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Producer of '& Other Films'

[Dan @DanielLongEAP]

Might be worth getting a drink and a snack for this one :)

https://t.co/TS9HGE3rKV

[Talyllyn Railway @TalyllynRailway]

What a weekend we've had celebrating 75 years since we became the World's First Preserved Railway! We hope that everyone has enjoyed travelling on as many "Talyllyn Best Hits" as they could over the weekend.

We'd like to thank our wonderful volunteers & staff...

📸 Owen Hayward

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

There's a bit in the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (written in 1979) where the heroes come upon an intergalactic flight has been grounded for thousands of years.

Its automated systems told it not to launch until it was fully stocked up with lemon-soaked paper napkins, for the comfort of its passengers. But the surrounding civilization collapsed, and the napkins never arrived.

Consequently it put all the passengers into hibernation (waking them once every few hundred years for coffee and biscuits) until such time as another civilization might arise, and restock its lemon-soaked paper napkins.

The Guide is a more accurate and prophetic account of modernity than most Very Serious Science Fiction writers could dream of creating.

[Talyllyn Railway @TalyllynRailway]

On this day in 1951, we became the World's First Preserved Railway.

75 years ago a group of amateurs ran a train, it wasn't a very long train and it only went as far as Rhydyronen - but it became the starting line for the global heritage railway movement, kicking off the idea...

[Peter Mitchell @_bezpilotnik]

Look, I worry we're losing sight of the real story here: that we invited Nick Griffin on Question Time in 2009, he got a courteous but firm dressing-down off Chris Huhne and Bonnie Greer, and then we never had to worry about any of that shit ever again

[Dan @DanielLongEAP]

@GScaleSodor I adore him

[Lou @Skarlouie]

Hi. I’ve written some ramblings about Favourite Characters and Awdry 5! I’d be really pleased if you’d take a look! Cheers!

https://t.co/rwMPC6J7G0

[John Finnemore @JohnFinnemore]

Get dressed, ye merry gentlemen, let nothing ye dismay! For it is Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Christmas, Christmas Day! It’s Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day… It is Chri-hi-hi-hi-hi-hi-histmas day, Chrissymas Day, it is Chriiiiiiiistmas Day!

[Dan @DanielLongEAP]

But if you want a bit of 2025 Christmas Dan, I read Thomas' Christmas Party(!) for the 80th Anniversary Podcast(!) in the Awdry Study(!) earlier this year.

What you can't see, behind the camera, is Ian McCue wedged between a filing cabinet and bookcase.

https://t.co/z4epFbTjhN

[Dan @DanielLongEAP]

I'm glad you enjoy them - feels weird not to be frantically editing tonight tbh. Making those stories ended up very much a part of my Christmas traditions haha

[Communist Piraguero🇵🇷 @CommiePiraguero]

I wanna thank @DanielLongEAP for over a decade of Christmas joy since my elementary school years. It’s been a Christmas tradition to binge watch them every year and they have never ceased to bring me joy. Merry Christmas everyone https://t.co/C8gqe3i4rl

[GScaleSodor @GScaleSodor]

Merry Christmas to all you lovely people! 😄

To celebrate the season, we've released our first ever original story.

Link in the comments 😸

[Jenna Guillaume @JennaGuillaume]

Carl Reiner gave Rob Reiner a copy of The Princess Bride, and Rob Reiner loved it and its father/son love story so much he turned it into a movie (with a grandfather and grandson). Three days before Carl’s death in 2020, he and Rob reenacted the final scene and “As you wish”

[KnapfordHarbour @KnapfordHarbour]

Really proud to have written this with my friend @the_chairlord , it came from an off-handed 'what-if' conversation in a call one night and grew into something really fun! Comments are already removed but please share your thoughts in the community post. See you at the premiere!

[KnapfordHarbour @KnapfordHarbour]

Please join me in about two hours for the premiere of the music I made for The NWR Stories - 1983. This one was a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy a behind the scenes look at how this film was made!

https://t.co/Hj4pogbVAK

[SodorsNWRsteam @SodorsNWRsteam]

On YouTube now!

https://t.co/zVUZ8EoGes

[SodorsNWRsteam @SodorsNWRsteam]

The NWR Stories | 1983

https://t.co/3eg3DwOpLa

[railway200 @railway200]

As part of Railway 200, @HistoricEngland has launched a Blue Plaque in Stroud today, honouring children’s author and creator of Thomas the Tank Engine, the Rev. Wilbert Awdry OBE. He first started writing the Railway Series of books in the 1940s and Thomas is still enjoyed across the globe today. The national blue plaque was unveiled at Rodborough Avenue where the Rev. Awdry lived for over 30 years by his daughter Veronica Chambers.

[Talyllyn Railway @TalyllynRailway]

We just want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has watched for getting 'Sir Handel' to over 100k views!

We're also very excited to say that thanks to the efforts of @Sodormail1992, @PULLMANLINER & @RadioTaGa the video now has accurate Japanese subtitles - ありがとう!

[Dan @DanielLongEAP]

@SleeperAgent01 @TracksideNWR15 I've always thought that Thomas would be enough of a draw on his own to not need other guests :P

[Dan @DanielLongEAP]

@SleeperAgent01 @TracksideNWR15 ...or just put it on some temporary track in the Yard :P

I very much wanted Thomas to visit, but it would have been a logistical and legal nightmare to work out haha

[Dan @DanielLongEAP]

Just found 20 or so of these A3 posters in a folder. I think they were a gift when I left primary school - or perhaps my teachers thought I'd appreciate them more than the bin would..!

I assume it was a promotional thing. Did anyone else see these about?