Tim Hedley-Jones
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Yorkshire, York, railways, archaeology, life, a random mash-up of stuff
York
Joined July 2011
I do like the trains and trams of Soller - this is my kind of place.
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Onviously I was not able to resist at least one journey on a funicular.
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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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Last night, was about to take nice pic of @GWRHelp sleeper but @MrMcKirdy_EYFS intervened to tell you all we’re here for the BUILDINGS not trains: we were there celebrating @railwayheritage 40th anniversary at Paddington: 40 years of funding restoration of ace railway structures!
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The narrow gauge railway transported granite from the nearby quarry to a pier. Much of it went to Liverpool and Manchester for paving stones. It was also reputed to have the steepest incline of any railway in Britain.
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Staying in N Wales for a few days at Trefor so of course I had to go and look for remains of the Trefor Quarry Railway - the trackbed is still there and the old rails are being used as fence posts while this bridge took the incline over a minor road.
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This Friday the restored and reimagined space Station Hall at the NRM reopens. Built in the 1870s, Station Hall was once home to York’s main goods station and was a working railway right up until the 1960s. Explore a century of railway history
railwaymuseum.org.uk
Explore over 100 years of railway life in Station Hall, a former goods shed now home to our inspiring collection.
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🎉 Four years ago our restoration of the world's biggest working mechanical signal box won a National Railway Heritage Award! 🎬 We worked with @RailwayHeritage and @mph_northwales on the refurb of Severn Bridge Junction to secure its future: ➡️ https://t.co/Iw2XNfIvX9
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Continuity GNER alive and well in a car park near Doncaster Station - I’d recognise that font anywhere!
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A relic of mining heritage and Leeds Engineering rusting away beside a field in Shropshire
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Tim and Simon, @NRHAwd Trustees, unveil our 2024 Commercial Restoration Award, sponsored by @Se_Railway & made to @LandmarkTrust for the station agent's house at Manchester, Liverpool Rd, the oldest surviving InterCity station. Fiona and Alastair from LT there to receive.
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During the Second World War Alton Towers was requisitioned by the military and so a pillbox was built on the bridge across the railway by the station. It was camouflaged to look like a hut.
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Alton Towers was first opened to the public as a result of the coming of the railway. Money raised from railway excursions was paid to the Earl of Shrewsbury to help maintain the grounds. A special exit from the station was built to manage the crowds and it’s still there today.
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The locks themselves are worth a visit - the upper limit of the tidal stretch of the River Ouse. There are two swing bridges and an old dock crane.
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Earlier I went down to Naburn Locks to see the wonderful Grade II listed 1825 Banqueting Hall - now a tearoom, it was disused when Pevsner visited. It’s not credited to any architect but surely someone must have designed this?
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The former ECML crossing of the Ouse at Naburn used to be a swing bridge. Now it’s a cycle track, but you can still see some of the mechanism underneath.
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Lovely walk yesterday in @NorthYorkMoors Bransdale and on Rudland Rigg - the walk took us by @NYMoorsCoastNT eighteenth century Bransdale Mill, extended 1817 and rebuilt in 1842.
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160 years of the railway in Ilkley, a small but pleasant exhibition at the Manor House Museum, on until the end of August.
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Not sure what is more dangerous- 177 bombs or one of those crazy roundabouts they used to have!
bbc.co.uk
The playground now offering children an explosion of fun without the threat of an actual explosion.
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