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A buzzy Baltic bargain! 🇵🇱🇵🇱 (no trains) Why everyone’s going to GDAŃSK

Thanks so much Summersdale and BBC Travel! 👍👍👍👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. —Gwendolyn Brooks, born #OTD in 1917 poets.org/poem/we-real-c…

May I tentatively suggest, in salesman style, that if you have a father (as most of us do) and if your father enjoys trains (as most fathers do) then this book about trains might make a suitable Father’s Day present next weekend: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/slow-t…

Get a dog they said, it will be fun they said.. 😅

Good Vibrations is a symphony. This clip of Brian Wilson and The Wrecking Crew recording the track is outer worldly. Proof that all he needed were just musicians to play his material. He is The Beach Boys.

Good to see a happy reader/‘Happy Anorak’… uk.bookshop.org/p/books/slow-t…

With a new sticker on front (released today in paperback) 🚂🚂🚂🚂🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/slow-t…

Last look at the #StrawberryMoon ‘s slow rise around Shard last night

London underground train carriage interior, 1962.

‘Absorbing… should be made available to the Secretary of State for Transport’ - Times Literary Supplement review of ‘Slow Trains Around Britain’ #illtakethat #thankyouTLS

The Art Nouveau train station of Taormina-Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy, was inaugurated in 1928

Thanks to ‘Biblios’ for this review of ‘Slow Trains Around’… yes I did do a few! 👍🚂🚂🚂🚂

What about Hammersmith Bridge?! #hammersmith

On 200th anniversary of 1st public steam railway (Stockton & Darlington), the HS2 fiasco looms large. Back then GB led the world, now an international ‘laughing stock’ (as reported this week). All covered in ‘Slow Trains Around Britain’ (often v slow)! 🚂 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/slow-t…

Good pieces by Ben Clatworthy this week, cover the latest:

Entrance Hall Of Antwerp Central Station, by Louis Delacenserie, located in Diamant, Belgium, 1905

Many thanks BookBrunch 👍

At least it got built! (Despite man-eating lions). But a suitable name on the Times letters’ page today #HS2 #lunaticline

My latest cartoon for today's The Telegraph Buy a print of my cartoons at telegraph.co.uk/mattprints Original artwork from chrisbeetles.com