It's #throwbackthursday , today it's the turn of Backworth. The route of our line was once shared by the Blyth & Tyne, Hartley Main and Backworth Railways. 🚂
Here we see a selection of Backworth Waggonway trains running between Middle Engine Lane and Percy Main.
📸 Sassaby

The ad board melted the snow

Right, shall we have a thread of stuff that I think is fucking lovely?

Tough shit, you're having one anyway.

As ever, I am not fucking interested if you don't like my choices or if you think I've missed something out. It's my list and you can get fucked

Roo (2 inch trials) Rider Cybergibbons 🚲🚲🚲 So GCN with Colin Furze as a presenter?
The slow cycling docs in GCN would be marvellous on Five or BBC four

Behold the glory of mankind's structures dedicated to the worship of God

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Wouldn’t that be awesome!

‘An imagining of how a Metro Station could be realised in Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley’, by Miller Partnership Architects:
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Fun question for Northern 🚆 (or anyone really)… Who gets to decide what the ‘Quick buy’ options are on your machines? Is it lucky dip? Or how many tickets did someone need to buy to Ely or Ormskirk to skew the algorithm?

Had a lot of fun scoring Coyote Vs Acme. As no-one will be able to hear it now, due to bizarre anti-art studio financial shenanigans I will never understand, here is a bit of behind the scenes footage of our “Meep Meep” Roadrunner choir, with apologies to Tchaikovsky…

Likewise the handing over of Newcastle’s parks to the Urban Green charity. People rightly expect their local Councillors to be able to deal with issues relating to our local parks but the best we can do is ask nicely.

More and more parents getting in touch about the continued closure of Jesmond Park Academy Academy. As a parent of two pupils I feel their pain. However we are now seeing the impact of academisation which was designed explicitly to take local authorities out of the loop on education.

“Who can cover this lorry crashing into a LOW BRIDGE?”
“Caroline - you’re on”

#NominativeDeterminism

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According to the Public Accounts Committee, since 2016 there have been 36 funding streams available to local authorities to support active travel.

This is an institutional issue that affects investment in climate resilience, skills, infrastructure and economic development.

If you're a cycling advocate who's also a National Trust member, please vote in favour of this resolution to improve active travel access to NT properties. The NT worked with Cambridgeshire County Council on the off-road link from Quy to Anglesey Abbey – it would be great to see more like this!

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For reasons I will never understand, when I was a first year at uni, a middle-aged Doctor from Gaza moved temporarily into the room opposite mine in halls.

We weren't sure what to make of our new neighbour. But after a day, I decided to knock on his door and say hello... 1/🧵

Started designing some new business cards. Got distracted by 18th-century trade cards.

Made biscuit (cookie) versions of those instead. 🍪