Off to Lordship parkrun so I can spend half an hour not thinking about this shitshow of a government led by a man unfit for the role

Lady Harman struggling on Today arguing Starmer can change. Hopeless...he is deeply unpopular and unable to turn it around. He must go

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Listen up..it's a great story

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The. Cover of my next book out in July

What is happening on W Coast main line

Oh dear man on 14 35 ex Euston has been stuck at Berkhampstead for the past hour after power line failure...

How heartening..a Ceasescu moment

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It seems that #SPD, Greens and the Left in Germany have collectively left X today.

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Back to blighty early tomorrow morning after 3 and a half weeks in Africa for new book on Africa's lost railway - whatever happened to the Cape to Cairo line.Second research trip later this year It's been an adventure and quite a journey....read all about in @railmagazine.bsky.social and my Substack

Arrived at Dar 5 hours late. But some sections of track were so incredibly bumpy I genuinely feared a derailment And a few doors need fixing...

Day three on the Tazara railway and 12 hours late but we will get to Dar....

Read it!

Breakfast on the Tazara .beef story

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Good news! Looks like the bill that will allow local authorities to ban pavement parking will finally be approved on Wednesday 13 May 2026. Thanks to @livingstreets.bsky.social and many others for campaigning over the years

We're off on the Tazara railway three hours late and due into Dar es Salaam on Friday morning 1,860 kilometres away.

First class lounge on the Tazara Railway The train is 3 hours late starting...

On a bus on last stage of nearly 2000 mile overland journey from Cape Town. The northern sections of the Cape to Cairo route up to Kapiri Mpocha have revivwd infrequent passenger journeys but overall Rhodes would be in despair.Now for 3 days trip to Dar on a railway he had hoped to build

1500 miles and 17 days from Cape Town and at last our quest to take a train on the Cape to Cairo route is achieved

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Almost killed the project before it really started

The story does not back the headline. The school had been declining for years and VAT seems to have played little part. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today it was lions in Hangwe National Park ..off to Vic Falls tomorrow on the night sleeper

Me and my best two mates

The night train in the Kalahari

Every time there is a tube strike, thousands discover the joy of cycling

Lunch with my new best friend

Coal train at sunset heading for Bulawayo

Brilliant

The Bulawayo Club . .long past it's heyday but surviving

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Lots of passenger coaches at Bulawayo...but seemingly no trains except perhaps a weekly service to Vic Falls

One for trainspottiers..what and where is this?

Fab Voortrekker monument parkrun..tough 2k hill ..hard to get below 35. .

Off to do Voortrekker monument parkrun in the rain...yet another unseasonal storm

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This 8 seater rail bike in Kimberley museum was used in the second boer set up with a machine gun

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Who knew that it can rain all day in South Africa

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