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4 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Just unveiled: confirmed finalised designs for London's new tube trains. Known as "2024 stock", 94 trains will be built for @TfL's Piccadilly line by @SiemensMobility, many in Yorkshire. Due to enter service in 2025. Walk-thru cars, aircon, info screens, more energy efficient...
Bakerloo, Waterloo & City, Central lines will also get these if (and there is a very big if) funding is approved.
Big new tube train factory kicking off in Goole. #Goole.
Also, always enjoyable to see the word "Cockfosters" on the front of a tube train. And now on a Siemens train too. Well done everybody.

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29 Dec 20
GREAT news from @RailwayMuseum in York: the museum's Station Hall exhibition is to be refreshed. Overseen by @celkingston, over 2021/2 the royal trains will be shuffled, 200 new objects displayed, plus more on railway workers, inc stories of women and Windrush generation (1/4)
Objects to be displayed in NRM's refresh include the old @LondonWaterloo wooden WH Smith kiosk, the Royal Train class 47 loco "Prince William", and (possibly) a waiting room display inc these beautiful Grantham station tiles, currently in store at @sciencemuseum Wroughton (2/4)
Designers will be appointed soon, with vehicle moves & construction to happen in 2022 (Covid-dependent, obv). There's also major roof restoration happening, AND wonderfully, film & sounds from National Archive of Railway Oral History. Much of this funded by @friends_railway.(3/4)
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28 Dec 20
New! *The Mid-Sodor Murders*
A THREAD of revelations which prove Thomas the Tank Engine stories hide evidence of serial killing & psychopathic torture inflicted by engines & humans.
Episode 1. "Murder at the Sidings": Oliver finally loses it with a subordinate wagon’s backchat...
Episode 2. “Murder on the Mountain”.
Fed up with being pushed around on the first day of services, one of the rack railway coaches loses her shit and with a neat sideways wobble knocks Godred clean orf. Left for dead in the valley. That’ll learn ‘im.
Episode 3. “Murder by Torture”
Stanley got ideas above his station. So they took away his wheels, and bricked him & his loud mouth up at the back of the shed. Now they use him to pump water, refilling other thirsty engines. Fancy a drink, Stanley? They laugh. But he cannot reply.
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27 Sep 20
This week, I had a meeting at @Hornby’s Margate HQ. Afterwards, we were kindly given a site tour inc Visitor Centre (shut til 2021), old modelmaking factory, trade displays PLUS a private full-size train collection inc a Eurostar. With permission, here are some highlights: (1/12)
Tim Mulhall (COO) showed us the trade area displays: Hornby Hobbies now owns not just @hornby but @Airfix @Humbrol @corgi @HornbyFrance @Scalextric (and more) so there’s an IKEA-style walkthrough of all brands’ key ranges. I’d no idea Airfix had so many kits on sale..(2/12)
Special shout out to the @Scalextric team who clearly have challenged themselves to build the most complex possible layout in the space available. Imagine this being your *actual job* (4/12
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31 Aug 20
As Twitter’s model village correspondent, today I visited @WimborneModTown in Dorset to check-in on progress, now our dear government have relaxed tourism rules on model villages opening. And I have the following to report: (1/6) Image
Firstly, @WimborneModTown is still a near-perfect replica of Wimborne as it was in the 1950s. In fact, it still looks pretty much like parts of Wimborne today. But with fewer cars, and today it looked ACE (2/6) ImageImageImageImage
The @WimborneModTown team (it’s a charity!) have been busy. They’re replacing old crude wooden windows with 3D-printed replicas from original drawings/photos. And chimney-pots too: at adult-eye level this makes the whole town SO realistic. Thx all at cobnut3d.co.uk (3/6) ImageImageImageImage
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26 Aug 20
Nobody:

Me: Yes it's more #InternationalDogDay #TrainTwitter crossover content! Several railway stations had trained "Canine Collector" charity dogs, inc Laddie at Waterloo & Jim at Slough. Laddie is now stuffed at @RailwayMuseum; Jim is stuffed at Slough
collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co2244… ImageImage
Here are some more reported facts about "Station Jim", the very old dead dog that is now stuffed and mounted on a Slough station platform. #internationaldogday #ohgodthehashtags #thisislikeinstagram #dogs #deaddogs #idontevenlikedogswhyamitweetingthis getreading.co.uk/news/reading-b…
Unfortunately Laddie in @RailwayMuseum often bloats out into a horrific shape, terrifying children, as trapped gas (from a life of overfeeding by idiots) expands. To prevent canine cadaver explosion, NRM conservators are seen here on their biannual Laddie-gas-extraction duty. Image
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23 Aug 20
Competition time! (CHUMS mag, 1921): “Spot the 12 things wrong with this illustration”, challenges Mr Bassett-Lowke. Well I’ve guessed a paltry 5 in this C.J.Allen drawing and that’s only after reading up on CR loco number 907. I give up. Go on. Your turn. Image
Answers 1-5 Image
Answers 6-8
6. The screw link coupling on the front of the locomotive is missing. AND
7. Platforms out of gauge (@doctordunlop)
8. No. on the front buffer beam is incorrect - Caley locos had C.R in that location. (@ethan46441)
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