reshape the movement of goods from grains to autos across the country.
www.reuters.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Maybe they accidentally bought a city. 🤷
(I'm curious about the use of "Rival" too, can't imagine a high percentage of their businesses are in direct competition!)
(I'm curious about the use of "Rival" too, can't imagine a high percentage of their businesses are in direct competition!)
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reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody
July 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody
That's...not what your nice modern tunnel should really be looking like. 😬
www.laopiniondemalaga.es/malaga/2025/... Paredes combadas, la malla del hormigón visible ya desde el exterior al romperse el recubrimiento y muchos cascotes en el suelo. Esta es la imagen que presenta un tramo del túnel 1 del AVE a Málaga, y que está cerrado al tráfico desde la noche del 22 de julio
Túnel del AVE en Valle de Abdalajís: una reparación compleja por las filtraciones sin fecha de término
El túnel de la vía 1 se cerró tras los desprendimientos y todo el tráfico se canaliza por el túnel de la vía 2
www.laopiniondemalaga.es
July 26, 2025 at 6:50 AM
That's...not what your nice modern tunnel should really be looking like. 😬
I wish, #FensterAuf down the CTRL would be epic. 🤣
I’m happy to reveal a #CrossChannelRail exclusive this morning! 😍
A new Dobrich 🇧🇬 - London 🇬🇧 service
Using carriages built in the DDR (really!)
A new Dobrich 🇧🇬 - London 🇬🇧 service
Using carriages built in the DDR (really!)
July 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I wish, #FensterAuf down the CTRL would be epic. 🤣
