Mark’s Adventures by Rail
@mwtrips.bsky.social
amateur photographer | train travel blogger | railway modeller
mwtrips.co.uk | innsdorf.com
https://youtube.com/@marks_trains
mwtrips.co.uk | innsdorf.com
https://youtube.com/@marks_trains
Now THIS was an adventure like no other! youtu.be/v54O6jqhHQs?...
Three Special Trains
YouTube video by Mark Warrick
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December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Now THIS was an adventure like no other! youtu.be/v54O6jqhHQs?...
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I’ve just realised that I’ve been doing these Great British Rail Journeys long before Michael Portillo started! youtu.be/MWbRuTN_s5M?...
Vintage Lincolnshire Railtour
YouTube video by Mark Warrick
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December 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I’ve just realised that I’ve been doing these Great British Rail Journeys long before Michael Portillo started! youtu.be/MWbRuTN_s5M?...
Thanks for remembering my forthcoming birthday, @lner.co.uk, but I cannot use your discounted ticket offer: my Senior Railcard gives me a bigger discount all year round. This offer is valueless 🙄
December 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thanks for remembering my forthcoming birthday, @lner.co.uk, but I cannot use your discounted ticket offer: my Senior Railcard gives me a bigger discount all year round. This offer is valueless 🙄
So here it is. Merry Christmas!
I’m ready for the Family Eucharist with my crook and my toy sheep … and a striped tea-towel, of course. 👍🏼
I’m ready for the Family Eucharist with my crook and my toy sheep … and a striped tea-towel, of course. 👍🏼
December 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
So here it is. Merry Christmas!
I’m ready for the Family Eucharist with my crook and my toy sheep … and a striped tea-towel, of course. 👍🏼
I’m ready for the Family Eucharist with my crook and my toy sheep … and a striped tea-towel, of course. 👍🏼
I’ve just realised that I’ve been doing these Great British Rail Journeys long before Michael Portillo started! youtu.be/MWbRuTN_s5M?...
Vintage Lincolnshire Railtour
YouTube video by Mark Warrick
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I’ve just realised that I’ve been doing these Great British Rail Journeys long before Michael Portillo started! youtu.be/MWbRuTN_s5M?...
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Nächste Station: Mönchengladbach Hbf, change here for the Piccadilly Line
wild #CrossBorderRail connections available these days, didn't even know about this one...
wild #CrossBorderRail connections available these days, didn't even know about this one...
December 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Nächste Station: Mönchengladbach Hbf, change here for the Piccadilly Line
wild #CrossBorderRail connections available these days, didn't even know about this one...
wild #CrossBorderRail connections available these days, didn't even know about this one...
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Rachel Reeves’ Budget made history last week by lifting half a million children out of poverty.
Tories should hang their heads in shame after Benefits Street lies
www.mirror.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Rachel Reeves’ Budget made history last week by lifting half a million children out of poverty.
A First for me today: I arrived at Lincoln at 11:47 with EMR to see a nine-Coach @lner.co.uk Azuma at platform 3. The normal five coaches are usually more than adequate so it was a surprise to see it there, not quite fitting the station!
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A First for me today: I arrived at Lincoln at 11:47 with EMR to see a nine-Coach @lner.co.uk Azuma at platform 3. The normal five coaches are usually more than adequate so it was a surprise to see it there, not quite fitting the station!
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Helen Coffey, travel writer, has taken the Flight Free pledge 4 years straight. She’s swapped frequent flying for slow travel ferries, trains, even cargo ships, finding trips more intentional, immersive, and sustainable. #FlightFree #SlowTravel #EcoTravel flightfreeuk.podbean.com/e/in-convers...
In conversation with Helen Coffey | The Flight Free Podcast
Helen Coffey, head of travel at The Independent, joins us to discuss her experience of taking the flight free pledge for the fourth year in a row.
flightfreeuk.podbean.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Helen Coffey, travel writer, has taken the Flight Free pledge 4 years straight. She’s swapped frequent flying for slow travel ferries, trains, even cargo ships, finding trips more intentional, immersive, and sustainable. #FlightFree #SlowTravel #EcoTravel flightfreeuk.podbean.com/e/in-convers...
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Several significant timetable changes will take effect across Great Britain in the upcoming timetable period, bringing improved frequencies, clearer patterns and extended connectivity on several key routes. Read more at shorturl.at/19qJi
Photo: Northern class 195 DMU at Sheffield. © Reuben Turner.
Photo: Northern class 195 DMU at Sheffield. © Reuben Turner.
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Several significant timetable changes will take effect across Great Britain in the upcoming timetable period, bringing improved frequencies, clearer patterns and extended connectivity on several key routes. Read more at shorturl.at/19qJi
Photo: Northern class 195 DMU at Sheffield. © Reuben Turner.
Photo: Northern class 195 DMU at Sheffield. © Reuben Turner.
Wouldn’t this be great?!
⛽️ Petrol prices set to rise next year as MPs divert funds to buses...
- in The Netherlands... 🇳🇱
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/petr...
- in The Netherlands... 🇳🇱
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/petr...
Petrol prices set to rise next year as MPs divert funds to buses - DutchNews.nl
Petrol is set to become more expensive from January 1, after MPs backed a proposal to raise excise duties by a narrow majority. The tax on a litre of petrol will increase by 5.6 cents, with diesel up ...
www.dutchnews.nl
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Wouldn’t this be great?!
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Thriving forests are key to our fight against the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
This #NationalTreeWeek, take a look at some of our suggestions for how you can travel sustainably by train to explore some of Britain’s forests more closely 🌲 www.scenicrailbritain.com/forests
This #NationalTreeWeek, take a look at some of our suggestions for how you can travel sustainably by train to explore some of Britain’s forests more closely 🌲 www.scenicrailbritain.com/forests
Fabulous forests by train - Scenic Rail Britain
The forests and woodlands of Britain are a real thing of beauty, and are better explored when you go by train. Discover some of our suggestions here...
www.scenicrailbritain.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Thriving forests are key to our fight against the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.
This #NationalTreeWeek, take a look at some of our suggestions for how you can travel sustainably by train to explore some of Britain’s forests more closely 🌲 www.scenicrailbritain.com/forests
This #NationalTreeWeek, take a look at some of our suggestions for how you can travel sustainably by train to explore some of Britain’s forests more closely 🌲 www.scenicrailbritain.com/forests
This just isn’t good enough. Cross Country needs to employ more drivers. There are kids waiting to go to school who‘ll be an hour late!
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This just isn’t good enough. Cross Country needs to employ more drivers. There are kids waiting to go to school who‘ll be an hour late!
I didn’t realise that there could be such a thing as a Banksy exhibition: www.mwtrips.co.uk/2025/10/the-...
The Writing, or at least the Drawing, is on the Wall
A trip to London by train for family business and to see an exhibition of Banksy street art
www.mwtrips.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I didn’t realise that there could be such a thing as a Banksy exhibition: www.mwtrips.co.uk/2025/10/the-...
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Take that, SNCF! 🤣
European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.
European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.
Le train de nuit Paris-Berlin abandonné par la SNCF va être relancé par une coopérative belgo-néerlandaise
European Sleeper compte ouvrir les réservations le 16 décembre et démarrer l’exploitation de la ligne entre les capitales française et allemande le 26 mars 2026.
www.lemonde.fr
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Take that, SNCF! 🤣
European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.
European Sleeper to run Paris-Berlin night train from the spring of next year www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
There are hurdles - doing it by then isn’t simple - but this can happen.
Got this today from Cross Country trains. 1: I am not ex-services and 2: there are no trains to or from my local station on Sunday morning anyway. But there is a war memorial and I'll walk to it for the ceremony at 11:00.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Got this today from Cross Country trains. 1: I am not ex-services and 2: there are no trains to or from my local station on Sunday morning anyway. But there is a war memorial and I'll walk to it for the ceremony at 11:00.
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8/9
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October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
8/9
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Slow progress lately on Innsdorf Modellbahn: innsdorf.com/2025/10/25/a...
Almost Ready!
Painting the backscene, with a slight hitch! When I was about forty years old and first needed reading glasses, I imagined that deteriorating eyesight would become an increasing difficulty with bui…
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October 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Slow progress lately on Innsdorf Modellbahn: innsdorf.com/2025/10/25/a...
The Writing is on the Wall at the Banksy Limitless exhibition in London: www.mwtrips.co.uk/2025/10/the-...
The Writing, or at least the Drawing, is on the Wall
A trip to London by train for family business and to see an exhibition of Banksy street art
www.mwtrips.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Writing is on the Wall at the Banksy Limitless exhibition in London: www.mwtrips.co.uk/2025/10/the-...
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A genuine treat for £1.60? Try the shortest railway line in Britain | Adrian Chiles
A genuine treat for £1.60? Try the shortest railway line in Britain | Adrian Chiles
There is an even shorter route in Germany, but that runs less frequently - which gives the shuttle train in my home town the moral victory
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
A genuine treat for £1.60? Try the shortest railway line in Britain | Adrian Chiles
Oh dear. Understandable but such a pity.
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Oh dear. Understandable but such a pity.
Anyone interested in UK railways may like to take a look at Green Signals, youtu.be/5Hpvo04KXpU?...
50% of Rail Journeys Now Nationalised | Ep 106
YouTube video by Green Signals
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October 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Anyone interested in UK railways may like to take a look at Green Signals, youtu.be/5Hpvo04KXpU?...
Hmm. I seem to be flooded by US politics here now as well as the other place. There must be some escape somewhere… 🇬🇧 🏴 Oo er, can I still use those flags? 😬🤷🏼♂️
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Hmm. I seem to be flooded by US politics here now as well as the other place. There must be some escape somewhere… 🇬🇧 🏴 Oo er, can I still use those flags? 😬🤷🏼♂️
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Cautious optimism it seems.
The official data suggests a productivity convergence between London and other large cities for the first time in more than a decade 📊
⚠️ But there are reasons to be cautious about this trend.
Read more👇
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⚠️ But there are reasons to be cautious about this trend.
Read more👇
buff.ly/rIYgRG9
October 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Cautious optimism it seems.
If you’re interested in sustainable living, then www.livegreen.club may be worth a look. Just exploring it now myself …
Start Living Sustainably Today
Explore sustainable living with expert guides, product reviews, and eco-friendly tips for a healthier planet and lifestyle. Make better choices today.
www.livegreen.club
October 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
If you’re interested in sustainable living, then www.livegreen.club may be worth a look. Just exploring it now myself …