Jonathan

@doctorwibble Fascinating thanks for sharing

The road where I live doesn’t exist at this point in London’s development.

@4bruce7 Remember?……We still have and use one.

Who Remembers.

@MrTimDunn @networkrail @GWRHelp Tim if you could make that work the rails would no longer buckle just expand into the additional space.

@networkrail @GWRHelp (There's a spare bit of Wiltshire that slots in to fill the gap either side, and on special occasions, the council at the Unitary Authority of Slough are empowered to extend their land by up to 100 metres to contribute.)

Fun fact! On VERY hot days like today, @networkrail steel rails on Brunel's GWR (connecting Bristol to London) expand SO much that Temple Meads & Paddington stations are forced almost 500m further apart. @GWRhelp's timetables increase by 1 minute to allow for extra distance.

@BlackCatMini Thanks you have a great job and not one that I could do. Keep up the great tweets.

If you’ve made it this far thanks for reading! I hope you found this interesting/entertaining. Let me know if you’d like more threads like this as there are so many different methods of working that train drivers have to learn! Have a lovely evening 😊 TTB

Do you remember the other day I was saying about how the signals had failed on a stretch of line so a temporary method of working was setup to keep trains moving safely? Well here comes a thread explaining how it works! It’s time for… #TallBlokeExplains

@TomTheDoodler Looking forward to the big reveal.

Class 50-Last little bit of detail before the big reveal in a few days time! #LimitedEdition #workinprogress #railways #trains #class50 #Thunderer #art

@MrTimDunn @networkrail I will look out for you.

Personal best! Got all this way into @networkrail HQ without the TimDunnAlert™️ Alarm going off!

Just ordered Greek Pizza offthehook.f4food.net/table/ #orderAtTable via @eatPOS

Hi @GWRHelp Paddington to Hereford train this morning is only 5 coaches and full and standing throughout. Bring back the 9 coach sets or passengers will go away. @RAIL a regular theme of yours.

Arrest them all. #RT if you agree ?

@birdsnestsblog @AvantiWestCoast I can confirm It is comfy. I have travelled on it twice this week already.

Mmm. Comfy!

@RAIL @MrTimDunn Really good programme last night I had not heard that story. Thank you Tim. I vaguely remember the Serpel report that was advocating severe cuts in the West Country. We’re they connected at all?

Just listened to @MrTimDunn rather excellent BBCR4 documentary 'Lines of Duty' about a sly civil service attempt to shut down over half of our rail network in the early 1970s. It's a rollicking good political/railway yarn, very well told. Don't miss it - now on BBC Sounds.

@MrTimDunn Absolutely stunning photograph

This photo by Bradley Langton is actually the overall winner of the inaugural Young Railway Photographer of the Year Competition (organised by the Railway Photographic Society in its centenary yea) so deserves being shown in full:

Three superb winning images from the Young Railway Photographer of the Year Competition. Pic1 by Sean Mattocks. Pic2&3 by Bradley Langton (yes that is Harry Potter viaduct, Glenfinnan). An exhibition of 48 images inc all winners is in @RailwayMuseum then @LocomotionSHD from June.

@bt_uk Hi @bt_uk it is not unbreakable in West Oxfordshire where we have a v poor EE signal. You may need to try harder.

Only BT’s hybrid broadband is backed up by EE’s mobile network for an unbreakable home connection. Why settle for anyone else?

Update: #TwitterModelTrainShow 2022 has.. 🗣 been tweeted 4,000 times 🌎 reached 5.6 million people 📈 trended 25th in the UK 💷 raised (incl. Gift Aid) £800 for @RailwayChildren Have you enjoyed it? Let’s see if we can make it to £1,000, here.. justgiving.com/fundraising/tw…

Thank you all at #TwitterModelTrainShow for a great day of watching your layouts. I am trying to get back into railway modelling after about 40 years. Hopefully have some track laid soon.

@TomTheDoodler @RAIL Yep me too.

@RAIL Same here!

Blimey, yes….that’s my first memory of bin men!

@JayElwes @GWRHelp Lovely spot stayed their on holiday just before the first lockdown.

@GWRHelp Wouldn’t that make it the view from Polruan across to Fowey?

What a view! We're not too sure, but it may be intended to represent Boddinick on the Fowey estuary - Has anyone got another guess?🤔💡 (info from collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co2293…)

@RAIL Got on a Coventry-Euston service a few months back. Did not stop at MK. Arrived in NR’s office much later than planned, much to the amusement of my team.

About once a decade I’m rushing for a train at KX for P’bro - and end up in Grantham, Doncaster, or York. Guess what? Tonight’s the night. And it would be the most irksome option 🤬🤬 Quiet at the back! 🙄🙄🙄

@Clinnick1 @GWRHelp @HitachiRailENG Thanks for the picture Richard I grew up near there and sailed on the Teign just upstream from Teignmouth.

Looking up the Teign as I sped towards Teignmouth earlier aboard @GWRHelp @HitachiRailENG 802107.

@AMinorMuddle Yes