Enjoying the way n>1 people have said "I bet you can explain why this isn't really the 200th anniversary"

Kazakhstan's KTZ awards Wabtec its largest-ever locomotive supply and support deal https://bit.ly/42F8rqA

Video: #India tests rail-mounted intermediate-range ballistic missile launch system https://www.railwaygazette.com/technology/india-tests-rail-borne-ballistic-missile-launch-system/69665.article

Train ticketing broke. I have a hand written ticket to get me home.

#Skegness feels like if Wetherspoon's ran an entire town. There's nothing wrong with it, it's popular, it's making good use of Victorian buildings and it's very affordable. But I've spent all weekend on my phone wondering if there is something a bit better nearby...

Despite widespread claims, there are not many mediaeval pubs still serving. The ones that survive are all inns. The best preserved is the New Inn at Gloucester. We know from tree-ring dating that construction began in 1432 and it was first mentioned in the records in 1455 🧵

Calling @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social - is this pub built from 100% totally authentic genuinely real ship timbers??? (Also, Spalding museum has a display about spiral stairs...)

Not to be confused with the Tällibahn

Swiss Federal Railways getting ambitious with their new routes!

Minerals is the least popular university course (though I suspect issues with how courses are classified would make this a very complicated question to look at seriously) thetab.com/2025/09/05/t...

@funimag.com BBC News - Three dead after historic funicular railway derails in Lisbon www.bbc.com/news/article...

The first time I've properly visited my namesake town.

This painting at the Angel & Royal hotel in #Grantham looks familiar from the @antiquaries.bsky.social last week.

The brave Hungarian peasant girl didn't die in vain, going by the number of people at the @antiquaries.bsky.social #MagnaCarta exhibition

Goodnight from The Sisters fish and chip shop, where Jo Jenks is trying to peer into tomorrow through the somewhat neglected art of divination by scraps. Goodnight from Chris Hesker, reflecting that Wakes Cross isn’t the best station to miss the last train from. Goodnight from Hookland.

I do worry that one day a historic house is going to be overrun by witches because archaeologists emptied one of these bottles

To the wonderful #Maidstone carriage #museum, which I only recently heard about. It deserves to be much better known.

Telepathic lesbians! Scandalous Bohemians (the arty sort, not Czechs)! Sub-Wodehouse idle rich Englishmen! Nouveau riche Americans! To be honest #ThePrincessDaphne is hard work. The "longwinded dialogue" to "actual story" ratio is very Victorian. It feels like three separate books got tangled up.

Ooh. This looks exciting!

I also enjoyed the Towner gallery's Sussex Modernism exhibition townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/sus...

Red Arrows and Lancaster at the #Eastbourne #airshow today

Annual inspection of the Gibson mausoleum, St Nicholas church, #Sutton.

Sound mirror!

I don't think I understand art.

How to drink Koelsch: 1. Take first available train to Duesseldorf. 2. Drink Altbier.

Called whatnow? on.ft.com/3H5oSoL

#GreatestGathering. Does what it says on the Class 50.

En route to the #GreatestGathering

Wiv da pigeons now www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

RIP Tom Lehrer.

#Dinosaurs in #BeddingtonPark

Meine lieblingsgruppe ist Vox Populi.

Lord Chris Smith has been elected as the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. Lord Smith said “To be elected as Chancellor of the University I love is a huge honour. I’m thrilled." Read more about Lord Smith and the Chancellor election 👉 www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...

Albion Street in Hull. A beautiful row of Georgian Terraced Houses. Looking North West from the K2 Tower on Bond Street. #hull #yorkshire #travel #architecture #photography #over_yonder #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited

A ship on the Humber Estuary passes underneath the Humber Bridge, heading for Goole. #hull #yorkshire #travel #city #architecture #photography #photographerofbluesky #photographersunited #over_yonder #summer #humberbridge

An all timer from the Times yesterday, Winnie-the-Pooh as ‘the forgetful frequenter of the Hundred Acre Wood’ 🐻 🍯 👏

Today's haul from the #Chatham #modelrailway show.

Bon aujourd'hui je n'ai pas vu l'étape du #TDF2025 mais je suppose que vous n'avez rien vu des funiculaires de l'étape: Pau, Lourdes Pic du Jer, Barèges Pic de l'Ayré et Luchon La Chaumière. N'est-ce pas ou je me trompe? 🇫🇷 🚞 🚴‍♀️ #funiculaire #Pau #Luchon #cyclism #TDF #lesRP

Amazing how you can run a train on 2012 lawyers' tears.

Currently sat next to someone in lederhosen. Which would be fine were this not a [Wikipedia pause] Pub of Kent.

Landi Kotal station in the #KhyberPass has been restored. Though I have my doubts about this bit: "The historic Khyber Pass railway track was built for logistic support and #quiche transport for military purposes, the old accounts reveal." www.dawn.com/news/1923765

Gosh, it's nice to be back in civilisation.

Is anyone I know going to vote tomorrow?

Had seen references to this tech but never in such detail as a search just revealed - "The 30′ mirror is in poor condition and now fenced off, as much to protect vandals from it as to protect it from vandals" Great photos, will have to give a listen now 😉 www.andrewgrantham.co.uk/soundmirrors...

“A flash of blue from a kingfisher... Dragonflies darting. The sounds of houses and traffic fading as we travel further away from Hythe...”

Mysterious foreign noblewomen! Tsarist spies! Gentlemen who quit their club and go to lead an Ottoman army to escape false accusations of cheating at cards! Cads, bounders and foreigners (to the extent those are different things)!

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

I asked Lord Palmerston, Prince Albert and a German Professor in a lunatic asylum to explain the history of the Welsh Highland Railway revival, but they all said it was too complicated to understand.

The #WhistlingSands beach on the #Llyn Peninsula in #Wales really does make a noise, even if it is more of a squeak than a whistle.