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Adored Peter Sallis #botd 1921. Iconic voice thanks to Wallace & Gromit + 37 years of Last of the Summer Wine. Happy times with him filming on location. If you'd like a chance to win this signed pic of Peter from my collection, just repost this Tweet and I'll pick one at random.
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Tom Baker trending? A good enough excuse to trot out this old favourite then.
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Let’s have a Mollie Sugden moment on her Heavenly birthday.
The 1980 Morrisons advert.
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Wow. Disney+ changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark...
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Our amazing Front of House team ahead of York Pride Parade today! 🏳️🌈
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Steve Zodiac and the crew of XL5 must intercept a missile fired by 'Planet 46' in our premiere screening of the #GerryAnderson classic series, FIREBALL XL5 (1962) 2:35pm #TPTVsubtitles
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I absolutely loved spending the day with @PaulCliftonBBC and crew. I loved even more that I was given this opportunity to share my adoration for the brilliant industry I work in. Thank you all for being so supportive! Arlo can’t believe he’s been on telly too! 🦡 ❤️
Meet Bessie. @bessbbe is fab: a hugely enthusiastic @RailFreight driver who wants to encourage more women train drivers. She's a great cheerleader for rail. Oh, and she has written a lovely book for children. She's on @BBCSouthNews later too.
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Lost paw-perty alert! 🐱
A young cat has followed our Service Delivery Team into the Rail Operating Centre in York, on Cinder Lane. We're taking good care of our new feline friend, but is this cat yours?
Drop us a DM and lets get this little guy home❤️
ALT Black and white cat sat on a chair in front of a banner saying 'the service delivery team York rail operating centre'
ALT A close up of the cat with its paw stretched
ALT cat looking up being stroked by a hand
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I pray for the day that live footage of the King’s Coronation goes down and the BBC cuts to this.
Did you know this exists @LaurenLayfield? Test card playing on a loop on channel 471 at @BBCNorthPR. 😂😂😂 @wejustnormalmen
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Getting married this year?
👰🤵 It's 'your' day and you may also share a love for trains, but this doesn't mean that you can break the rules when it comes to safety.
❌ Trespass is illegal - even on your wedding day!
Use level crossings safely:
➡️ networkrail.co.uk/communitie…
ALT Image of a couple dressed in Wedding attire standing on a level crossing for a photoshoot
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It's the 27th anniversary of the Planet of the Apes musical. How'd we write it in one afternoon?
The Simpsons writers room has a rule that should apply everywhere: Never knock down someone else's pitch.
"Crazy" or "dumb" notions can lead to brilliance/be exactly what's needed.
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#OnThisDay 1993: Entertainment on Saturday nights was Noel's House Party. Entertainment Express' Andi Peters met Noel Edmonds on set to talk all things Crinkley Bottom, gunge and, of course, Mr Blobby.
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I love looking back on vintage TV schedules.
Here’s one from this day 1977.
Everything was going swimmingly until 10:45am 😬
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Coronation Street (9th January 1978). Hilda is still annoyed that she missed out on a colour television in the sales, but Eddie has a solution .....
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An interesting find from the Tatler, Apr 35:"The Faster Train-or the railway that got a move on." Published shortly after the LNER loco Papyrus broke the world speed record, it perhaps suggests that there will be surprise at faster trains when people had been used to slower ones
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🦃 Anyone else feel like they've got more turkey to eat now than they did before Christmas Day?
📸 Rail passengers eating Christmas dinner, 1936 (© Daily Herald / National Science & Media Museum / SSPL)
ALT B&W photo through the window of a railway carriage showing six people all with novelty hats on eating Christmas dinner.
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Merry Christmas! Hope everyone has a great day celebrating in whatever way works for you! 🎄🎅
ALT ALT: A graphic showing a hilly landscape in different shades of blue and grey and a turquoise sky. At the front there is a train with a yellow front. There is a purple silhouette of a stag behind a fence and a robin perched on top of the fence. At the bottom of the graphic it reads 'Merry Christmas'
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Here's a page demonstrating the features of early teletext - possibly to show dealers etc. to try and get traction on some interest (1975. h/t @thetvmuseum)
