Colin Penfold

@northernassist Why not use blue sky?

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@andrewpconnell @MichaelSadgrove AMR for a start (I'm too your to remember AM itself). Where does the alternative appear? EH tradition I assume

@MichaelSadgrove Completely agree. Which hymnal does this abomination appear in?

Sang ‘Jerusalem the golden’ at church. At the last verse, I began to sing the text I knew. It begins with questions - whispered longingly & humbly. Instead the hymn book has substituted bland affirmations entirely alter the spiritual register. It’s unwarranted. Not happy.

@RoddyJenkins @greensignallers @railnigel @SRichardBowker @stefatrail Midland-type fencing, U/Q Signals, Pannier, cut-down 03... confusing mixture! Blaenavon line?

@greensignallers @railnigel @SRichardBowker @stefatrail Tume to put your thinking caps on, and tell me where I am….

@liambeadle @AngelaTilby @2D0XPS ISTR he drafted it at Synod in response to a request for a more participatory EP. And it is not the preserve of nearky-order-2 types :)

@liambeadle @tapanisimojoki Common enough in the 90s - comes from US via films I think.

@keithward329 @NetworkRailWssx @GWRHelp there was once :)

@NetworkRailWssx @GWRHelp Room for double track?

🗓️Day 5 on the❤️of Wessex line👷‍♀️engineers are making good progress replacing and compacting 850 tonnes of fresh ballast over a 250m stretch of track near Yeovil Pen Mill to help prevent flooding and delays in the area @GWRHelp passengers please continue to check before you travel🙏 More: networkrail.co.uk/heart-of-wessex

@RHummBooks To my surprise, I think it is Reigate. Reasoning: 1. the church is almost certainly CofE so orientated E-W. V few double track railways run E-W. 2. no town centre, C19-20 housing (so commuter-land). 3. Footbridge, LC, station building, underbridge match. maps.nls.uk/view/103315864

Interesting challenge! The station is in the centre with a small goods yard and goods shed. Beyond it the line appears to widen and may be on an embankment. The area seems prosperous, large C19 houses, smaller pre-war building. The church has a distinctive semi-detached tower.

@railnigel Laycock and Bannister were as local as it got - Crosshills in the West Riding. The organs in Cononley and Bradley Methodists were both theirs, unsurprisingly.

Oh yes, I recall seeing them! It was a Laycock & Bannister organ ISTR….

@sainsburys can I claim staff discount for wasting time scanning and packing my big shop? :) No staffed checkouts available at Greengates 0925-35 today, I was one of several customers needing help and only one staff to assist :(

@rudybanjo @seatsixtyone Do I remember a Tartan Express parcels service last century?

@seatsixtyone I'd be quite intrigued by a bona fide Tartan Express, wherever in the world that may be outwith Scotland

In today's has-he-got-his-glasses-on Seat 61 typo, Slovakian railways accidentally started operating "Tartan Express" trains. I'd like to apologise unreservedly to residents of both Scotland and the Tatra mountains for this error, spotted & corrected. Happy Christmas everyone!

@jablon007 @seatsixtyone I always enjoy autotranslate on journey planners, but it gets confusing when sometimes it uses the host language and sometimes not :)

@seatsixtyone "Sour"? Really? 🤪 (There is station "Kysak". The word "sour" is English translation for "kyslý". But, it's also possible to say "kyslé jablko" as "a tart apple"? We can make this way "TART EXPRESS" legally 😆)

@RHummBooks Gravesend W looks a better match though.

@PenfoldColin Thank you, I'll check. #whatstation 850

Déjà vu? #whatstation 850 looks familiar. The little engine, the spikey gate, the curved platform, the ? triangular station. I can't see that I posted it before - maybe it's a photo we found when we were identifying the station from the other end. Does anyone know where, please?

@RHummBooks @jsamways Just to say I have done a NLOS map search of the lines I suggested (MGN, MSW, Banbury-Kingham) and can't find any match. The position of the loading gauge puzzles me - implies that the yard curves left as well as right. But I agree we are defeated.

@jsamways Yes, I'm afraid it's time to let #whatstation 843 lie. The first genuine station to defeat us. If it's ever solved it will turn out to be somewhere as far from Norfolk as possible, the Maryport & Carlisle for example or, as one pessimist suggested, Ireland. I'll post #ws 844

I have so looked forward to posting #whatstation 843. Two flues have eluded the wrecking ball, did the foreman have his eye on the waiting room fire surround? Huge, well lit goods yard, track still down, looks disused. Was this a terminus? Can anyone tell us where, please?

@EuropeByRail For a Yorkshire audience, I used to say it was "York without the tourists." Or Lincoln perhaps.

One of the great things about the routes in #EuropebyRail is that they encourage the traveller to stopover in places that might not feature on the average tourist itinerary. Erfurt, in the heart of Germany, is one such place… Photo © Plotnikov | Dreamstime

@RHummBooks No idea, but possible clues: fencing - vaguely GWR but with finials (was that a gate?). car - suggests 50s rather than 60s so an early closure (the singling could have preceded closure, eg MSWJR). scenery - S England? orientation E-W - Banbury-Kingham? M&GNJR?

@WakeCathedral @WakefieldMayor @CroftonSilver @PindersPrimary @MyWakefield Or even a Civic Carol Service? :)

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@Peter_Mugridge @RHummBooks @bgstrowger @Marshrail @railway200 @railexpress @RailwayMagazine @Captain_Deltic @trailersecond @LordPeterHendy @Modern_Railways The Goods platform shows up on the map I linked, as does the crossover in front of it.

@RHummBooks @PenfoldColin @bgstrowger @Marshrail @railway200 @railexpress @RailwayMagazine @Captain_Deltic @trailersecond @LordPeterHendy @Modern_Railways That would make sense - I couldn't find any actual photos of that...

@railway200 The location of this June 1952 test train photo is a mystery. Can followers of @RHummBooks assist please? @railexpress @RailwayMagazine @Captain_Deltic @trailersecond Powered by A C V Sales Ltd who also made bus engines @LordPeterHendy may know? @Modern_Railways

@bgstrowger @Marshrail @railway200 @RHummBooks @railexpress @RailwayMagazine @Captain_Deltic @trailersecond @LordPeterHendy @Modern_Railways Gerrard Cross would fit - see the layout maps.nls.uk/view/104183615

@Marshrail @railway200 @RHummBooks @railexpress @RailwayMagazine @Captain_Deltic @trailersecond @LordPeterHendy @Modern_Railways My copy of R.M Tufnell's book The British Railcar says that the BUT Railcar was demonstrated near Gerrards Cross in May 1952, but was later in service between Wellingborough and Higham Ferrers.

@chrisdaleoxford @RHummBooks I'd reached the same conclusion. Here's the map, with the odd-shaped Lewisham Road bridge in the foreground. maps.nls.uk/view/103313444

@RHummBooks Blacheath Hill if this picture is right (as I think the Greenwich Park one, thought the same as yours, was not) boroughphotos.org/lewisham/black…

#whatstation 838 bears a strong family likeness to the derelict stations on the Greenwich Park line already solved. But we've had all of them, so this must be a shot in the other direction. I can't see which it is; it might even be a different line. Can anyone help, please? 1/3