How Swanage Railway became an award winning Heritage Railway Attraction www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/do...

Sunrise on Glastonbury Tor this morning. A beautiful start to the day and plenty of people made the climb and were rewarded with a stunning sky.

#OnThisDay 10 years ago, Borough Market Viaduct was commissioned. A short and controversial stretch of railway, this removed one of the worst bottlenecks in the UK where all Charing Cross and Thameslink trains had to share a double-track section. phil_king buff.ly/3DCoRX8

❗ #LondonCharingCross, #LondonCannonStreet & #WaterlooEast are closed today and buses replace trains via #HitherGreen, #Gravesend, #Strood & #Wadhurst 🔀 Trains are diverted to run to & from London Victoria 📲More information: spkl.io/63325AlCzc

❗ There are no Southeastern trains at #LondonCharingCross & #WaterlooEast until Sunday 4 January inclusive. 🔀 Most trains are diverted to London Victoria. 📲 More Info: spkl.io/63325AlFEv

Well, it’s back to work. So here we are up Sheffield mountain with 66596 waiting for the London Gateway to be loaded. I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️

❤️Pleased to report one year on, no change in my condition.

🐶 ‘And now a New Year Message from the Chairman of the Board’!

🫖 @hbwleedscastle.bsky.social is boiling authentic Indian Chai for #NewYearsDay Family Treat: Now she needs to perfect rhythmic call of Chaiwalas we encountered constantly walking up & down aisles of numerous trains we rode as part of #IndiaOneNovember ‘Chai, Chai, Chai’!

❤️ Be a person who keeps the lamps lit in 2026 🔥

Happy New Year - Midnight - Leeds Castle, Kent @leedscastle.bsky.social

John Passmore Edwards never forgot roots as son of Brewer in Blackwater, Cornwall,by his own admission a youth in which few books available to him.Liskeard, my Cornish Home Town, he was benefactor of Library & former cottage hospital where my Grandfather a patient as late as 2003

🐶 Does what it says on the Board! - Christmas Gifts🎄

❤️Highlights of 2025:Interminable 8 month secret wait between son’s conditional offer at Trinity College, Cambridge & requisite A Level results, @hbwleedscastle.bsky.social & I earned #IndiaOneNovember. Portraits captured in Xmas Gift wall art sum up India for me: ‘Generosity of Spirit’ #HappyNewYear

4.30pm Penultimate Day of 2025 #RidingShotgun on the Road from Rye to Tenterden, Kent #WinterSun

❤️ #TuesdayThoughts (It’s OK to admit, I had to check Today is indeed Tuesday!) #Twixmas

This is an extraordinary balanced & thoughtful substack on the unforeseen & complex imposition of tragedy on a community #BudleighSalterton open.substack.com/pub/simonspi...

The full new year honours list is published here www.gov.uk/government/p...

❗ There are no trains from #LondonVictoria today because of engineering work. 🔀 Most trains are diverted to run to & from Cannon Street ✅ All our other routes are open. 📲 More Information: spkl.io/63325Alu9v

#OnThisDay 9 years ago, the Bermondsey Dive-under was commissioned, helping to untangle train movements on the approach to London Bridge enabling higher Thameslink frequencies. Image from this post: buff.ly/4iQIj2v

Watching #SlumdogMillionaire for 1st time. Powerful but painfully sad: Brings to mind 2 images I captured in India I couldn’t bring myself to share in #IndiaOneNovember: Trio of street children who attached themselves to our Delhi Tour & Child car windscreen cleaner dodging Traffic🥲

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train. A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social. Please repost with your own caption.

Glad I phoned @iaindale.bsky.social covering Mid Morning spot @mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk Proud to fly #Westcountry flag:fascinating phone in:Regional Accents:preconceptions & misconceptions:PS:Iain partial to golf @leedscastle.bsky.social & suggested @hbwleedscastle.bsky.social as Radio Guest

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

❤️Anticipation could’ve done me in! @hbwleedscastle.bsky.social gifted me on Christmas Day ever so clever Live Rail Station Departure Board for my Desk. Interchangeable for any UK Station, delivered preset for #WaterlooSunset. Issue was until Today Waterloo on Christmas Engineering shutdown!

Thank you for all the Birthday Love ❤️ “You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it," - Robin Williams - Comic Genius (1951-2014)

Super Gifts for my 57th Twixmas Birthday. No such thing as too many books: ‘Paul Foot’ Cornish Roots like me. His:famed political family: Pencrebar, Callington. Roy Greenslade former Daily Mirror Editor said it best: ‘righter of wrongs, fighter for underdogs & tormentor of the powerful.’

❤️ #BirthdayTreat If you’ve seen West End production of The Phantom of the Opera at His Majesty’s Theatre, you’ll know why since 1986 it’s played to over 160 million people in 205 cities, 58 territories & 21 languages. Only taken me 39 years to see a Musical beyond description. Go if you can!

#SundayMorning Birthday #CultureVultures - A whistle stop tour of my favourites @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social London - including ‘Whistlejacket’ by George Stubbs (1724-1806), probably the most stunning study of a Horse ever painted. #VisitLondon #VisitEngland #VisitBritain #LondonForFree 🎨

❤️#TheFamilyOnTheTrain @serailway.bsky.social - Headcorn, Kent - London bound for a #GrandDayOut Birthday 🎂🚒 57 Candles - You’d need a Fire Engine too!

Nov 1979: Tank Command ad from Ideal (+Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle; Rebound; Buck-a-roo; and Don't Upset Me) «Un-Boxing Day»

🎬If you are a woman with the misfortune to have been married to or lived with a man, beloved by all who ‘know’ them, but a nasty coercive controlling domestic abuse bastard at home, treat yourself to perfect strong tonic #Housemaid - On UK Cinema release now! ❤️x

#PauseForThought: ‘Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that.’

❤️Please spare a thought for all those beloved four legged family members, who like Orla who have spent an exhausting few days monitoring the preparation & serving of a cornucopia of Christmas fare up and down the land.🎄Thank You ☺️

On the feast of Stephen… Deep and crisp and even… Ricotta Pancakes & Blueberry Compote ~ #BoxingDay Breakfast #RudeNotTo🥞

Christmas Eve by Stanhope Forbes was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897. This large painting (1.8m high) shows a band playing outside the Dock Inn in Dock Street, at the foot of Chapel Street in Penzance, with the parish church of St Mary's in the background.