Luke Ryan

Sodor Historian | Film Grad | Passed Cleaner & Guard @TalyllynRailway | Media Creator @TalyllynRailway | He/Him | 27 | Keira ♥️ | All views are my own

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

There is such a joy to Ffarquhar Branch.

Everyone who came to see it smiled so much, no matter their age or background.

It is something so special, and I'm so honoured to be involved with it - let alone operate it!

Who else spotted the new addition to the platform?

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@SeaSwine9 A closer look at the tokens & diagram.

We also have a book where times of each train & how they interact with the blockpost are recorded.

Down trains on one page, up trains on the other. Times are when the train was requested, when it entered section & when it is out of section

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

Had a lovely time at Brynglas Blockpost today - and have been passed out as a Blockman! (The TR's version of a signalman)

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@SeaSwine9 The frame with levers for the points at each end of the loop, levers for their locks and a lever for the siding point - as well as a diagram.

The two token machines; red for Pendre - Brynglas and blue for Brynglas - Quarry Siding.

Most importantly though, comfy chairs.

[Josie ♪ @MsBin117]

How does turning point UK still exist and it's members not imprisoned after they hired a paramilitary to straight up assassinate people?

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@jeebis_1 @el_fish_gilly Luke wasn't built in Wales, he'd be English - built in Stoke On Trent

[matt ༼ ◕_◕ ༽🇵🇸 @GhostStoriesEnd]

Trying to understand why a prominent Tory party member organising contract killings isn’t being given wall to wall coverage. The BBC hasn’t even mentioned it on their site.

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@TheJollyGent We also invented the "auto operator" for the block instruments, meaning we can switch a blockpost on or off and the loco crew can operate the machines themselves where no Blockman is present.

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@TheJollyGent We use single line tokens and hand signal the trains with flags, except at Abergynolwyn and approaching Wharf where we have colour lights & discs. Nothing so advanced as track circuits haha.

This video I made a few years ago gives a good overview:
https://t.co/RkPNZOeOau

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@LBSCR106 @t55stepney Stepney would have had one for a number of years, but has never had one certainly in preservation

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@LBSCR106 @t55stepney Stepney doesn't have one

[Luke Ryan @Expl_Cookie]

@t55stepney Glad it wasn't just me...

[Tim Dunn @MrTimDunn]

This bullshit project from Herts County Council isn’t about connectivity: it’s about cost cutting. This crap needs to be challenged. “Trackless trams” are not trams: they’re BUSES. Bouncing bendy buses stuck halfway in traffic; and take away tracks & you take away fixed links.

[Pokémon UK @PokemonNewsUK]

The first permanent physical Pokémon retail store is opening outside of Asia... and it’s coming to London by 2029! 🤩

Learn more: https://t.co/NR2wpoLfQl

[Al Jazeera Investigates @AJ_Investigates]

Coming soon: Al Jazeera uncovers disturbing links between British right wing activists, the far right and loyalist paramilitaries.

#Glasgow #Belfast #London

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

If you or I ran a business that lost 80 billion dollars, is more wrong than right, keeps breaking multiple laws, and literally theeatens all of humanity's existence, we would be under the jail.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

The protests in France started with teachers striking because of underfunding and overcrowding. There were rats in classrooms.

High School students then joined the protests. University students then joined the protests. Then trade unions joined.

The French police violently overreacted.

NONE of this has to do with Muslim people or immigrants. Anyone who says it's a Muslim problem is a lying bigot.

[Rec @Rec_A_Dork]

I feel bad for the Onion writing staff. How are you suppose to make up stuff more ridiculous then this?

[mike ☭ 🇵🇸🔻 @__mike91]

i’ve never seen the british state move like this for anything else. not third of its own children in poverty. not the housing crisis. not the cost of living crisis. nothing.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Nothing to do with borders or immigration.

Reform UK are just a mouthpiece for Trump and Putin at this stage.

Liars. 🤬