If only my allotment was as tidy as this! 😂😬

Letter in the Times:

“An example of the town of the future is Coventry.... Traffic and pedestrians are kept apart and the roads are planned to let traffic flow smoothly” (Our Land in the Making, 1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

The modern world in old Ladybird books. "Carriages get very dirty inside from all the tobacco ash" (On the Railways, 1972) Artist: John Berry

DIESEL TRAIN RIDE (1959)

Classic thriller soundtracks at the Proms tonight - turns out you can dance (well, move) to some of them!

Glasgow 'Blue Train' heading for Helensburgh in the 1960s. Pic: Stuart Neville.

Manchester's New Station: Piccadilly, 1960, painting by Claude Buckle, 1905-73 (National Railway Museum). #NorthernArt

Class 31s galore at Mangapps Farm today!

A rare, pre-war Ladybird book in my collection (circa 1930) How can you not love the cover?

The modern world in old Ladybird books. ‘A modern signal box’ (The Story of Railways, 1961) Artist: Robert Ayton

Part of History Day North, @jisc.bsky.social's ArchivesHub shared resources from the many catalogues they host, including ours, on the theme 'Railway 200' that celebrates 200 years of rail history. More here: blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/2025/07/16/f... Poster from the ICOGRADA archive ICO/3/14/166

The modern world in old Ladybird books. "Our roads are being improved in every way" (1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Our Land in the Making)

Big little trains (and an interloper!) at the Spa Valley Railway diesel gala! 🛤️

“Under its modernisation plans, British Rail will replace all steam locomotives with diesel or electric” (The Story of Railways, 1968) Artist: Robert Ayton

The modern world in old Ladybird books. The mail train, 1965 Artist: John Berry (The Postman)

Made a friend at the allotment today (it’s a wasp spider apparently)! 🕷️

Charity shop find in Cornwall @luketurner.bsky.social - so far so very good 👍😊

You’d think, in this day and age, that ants could march from one side of a yard to the other without bumping into each other 😂🤷‍♂️🐜

Poster. Aage Rasmussen. 1937. 

When did it become a thing to wear swimming trunks/shorts with underwear!?

Time to donate🩸again! And the Club biscuit is back!

When trains had compartments Artist: Harry Wingfield (1964)

The allotment gods are working wonders so far this year… 👨‍🌾 🍎 🥰

Aston Signalling Centre… brought to you by Regional Railways @doublearrow64.bsky.social

‘No Mow May’ (/June/forever 😬) in the back garden is coming on a treat! 😂 🐝 🌼

Me too, and it’s been wonderful so far!

With thanks to Regional Railways for the cycle lockers at Shipley railway station. 🙏 @doublearrow64.bsky.social

I may be wrong, but this British Rail double arrow at Bishop Auckland doesn’t look quite right 👀 @doublearrow64.bsky.social

“The train driver is a very important person” (1972) Artist: John Berry ‘On the Railways’

Regional Railways welcomes you to Thetford railway station (in 2025) 😀 @doublearrow64.bsky.social

Darts weekend: read the excellent article in the @financialtimes.com; three players received Birthday Honours; watched England lose to Germany in the World Cup; and listened to Dad talk about his darts playing back in the day, including his @guinnessworldrecords.com entry for a darts marathon! 🎯

Maggie Philbin - being filmed for ‘Tomorrow’s World’, running around a tree, whilst doing a school PE lesson!

Watched ‘Rear Window’ (1954) at the pictures last night: it’s one of my favourite films and I’d forgotten how comedic it is. I used to live in a courtyard block of flats and would regularly sit and watch the goings on: no murders though!

‘Diana: the Untold and Untrue Story’ at The Old Market, Brighton - very funny! “Repellent Trash” according to the Daily Mail 😂

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. The best seat on the bus (1964) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Great rail journeys: nostalgia and magic on the Night Riviera to Cornwall www.ft.com/content/0491... via @financialtimes.com

Some British Rail signs and 43089 in the distance at Stanhope after arriving with 1Z43, the UK Railtours/125 Group ‘Locomotion and Weardale’ railtour from London Kings Cross on 31 May 2025.

Another Regional Railways relic - this time at Chester-le-Street railway station, 30 May ‘25

New Great British Railways logo being trialled in Morpeth! 😬#doublearrow

The modern world in old Ladybird books. Eating on trains, 1974. Artist: Frank Humphris

The excellent ‘Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists’ exhibition, currently at Peterborough Museum @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social with a couple of the rail-related books on show…

Growler action at the Mid Norfolk Railway yesterday

I was hoping for it to be 100% chocolate, not 100% paper! 😂🤷‍♂️

York is one of a growing list of universities eager to bulldoze their 20th-century architectural heritage, writes Yanqi Huang

Valley Lines - getting you to the heart of Cardiff soon (well, from about October 1996 to October 2001) - still on display in 2025!

“When a train passes a signal box, the signal man sends an electric bell message to the next cabin. This means the “train has passed my section of line!” (In the Train, 1955) Artist: WC Watson

‘Weaver Network’ to replace ‘Metro’ transport branding (used since 1974) in West Yorkshire! Crikey, I get everywhere! www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/all-news-and...

The mail train, 1965 Artist: John Berry (On the Railways)

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