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That Ian May
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Spotted on our walk this afternoon🐴
Rocking horse with a sign saying: ‘Emergency transport for hire!’
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The green one does look like a glass of dilute Fairy Liquid though when you add water. 🤷‍♂️
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Might have to get out for a walk this weekend if the weather stays dry-ish. It’d be rude not to when we have autumn colours like this just up the road. 🍂
Beautiful yellow and orange beech trees with a blue sky behind.
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Gentle stroll through the woods in Oxfordshire this afternoon. Beautiful colours on the beech trees near Exlade Street, off the A4074 - definite food for the soul 🙂
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Whoever thought of this is a genius!
Green and Pink squash bottles in the characters of Elphaba and Glinda from Wicked.
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Does anyone know what this strange prismatic cloud effect is called? 🌈🌤️
Spotted this morning in the sky above Christchurch Meadows in #Reading this morning.
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Had a fun time at the Slough & Windsor Railway Society Model Railway exhibition yesterday. I was operating our club layout Wokingham for the first time.

Do check out the show if you’re in the area today: www.swrs.co.uk/swrsweb/html...

#BSMRGUK
S&WRS Show logo featuring Slough Estates No. 3 - a green Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST View over the Wokingham layout showing a coal train running into Wokingham station.
October 26, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Autumn shadows and colours by the Thames in Caversham this morning.
View across the meadow towards the river. Green grass in the front and a row of trees in the distance
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Time for a bit of random 1980s nostalgia I reckon.

@richdmay.bsky.social and I with Midland 4F 43924 at Keighley station on the @worthvalley.bsky.social in autumn 1985

📷 G May
Ian and Rich at Keighley station with the 4F 43924. Nice brown anorak and all.
October 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Just missed the sunset last night. But did catch the mist over the meadows by the River Test.
The afterglow of sunset across a meadow in Hampshire Cows in the distance across a misty meadow. With a fence in the foreground.
October 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Splendid, if rather soggy, day at the steam gala yesterday.
Thanks @thewatercressline.bsky.social !
S15 class 30506 standing in the cattle dock at Alresford station awaiting the next service. Battle of Britain class ‘Sir Archibald Sinclair’ pulling into the platform at Ropley station with a service to Alton on a rather wet Friday at the Watercress Line Steam Gala.
October 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Some pretty spectacular fungi on a walk in the woods today.
Flat topped mushroom and a baby one in the woods Slightly chewed chestnut coloured mushroom in the woodland sun Colony of mushrooms on a fallen tree
September 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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#ColdplayWembley wasn’t half bad. Thanks Chris and the guys.
August 27, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Bucket hats, pints of Hooch and Oasis live. Yesterday was like 1996 all over again. Marvellous!
August 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Roma Termini. First ever trip on a Frecciarossa 🙂
3 Italian High Speed trains waiting at the station in Rome
May 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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13 years ago today I managed to catch 70013 ‘Oliver Cromwell’ passing through Reading station with its support coach. I like to think the toot on the whistle was for me! 🚂🚉
April 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A Slight Case of Overfrothing.
Tour de Yorkshire coffee mug overflowing with froth earlier.
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Superlative afternoon spent flying kites over the Chilterns.
April 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Here’s a test freight train climbing the 4% gradient towards ‘Preda’ in N gauge.
March 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Testing the layout ‘Veja Megstra’ last night in prep for its debut show over the Easter weekend. It’s been quite a journey but it should be ready in time.

#bsmrguk
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Ge 4/4 iii in UNESCO World Heritage promotional livery powers past the station building at Veja Megstra with an RhB regional passenger service #modeltrainshow2025 #bsmrguk
February 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Recent shot of RhB Ge 4/4 iii 631 on a freight service on Veja Megstra #modeltrainshow2025 #bsmrguk
Kato RhB Ge 4/4 ii on a freight service above Bergün on Veja Megstra - an N scale Swiss layout
February 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Well, this is better than being at work!
6229 Duchess of Hamilton at the National Railway Museum, York 4468 Mallard at the NRM, York
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A few highlights from the Febex model train show at Alton today 🚂🚃🚞🚇🛤️
Blackmoor 009 layout based on the L&B Train moving away from the station on Drwys Y Nant a 2mm finescale GWR layout View down the street showing a tram and level crossing on Copper Wort, a model of a brewery set in the Edwardian era A Ge 4/4 iii locomotive on Kleine Albula, a HOm layout set in south eastern Switzerland in the winter
February 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Dinner Time Trains
February 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM