A Water Vole's plea on #EarthDay2024
We make burrows in the earth along the banks of rivers, streams, canals, ponds and lakes. We are small, very effective ecosystem engineers, who need tall, uncut vegetation in which to hide and feed until late October.
So don't cut it! 🙏

I've never understood the persecution of Moles! I first saw this happening in 1958, at my grandmother's house. My beloved Aunt's husband was incensed (they were all living together), because they were making molehills in his precious lawn. WHY can't he let them live, I wondered?

Stations worst affected by staggering rise in Tube lift closures

In 2021, lifts were out of operation due to lack of staff for 499 hours

In 2023, the figure soared to 3,301 hours

Inaccurate published lift status adds hours to disabled peoples journeys
mylondon.news/news/transport…

う〜ん小型・軽量・コンパクト
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22 April 1926 | A French Jewish girl, Charlotte Zlotnicki, was born in Paris.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 908 people murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

This Sunday, our #class33 diesel will operate the 2.30pm Leeming Bar to Leyburn service. This is an #afternoontea train for our sponsors but public travel-only seats are also available: wensleydale.hops.org.uk/tickets/travel

📸 Nick Keegan

#brblue #wensleydalerailway #yorkshire #trainspotting

View from the box window. What was an every day scene past sutton Bridge junction, we see black 5 no 45407 looking great passing on 5Z50 Landore to Carnforth. Vid by Bobby Baker

This coming weekend will be the final opportunity to travel behind a black “Taw Valley” at Severn Valley Railway . It will then enter works for overhaul and repaint into BR green. Click on pic: flickr.com/photos/1906878… The Railway Magazine Heritage Railway Magazine Today's Railways UK

Wasn’t expecting an ‘abject horror’ encounter in the hospital’s entrance area this morning 🥺

Hit a beautiful ginger cat near Manningtree this morning, the train obviously scared it and it run under the wheels 😿

BREAKING: More rail strikes coming as drivers in ASLEF stage another series of one-day strikes over May 7, 8 and 9 and refuse to work overtime on May 6-11 at train operators under Department for Transport control or contract. Dispute is about pay and conditions.

Great advertising for plumbing 😄

SuperMac, Elswick Kids (1978) – Tish Murtha.

A photograph of Postman David Lewis Jones, who took nine hours to complete his round in the remote mountain areas between Tregaron and Abergwesyn, even though he only delivered to eight houses.
He carried out his round on horseback. Taken in 1951, in Wales.

The end of the journey
‘On the Train’ (1955)
Artist: WC Watson

Nunnington Station in Yorkshire, a small railway station tucked away in the English countryside which opened in 1871. Full of character home to Harold and Helen Dawkins who bought it after British Railways closed it in 1954. Filmed in 1960.

Ffs, not another one. 🤬🤬🤬

Six years ago D1015 “Western Champion” hauled a wedding special at the Severn Valley Railway . Was this the first time that a Western had hauled such a train? Click on pic: flickr.com/photos/1906878… SVR Diesels The Railway Magazine Today's Railways UK

Mick Flint painting D1015 “Western Champion” in BR blue – not chromatic blue. Click on picture: flickr.com/photos/1906878… Severn Valley Railway SVR Diesels