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I’m saddened to hear this. The ‘B’ listed Territorial Army Halls sat between the Paisley Museum & Art Galleries and the Thomas Coats Memorial Church so their demolition risks undermining a lot of good regeneration work on Paisley’s High Street 😢! heraldscotland.com/news/24846387.…

#OnThisDay in 1965, Frederick Fleet sadly took his own life at 8 Norman Road, Southampton. As lookout on Titanic, Fleet first saw the iceberg on that fateful night. He rang the bell, phoned the bridge, and told them: “Iceberg, right ahead.” He was buried in Holybrook Cemetery.

Whilst California burns, our politicians do deals to ship more Chinese-made EVs to Britain, at goodness knows what carbon cost. Proof of just how broken our political and economic systems are—not just in the UK, but worldwide.

Writing #OnThisDay 1835 Benjamin Disraeli reflected on his defeat at Wycombe at the recent general election. He blamed a failure to register his supporters as voters & being outspent by his opponents: ‘Had I let money fly, I shd have come in.’

New streets (left) & old streets (right) in bountiful Bath. Create gorgeous places that people not architects like, put people not cars first, mix up homes & shops & things to do and sit back & watch them prosper. We really know how to do this. New homes …

As well as being #Rail200 year, 2025 also marks the sesquicentenary of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Rly. So, this week's #PreGroupingWednesday picture shows Eskdale Green station in its original 3' gauge form, with Manning, Wardle 0-6-0T Devon hauling the train.

It's great that the rail industry hooked up our justification for capital expenditure solely to the "decarbonisation" wagon such that electric cars are - obviously - being used by stooges like Armitt as a justification to now drop rail investment.

Nigel Harris Can be quite enlightening. I was on the way to a press event and a new rail MD with his assistant sat across the aisle, obviously going to same launch. He didn't notice me and talked with his PA about some magazines being run by "a load of trainspotters"🤣 ClarksonsFarm

Another notable anniversary in 2025 is the 70th of Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways's reopening by preservationists. This week #PreGroupingWednesday looks at the FfR's 1886-built Double Fairlie 0-4-4-0T Livingston Thompson, now enjoying an honourable retirement in the National Railway Museum, York.

NEWS: C20 Society is leading efforts to save Bath Fire Station from proposed demolition. The 1930s classical Art Deco building was a rare pre-war project by a female architect, and the station went on to play a crucial role in protecting the city during the ‘Baedeker Blitz’

Squint harder for your Sustainable Aviation Fuels!

Happy Burns Night to all who celebrate!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Here's a flashback to last year's Scottish Steam Spectacular at the SpaValleyRailway; ex-Caledonian Railway locomotives 419 and 828 buffer up at Eridge.

I was disgusted to see photos of the anti-immigration protestors climbing on and trampling all over this part of the Cenotaph yesterday. Using Southampton’s main war memorial and symbol of remembrance as a platform to call for mass deportations is, in my opinion, utterly obscene.

If anybody is still giving Muskrat the benefit of the doubt: don't. He's a fascist. I don't use that word lightly, but he's not even trying to hide it any more. Call him out for what he is. news.sky.com/story/musk-urg…