Martin Cowgill

Ffestiniog Railway Society Membership Secretary / Registrar, road cyclist, Railway photographer, Suffolk. Modelling narrow gauge railways in 009

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Name a better engineer than a London beaver. We’ll wait. 🦫

These incredible creatures were reintroduced to the city and have already stepped up to stop flooding at a Tube station and restore local habitats. Nature is healing (and civil engineering).

https://t.co/t3nLEbQwkR

[Martin Cowgill @m_cowgill]

I stand with the PEOPLE vs @elonmusk.

I’m pledging to donate every time he tweets.

Which side are you on?

https://t.co/7kISiDoqiU

[Martin Cowgill @m_cowgill]

@TheLastLeg #isitok that the new president of rugby league has banned scoring?

[British Cycling @BritishCycling]

“There’s something to gain here, not something to lose.”

Ahead of tomorrow’s world championships, @_katiearchibald chats to @guardian_sport about a challenging couple of years, her injury recovery and how @EmmaFinucane123 has offered her a fresh perspective on racing!

Read ⬇️

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

1/This little sentence, in an article about neonics, is a real kick in the guts to every researcher who works so hard to warn our governments and the public of danger

Happily, there are lots of ways for scientists to help catalyse action, even if our warnings are ignored

🧵

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

“I’ve quoted this at length because this could again be the most important man on the planet, talking about the most important issue the planet has ever faced….”

https://t.co/1V57jzBKFc

[Martin Cowgill @m_cowgill]

40113 draws to a halt at Leeds with an excursion train, the train-heating boiler venting steam. 2nd May 1981 #FortiesonFriday

[Martin Cowgill @m_cowgill]

40076 departs northwards from Skipton with a coal train for Kingmoor, 26th August 1981. Black Five 5305 waits in the dock for the Cumbrian Mountain Express #fortiesonfriday

[Andy Burrows @andywburrows]

Tonight at @O2Arena__ with @KTTunstall
See you tomorrow night Leeds ❤️
📸 @charlescyoung

[road.cc @roadcc]

“We have sadly raced our last race”

Lifeplus Wahoo, the only British team to take part in the Tour de France Femmes, collapses, two months after 14 bikes stolen at Tour of Britain in raid described as “absolute hammer blow”
https://t.co/hRvtm1Xy4X #cycling

[* Erin @MadHymek323]

* Sir Handel was so puffed up from the attention yesterday that he kept stopping to make us take photos

[Graeme Pickering @PickGS]

From the @EurophoenixLtd Facebook page in the last hour. Something to brighten the Monday evening of any 'Tractor' fan...

[Peter Walker @peterwalker99]

Among the many questions this raises, why *is* a London-based drinks mixer company co-sponsoring the Republican National Convention?

@FeverTreeMixers

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Very speedy from Labour! They have already removed the footnotes from the onshore wind section of the NPPF so that new windfarms can be build! Must have been so satisfying to press ctrl alt delete https://t.co/2XjHisdUk0

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

NEW: another fascinating external appointment as Lord Peter Hendy, chair of Network Rail (and former head of TfL) - who *was* a crossbench peer - becomes minister of state in the transport department

[Martin Cowgill @m_cowgill]

@mark_townend @railnigel The cylinder position was a result of reusing the existing valve gear including the P2's connecting rod along with a desire to use the same length con rods on both the inside and outside cylinders to give identical valve events across the divided drive.

[Ben Canham @wweisawesome123]

As for someone who is autistic I find this
completely disgusting and outrageous
Reform UK are not only racist and fascist
but also discriminating against those who
are on the autistic spectrum let’s not
forget around 200,000 thousand people
with disabilities died in the holocaust
it started with attitudes like these.

[Mathew Mitchell @MatMitchell30]

Katie Archibald is out of this year's Olympic Games - the Scottish rider suffered a broken ankle this week and has required surgery on it

That injury will mean she is unable to participate in Paris, a huge shame for her and 🇬🇧 medal hopes

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

Honestly - a few of the replies to this little tribute to engineering excellence exhibit a level of stupidity that suggests to me that it won’t be long before our spacecraft are the only thing that remains of our increasingly dim-witted civilisation. Until recently my guess has been that the answer to the Fermi Paradox might be found in biology - complex biological systems are rare. I’m increasingly of the view that the reason for The Great Silence is that civilisations are inevitably crushed by the weight of nobheads shortly after inventing the internet.