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Ian Dinmore

@tarkaman.bsky.social
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Semi-professional railman, into humour, rural railways, community rail, otters, cake and coffee. A passing photographer, Scripophillist, Graphologist, Calligraphist and aged likes a good whine.

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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Please vote now for Berney Arms in The World Cup of Stations: www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How very strange it seems to me how very full a church can be, of people who, except at this time of the year not once inside a church appear: credit to Sir John!
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Please vote now for Berney Arms in The World Cup of Stations: www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yay! Berney Arms is shortlisted in The World Cup of Stations. Voting starts at 00.01 tomorrow, so please get your votes in ASAP @greatanglia.bsky.social #WherryLines #Branchlines @networkrailanglia.bsky.social www.raildeliverygroup.com/our-services...
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Chaffers Siding box on the Colne Branch near Nelson 1974
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A Metal Box passes over Redcross Arches near Southwark in London
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sir Cochrane leaving Marley Hill on the Tanfield Railway
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
and from my www.railarchive.org.uk collection
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ThrowbackThursday at Weymouth Quay in 1984
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In QM It's called the "Measurement Problem" if you don't visit it, it stays as two entangled stations
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Class 158 is dwarfed at Darlington 19 Jan 2023
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You really cannot take a bad photograph while in the Faroe Islands- From the side of Malinsfjall on the island of Viðoy from a visit on 23 July 2016
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sadly, something you can no longer do is to lean out the window of trains on scenic branch line routes- here is 'Skip' class 67 at Tomatin loop with Lupins back on 12 July 2013
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
08 752 waiting for action at Goonbarrow on the Newquay branch 16 Feb 2024
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
GWR 165 crosses Colenorton Brook Viaduct on route to Windsor and Eton Central 03 September 2026
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Greg Morse @gregmorsedphil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The updated paperback of THE CLAPHAM TRAIN ACCIDENT will be out at the end of 30 October, courtesy @TransportPS. The audiobook version is out now though. Here's a LinkedIn post about it: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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I’ve been promoting storytelling as a way of sharing knowledge – at conferences, in meetings and in print – for some years now. There’ll be more thoughts from me on that in the next book, but with… | ...
I’ve been promoting storytelling as a way of sharing knowledge – at conferences, in meetings and in print – for some years now. There’ll be more thoughts from me on that in the next book, but with the...
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Now here is something unusual, a letter from the York and Doncaster Railway contractors office dated 1861
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
18.2 Mini token machines and peat supplies. Athenry signalbox 09 July 1988
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
and from a bit earlier...
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
and the full route map...@railarchive.org.uk
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Community Rail Network @communityrail.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
LAST CHANCE TO APPLY 📢 We're seeking a Director of Member Experience to support our members to develop and thrive, increase their impact and contribute to a stronger #CommunityRail movement. Apply with CharityJob by 12:30pm tomorrow (Mon 7 Sept) ➡️ communityrail.org.uk/about-us/job...
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Job vacancies - Community Rail Network
Work with us! Check out our vacancies here.
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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📢 3 days to OBJECT to stop the adoption of part of the draft local plan for Buckinghamshire which proposes to build 7,450 new houses on the countryside around Grade I-listed Mentmore Towers & two surrounding villages🧵 Object to @buckscouncil.bsky.social Local Plan by 6th Sept tinyurl.com/4kujdeev 🧵
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A class 25 working 2B99 the milk empties to Torrington in 1972 near Anchor Wood after leaving Barnstaple in 1978.©Ken Baker
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
31 116 -Rail Magazine in Infrastructure livery passes through March station 04 March 1996, it was scrapped in 2009.
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'd love to see them try, joint effort by County Council engineers, North Norfolk Railway Engineers and the Wherry Lines CRP. Its welded on to the 8 metre rails sunk 4 metres into the marsh!
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A Lumo working 1E86 Edinburgh to King's Cross passes Alnmouth signalbox 18 August 2026
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Two pointy things and a blunt instrument at Lime Street 23 July 2026
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On shed at Kemsley Down 12 August 2026
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A Greater Anglia class 755 flashes past Buckenham with a service to Great Yarmouth via Berney Arms on 09 June 2024
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I think it might be hard cheese😂
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
From the collection...
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The sea, a train and a tractor on route from Weybourne to Sheringham
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
In the heat of the day at Yaxham on the Mid Norfolk Railway about 2001 I think.
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
37 405 Leaving Lowestoft for Norwich on 01 February 2017
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The long drop, the difference in height between the train and the platform edge. The worst I know of is at South Croydon as shown here, are there any worse than this? @southernrailwayuk.bsky.social @networkrail.bsky.social
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Stephen Carvill sculpture of The Gansy Girl on the North Pier at Bridlington
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Dull and damp in 1978...
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It's Back online😀
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
waiting for all the GBR improvements to take place here...😂 one day a shelter may come!
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A super Railtour - Liskeard to Skegness via Looe on a class 117. Seen on the branch platform at Liskeard in July 1989 as the guard checks his departure time while sitting on the buffer stop.
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Now made in Huddersfield!
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Parapits waiting for trains, but where?
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A summer scene from Rockcliff footbridge Dawlish, with a GWR 150 and 166 passing the small Langstone beach 19 July 2024
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
It is known that off shore wind turbines increase the fish species and that leads to an increase in seals. The East Norfolk Coast is a great example of this as the increase in the Grey Seal population has a direct correlation to the introduction of off shore wind farms
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled
Seres' plans show how stiff competition in the EV space is putting pressure on carmakers to innovate.
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Have you ever felt boxed in?
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tree pollen is a big problem here in rural Norfolk, any chance of a pollen forecast?
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Yep, box still there but not for much longer-get it while you can!
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sir Cecil A Cochrane having it's fire thrown out at Marley Hill shed on the Tanfield Railway 06 April 2026
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Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
All the semaphores have gone now 😪
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