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Paul Taylor

@pavtal.bsky.social
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Love geology and volcanoes. Fan of railways - long live English Electric! Keen supporter and volunteer for @Hastingsdiesels.co.uk and supporter of @5BELTrust

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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 3h
What about that then...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, wasn't that the chap we saw ...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I've had Matcha before and my reaction is pretty much the same as the sheep!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's my car, how dare you show what happened the other day when we asked Siri how to open the door! 🤣x
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
.. and how much these bridges cost compared to Botley Rd, Oxford!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh yes... !
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow.. that is good news!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In addition, there is this.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy9Z...
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East Grinstead Station, 1970. Includes initial stages of destruction of the high level bridges.
YouTube video by embudlh
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is both saddening and deeply sickening to watch.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a9e...
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Uckfield to Lewes Line, mainly around the time of closure (1969). Revised compilation (May 2022).
YouTube video by embudlh
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think BML2 want a proper double track rail link back.
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thank you. That is a lovely wheel!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hopefully, BML2 folks can get this done.. www.bml2.co.uk
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BML2 Project Introduction
Brighton Mainline 2 Project
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We were discussing this on the HDL trip yesterday. The answer seems to be:- "Well, yes, erm, private bits"
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Beware the strange men, we've seen them!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's crazy. Getting back from the mess created will take ages.
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
... and you are unanimous in that x
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Clip of HDL 1066 Return after the rain had cleared when I got to TBW youtube.com/watch?v=vyGgFQ 58J7U Check out our youtube channel and also the website for details of future trips out! hastingsdiesels.co.uk
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'll have a butchers tomorrow...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Excellent!!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It has indeed been a great time at The Bluebell. Thanks to all who made this happen. We travel home tomorrow. Tickets all ready for the folks who want to join us at East Grinstead for the journey home. 11:00 Bluebell EGR for the final trip to Sheffield Park 13:40 EGR mainline to Victoria and home.
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It was a superb series. So many great actors in it too.
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@mrtimdunn.bsky.social Good to see you at the Bluebell Diesel Gala today.
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Hastings Diesels Ltd @hastingsdiesels.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Next Tuesday, we are again conveying passengers on our 4-car DEMU when it returns to Hastings from its long Bluebell Railway visit. Buy tickets on the train. First come, first served. £40 flat fare. Lunchtime departure from East Grinstead. Details here: www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/railtours/#n...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thanks, Joe. To think that if GCR had remained open, most of it could have been used for HS2 .. and also relieved traffic on other routes. Ah well. What do we know? (now)
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We're now in my favourite season.. apart from Spring, of course. The wind and rain have loosened the first (Kentish) cobnuts from the trees at the bottom of the garden. They are deeelicious!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
bringbackeurotrains.com/campaigns/re...
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Register your demand - Bring Back Euro Trains
European rail operators are finalising their new routes right now. Add your ideal journey below to prove the commercial case, and ensure Ashford and Ebbsfleet are not left off the map. You will be joi...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Had quite a bit here in Tun Wells.. heavy at times
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SunnyandSheryl @commgal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A woman with a cane stands at a ticket window staffed by a man. A nearby kiosk has an out of order sign. The ticket clerk says, "OK, one more time. Go home and log on to our website from your computer, create an account and purchase your ticket with your credit or debit card, download the ticket to a smartphone, then come back at the allocated time...Just what part of 'easier and more convenient ' don't you get?"
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Our last trip this year.. www.hastingsdiesels.co.uk/railtours/20...
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Hastings Diesels Limited – HDL ‘Megawatt Valley Venturer’ railtour
Hastings Diesels Limited's objective is the preservation and restoration to main-line running of ex-Southern Region DEMU rolling stock…
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Steep sided valleys always indicate that Nature has done things there before, and She will do it again.
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thanks, Joe. It is oft hard to imagine some of the original rail infrastructure now that lots of it is underneath towering new blocks!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Courtesy of The Bluebell Railway Newsletter
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
High slingbacks can break One's ankles
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Patricia Routledge as Kitty: Victoria Wood's Pennine Way
ALT: Patricia Routledge as Kitty: Victoria Wood's Pennine Way
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Excellent news. Let's hope we get a good amount to dampen things down
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Remind me to miss that series. I remember "Lost" .. that lost me completely.
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh I remember the fun of adding users to groups to assign security. This was for customers using our software to run it in clustered systems. Oh and then adding two way trusts across domains if they had separate operational areas. One false move ...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Interesting leaf pattern on the wall.. my own indirect view of the eclipse
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Sounds like another sellout of a UK company that will disappear like so many others we used to have
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Getting ready for our @hastingsdiesels.co.uk private charter for Colin Price. He is retiring from @serailway.bsky.social after many years of work and also supporting Hastings Diesels. Thank you Colin!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Oh, Miss Cathcart!!
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It is a superb station, Joe. My aunt lived not far from there in Hadley Green - she preferred this station over "The Barnets" so would pick me up from Cockfosters 😀
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It is a real eye opener at breakfast...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Eurgh... I remember when we were in Marseille.. some Chinese youngsters had salami and cheese for brekkie.. but they took the WHOLE salami to their table on a plate but left nearly all of it.
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I loathe that... all the suited pratts.. so glad never to have been like that when working
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh no! .. hope the wee break has been good :-)
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I found him extremely vexatious to the spirit
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Hmmm... fallen from grace, somewhere...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A sad loss ... RIP ...
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Getting warm out there already.. picked some blueberries before the sun comes too far round ... time for coffee, methinks 😀
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Paul Taylor @pavtal.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Looks almost as if you were on Santorini.. but It's the lovely De la Warr Pavilion
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