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RIGHT! As #RailwayArchitecture finished last week and Twitter put up with it for 10 long weeks (yes, I know I'm firmly on many mute lists now…) I thought it apt to tweet personal thanks and credit. And uh-oh, it's become a thread. So... (1/16)
Thank you to all 65 (sixty-five!) experts who contributed on-screen to #RailwayArchitecture. For your time, knowledge, expertise and joy. I never thought we'd have such a diverse range of voices and I am so pleased that we did. (2/16)
Everybody who contributed off-screen, by advising, by helping, or by saying absolutely no Tim do NOT touch that put it BACK; or by making things happen and by opening doors that we never dreamed that might be opened for us. (3/16)
So TODAY the virtual model train show #BigWORshow is happening online and honestly it's almost impossible to tell that some of these masterpieces aren't real. Each a true work of art and obsession. Do have a look: world-of-railways.co.uk/virtual-exhibi… 
these little milkfloats are only about 24mm long world-of-railways.co.uk/virtual-exhibi…
these guys have made an entire model of Liverpool Lime Street station at a scale of 4mm to 1ft. This ROOF though
Not live-tweeting tonight's final #RailwayArchitecture episode 'cos I am too busy enjoying watching it - BUT - I wanted to thank the CHUFFING ACE contributors: Gerard Evenden (I have suit envy) @anngav (you even out-enthuse me 💙) @KatieKnowles28 (I learned so much that day!)...
Thank you Hannah Parry and Martha Parry of @mechanics_trust for your tours, stories and dedication in finding futures for Swindon's historic buildings. And Barbara Brollo and Marcello Galbiati for talking so wisely about Milano Centrale and the what occurred there...
Thank you Fred Jennings, who lived his life in the railway village and shared his stories with us all. Fred passed away over Christmas; it was a privilege to spend the day with him.
Four more of my behind-the-scenes pics from filming ‘The Architecture The Railways Built’ for @YesterdayTweets TV. The v splendid 1877 Grand Staircase at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel (or, as designed by George Gilbert Scott, The Midland Grand). Absolute #RailwayArchitecture unit.
I must also thank the ‘Sage of St Pancras’, the quite brilliant Royden Stock, for indulging my request for this - one big Zig-a-Zig-Ahh after we’d finished shooting 👍
Oh! I forgot these two - as afternoon light flooded in from the west. One of the corridors stretching around from the main stair through the curved wing of the St Pancras Midland Grand hotel, & another looking up to the vaulted ceiling of the grand staircase. V special building.
Architecture fans! A taster of #RailwayArchitecture variety on @YesterdayTweets TV tonight at 8pm to enjoy:
🏘️🏡Amersham Sun Houses & Metro-Land homes
🏠🚇Watford station (1925)
🚉🪱Great Malvern & "Worm" (Elmslie 1862)
🏢🏗️Barking Riverside station @LDNOverground (2021)
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🏘️🏡Amersham Sun Houses & Metro-Land homes
🏠🚇Watford station (1925)
🚉🪱Great Malvern & "Worm" (Elmslie 1862)
🏢🏗️Barking Riverside station @LDNOverground (2021)
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The Sun Houses are built on the land leading up to the famous "High & Over" at Amersham... I always felt they could have been the inspiration for Osbert Lancaster's "20th Century Functional" house cartoons... (2/6)
We also meet my parents (!) to see their happy little Metro-Land homes from their 1950s suburbia childhoods. This whole area of London really *was* enabled by the Metropolitan Railway. David Bownes @C20thPosters is on hand to guide us: a taller, cleverer version of me, dammit🤔
