Rotterdam. Or anywhere.

Liverpool or Rome?

Genuinely the most accurate picture of modern Britain since that photo of the street with all the drunk people on a Saturday night.

Basilean Army Contents: 10 Basilean Paladin Footguard, 30 Basilean Men-At-Arms, 5 Basilean Paladin Knights, 3 Basilean Elohi, 1 Basilean Dictator

Found it, via the Salute Facebook page. It is from Mantic Games. I seem to have Basileans, whatever they are (presumably not a Torquay hotel owner), but there are others. This is all a bit outside my usual "HO scale models of Afghanistan's railways" horizon! www.manticgames.com/kings-of-war...

Anyone know what the sprue-that-is-not-Saladin from #Salute53 is?

Board for our game at Salute all set up ready to play

All set up! It great when we get the pieces together in one place for the first time! #Salute53 @slondonwarlords.bsky.social

Green Party.

Brexit bus.

Count Bin Face.

Three wheeler car with political jokes too hard to explain.

Once again, @badbabybunny.bsky.social is the highlight of #Salute53. In 500 years people will be studying this "First Past the Post" election game for the hidden details, like they now study Tudor royal portraits

International railway organisation OTIF suspends Afghanistan’s voting rights AFGHANISTAN: The Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail has suspended Afghanistan's voting rights over non-payment of its contributions due for 2022 and subsequent years.

International railway organisation OTIF suspends Afghanistan’s voting rights www.railwaygazette.com/policy/international-rai...

How long before there is a rival People's Network of South Yorkshire?

"I imagine everyone who writes a book, and a fair proportion of readers, can recall something from their childhood that makes the idea of a PE teacher leading a fascist movement seem appropriate."

It was worth getting @lewisbaston.bsky.social's #Borderlines book just for this bit.

Hope Heidi Alexander is washing her fingers after each of these.

British Rail double arrow in the dirt on a train.

First Electrostar gets #GreatBritishRailways branding ahead of Thameslink, Southern & Great Northern nationalisation.

The pub has replaced sportsball on the big screen with footage of (I think) Ulaanbaatar Railway 2M62 diesel locos hauling intermodal freight. I'm up for this.

Etihad Rail runs passenger trains from the Saudi border as war grounds flights https://bit.ly/3MUrZTp

Plov

Uzbek plov at Elephant & Castle

The USSR under Stalin. Let's keep it going!

These notifications need better wording.

Ooh, which one is genuinely ancient?

Yes.

Old railway signalling equipment in a pub

Forget ship's timbers @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social - the Eight Bells pub in Alton is built from old signal boxes.

A mix of architecture. Industrial, with Reckitts Chimney & The former British Extracting Silo in the background. The Northumberland Ave Almshouses in the foreground with the magnificent clock tower behind the trees.

A mix of architecture. Industrial, with Reckitts Chimney & The former British Extracting Silo in the background. The Northumberland Ave Almshouses in the foreground with the magnificent clock tower behind the trees.

#hull #yorkshire #travel #over_yonder #photography #stunday #photographersunited

I noticed where he was an undergrad...

Achievement unlocked: Prof Ronald Hutton answered my question at a @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture. Even if my hopes of signing up for a harmless religion centred on feasting are 1600 years too late🔪🐂🌞🍽

Uzbek dumplings

A friend wanted something different to eat, so we tried an #Uzbekistan place at Seven Dials in London.

Models of Soviet and Chinese locos, a scrap Dapol JCB and a New Holland wheel loader.

Do you have any particular interests?

Well, I'm mainly into industrial narrow gauge of the Humber banks, and Central Asian railway geopolitics.

Call it 2 quid?

Iran completes Mianeh – Ardabil railway construction https://bit.ly/4qvPfFG

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Interior confirma que al menos hay dos muertos por el descarrilamiento de dos trenes en Adamuz (Córdoba)

📹 @eleanorinthesky social.elpais.com/p3e…

Have you seen this @andrewgrantham.co.uk? (And anyone else.) It made me laugh so hard I cried.

Ah, I've just spotted this isn't the official map. Oh dear!

I spent most of yesterday trying to unravel this. I Have Views...

Humber bridge

Barton Haven

Barton Haven

Where sky and Lincolnshire and water meet

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