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Railway/transport writing & photography. SVR PW Volunteer
Cycling/cargo bikes, climate change. Own views etc.
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Nice to see my image of the 701s at Long Marston on the front cover of the new RAIL Magazine. 🙂
Shame they are still in storage though 😕

www.railmagazine.com/news/rolling...
Front cover of RAIL Magazine showing a line of brand new Class 701 South Western Trains in storage at Long Marston Rail Centre
November 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Today's office. 1955 Hibberd Planet 🥰
A view through the cab window of a Hibberd narrow gauge diesel loco, with a view of the track ahead and two vintage standard gauge carriages
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The new RAIL Magazine is out today, with my feature on Ridgmont Station and its volunteers, with the @Marston Vale Community Rail Partnership

www.railmagazine.com
Image capture of two pages of RAIL Magazine, of a feature on Ridgmont Station, Bedfordshire and its volunteers, who run a shop, tearoom and community garden at the restored station building.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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My new book on Class 20s is now out with Transport Treasury Publishing:

Buy it now:
ttpublishing.co.uk/.../spotligh...
Front cover of my new book, with a photo of a pair of Class 20 diesel locos, 20013 & 20087 climbing out of the Ironbridge Gorge at Coalbrookdale hauling a rake of empty MGR coal wagons from Ironbridge power station in July 1989
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Don't forget BST ends tonight, time to adjust the clocks again
A person in orange hi vis adjusting the ornate station clock in the roof of Kings Cross Station, London
October 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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A week to go before the Autumn Diesel Bash at the SVR, 65 years of Class 37s.
@geofftech.bsky.social @sarahwiththetrains.bsky.social

svr.co.uk/event/65-yea...
Class 37 loco on a low loader arriving at Kidderminster Station Screengrab from Facebook SVR Page advertising the Diesel Gala with a photo of 37901
September 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Unusual sight last weekend due to ECML closure, Azumas on the Tyne Valley line - seen here at Hexham and Haltwhistle
An LNER Azuma train passing under the Grade II listed Hexam signal box, built on a steel gantry spanning the tracks An LNER Azuma train passing the Grade II listed Hexam signal box, a tall red and cream painted wooden structure on a brick base, with the train framed by a quaint cream and red footbridge
September 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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NCB No 49 gets an early watering at Bridgnorth MPD, SVR Autumn Gala
Ex National Coal Board steam Loco No 49 being filled with water at Bridgnorth Motive Power Depot as the sun is rising behind it. A man sits on top of the water tank and is about to remove the 'bag' (rubber pipe) used to fill the water tank, which is overflowing, water running down the sides of the loco. Steam and smoke mingle in the air in front of orange clouds
September 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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GB Railfreight 66721 at Healey Mills B junction with 4M36, 09.54 Drax Aes to Liverpool Biomass Tml, 16th Sepetember 2025
GB Railfreight class 66, number 66721 with a train of woodchip hoppers used for imported woodchip to fuel Drax power station, claimed to be green renewable energy when the woodchip is imported from Canada
September 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot arriving at Kidderminster for the Severn Valley Railway Autumn Gala, this coming weekend
Steam loco 73082 Camelot being winched slowly off a low loader trailer onto the rails at Kidderminster yard
September 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Another delivered to Kharkiv, with Wyreforest2Ukraine
Mitsubishi L200, did a basic conversion to front line evac ambulance, now with 68th Brigade, volunteer unit formed in 2022.
Onto the next one!
More 4WD single cab pickups urgently needed to evac injured troops from front lines.
#ukraine
#aid
September 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Steve needs to see the #notametro flowchart, courtesy of @garethdennis.uk
A flowchart describing different type of public transport vehicles. It explains that anything running on rubber tyres on a road is a bus and not a tram
July 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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"If you take the tyres off and put it on rails its a tram"...
A burnt out car with no tyres on, dumped on a railway track
July 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Flying Scotsman takes the #severnvalleyrailway reopening train across the newly rebuilt bridge at Mor Brook, after the landslip here closed the line in January
July 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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A large green loco has arrived at Kidderminster, apparently it's quite well known...
July 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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There's always a tweet...
July 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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So he now wants unelected bureaucrats?
July 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Chiltern route learning is happening as well, shame the bridge parapets at Winslow are too high though...
June 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I assume this is Coventry VLR?

Been designed by & oversight by lot of orgs & specialists. Reasons it costs less:

No need to relocate utilities, it lays over them, 300mm depth, inc access panels for utility Co's access

Uses off shelf track components

Prefab sections much quicker to install
June 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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New Ebook now published!

Winterrail. The story of a 3 month interrailling adventre through Europe

Available now at Amazon and other Ebook retailers
#travel
#interrail

www.amazon.co.uk/Winterrail-G...

books2read.com/u/m2jxN6
June 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Another significant step forward with the Severn Valley Railway landslip repair at Mor Brook took place this week as the permanent way team removed the track over the affected area.
With the track safely removed, reconstruction work by civil engineering contractor CML will commence imminently.
A drone photo of the Severn Valley Railway landslip, with the track removed over the affected area, showing the slip into the Mor Brook which runs under the railway at Bridge 25
May 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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News photo of a traffic cone placed on a self driving car that disables it from moving, a group in San Francisco have been disabling Waymo taxis by doing this as most people object to the unsafe technology.
May 19, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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71000 Duke of Gloucester arrives at Kidderminster, Severn Valley Railway yesterday for testing and running in
May 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Thanks to @richwoodruff.bsky.social for the image
www.volunteeringukraine.com/en
April 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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What's better than one Manor? Two at once! Bradley & Erlestoke at the SVR Spring Gala 🥰
April 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM