Matthew Kay
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Lover of railways, films, TV and anything retro.
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
1 day ago
Tickets now on sale for our super new
#CellarClub
'LIVE' event! Limited tickets folks! A fabulous new venue 😀 The Water Rats, London, with
#CarolineMunro
#KimNewman
@AnnoDracula and mystery guests! Book now! Call 0808 178 8212 or online here:
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
3 days ago
Tickets are now on sale!! A
#TPTV
Exclusive Event!! PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23 & Sun 24 May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend! Tickets are limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here:
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Matthew Kay
ASLEF
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🚨 NEW: Rail fares will be frozen for the first time in 30 years. ASLEF has long been campaigning against transport poverty. This is the right decision, at the right time, to help passengers be able to afford to make the journeys they need to take. 👏
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Saucy Seventies
3 days ago
Happy Dr Who Anniversary! To celebrate here's a Dalek trying to teach a Welsh woman to speak properly.
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
4 days ago
Here's what's on
#TalkingPicturesTV
today Sunday 23rd November.
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
7 days ago
Add some festive humour to your
#Christmas
greetings with our Limited Edition Scrooge Christmas Cards, showing
#AlastairSim
in the role of Scrooge. High quality cards, blank inside for your personal message, A5 size with envelopes. Pack of 10 just £12 with Free P&P
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
8 days ago
Coming in December! Channel Premiere series beginning Mon-8-Dec 8pm. THE RACING GAME (1979) created by
#DickFrancis
Starring
#MikeGwilym
#MickFord
#JamesMaxwell
featuring
#JanFrancis
#IainCuthbertson
#SusanPenhaligon
thriller
#TPTVsubtitles
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
8 days ago
The New Series of THE CELLAR CLUB is coming soon... Let
#CarolineMunro
give you a glimpse of the chills coming your way, including THE OMEGA FACTOR and a host of chillers. Starts Friday 5th December, 9pm - only on
#TalkingPicturesTV
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Neil Brand
8 days ago
WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!
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All About The Music - a fascinating podcast to tune in and listen to; no regrets guaranteed!
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
8 days ago
Tickets now on sale for our super new
#CellarClub
'LIVE' event! Limited tickets folks! A fabulous new venue 😀 The Water Rats, London, with
#CarolineMunro
#KimNewman
@AnnoDracula and mystery guests! Book now! Call 0808 178 8212 or online here:
buff.ly/PunLtJx
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
9 days ago
Take a look at some of the Highlights & Premieres on
#TalkingPicturesTV
W/C Mon 17th Nov. Click for a printer friendly list:
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95% of all films & programmes have optional
#TPTVsubtitles
A full list of all subtitled programming here:
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A lovely day at
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
‘Saving Celluoid Sunday’ at the Wyllyotts Theatre in Potters Bar. Guests were stuntman Paul Weston, sitcom director Roy Gould, kids TV producer Nick Wilson, and three celluloid experts whose works help contribute to the running of Talking Pictures TV.
10 days ago
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Sir Nigel Gresley rushing through Doncaster with an excursion to York.
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I’ll be there tomorrow!
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11 days ago
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
15 days ago
The New Series of THE CELLAR CLUB is coming soon... Let
#CarolineMunro
give you a glimpse of the chills coming you way, including THE OMEGA FACTOR and a host of chillers. Starts Friday 5th December 9pm only on
#TalkingPicturesTV
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Classic train sets, well count me in!
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17 days ago
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
17 days ago
LAST CHANCE FOR TICKETS! Want to know how TPTV works? Ask the experts at our Saving Celluloid Sunday Event on Sunday 16th November + lost films and more at Wyllyotts Theatre, Potters Bar. Call 0808 178 8212 or online for tickets:
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An interesting array of events here!
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18 days ago
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
18 days ago
The New Series of THE CELLAR CLUB is coming soon... Let
#CarolineMunro
give you a glimpse of the chills coming you way, including THE OMEGA FACTOR and a host of chillers. Starts Friday 5th December 9pm only on
#TalkingPicturesTV
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
18 days ago
Schedule for tomorrow, Sunday 9th November on
#TalkingPicturesTV
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Photos taken at Bury Bolton Street today during the East Lancashire Railway’s DMU Weekend; featuring a HST set plus ‘Iris’.
18 days ago
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
20 days ago
Coming soon! Premiere series beginning Monday 17th November, 8pm FRANCIS DURBRIDGE'S THE PASSENGER (1971)
#PeterBarkworth
#JoannaDunham
#ArthurPentelow
#MelissaStribling
drama
#TPTVsubtitles
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Francis Durbridge's The Passenger Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTvfk0stPs
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
20 days ago
Terrible news, the extraordinary Pauline Collins has left us for the cinema in the sky. She won't be "Shirley" to us, she will always be our "Sarah" following her breakthrough in Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Booked my ticket! Ought to be a decent venue.
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20 days ago
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Matthew Kay
Gary Russell
20 days ago
Awwww no, lovely Pauline Collins! RIP
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
21 days ago
🚨 Tickets now on sale for The
#TPTV
&
#RenownPictures
Festival Of Film at the Alban Arena, St Albans on Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March 2026. ⭐️Full guest line-up TBA which will include a special 'The Brothers Reunion'. Call 0808 178 8212 or online here:
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
21 days ago
Coming soon! Premiere series beginning Monday 17th November, 8pm FRANCIS DURBRIDGE'S THE PASSENGER (1971)
#PeterBarkworth
#JoannaDunham
#ArthurPentelow
#MelissaStribling
drama
#TPTVsubtitles
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Francis Durbridge's The Passenger Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwTvfk0stPs
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
24 days ago
Exciting message with an exclusive piece of news from
#CarolineMunro
from the set of The Cellar Club!
#TalkingPicturesTV
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
24 days ago
🚨 Z Victor One! New to
#TPTV
Original early black and white episodes! 🚓 Z-CARS 🚓
#TPTVsubtitles
🚨 Starting on Friday 14th November at 8pm on
#TalkingPicturesTV
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Coming Soon Series 1 Z Cars Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr2bH8ByDSQ
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Just enjoyed a good day out on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway today.
@worthvalley.bsky.social
24 days ago
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34028 ‘Eddystone’ passing Heaton Chapel railway station with the ‘Chiltern Explorer’ railtour bound for Reading.
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
29 days ago
🚨 Coming this November!! 🚓 Z-CARS 🚓
#TPTVsubtitles
New original early black and white episodes! Starting on Friday 14th November at 8pm on
#TalkingPicturesTV
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Coming Soon Series 1 Z Cars Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr2bH8ByDSQ
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LMS Stanier Mogul 13268 departing Bury Bolton Street with a service bound for Rawtenstall on the East Lancashire Railway.
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Decided to pay a quick visit to the ELR this morning; took the diesel service (with 50015 ‘Valiant’ and D5054) from Bury to Ramsbottom, then swapped over to the steam service (hauled by visiting LMS Mogul 13268) to Heywood and thence back to Bury.
about 1 month ago
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Enjoyed a good day’s shift on one of the buffet cars at the East Lancashire Railway’s Autumn Steam Gala today. Here’s a video of one of the visiting engines (LMS Ivatt 2-6-0 46441), taken at a location north of Bury Bolton Street after I’ve finished my shift.
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Matthew Kay
RailAdvent
about 1 month ago
Railway 200 Flagship Event at Stockton and Darlington Railway Massively Successful
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/10/railway-200-flagship-event-at-stockton-and-darlington-railway-massively-successful.html
#darlington
#locomotion
#railway_200
#stockton
#StocktonAmpDarlingtonRailway
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Railway 200 Flagship Event at Stockton and Darlington Railway Massively Successful
The Stockton and Darlington Railway 200 festival organisers have announced that their recent Anniversary journey was extremely successful.
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/10/railway-200-flagship-event-at-stockton-and-darlington-railway-massively-successful.html
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
about 1 month ago
Last Chance to Vote! Final Shortlist Vote closes at Midnight!. 🚨We've 3 NOMINATIONS in @TVChoice AWARDS this year! BEST ENTERTAINMENT SHOW: THE FOOTAGE DETECTIVES, BEST FACTUAL for THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS &
#TPTV
FAVOURITE CHANNEL.
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Matthew Kay
Kate Garner Music
about 1 month ago
Voting finishes midnight tonight! Here’s the link, thanks Bluesky!
www.tvchoicemagazine.co.uk/vote/
#MusicSky
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
#TVChoiceAward
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Matthew Kay
OldRailwayAccidents
about 1 month ago
Popular
#RailwayHistory
suffers from fetishisation of engineers & designers: the 'great men of history' approach.
#Railway200
Would rather have the more typical voices of workers recorded, but still: Appeal for recording of famous steam loco engineer Nigel Gresley
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Appeal for recording of famous steam loco engineer Nigel Gresley - BBC News
Sir Nigel Gresley designed over 2,000 locomotives, including the famous Flying Scotsman and Mallard.
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Matthew Kay
Pete Pann
about 2 months ago
The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
about 1 month ago
Want to know, behind the scenes how TPTV works? How we work with actual film and how we restore them? Ask the experts at our SAVING CELLULOID Sunday Event on Sunday 16th November at Wyllyotts Theatre, Potters Bar. Call 0808 178 8212 or online for tickets:
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
about 1 month ago
Your Vote for us could win you tickets! Final Shortlist closes tomorrow 14 Oct.🚨 We've 3 NOMINATIONS in @TVChoice AWARDS this year! BEST ENTERTAINMENT SHOW: THE FOOTAGE DETECTIVES, BEST FACTUAL for THE STORIES BEHIND THE SONGS &
#TPTV
FAVOURITE CHANNEL.
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Matthew Kay
RailAdvent
about 1 month ago
High Speed Train finds new East Lancashire home thanks to new deal
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/10/high-speed-train-finds-new-east-lancashire-home-thanks-to-new-deal.html
#EastLancashireRailway
#lancashire
#The_125Group
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High Speed Train finds new East Lancashire home thanks to new deal
The 125 Group has announced that they have signed a deal with the East Lancashire Railway that will see a HST join the railway’s home fleet. The HST vehicles will be based at the East Lancashire Railway and will make their debut at the line’s DMU Gala on the 8th…
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/10/high-speed-train-finds-new-east-lancashire-home-thanks-to-new-deal.html
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A lovely Sunday full of entertainment at this weekend’s Talking Pictures TV (
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
) Roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House. Starting with a comedy sketch with Jimmy Cricket, we were then treated to a live interview with Amanda Barrie by Sherrie Hewson and Mike Read.
about 1 month ago
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Myself with Amanda Barrie at the Talking Pictures TV Roadshow in Hebden Bridge Picture House.
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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A good day out at this weekend’s Talking Pictures TV (
@talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
) roadshow at Hebden Bridge Picture House. Lovely to see Anita Harris perform live on stage after seeing her at previous festivals, so grand! Sherrie Hewson and Mike Read were acting as hosts; but that’s not all…
about 2 months ago
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
about 2 months ago
Begins Tonight!! ⭐ Premiere Series 8pm! MARK SABER (1959) starring
#DonaldGray
#MichaelBalfour
#DianaDecker
Produced by
#TheDanzigers
#TPTVsubtitles
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Matthew Kay
RailAdvent
about 2 months ago
Locomotion No.1 will be visiting the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) during October and November.
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/10/locomotion-no-1-to-visit-north-yorkshire-moors-railway.html
#darlington
#locomotion
#NorthYorkshire
#NorthYorkshireMoorsRailway
#pickering
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Locomotion No.1 to visit North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Locomotion No.1 will be visiting the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) during October and November.
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2025/10/locomotion-no-1-to-visit-north-yorkshire-moors-railway.html
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Matthew Kay
Talking Pictures TV
about 2 months ago
Premiere! Starts tonight at 8:30pm
#MollieSugden
#ChristopherBlake
#JenniferLonsdale
in THAT'S MY BOY (1981) sitcom
#TPTVsubtitles
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