I hope I will not be stealing his thunder when he gets home, but my fine chum @sakura-densha.bsky.social and all-round top "chap" has only gone and got "best layout" for his Japanese-themed "Tsuru No Michi" at the Model Rail Crewe exhibition!! I am beyond thrilled for him, and proud as punch!!

On this day in 1969, Concorde made its maiden flight. Aircraft technology came a long way in 50 years, from when our Avro 504K was training RFC pilots. It had a top speed of around 95mph - Concorde flew at 1,350mph. Visit us any Friday, Saturday, Sunday to learn more about the early days of flight!

The process that led to the Holocaust didn't start with killing people. First it made them non-people. Then it killed them.

A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again: A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day. The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic. The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1

New Arrivals! Kato 3062-3 EF15 Standard Type & Kato 10-033 Freight Car Set youtu.be/BhAdnTxX4_8?...

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

Exactly 50 years ago today I sat wide-eyed in the school hall watching the very first commercial flight of Concorde take off from Heathrow for Bahrain. Today I have been to #AerospaceBristol to see G-BOAF, "Old Foxy" as we know her, and to reflect on half a century and more of aviation memories.

A new series for my YouTube channel looking at the new announcements from the Japanese model railway manufacturers for an English speaking audience 🙂 youtube.com/watch?v=Ol5e...

My 2nd ever new Japanese train purchase was the Tomix Series 287 Panda Kuroshio Smile Adventure Train seen here running for the first time on Tsuru no Michi after an attempted repair, but the motor is too poorly so I have ordered a replacement one. I ran it today with a Kato model of the same class

おはようございます☁️ 今日も1日、よろしくお願い致します🤲

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A very happy "fuck you" to John Stallard of Warlord Games, who is worried about "wokeism" killing wargames and thinks women don't play them, possibly because women don't want to hang around twats like John. And how did taking on female wargamers go for the non-"woke" side last time, John?

Time is running out for the @wnba.com to pay the players what they owe them. Their contract expires TONIGHT. Without the players, there is no WNBA — and fair pay is LONG overdue. America’s unions stand in solidarity with the WNBPA players in this fight ✊

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Never thought I would be running one Shinkansen let alone two, sadly now both retired in real life as far as I am aware. Dr Yellow & 500 Series #nscale #ngauge #dryellow #shinkansen

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youtu.be/cu9pfBbpYFc?... my latest update on my Japanese Exhibition layout

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This boat, now in IWM London, came from a vessel that was attacked by a German naval raider in 1940. The raider's captain ordered his men to fire on survivors in other boats. He was later convicted of war crimes and died in prison. Something certain people might like to reflect on.

Bientôt 9 ans que la LGV Est est en service sur l'intégralité du parcours. Jusque fin 2016 les => #TGV empruntaient le tronçon Baudrecourt - Vendenheim par la ligne historique et le fameux => #tunneldArzviller (57). Capture d'écran de youtu.be/6hldxPOaMYA?si=z7qEJv-OYO1yJ4Qx par Fern Bahn.

P-51 Mustang ‘Moonbeam McSwine’ Joins Flyaspitfire Fleet for Experience Flights. ▶️ vintageaviationnews.com/warbirds-new...

Paging @bigbernie.bsky.social we were talking about aircraft not spoken about as often only yesterday, here’s one that slipped my mind!

Paging @g7kna.co.uk @racheljs.bsky.social @bigbernie.bsky.social made me think of your posts 😅 www.instagram.com/reel/DQJH_nZ...

A short video of my layout ‘Tsuru no Michi’ a Japanese N gauge layout to a scale of 1:150 Today we see D51 class 2-8-2 D51 893 on a coal train whilst in the opposite direction two powerful C62 4-6-4s C62 36 & C62 34 haul the 43 Series Express “Michinoku”

One for @g7kna.co.uk I think!

On Thursday I had the honour of returning Jenny Lind to the main line, admittedly 152 times too small and on the London Chatham and Dover rather than the Brighton but no less a win

Trains are running again, cork has gone down at the rear and final place and the front wood has had a second coat of black paint

9800 class doing the posing honours to show the river is finished and the wood base for the layout has had its first coat of black

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...

A weeks progress as I am about to depart to watch Demon Slayer Infinity Castle a second time a video that combines the situation a week ago when I was about to depart to watch the film the first time with the layout today! Rather pleased with it! @bigbernie.bsky.social

Almost exactly as I hoped it would look! @bigbernie.bsky.social thank you for your amazing help in bringing Tsuru no Michi to life!

Big milestone reached!