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Richard Long
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Full time dad and part time railway author. Winner of Third Prize Non-Fiction at the 2025 Isle of Wight Book Awards for “Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway”.

https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rclong
This is the thumbnail I’m seeing here.
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This fits quite well.
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
And for comparison…
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
For example, we all know the Isle of Wight uses old tube trains, but what if they built the actual tube network on the Isle of Wight? (Includes two bonus tunnels to the mainland).
November 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Also, this bit is nonsense. Last time there was no “festive special” was in 2022.
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It’s going to turn into Peter Davison’s face, isn’t it.
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This just in from 1963.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
That’s subjective, but blue was the original British Railways livery for express passenger steam locos. Didn’t last very long and most photos of that era are b&w so you can’t tell anyway. Here’s a preserved ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ passing through Dawlish in the same livery a couple of years ago.
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Caledonian Road, London, 1967
October 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Bit of history from the “Blood and custard” website:
October 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Bloody heathens in the north.
October 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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October 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So the inflatable Stonehenge wasn’t a henge?
October 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
October 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Not according to Wikipedia.
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m just going to leave this here.
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
October 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Proud to announce that my book “Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway” has won Third Prize 🏆 in the Non-Fiction category at yesterday’s 2025 Isle of Wight Book Awards!
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October 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
And this is definitely the Cocoa powder:
October 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Breakfast cereal might be Rice Krispies?
October 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I know the BBC are taking the Reformation as a starting point, but the first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine in 597 so “almost 500 years” is an odd way of counting.
October 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
That’s Blackgang Chine!
October 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM