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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The tram system in Prague is excellent. The PID app makes ticketing simple and Google sorts out journey planning. It just emphasises how far Leeds has been left behind in public transport provision.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Enjoying the design vibe of the Prague Metro system

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

91105 ‘Swallow’ at York Station this afternoon.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Big shout out to the great work of the Western Heights Preservation Society, & especially Phil & Selina for leading Sunday’s morning tour of the Drop Redoubt Dover. Fascinating stories and some great restoration work of an English Heritage property #dropredoubt #westernheights

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There is a derelict former open air theatre in West Park Hull. The local Hull & District Society of Model Engineers run their trains around it. Would be great if the theatre could be restored. It suffered a fire some years ago.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Nice walk in the North Pennines this afternoon from Alston north up the Pennine Way then back alongside the South Tynedale Railway.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The wonderful Winter Gardens restoration project. Visited yesterday - amazing place.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On my way to Morecambe and we’ve just gone through Keighley - nice to see the restored Platform 1 waiting room which @railwayheritage.bsky.social supported.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Lovely tiled pictures on the shopfront of WHSmiths (or whatever it’s now called) in Great Malvern.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Fort Victoria - the oldest Victorian fortification on the Isle of Wight - in military use from 1852 to 1962. Only the casemates remain. #isleofwight #palmerstonforts

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Fantastic concert by Kraftwerk yesterday in Stockton in the Art Deco shrine that is the Stockton Globe. Not often you go a concert to admire the OHL of a Trans-Europe-Express.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Beautiful morning on the Wensleydale Railway enjoying the Yorkshire Dales scenery and some of the projects we have supported over the years. Hares, rabbits and partridge in the fields, the woods carpeted by wild garlic. In the distance the sound of a Crompton approaching Leeming Bar.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Fish and chips at The Mermaid Cleethorpes Station yesterday - it used to be the first class waiting room.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

One of my favourite pastimes is finding the foundries where drain covers came from on the maps on the National Library of Scotland website. This drain cover is from East Howdon on the north bank of the Tyne, a long way from Barnard Castle where it was made.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

A walk down the Tyne yesterday from the city centre to North Shields - lots of reminders of Newcastle’s industrial past along the way. The Grade II listed 1837-39 Willington Viaduct which now carries the metro is particularly impressive.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I love Icelandic churches. This one is at Hellnar on the Snaefellsnes peninsula. It’s a style I’d call distressed Wes Anderson. At least the third building on this site, the others had to be replaced on account of the weather.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Reykolt in western Iceland - home of medieval saga writer Snorri Sturluson, a place where you realise that York and Iceland were culturally much closer in the past.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Hallgrimskirkja - Reykjavik’s amazing cathedral - only completed in 1986 and designed by architect Gudjon Samuelsson, I climbed the tower which gives all round views of the capital city.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Good to travel from Peterborough to Doncaster behind 91107. I remember the launch of it in February 2013 with its iconic Skyfall livery, one of the best. No sign of Naomie Harris today.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Had a wander round the site of the Royal Ordnance Factory at Newton Aycliffe this morning before my site visit to Heighington Station this morning - a few original buildings left but hard to tell it was ever there.

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The Railway Heritage Trust @railwayheritage.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My heart jumped when I saw the original weighbridge….and the original Pooley scales - and they were even gifted the last station master’s cap.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Replica Rocket put through its paces at Locomotion Shildon yesterday, passing the recently restored coal drops.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Went along to the monthly demonstration of the L&YR signalling School at the NRM this morning - in the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest working model railway in the world. Highly recommend a visit. Dates from 1912 - used to be in Manchester Victoria offices, now in York.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Not seen one of these before, but perhaps I need to look underneath more footbridges. The 19th century Grade II* listed Midland Railway footbridge at Stamford and its 21st century Paint Identification Plate.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Changing trains at Carnforth yesterday and spotted the base of a water crane or column, now long gone, at the north end of Platform 2 opposite the former Furness Railway Signal Box, one of my favourites.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A reminder of British Rail days at March never rebranded to Railtrack or Network Rail.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Changed trains at March yesterday. I see the 1885 Station Hotel is to be demolished. Not listed, not part of the rail network and not the greatest architecture but a piece of a town’s character is lost when we demolish buildings like this.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Dead Power Station, photographed from Flockton, W Yorkshire, 31 miles away.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Some splendid non-railway relics of the past from a work-related visit to Ruabon. Had a spare hour before catching my train back to Chester. The cylindrical building was probably a parish lock-up according to Cadw.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Round the corner from Longton Station, Staffordshire is Grade II listed Boundary Pottery Works with a super weighbridge surviving under the arch. The milepost is also listed separately. Window at top is a Diocletian Window and the one in the middle is a Palladian window.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Highly recommend the Art Deco exhibition at the London Transport Museum - a must for anyone with an interest in railway heritage and architecture.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The former Cumberland St Station Glasgow.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Visited Hemingfield Colliery in South Yorkshire yesterday. A listed site, it is being restored by a team of volunteers and is well worth a visit, still retaining its concrete headstock & a number of early colliery buildings. It’s just up the valley from Elsecar Heritage Centre.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Foundations and floors of 19th century engineering sheds at York station - recently underneath the long stay car park and soon to be a multi-storey car park.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Makers’ Marks from Nottingham Station

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

After my talk at the Jubilee Refreshment Rooms I went for a wander round Sowerby Bridge - a few historical relics and continuity Railtrack going Strong.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

River Ouse, Naburn Lock, December 2025.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

York NER War Memorial Tuesday evening.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Always like an old shop front probably soon to be converted to a house or a new shop with bland new plastic signage. Spotted in Darlington on Brinkburn Rd.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Went for a mooch round the newly reopened Station Hall at the NRM yesterday. Nice to see some new exhibits (Euston clock) and some old favourites (station signs).

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Quick trip to Grade II listed Battersea Park Station this afternoon - C H Driver was the architect, very similar to Peckham Rye. Continuity Southern Railway survives in the drain covers on the street outside and platform up above.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Day out on the Hartlepool Headland and stopped off to see Grade II listed Throston Engine House, needing a bit of TLC, a very early piece of railway heritage built between 1838-40. #railwayheritage #hartlepool

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Nice to see the hovercraft in action when I was at Ryde last week #isleofwight

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Fine faience/terracotta facade to a building in Walkden, Salford - not listed; spotted during my visit to the nearby station - possibly an old pub.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I do like the trains and trams of Soller - this is my kind of place.

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

If you can tear yourself away from Scarborough’s funicular railways, there is an excellent exhibition on at its Art Gallery on the town’s lost aquarium, the place to go for performing cats and fernmania!

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Been in Shropshire over the weekend - they embrace their famous son Charles Darwin everywhere….except perhaps here. Is this an anti-plaque? Love the capital letters!

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Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A relic of our mining heritage and Leeds Engineering rusting away beside a field in Rodington, Shropshire

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