Paul Harrison
@singinghedgehog.bsky.social
Husband, father, athlete, coach, photographer, musician
Lapsed maths teacher, mental health survivor
Triple jump, butterflies, bees, transport
Lapsed maths teacher, mental health survivor
Triple jump, butterflies, bees, transport
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dunstable Town
The line connected East and West Coast mainlines passing through Luton and Dunstable. The station closed in 1965 but the line lingered on over many years for freight traffic. It "reopened" in 2013 as part of the guided busway to Luton.
#TheSlowTrain
The line connected East and West Coast mainlines passing through Luton and Dunstable. The station closed in 1965 but the line lingered on over many years for freight traffic. It "reopened" in 2013 as part of the guided busway to Luton.
#TheSlowTrain
October 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Dunstable Town
The line connected East and West Coast mainlines passing through Luton and Dunstable. The station closed in 1965 but the line lingered on over many years for freight traffic. It "reopened" in 2013 as part of the guided busway to Luton.
#TheSlowTrain
The line connected East and West Coast mainlines passing through Luton and Dunstable. The station closed in 1965 but the line lingered on over many years for freight traffic. It "reopened" in 2013 as part of the guided busway to Luton.
#TheSlowTrain
Cheslyn Hay
This is north of Birmingham and was closed to passengers in 1965. The freight only line reopened to passengers in 1989 but a new station nearby, Landywood, opened rather than reopen this one.
#TheSlowTrain
This is north of Birmingham and was closed to passengers in 1965. The freight only line reopened to passengers in 1989 but a new station nearby, Landywood, opened rather than reopen this one.
#TheSlowTrain
October 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Cheslyn Hay
This is north of Birmingham and was closed to passengers in 1965. The freight only line reopened to passengers in 1989 but a new station nearby, Landywood, opened rather than reopen this one.
#TheSlowTrain
This is north of Birmingham and was closed to passengers in 1965. The freight only line reopened to passengers in 1989 but a new station nearby, Landywood, opened rather than reopen this one.
#TheSlowTrain
Strange sign on turning off today's vehicle; should I expect people to spontaneously appear in the back of the car?!
October 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Strange sign on turning off today's vehicle; should I expect people to spontaneously appear in the back of the car?!
Sorting a schedule to get here when there are trains using this platform has been an issue since it opened in May!
#PlatformZero
#PlatformZero
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Sorting a schedule to get here when there are trains using this platform has been an issue since it opened in May!
#PlatformZero
#PlatformZero
The effect of the descending scale is spine-tingling. Oddly enough Jessye Norman here too is fantastic, the power on a leash is very effective.
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The effect of the descending scale is spine-tingling. Oddly enough Jessye Norman here too is fantastic, the power on a leash is very effective.
Garbage In - Compost Out
Two of my three compost bins, a simple way to recycle garden waste into free soil.
#project52
Two of my three compost bins, a simple way to recycle garden waste into free soil.
#project52
September 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Garbage In - Compost Out
Two of my three compost bins, a simple way to recycle garden waste into free soil.
#project52
Two of my three compost bins, a simple way to recycle garden waste into free soil.
#project52
Power shot
A chance to use my fish-eye lens from inside an electricity pylon.
#UnusualAngles #Project52
A chance to use my fish-eye lens from inside an electricity pylon.
#UnusualAngles #Project52
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Power shot
A chance to use my fish-eye lens from inside an electricity pylon.
#UnusualAngles #Project52
A chance to use my fish-eye lens from inside an electricity pylon.
#UnusualAngles #Project52
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Littleton [and] Badsey
Another double-named station not in either village. The line is still open as you can see and some platform footings remain visible out to the side of the loco.
The tithe barn is some 800 years old and one of the best of its kind in the country.
#SlowTrain
Another double-named station not in either village. The line is still open as you can see and some platform footings remain visible out to the side of the loco.
The tithe barn is some 800 years old and one of the best of its kind in the country.
#SlowTrain
September 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Littleton [and] Badsey
Another double-named station not in either village. The line is still open as you can see and some platform footings remain visible out to the side of the loco.
The tithe barn is some 800 years old and one of the best of its kind in the country.
#SlowTrain
Another double-named station not in either village. The line is still open as you can see and some platform footings remain visible out to the side of the loco.
The tithe barn is some 800 years old and one of the best of its kind in the country.
#SlowTrain
BUNNY BISCUIT!🤯
That's clearly the spaceman we never quite got to know well enough filling his helmet with a mix of blood and brain matter.
Enjoy kids!
That's clearly the spaceman we never quite got to know well enough filling his helmet with a mix of blood and brain matter.
Enjoy kids!
August 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
BUNNY BISCUIT!🤯
That's clearly the spaceman we never quite got to know well enough filling his helmet with a mix of blood and brain matter.
Enjoy kids!
That's clearly the spaceman we never quite got to know well enough filling his helmet with a mix of blood and brain matter.
Enjoy kids!
Move over lucky four-leaved clover, here's a much rarer two-berry blackcurrant!
July 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Move over lucky four-leaved clover, here's a much rarer two-berry blackcurrant!
Well it was better than placebo...
July 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Well it was better than placebo...
Today's Public Service Announcement:
82°F ≈ 28°C
[Please note 82 Farads do not equal 28 Coulombs]
82°F ≈ 28°C
[Please note 82 Farads do not equal 28 Coulombs]
July 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Today's Public Service Announcement:
82°F ≈ 28°C
[Please note 82 Farads do not equal 28 Coulombs]
82°F ≈ 28°C
[Please note 82 Farads do not equal 28 Coulombs]
Although the blue spirals at the bottom are gorgeous I'm more interested in the absolute car-crash going on with the galaxies at the top!
June 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Although the blue spirals at the bottom are gorgeous I'm more interested in the absolute car-crash going on with the galaxies at the top!
Kirby Muxloe
Passenger services finished 7th Sept 1964 but the line remains open to this day for freight. The building is long gone but was similar to that at Desford, the next station west. The castle was started in the late C15th but never finished because politics.
#SlowTrain
Passenger services finished 7th Sept 1964 but the line remains open to this day for freight. The building is long gone but was similar to that at Desford, the next station west. The castle was started in the late C15th but never finished because politics.
#SlowTrain
May 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Kirby Muxloe
Passenger services finished 7th Sept 1964 but the line remains open to this day for freight. The building is long gone but was similar to that at Desford, the next station west. The castle was started in the late C15th but never finished because politics.
#SlowTrain
Passenger services finished 7th Sept 1964 but the line remains open to this day for freight. The building is long gone but was similar to that at Desford, the next station west. The castle was started in the late C15th but never finished because politics.
#SlowTrain
Today's strangely named place is...
May 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Today's strangely named place is...
Mop Cop & Scholar Green
One of those weird places where the title contains the names of two villages, neither of which are near the station! This closed in 1964 but as you can see the line is very much open. Mow Cop castle is a folly but the view is worth the effort.
#SlowTrain
One of those weird places where the title contains the names of two villages, neither of which are near the station! This closed in 1964 but as you can see the line is very much open. Mow Cop castle is a folly but the view is worth the effort.
#SlowTrain
May 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Mop Cop & Scholar Green
One of those weird places where the title contains the names of two villages, neither of which are near the station! This closed in 1964 but as you can see the line is very much open. Mow Cop castle is a folly but the view is worth the effort.
#SlowTrain
One of those weird places where the title contains the names of two villages, neither of which are near the station! This closed in 1964 but as you can see the line is very much open. Mow Cop castle is a folly but the view is worth the effort.
#SlowTrain
Arram
Another day another station! One of 9 in the song that stayed open. Arram is easily the least used, sat at the end of a long cul de sac with the tiny village. Probably RAF Leconfield that kept it open. This was one of the 11 services all day that actually stop!
#SlowTrain
Another day another station! One of 9 in the song that stayed open. Arram is easily the least used, sat at the end of a long cul de sac with the tiny village. Probably RAF Leconfield that kept it open. This was one of the 11 services all day that actually stop!
#SlowTrain
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Arram
Another day another station! One of 9 in the song that stayed open. Arram is easily the least used, sat at the end of a long cul de sac with the tiny village. Probably RAF Leconfield that kept it open. This was one of the 11 services all day that actually stop!
#SlowTrain
Another day another station! One of 9 in the song that stayed open. Arram is easily the least used, sat at the end of a long cul de sac with the tiny village. Probably RAF Leconfield that kept it open. This was one of the 11 services all day that actually stop!
#SlowTrain
Abandoned
Topically with this week's commemorations here is a WWII pillbox on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Nearly 30 thousand were built in case of German invasion and some fifteen hundred remain, a reminder of what might not have happened 80 years ago.
#project52 #VEDay80
Topically with this week's commemorations here is a WWII pillbox on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Nearly 30 thousand were built in case of German invasion and some fifteen hundred remain, a reminder of what might not have happened 80 years ago.
#project52 #VEDay80
May 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Abandoned
Topically with this week's commemorations here is a WWII pillbox on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Nearly 30 thousand were built in case of German invasion and some fifteen hundred remain, a reminder of what might not have happened 80 years ago.
#project52 #VEDay80
Topically with this week's commemorations here is a WWII pillbox on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. Nearly 30 thousand were built in case of German invasion and some fifteen hundred remain, a reminder of what might not have happened 80 years ago.
#project52 #VEDay80