Top Deck Cat
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Figuring out how humans get around. Sometimes chasing birds up trees.
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The railway network across Britain and Ireland is constantly evolving, so it's no surprise then that the Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland is now in its 16th edition.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new...
New Railway Atlas charts Oxford–Cambridge rebuild and Foynes Revival in 16th edition
The railway network across Britain and Ireland is constantly evolving, so it's no surprise then that the Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland is now in its 16th edition.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The railway network across Britain and Ireland is constantly evolving, so it's no surprise then that the Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland is now in its 16th edition.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/new...
To Royal Navy and Royal Marines sailors past and present, whether you are at sea, at the wall or ashore tonight: thank you for your service to the nation. It's appreciated. Fair winds and following seas.
#TrafalgarDay #Trafalgar
#TrafalgarDay #Trafalgar
October 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
To Royal Navy and Royal Marines sailors past and present, whether you are at sea, at the wall or ashore tonight: thank you for your service to the nation. It's appreciated. Fair winds and following seas.
#TrafalgarDay #Trafalgar
#TrafalgarDay #Trafalgar
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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On nights like last night Train Drivers really flex their route knowledge muscles!
Driving at 100+mph with zero visibility is easy… knowing exactly where you are while you do it, that’s the tricky bit 😂
Driving at 100+mph with zero visibility is easy… knowing exactly where you are while you do it, that’s the tricky bit 😂
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
On nights like last night Train Drivers really flex their route knowledge muscles!
Driving at 100+mph with zero visibility is easy… knowing exactly where you are while you do it, that’s the tricky bit 😂
Driving at 100+mph with zero visibility is easy… knowing exactly where you are while you do it, that’s the tricky bit 😂
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Yes yes I know. You've spent ages searching for an original, detailed map of Britain's #railway system that is both up-to-date and has the appearance of a vintage poster, as well as designed by an independent artist and printed on nice quality paper. Well look no further! 🚂
➡️ bit.ly/RwyGB22
➡️ bit.ly/RwyGB22
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Yes yes I know. You've spent ages searching for an original, detailed map of Britain's #railway system that is both up-to-date and has the appearance of a vintage poster, as well as designed by an independent artist and printed on nice quality paper. Well look no further! 🚂
➡️ bit.ly/RwyGB22
➡️ bit.ly/RwyGB22
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Wishing the very best of luck to all those collecting their results this #ALevelResultsDay.
If you get the grades you wanted, congratulations!
If you don't, here's a long load of general waffle about what I did after mine, if only to show you the direction life can take...
🧵
If you get the grades you wanted, congratulations!
If you don't, here's a long load of general waffle about what I did after mine, if only to show you the direction life can take...
🧵
August 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Wishing the very best of luck to all those collecting their results this #ALevelResultsDay.
If you get the grades you wanted, congratulations!
If you don't, here's a long load of general waffle about what I did after mine, if only to show you the direction life can take...
🧵
If you get the grades you wanted, congratulations!
If you don't, here's a long load of general waffle about what I did after mine, if only to show you the direction life can take...
🧵
One of the more obscure railway-related pieces of music:
In the 1960s, the white heat of technology delivered a modern railway station to Euston, and it needed a hymn to celebrate it.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hav...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hav...
Have you heard the Euston Station song?
In the 1960s, the white heat of technology delivered a modern railway station to Euston, and it needed a hymn to celebrate it.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
One of the more obscure railway-related pieces of music:
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It’s been an absolute shambles of a week on my little corner of the railway 😫, but seeing the Paddington Band always makes things better! 🎼🎶🎺🥁
July 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s been an absolute shambles of a week on my little corner of the railway 😫, but seeing the Paddington Band always makes things better! 🎼🎶🎺🥁
Quite a story👇
More than 100 years ago, Glastonbury was host to a different kind of festival, developed by a Royal College of Music peer of Vaughan Williams, Rutland Boughton...
Read more here 👇
Read more here 👇
Glastonbury’s secret past: when classical music ruled the festival fields | Classical Music
Forget the tents, mud and rock acts. Over a century ago, the Somerset town of Glastonbury was host to a music festival of a very different kind
www.classical-music.com
June 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Quite a story👇
It is!
Why should you visit the Mary Rose Museum this weekend?
Because it's really good. That's why.
MaryRose.org/your-visit
Because it's really good. That's why.
MaryRose.org/your-visit
June 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
It is!
*This* is the fact of the day.
Yesterday, MHCLG announced there'd be no more council-level elected mayors created, in part to end confusion with regional mayors.
I wondered what the max number of mayors any individual voter in England has. In 30secs, the team I work in came up with an example for 4. I throw it open to Bluesky...
I wondered what the max number of mayors any individual voter in England has. In 30secs, the team I work in came up with an example for 4. I throw it open to Bluesky...
June 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
*This* is the fact of the day.
...We know the tune and we're gonna play it...
Happy #WorldMusicDay everyone!
You can hear the sound of a still shawm playing the traditional Tudor tune 'Les Bouffons' in the Museum, but our staff have heard it a thousand times so here's one that's a bit different...
maryrose.org/artefacts/st...
You can hear the sound of a still shawm playing the traditional Tudor tune 'Les Bouffons' in the Museum, but our staff have heard it a thousand times so here's one that's a bit different...
maryrose.org/artefacts/st...
June 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
...We know the tune and we're gonna play it...
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❌ Instead of: Sorry for the delay in replying
✔️ Say: Though I forsake thee, forsake me not
✔️ Say: Though I forsake thee, forsake me not
❌ Instead of: going forward
✔️ Say: for ever and ever. Amen.
✔️ Say: for ever and ever. Amen.
June 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
❌ Instead of: Sorry for the delay in replying
✔️ Say: Though I forsake thee, forsake me not
✔️ Say: Though I forsake thee, forsake me not
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I was in Edinburgh today, the city where Sir Nigel Gresley was born 149 years ago today, 19 June 1876. As Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway from 1911 and the London & North Eastern Railway until 1941, this plaque at Edinburgh Waverley station commemorates his achievements.
June 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I was in Edinburgh today, the city where Sir Nigel Gresley was born 149 years ago today, 19 June 1876. As Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway from 1911 and the London & North Eastern Railway until 1941, this plaque at Edinburgh Waverley station commemorates his achievements.
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In this charming film, 'The Salisbury Organist', Ben Maton, explores Vaughan Williams’ greatest hymns... from the village of the composer's birth.
📺 Watch here 👇
📺 Watch here 👇
Vaughan Williams’ GREATEST HYMNS...from the village of his Birth!
You can support my work here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BXVFTEXGXUFT6Thank you!
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May 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In this charming film, 'The Salisbury Organist', Ben Maton, explores Vaughan Williams’ greatest hymns... from the village of the composer's birth.
📺 Watch here 👇
📺 Watch here 👇
What are you wearing to the Bsky prom?
May 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
What are you wearing to the Bsky prom?
I can't wear the lilac. I wasn't there.
But I've read the history books.
#HowDoTheyRiseUp #TheGlorious25th #discworld #NightWatch
But I've read the history books.
#HowDoTheyRiseUp #TheGlorious25th #discworld #NightWatch
May 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I can't wear the lilac. I wasn't there.
But I've read the history books.
#HowDoTheyRiseUp #TheGlorious25th #discworld #NightWatch
But I've read the history books.
#HowDoTheyRiseUp #TheGlorious25th #discworld #NightWatch
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Upscale Express: next Thursday 24th at 5pm I'll be giving a FREE Zoom lecture on the genesis and building of London's mighty £19 billion, Stirling Prize winning, Elizabeth Line. Includes drawings by Ralph Erskine of the ditched early 1990s version! Register here: thebaltrust.org/part-4-upsca...
Part 4 – Upscale Express: How the Elizabeth Line Transformed Public Transport in London
Part 4 – Upscale Express: How the Elizabeth Line Transformed Public Transport in London Lecture Summary: The Elizabeth Line represents a monumental leap forward in London’s public transport, …
thebaltrust.org
April 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Upscale Express: next Thursday 24th at 5pm I'll be giving a FREE Zoom lecture on the genesis and building of London's mighty £19 billion, Stirling Prize winning, Elizabeth Line. Includes drawings by Ralph Erskine of the ditched early 1990s version! Register here: thebaltrust.org/part-4-upsca...
A lovely piece on #RVW. As well as everything else, apparently he loved cats. Top bloke.
In this Gramophone article, Richard Bratby speaks to some of today’s most prominent British composers to discover how Vaughan Williams' legacy continues to bear fruit in the most unlikely of places...
Read it here: www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...
Read it here: www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...
Ralph Vaughan Williams: how his visionary music has influenced today’s composers
To celebrate Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, Richard Bratby speaks to some of today’s most prominent British composers to discover how his legacy continues to bear fruit in the most unlikely of…
www.gramophone.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A lovely piece on #RVW. As well as everything else, apparently he loved cats. Top bloke.
Happy #NationalTrainDriverDay!
A big thank-you to train drivers everywhere. Doing a really responsible job, at all hours of the day and night, connecting people (and cats) and moving freight.
Special thanks to the kind GN driver who helped me pose for this photo a couple of years ago.
A big thank-you to train drivers everywhere. Doing a really responsible job, at all hours of the day and night, connecting people (and cats) and moving freight.
Special thanks to the kind GN driver who helped me pose for this photo a couple of years ago.
April 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Happy #NationalTrainDriverDay!
A big thank-you to train drivers everywhere. Doing a really responsible job, at all hours of the day and night, connecting people (and cats) and moving freight.
Special thanks to the kind GN driver who helped me pose for this photo a couple of years ago.
A big thank-you to train drivers everywhere. Doing a really responsible job, at all hours of the day and night, connecting people (and cats) and moving freight.
Special thanks to the kind GN driver who helped me pose for this photo a couple of years ago.
Looking good. I’ll have to visit.
Bikes, cats and busses. Silvertown is attracting some interesting users
April 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Looking good. I’ll have to visit.
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By 18, this man had survived falling down a 3 floor staircase, swallowing needles and acid he'd mistaken for milk, suffocating varnish fumes, serious burns, and a large brick being dropped on his head. Neighbours called him 'the ghost child'.
This is the story of Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone /1 🧵
This is the story of Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone /1 🧵
March 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
By 18, this man had survived falling down a 3 floor staircase, swallowing needles and acid he'd mistaken for milk, suffocating varnish fumes, serious burns, and a large brick being dropped on his head. Neighbours called him 'the ghost child'.
This is the story of Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone /1 🧵
This is the story of Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone /1 🧵
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
Signal to Jervis:
Bravo Zulu.
Violets are blue;
Signal to Jervis:
Bravo Zulu.
#OTD (Feb 14) in the year 1797: French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar. #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #c18th
French Revolutionary Wars
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and several other countries. The wars are divided into two periods: the War of the First Coalition (1792–1797) and the War of the Second Coalition (1798–1802). Initially confined to Europe, the fighting gradually assumed a global dimension. After a decade of constant warfare and aggressive diplomacy, France had conquered territories in the Italian Peninsula, the Low Countries, and the Rhineland due to its very large and powerful military, which had been totally mobilized for war against most of Europe with mass conscription of the vast French population. French success in these conflicts ensured military occupation and the spread of revolutionary principles over much of Europe.
en.wikipedia.org
February 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
Signal to Jervis:
Bravo Zulu.
Violets are blue;
Signal to Jervis:
Bravo Zulu.