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Are you missing a Hull City scarf? @jameshoggarth
It’s a ridiculously short flight (too many football teams do this) - I could have worked out a train journey via Peterborough for them… but I spy some VIP passengers flying into Humberside Airport today 💙
Sad news. He was a fine actor. We shared a birthday (13th July). Make it so, Captain and RIP.
Star Trek and X-Men actor Sir Patrick Stewart dies trib.al/uPkGRDj
Your 5to4 song for tomorrow (Friday) 2-4pm) on @Hulls107FM is for the offshore workers using weight loss jabs to meet helicopter weight rules. Song ideas, please?
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The latest issue is out now.
🛤️ Will Bradford get a through station?
🛤️ How Glasgow Central recovered
🛤️ Inside Bletchley’s new look depot
Plus: How GBR can tackle overcrowding and Top 10 rail ghost tales for Halloween.
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Sales of radios increase while the number of local radio presenters and journalists and the amount of local radio programming are reduced. Now is your moment @Ofcom to look at the BBC Local cuts.
Is the game all over for BBC Local Radio? Why do the BBC & Ofcom not understand it? A very thorough and informed piece which is worth reading…
As BBC local radio proposes yet more change despite ample budget in decent hands - is the game all over? How has it come to this? Who's responsible? I've tried to pull it together
davidlloydradio.com/post/why…
No show for me on @Hulls107FM today as I have a couple of days off but I’ll be back on the show next Friday 2-4pm 📻
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Government confirms new Bradford Interchange station to be delivered in 2030s
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It’s a busy day for Dad’s Taxis today, with Xander on a refereeing course. I’m having a break in what in train driving parlance would be called a Double Lincoln!
5to4 song today on @Hulls107FM is for the “world’s worst guard dog” which brought a toy to an intruder. Song ideas, please?
40 years after they played in Hull with The Housemartins, The Proclaimers were back in Hull last night and what a great night it was. I might have had something in my eye during Sunshine on Leith! Amelia Coburn, as support, was very good - lovely voice.
A fine station (big birthday next year then). For me, it’s the gateway to travelling home and there’s always something special about going through Gasworks and Copenhagen Tunnels, knowing you’re on your way home.
#OnThisDay 174 years ago King's Cross station was opened by the Great Northern Railway. The facade of Lewis Cubitt's magnificent pair of trainsheds was gradually hidden over the years before being unmasked in 2012. In 2019 an IC125 and Class 91 DVT flank an arriving Azuma.
ALT Under one of the pair of impressive barrel vaulted roofs at Kings Cross in 2019 three mainstays of the East Coast mainline are visible, a Class 43314 InterCity 125 on the left, a Class 91 Driving Van Trailer (82206) on the right as a then-new Class 800 Azuma arrives in the centre.
It’s actually St Pancras International which is on the shortlist, not King’s Cross and certainly not King’s Cross St Pancras, which is an underground station.
Two London stations have reached the top 20 in the shortlist for ‘the world cup of stations’ - Kings Cross St Pancras and South Tottenham.
The annual World Cup of Stations competition, which launched in 2019, regularly awards stations in the country for their impact on the railway system. This year's awards celebrate stations that 'created connections that matter,' and this year South Tottenham station has made the list. Public voting runs from Monday 12 to Sunday 18 October. The winner will be announced shortly after.
It looks like I’ll have to wait until the cat wakes up before I can read the latest issue of @RAIL (it’s just as well I know what’s in it!)
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Hello #rail Twitter. I'm writing a long form feature on destination boards on UK trains. I'd love to see your images of the good and bad, which I can put to the ToCs and manufacturers. Post in the replies or follow and DM.