On my way back north after attending the unveiling of the new rail clock at London Bridge; the timepiece is all at once disarmingly simple and delightfully ingenious…

In the true spirit of Fibonacci, the numerals (that is, the cap-height) to sign height ratio is 5:8…

Oh! A new TfL #Roundel!

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

Heading out to the pictures? An RT en route to Highbury Barn passes Screen on the Green. #Route19 #Route19RunningDay (12/x)

Outside St Mary’s, a Routemaster heading south, advertising Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Palladium, where it ran for about 100 years. #Route19 #Route19RunningDay (10/x)

And finally for today, as #Route19RunningDay approaches its close, here’s a close up of one of the 15 Regent RT types out today. There were more than 30 buses in all, making this one of the biggest London heritage running days. Thanks a lot wto everyone who set it up and joined in. #Route19 (20/20)

My kind of carrier bag. #railways #london @doublearrow64.bsky.social @richardprice.bsky.social flic.kr/p/2qTCiBE

@garius.bsky.social I’ve just read your beautiful piece about Don Estridge. What an incredible story. Thank you.

75 PARIS PANAM LE NOUVEAU FRONT DE SEINE 1965 Ds les revues rétro d'AIR FRANCE bcp de belles images de qualité a extraire gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... la tracklist de 1934 a 1968 ici gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/c...

Designed by Ukrainian graphic artist Oleg Volodymyrovych in 1979. 10 scans from ‘Typefaces/Alphabets’ www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/c...

This nonsense again, very much hoping the Times have got their wires crossed because the Union Jack version of the symbol was utter rubbish, an abject design failure www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

The version of the symbol in the article is James Cousins’ ‘British Rail International’ logo, which is better than the version below (trademarked back in 2021-ish) which had more blue; there is absolutely no reason to use anything but the unadulterated Rail Symbol 2 for Great (🙄) British Railways

You fucking genius @aiannucci.bsky.social. Love the Yentob thing. I know it couldn’t be done but I’d love to have heard Chris Langham on how your approach to pushing brilliant performances compares with Ken Campbell’s - I don’t think there’s anyone else who’s worked with you both.

It’s snowing in Wymondham, folks.

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Nameplate detail from 87013 John O’Gaunt; wondered if this O should be lower case but seems it is customarily capitalised… #RailAlphabet flic.kr/p/9RuMV4 (Brian Daniels)

Your Crosstown Link - RIP Broad St. @transitmap.net @doublearrow64.bsky.social @markonthemaps.bsky.social @garius.bsky.social #railways #london

This is who Elon Musk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

"Kids used to send kickballs flying in her direction, just to have an excuse to be near her."

This is exemplary work on an unspeakable killing - the complexities in reporting and editing a story like this. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/n...

Here’s the Evening News story on donating the Backs Records sign to the Museum of Norwich. www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2481971...

'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!

The Central Line stations between Wanstead-Newbury Park were officially opened OTD in 1947. Begun in the 30s, they were delayed due to WWII, with the designs revised due to lack of funds, material and manpower. They also represent the last stations designed by Charles Holden 1/6

Idk maybe crack open the half a billion it holds in reserves? www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

University crisis latest... Redundancy news in the last few weeks at: Cardiff Cumbria De Montfort Dundee Edinburgh Northampton Reading (Chemistry, likely) Robert Gordon Sheffield Sunderland Queens Belfast UEA www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deeply-...

From the Financial Times: This is just one more longstanding disastrous wrong committed by the Thatcher government for which we are all still paying the price while the super-rich reap the profits. Well worth a read.

USA 🇺🇸 NYC les tours jumelles de Manhattan le wtc avec le passage du Concorde depuis JFK 1980 Encore aujourd'hui les avions modernes font "vieux" par rapport à Concorde

The 1,000 days that feel like 1,000 years.

Backs Records was -the- record shop/distributor for independent labels in Norwich, in one of the city’s narrowest alleyways. Seeing the shop sign up for sale, never to be seen again, I bought it & last week with @petekeeley1.bsky.social handed it over to Museum of Norwich, another favourite place.

More on last week’s Hewett School reunion - here’s a piece in the Eastern Daily Press. www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2471658...

Backs Records was -the- record shop/distributor for independent labels in Norwich, in one of the city’s narrowest alleyways. Seeing the shop sign up for sale, never to be seen again, I bought it & last week with @petekeeley1.bsky.social handed it over to Museum of Norwich, another favourite place.

I’ve just re-read Andrew Rennie’s splendid history of the Fields on the Highbury Fields Association’s website. Do take a look- it includes the growth of housing, Islington in decline, saving the trees & plans to expand public nudity. It’s a great read. www.highburyfieldsassociation.org/history.html

I’d forgotten all about this!

Today's London Centric is out now and full of scoops. Click here to read it - or scroll down this thread to see the highlights: www.londoncentric.media/p/the-london...

Reading @londoncentric.bsky.social story on LT's processes for naming the Windrush Line, etc. and remembered London has a proud history of naming random things in an inclusive way. Who could forget the Mahatma Gandhi trading estate?

It’s all this and more @youngvulgarian.bsky.social - a Byzantine IBA refranchising process reinterpreted through the twin mediums of political drama and soft porn. Breathtaking.

Again

It’s the Other Site’s 18th birthday today, so I wrote its eulogy

An elegy to the lost fun-times on Twitter, when it was all in jokes and people giggling about daft shit or bickering about biscuits. I miss what it was, don't miss what it became after space ponce got hold of it in the slightest. I'm struggling with all the new platforms. No bandwidth for it still.

Today’s the day! Do get along to this afternoon’s event in the middle of the Fields, organised by the brilliant @unitethefields - to look at ideas for transforming the ex-road. 2-4pm on the Fields.

Between 2012 and 2017 I worked on a personal project on the Western Front called Vanishing Points, it ended in an exhibition, lots of written stuff too. Here’s some of it. Berlin Sap and the mine head. www.invisibleworks.co.uk/berlin-sap/