Culdee Fell

British fan of things

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

Congratulations. A literal "no true Scotsman" argument

[Fergie @Fergie_CJ]

@SuzJamieson @revconundrum Agreed, but I'd say we've never fully had "Scottish politicians". We've had UK politicians who only look south, whose ambition is London and the Lords. We need genuinely Scottish politicians, who represent their areas fully.

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

Never realised before, the Railway Series has over 1000 illustrations.

That's a lot of pictures

[Sam™ (BigMistake) @BigMistakeYT]

For confirmation, this guy is joking.

The REAL 204th illustration is this one, as we can see, there is no Mavis in sight.

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@halfbakedhex8 @t55stepney Yup. WH Smith sold off all their high street shops (which weren't making money) and kept their airport/ train station/ motorway services ones (which were)

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@reddestroyer05 Love how this thread still pops off every so often

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

The absolute... no, never mind

[🍄 Ry121🕸️ @Ry121_OUTATIME]

Unpopular opinions on the goat

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

2026 will be the first year since 2004 with no new Doctor Who episodes (other than recovered episodes of The Daleks' Master Plan)

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@KumataJDG Double decker buses were definitely common at that time

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@Tramway_Customs @farawayquarry13 SiF started in 2002, so no, these aren't comments from the 90s, they're from a few years later in the 2000s

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@CTFEologist @Vincente22films Are you a "Friend Of Endock"?

[Hugo @farawayquarry13]

i wonder what the early Thomas fans thought of season 4 and 5 when they aired...

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

Do you ever think about how wild it is that Mitton and Cardona created a show set in America with a major group of characters called the "zed stacks"?

[Winnerd6 @Winnerd62]

Unpopular Opinions: Tugs edition

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

Would probably be more highly regarded by critics if he'd stopped after book 12

[The Lone Coach @TheLoneCoach]

Unpopular Opinions on The Railway Series.

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@reddestroyer05 @Streakofscarlet This instantly makes the book better.

Trim the last page of Sneeze (it's basically an epilogue for the book), but otherwise you're good

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

The fact this isn't common knowledge is the single biggest tell that most fans online today didn't grow up with the books

[Racing Chase (The F.E.) @CTFEologist]

him being a blatant red scare allegory should be way more common knowledge than it is and shouldn’t have to be explained because it is extremely obvious from just reading the actual story

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@tehflyingkipper I've just realised what a fun job it must have been for one model maker to be told to build a frog to scale with the human characters but with posable jointed limbs

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@reddestroyer05 @01Salty1 Brilliant thread. I love how Awdry kept tweaking it

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

A suggestion, if I may. Since the Ffestiniog and Talyllyn railways will now be the same gauge, perhaps the Cambrian Coast line from Tywyn to Portmadog could be converted to dual gauge to allow engines to travel between the two lines under their own steam?

[Talyllyn Railway @TalyllynRailway]

based on the 1960s retro BR look, will be issued this season

🛤️ In line with policy and to enable full stock inter-compatibility, we will be regauging to the new GLWR standard narrow gauge of 1 ft 11 ½ inches, or more correctly, 597mm

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@Skarlouie Guns vs Frocks

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@halfbakedhex8 The loop line is the best example of this. We all "know" it's not canon because the creator said it wasn't. Even though it's in the text of James the Red Engine, which is unambiguously part of the canon

[Culdee Fell @CuldeeF]

@halfbakedhex8 Almost uniquely, when Thomas fans talk about Railway Series canon they are, generally, describing the creator's attempt to tie everything together in a consistent headcanon, rather than describing the body of published work.