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Stephen Lynas
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Stephen Lynas
@bathwellschap
Cheerfully retired Bishops' Chaplain; still a chap from Bath &Wells.
Somerset Katılım Temmuz 2012
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@Captain_Deltic Haha, yes - and I have a radio face! I agree with you - the magic of radio is you can go into depth and you can change running orders to suit what is happening or what people want to hear. It’s company, it’s a friend and it’s a medium which will never fade away.
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Happy Radio Day - still a great medium enjoyed by nearly 90% of the British population daily. I’ve been lucky enough to spend over 30 years in the industry and I still get to dabble once a week. Radio gave me so many memories and fun times 📻
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@Captain_Deltic @Heidi_Labour I'm one of many who appreciate your forensic journalism.
You are spot on about "boringly reliable" (I spent two weeks in Switzerland over the New Year), and also about the wooliness of "sustainable".
And a bonus point for being an entertaining writer!
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@bathwellschap @Heidi_Labour The standout issue for me is her claim that the current level of subsidy is "unsustainable" without saying what subsidy would be sustainable.
Otherwise says some sensible things, but nothing new.
Mostly harmless.
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It's official!
I've been banging on for years about the importance of creating a "boringly reliable railway".
Now it's official Government policy.
In her George Bradshaw address last night the @Heidi_Labour vision included the railway "striving to become boringly reliable"
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@Captain_Deltic @Heidi_Labour Looking forward to any deep dive you do into your Word copy !
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@bathwellschap @Heidi_Labour A quick flick through when I cut and pasted it in Word and saved it.
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@bathwellschap 😂 I’m from Lynas stock too my mums side were Lynas !
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The arrivals board on the old departure board at Glasgow Central.
These were all manually put in place
Credit : Derek Crowe
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@networkrailwest @GWRHelp I think you must mean 1,000 trains per day..
If there's 48 per hour, the junction only needs to operate for a couple of hours to get to 100 per day.
Graphics typo, not checked?
@Captain_Deltic
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✅Work to improve a very busy junction between Slough and Reading was completed this morning
🛠️Teams worked over Christmas and New Year to renew the points and overhead lines to enhance reliability
🚆Thank you for your patience while we carried out these vital improvements
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It's #clergymaltclub time again.
I'll be posting, but not here - where the skies are blue...
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@PeterHancock_ Well it has to be said that if there was a regular modern train service from Guildford to Brighton it would improve things in your part of the world no end!
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@bathwellschap Thank you Stephen,
There is still a memory here about the station and some people say it should never have closed.
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@PeterHancock_ Cranleigh 70 years ago!
Vought Sikorsky@VoughtSikorsky
Suitably bucolic with faded paint, the signalman & driver of Billinton E5X 32570 exchange single line staffs at Cranleigh in August 1954. 32570 would be the last surviving E5X in service from July 1955 on, being withdrawn from 75D Horsham Shed during January 1956.
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Don't post here nowadays, but had to drop this in, from today's Guardian.
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@Captain_Deltic @gceccles @RAIL @trailersecond @Modern_Railways Travelled from Clapham Junction to East Croydon the other day.
It occurred to me that if TFL where ever to take this over as Overground, it should be named the Buddleia Line.
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@gceccles @RAIL But see @trailersecond on the latest proposed innovative use of AI in his @Modern_Railways column last month
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@PabloOHana @CrossCountryUK @BTP Realtime Trains shows something happened after the Leamington stop, causing a 13 minute delay at Coventry...
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@petespurs you might have enjoyed this...
Joe Brown@JoeBrownLondon
Privileged to support the @BLSFixtures Branch Line Society 'Piccadilly Explorer' tour yesterday, which raised £1,000 for Northwick Park Hospital League of Friends. First stop: South Harrow for the gasworks viaduct stub and signal relay room, plus the 1903 station building 🧵1/7
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@beckyclark83 Very sunny and ice-cream essential in East Kent...
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A foggy Monday morning here in the #Falklands. Definitely feels wintery. How's it looking where you are?
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@ChurchTimes @seatrout You'd hope, after all the time you've written for the paper, they would spell your name right🙂
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Viewpoint with Andrew Borwn: ‘Send a message’ — but is anyone listening? #Echobox=1740337700" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…
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First food today after my (2nd) knee replacement op - toast and they have @marmite, also tea in a pot. I do like this hospital @SulisHospital Thank you lovely staff, and the @NHSuk
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@synod
If you're heading to London for #CofEpeeps #Synod, there are some wise words from 'old Synod hand' Simon Butler to be found on his FB feed
facebook.com/share/p/1Au8...
(Missing you already, look out for the tractors)
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