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Tim Dunn

@mrtimdunn.bsky.social
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Historian, geographer, part of #Railway200 team, presenter @UKTV’s #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt & #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground, Trainspotter, 🏳️‍🌈, and always an enthusiast. Own views, obv.

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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Northern Railway is running a Class 158 train from Darlington along the scenic heritage route of the Weardale Railway on Sun 22 Feb to support some great local charities. Tickets for this unusual railtour type trip are here weardale-railway.digitickets.co.uk/event-ticket...
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I’ve researched and presented a TV programme on it… it’s on UKTV U Player these days still
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Omg I knew I’d seen you afore
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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The GCR in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire are separated by 500 yards of missing bridges and embankments at Loughborough. In this video Tim Dunn looks at the project, already well under way, to close that gap.
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Bridging Loughborough Gap to create an 18-mile heritage railway
I once described the the Great Central Railway – Nottingham as  a bit of a mystery to those of us in Leicestershire. Rather like the Easter...
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Thanks for having me on, mark! X
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Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Love "Secrets of the Underground" & "The Architecture the Railways Built"? Listen to @mrtimdunn.bsky.social explain how he got the gig & why he's so fascinated by it all. Plus how his parents met across a crowded platform...& why he also loves #modelvillages! www.vectisradio.com/podcasts/cat...
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Phwoar. Would you just LOOK at the spandrels on THAT. (By which I mean of the iron and glass canopies on Skipton rly station, designed by Trubshaw for the Midland Railway. Long-time fan, here.)
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Last chance to book for tmrw night! “Reels and Rails” #BFI London SouthBank. 2 hours of British railways, shown on the big screen. 1890s gems, 1930s action #flyingscotsman, #britishtransportfilms eg #nightmail, 1925 Railway Centenary & more: train chat in bar after whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Christ
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
BURMA!
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hmmm
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
*try the veal, etc
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Today the arrival of #NaoSantaMaria in London was giving *serious* Monty Python Accountan-sea vibes. But it did feel unfair to ask if the Crimson Permanent Assurance crew was aboard, as even on this replica Columbus ship, NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition. (It’s here all month*, open for tours)
It’s fun to charter an an accountant
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Seaside Heritage Network @seasidenetwork.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Our July seminar celebrates #trains at the #seaside for #railway200. The fantastic @mrtimdunn.bsky.social will be talking miniature railways, Susan Major is discussing excursions and Richard Furness is looking at railways and resort development. BOOK NOW! 🚂🏖️ seasideheritage.org.uk/events/upcom...
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I just knew that was coming next. Or just KNEE that, should I say!! Haha!!
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Bluesky? Not at titting sillyoclock in London today it wasn’t
London at titting sillyoclock looking pinkish today. A police boat is about to ruin the nice calm Thames
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
He’s not the only one by a long way. Some really interesting research in this for community rail proving its worth in the NW a few years back
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Looks like the 210 doors and the tartan ish moquette follows as the units went to Scotland for a bit . Pretty sure the video is filmed on GWML hence HSTs, a London bus depot and I think the west Drayton sidings with wagons in, as well as Paddington. Easy train & route to book from production/BR POV!
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
person outside cities might never knowingly meet another unless they went by train. Trains have been the way so many lgbtq ppl travel to seek others like them, acceptance, a home. One gay friend who grew up in isolated NE, doubts quite genuinely that without the railway, he’d still be alive today.
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
No it doesn’t miss the point at all. The song screams in the heart of so many ppl - esp gay men. it screams in mine. We are always running, never settling, wary of each stop, forever looking for a destination and a place that we can belong. This 1984 song is pre-internet. Back then a young lgbtq…
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi hello hi it’s me again and welcome back to the tried and tested formula see you next week with more of the same
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
As we hurtle north, autumn seemingly surrenders and Home Counties hills fall away. Sun flickers and flashes through the carriage catching faces, drawing them westward. For a lingering moment, an entire train is lost in thought. Then, we tilt. Darkness falls, & we return to our lives. #TravelByTrain
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Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
#TravelByTrain –the “I’m so proud of my friends” edition. Yesterday, a friend since we were kids working at Bekonscot Model Village arranged for me to join him at work: in the cab of 50008 “Thunderer” across southern England. He’s living his dream & he generously shared it with me. Thank you, Mikey.
Side view from the cab of a UK Class 50 mainline locomotive out to green hills beyond
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