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Tonight, best EVER event at The Postal Museum: t’other Mail Rail train had a power fault & blocked station, so we returned to surface by evacuating using old Mount Pleasant sorting office platforms & tunnels! Absolute textbook procedure by crew: safe, calm, everyone delighted!👌

Holywood box on the G&SW is the last box in Scotland to have the level crossing opened and closed using a mechanical wheel linked to the gates. The gates still have red targets and now electrically powered red lamps.

We're just about to kick off our railway200 celebration with our most intensive service ever. 16 round trips today and tomorrow. Join us for just £2! Here's the timetable with GWR connections.

Slowly being consumed by sand dunes...! - Remnants of #Boulogne Aéroglisseur station and the Hoverspeed buildings that once served the now long departed hovercraft service to the UK 🇬🇧

There is quite literally a disco train garden at Colwyn Bay station. Good work Conwy Valley & North Wales Coast CRP & Trafnidiaeth Cymru Trenau Transport for Wales Rail: up with this sort of thing!

I have been travelling since 0530, rerouted due to a sad incident at Tamworth, but thanks to Avanti West Coast & 2 buses & great staff I am now working on my laptop thru Aberglaslyn Pass behind 2 Garratt locos on Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways & my destination is near. Hurrah for public transport!🥰

At 7am today I had the privilege of riding Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways’s 40-wagon slate gravity train, demonstrating the pre-preservation-Ffestiniog. We had the rare thrill of being Fairlie-hauled all the way up to the edge of Blaenau’s slate quarries; then freewheeled down *9 miles* from Dduallt.

ENGINES: ASSEMBLE! We’ll be attempting a windswept livestream of the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways railway200 200 Wheels on the Cob Grand Cavalcade at 12:15 on my instagram - what could possibly go wrong?! 70 years of bonkers railway preservation celebrated in the top left hand corner of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

We’re joining The National Lottery Heritage Fund in celebrating #HeritageIsOpen! Pendon Museum's scale model landscapes include historically accurate representations of real buildings in the Vale of White Horse as they were in the 1920s and 1930s. We're open this weekend! pendonmuseum.com

We're closing ☹️our last trading day will be 30th June Visitors to our shop can get the following discounts: Wed & Thurs 20%, Fri & Sat 30%, Mon 40%. Pay on the day. Stock is limited & going fast The New Blades Show is going ahead as usual, hope to see you on Thursday!

This Saturday! There’s a model railway show in Hemel Hempstead, Herts. Seven layouts and the secondhand emporium that is the famed Elaine’s Trains. “The small and friendly show” is how they describe it, and that sounds like rather a nice thing for this Saturday.

#OnThisDay 188 years ago, Charles Tyson Yerkes Jr. was born near Philadelphia. The founder of London Underground as we know it, Charles established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, taking over the District Railway and three under-construction tube projects.

For all our modelmaker followers, a reminder that tomorrow is New Blades, the annual modelmaking recruitment fair and industry networking event. There will be hundreds of models on display from this year's graduating students from 5 universities across the UK. Holborn Studios N1

Good news from Yorkshire, where tracks have been relaid into Horton Limestone Quarry: the first loaded train left y'day! Well done all at Heidelberg Materials UK, GB Railfreight VolkerRail & Network Rail: more freight on the Settle-Carlisle: 129 fewer lorries on the road each time👌