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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 16h

Went from Aviemore to Pitlochry and back, just because of HSTs.

A Scotrail Inter7city HST arriving at Aviemore.

A Scotrail Inter7city HST arriving at Pitlochry.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 18h

Castle Roy is a 13th century castle near Aviemore. A peaceful location away from all the hussle and bussle.

A Castle Roy sign, with an arrow pointing right towards the castle, which can be seen on the right of the image.

Castle Roy, with Abernethy Old Kirk church behind.

A Stagecoach double decker bus on route 37A to Carrbridge, traveling on a country lane towards Castle Roy.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 21h

A steam train passing near to the start/finish line of Aviemore Parkrun this morning.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 21h

I did Aviemore Parkrun with @nattj.bsky.social , with @nickbadley.com volunteering. A simple out-and-back course through woodland and across moorlands, running alongside the Strathspey Railway. Stunning scenery!

Selfie in front of the Aviemore Parkrun sign.

Myself, Nick and Natt next to the Aviemore Parkrun sign.

Running on a gravel path through a Heather moorland.

A gravel path winding through a Heather moorland, with hills in the distance.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm travelling in First Class on the Highland Chieftain. I enjoyed a very nice frittata for lunch. Currently running 32 minutes late, so I get food and drink and some lovely delay repay!

Spanish-style frittata and smokey beans on a plate.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm now an hour into a 7½ journey onboard the Highland Cheiftain that goes from London to Inverness. I've done the full route from Inverness to London before, and I'm pleased to report that hot food is being served this time!

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At what point are we going to admit that the Oxford Traffic Filters, at least in their current form, simply do not work? 25 minutes to get from George Street to Frideswide Square, a distance of less than half a mile, all because all the city's traffic is now focused on one road.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Designate Patriot Platform as a proscribed terrorist organisation

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Designate Patriot Platform as a proscribed terrorist organisation

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After Botley Road reopened last week, the traffic through the city centre has been awful. The traffic filters are going to focus all traffic into the city on Botley Road, and make that route a total nightmare.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The switchover from Vix to Ticketer is almost complete. The new machines are so much faster, and don't keep declining bank cards for no reason!

A Ticketer ticket machine, as seen from the passenger's side.

A Ticketer ticket machine from the driver's side, with the screen display single tickets.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's the beginning of the end for the Vix TP ticket machines with Stagecoach. From today, they start being replaced by the Ticketer TK300 machines.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new footbridge over Botley Road linking the station to the car park. This is capable of carrying an extra track in future if the station concourse is rebuilt and platform 2 becomes a through platform.

The entrance to the footbridge over Botley Road. There are wooden fences on either side, and a 'cyclists dismount' sign to the left.

Looking across the Botley Road footbridge from the station side.

Looking across Botley Road footbridge towards the car park. This is the section is designed to be capable of carrying an extra railway line in the future.

Looking across the Botley Road footbridge towards the station building.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Transport for London is to start taking direct control of buses from 2027, when it takes over the 6 between Victoria and Willesden from Metroline. Buses for London will operate an all-electric bus fleet. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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TfL announces capital's publicly owned bus company

Transport for London says one west London route will switch to its own operator from late 2027.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These groups need to be proscribed immediately. They are a threat to public order and the rule of law.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This thread makes for disturbing reading. When will the authorities finally take action against these thugs?

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brize Norton & Bampton station closed in 1962, along with the line between Witney and Fairford. However, these level crossing signs still exist.

A railway level crossing sign next to a field.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I went to Didcot this morning for my 25th Parkrun. Pleased to get another sub-30 minute time as well.

Selfie in front of the Didcot Parkrun sign.

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Neil Fawcett @neilmfawcett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Read this thread.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Turning Point UK are setting up on Cornmarket in Oxford. Please do no engage with them, ignore them and walk past.

A Turning Point UK gazebo on Cornmarket Street in Oxford.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The spelling blunder on this sign in Chipping Norton is something to chuckle about.

A yellow temporary A-frame road sign on a pavement. It says left for Burford, and right for Stow, Moreton and Worchester (instead of Worcester).

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Travelling from Redhill to Oxford this afternoon, I found the train from Reading to Oxford cancelled. With a 650+ day CrossCountry avoidance streak to protect, I caught a Cardiff train as far as Reading and changed onto a local GWR service.

Didcot Parkway station sign, with a GWR train in the platform behind it.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Halifax station was once a lot bigger than it is now. The old station building is no longer in railway use, and some of the old platforms are now a grassed area. Part of the old platform is still visible under the bridge.

The old station building at Halifax, built in 1855. The grass area in front of it is where the platforms were, now in-filled.

Looking under the road bridge along what is left of one of the platforms.

Old platform face under the road bridge.

Steps down from the road bridge, which would once have been the steps down to one of the platforms.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The overhead electrification masts that have been installed between Morley and Cottingley as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade, and what exists so far of White Rose station.

Overhead electrification masts without wires on a curved section of track among fields.

Overhead electrification masts without wires on a curved bit of railway in the countryside.

White Rose station seen in the distance, with overhead masts installed along the line.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There isn't much left of the old Morley station now, just part of the eastbound platform.

The old eastbound platform at Morley. There is a pile of rubble on the right, some tarmac is visible to the left near the old platform edge. There are now fences and barriers marking roughly where the edge of the platform was.

The old site of Morley station. Nothing remains of the westbound platform, seen from a nearby road bridge. Part of the eastbound platform remains, now with fences along the edge

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I visited the Wensleydale Railway this afternoon. Both trips I did were very busy, especially the second where a Fish & Chips special filled up most of the train.

A red and yellow Class 37 diesel locomotive at Leyburn.

A blue Class 33 and red Claas 37 locomotive on adjacent tracks at Leeming Bar.

Inside an early British Rail intercity carriage.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I decided this was the perfect weekend to be wearing this hoodie.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Up in a wet Northallerton in North Yorkshire this morning for Parkrun.

Selfie in front of the Northallerton Parkrun sign.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A couple of random photos from York station today.

A pair of CrossCountry Voyagers in the new livery at platforms under the main trainshed roof at York station.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Metropolitan Line was having some issues around Baker Street this morning. The train from Uxbridge terminated at Harrow-on-the-Hill and many people squeezed into a Chiltern service to Marylebone. And when I say 'squeezed', I literally couldn't move for the entire journey!

A Chiltern Turbo arriving at Harrow-on-the-Hill, the platform is full of waiting passengers.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Such a shame. I know how passionate Stu was about completing this walk and raising money for Samaritans. If you can still send a few £££ towards his fundraiser, I know that will mean the world to him while he recovers! share.google/sJuPEaEwlKul...

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Walking The Highland Chieftain

Help Stuart Boyd raise money to support Samaritans

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The anti-immigrant Patriot Platform rotters are a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI and letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Join me:

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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI

This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well done Pierre Gasly, pole positiom at Monza! I'm driving through Enstone on my next trip, too.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hope Not Hate has written up everything you need to know about the army of far-right thugs who descended on Dover today. These people won't stop until they're stopped, the government needs to act now.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Over to Amersham today for Church Mead Parkrun.

Selfie in front of the Church Mead Parkrun sign.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A little over two weeks to go until it (finally) reopens, Botley Road under the railway bridge has tarmac on it. For nearly 3½ years, West Oxford has been cut off from the city centre.

The freshly tarmaced Botley Road as it goes under the railway bridge.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Stu has started his walk from London to Inverness to raise money for Samaritans. Check out the link below if you want to support him. www.justgiving.com/page/highlan...

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Walking The Highland Chieftain

Help Stuart Boyd raise money to support Samaritans

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is an anniversary that passed me buy this summer, this 'temporary' bus stop in Carterton turned 10 years old this year! Maybe one day the council will put up a proper bus stop flag?

A temporary bus stop sign chained to a lamp post.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I took a trip on The Shakespeare Express this afternoon from Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham and back. Today it was hauled by a diesel locomotive as the steam engines have been sidelined due to the recent dry conditions. Nonetheless, at £25 this was a good value heritage mainline journey!

A grey diesel locomotive with cream and brown carriages at Stratford-upon-Avon.

Passengers getting out of cream and brown heritage carriages at Birmingham Snow Hill.

A grey diesel locomotive in the covered over bit of Birmingham Snow Hill station. It has a headboard on the front saying 'The Shakespeare Express'

A table seat in one the carriages as the train passes through the countryside, with a water bottle and a packet of chocolate raisins on the table.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ok, so a gripe I have is when I pull up at a bus stop and a cyclist, instead of overtaking the bus on the road, goes up onto the pavement and almost knocks down the passengers getting off the bus. It's like having a floating bus stop, but much worse.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Cheltenham Parkrun today in the rain.

Selfie in front of the Cheltenham Parkrun sign.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The new toilets at Oxford station are a massive improvement over the old ones. New sinks have also been installed.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New ticket machine training complete. ✅️

A Ticketer ticket machine on a desk in an office.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Over on Instagram, the far-right are taking the news that an RAC mechanic was sacked for pulling over while on duty and wearing company uniform, to talk to and have his photo taken with Ryan 'Squeaky' Bridge of Raise The Colours about as well as you could expect. 😐

A screenshot of hateful comments left on an RAC Instagram post. 'You hate the English flag, joke of a company, sacking the the guy for stopping to say hello to someone putting up flags of our own country' are just a few of the remarks here. Others accuse the RAC of being traitors (that's a typical far-right talking point).

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 21/08/2026

The most victimised man, chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, considering road crossings to be an act of violence and taxation of life against the motorist, is maybe one of the most libertarian things I've ever heard of.

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Robert Knight @rupertairbear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One of only two Dennis Tridents still in service with Stagecoach West, seen on Fleming Way in Swindon.

A Stagecoach Trident at a bus stop, with an Enviro400MMC seen in the distance behind.

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