Ben Cowdell

Rail travel enthusiast. Practises art of being terribly nice to people/one another. You could too, you know. He/him/that old fool.

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@brownliberite I increasingly wish the Department of Economic Affairs slayed the dragon of the Treasury in the 60s.

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@brownliberite The fuel crisis of 1947 says hi, although 1962’s big freeze begs to differ.

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@ReviewofDeath #anitadeservesbetter, dammit

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@ReviewofDeath We are gathered here today to pay respects to subtext, which made the supreme sacrifice to truncated colour and noise. I would conduct the memorial service, if I could hear myself think. Ah well. If it makes some people happy. *keeps the shovel clean, ready for the next one*

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@WheezingPod Insert my usual joke about how much it costs to use T-Mat if Peter Butterworth was in charge. Something old-timey cinema about this one with the run-arounds with the Ice Warriors, must be the plonky music. 65 heating bills.

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@WheezingPod Dicks’ first hurrah, cobbling together whatever he and Hulke could, stretching it beyond all story tolerances to avoid a no show testcard. Not one to binge, but it’s a perfect slow burner. All are on fine form. 85 Troughton gurns (sorry if it’s the wrong scoring denomination!)

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@Bathonian581 @railnigel “High Speed in our time”?

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@daemonsmatt Godspeed on an excellent adventure!

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@WheezingPod Doctor Who and Porridge. A drinking game connected with the prison cells in this story ends in liver failure. It's a slow story about politics with an occasional gun fight. And never mind the orange bin-bag monster. 68 Bananas.

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@WheezingPod Revenge: 'emotionless' Christopher Robbie, once the Karkus in the Mind Robber, takes up the Cyberleader role, making it his own with some homosexual undertones (hands on hips etc). 3rd of Carey Blyton's three "soundtracks"; mashing sci-fi with wind instruments! 65 Gold Bars/100.

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I've visited all of England, Wales and Scotland's railway stations (got to within 500 metres of three mothballed stations no-one wants to make an effort to close). Only took seven/twelve/seventeen years. I think there was a Loco Motive behind it. Silly old fool.

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@daemonsmatt Thanks for being a nostalgic hindsight, a realisation that, actually, we've always had it so good.

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@daemonsmatt ♪That's how the trouble all began...♪ (good trouble btw)

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@NathanTBatWaver Enjoy the rest of them down the Uckfield line. Who needs uniformity? 😜

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@TobyHadoke @dwpday @TNeenan @ItsJohnRain @WheezingPod @MrPLitchfield Quadrangle

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Vote for a box of wasps wearing a top hat.

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@NickBadley It’s been 7 years since I “started”, and I’ve only got the Leven branch left to complete.

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@ReviewofDeath Unfortunately, social media has defeated the mantra of “if you’ve nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.”