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Michael Holden

@holdmch

Two-timing refugee from X, to see if I can make this work. 50 years’ rail experience but not quite finished yet. Collected an FCIRO along the way

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Interestingly, I was in Cheam Village the other day and watched a few SL7 buses passing through. This is the old 726 root of course. I was quite taken by just how well loaded they were.

03.01.2026 09:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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With AI this useful, we will surely all be redundant imminently

06.10.2025 18:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very left bank

06.10.2025 07:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Interestingly, all the countries higher than the OECD average are European

25.08.2025 08:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Stratford and Ebsfleet seems like. Great launch concept to me: doesn’t tread too much on E* toes and creates an alternative market. Stratford by rail or Ebbsfleet by car are both better alternatives than the appalling St Pancras for us

25.08.2025 08:06 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I tried, but the article does not appear to contain an entry link, only a link to the Ts&Cs!

25.08.2025 08:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From Tusk this evening. So many good things to say about this photograph!

09.05.2025 22:27 👍 578 🔁 83 💬 19 📌 12
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Thomas Ableman on LinkedIn: Public v Private isn’t the most important question — Freewheeling | 10 comments All my life we've been arguing about public v private. But I don't think it's the most important question. Leadership, partnership, empathy and (for buses!)… | 10 comments on LinkedIn

Worth five minutes of your time www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas...

14.12.2024 23:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’re right, I did. Arghh!

07.12.2024 22:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We find DPD very reliable actually, by far the best of all the delivery companies

07.12.2024 08:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You could ask a well known track engineer perhaps?

06.12.2024 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eugh!

06.12.2024 13:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But it’s no good fast tracking the planning system if there’s no dosh to get on with construction

05.12.2024 22:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Worry not. Our cladding problem on the Hilton in Woking only took four years to sort

05.12.2024 22:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Massive away win for the little fella.

02.12.2024 13:38 👍 57719 🔁 9529 💬 578 📌 366
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Now this is proper snowploughing. Reminds me of one very harsh winter on the Clacton line at Feering when we unfortunately derailed an EMU by driving it into snow as deep as the train itself

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03.12.2024 13:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is there even an alarm setting for something as late as 0845?

28.11.2024 10:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sitting fuming on my SWR train from Alton to Waterloo which should have been turned onto the fast line at Berrylands but wasn’t, this error wasn’t corrected at any of New Malden, Wimbledon or Clapham Jn and now following stopping trains all the way. 🤷‍♂️

28.11.2024 10:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😂

28.11.2024 09:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bit of an awkward name that if she’s an outdoor cat. Imagine calling for her to come in at night 😂

27.11.2024 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Our Pickle really tests us on Vet days by finding new and ever smaller places to hide, which she decamps to the moment the cat flap is closed. We have resorted to closing down rooms to her at the same time to corral her into the kitchen. Horrible humans eh?

27.11.2024 08:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Planes by train. Now there’s a thing

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24.11.2024 22:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Should have seen Gladiator ll instead. Lots of bloody violence of course, but a good story and well filmed

24.11.2024 20:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can you lose on a piano? 😉

23.11.2024 16:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’ve been out in a lot worse than this in your time

23.11.2024 16:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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It’s scary what we need to spend on defence Strategic review is likely to emphasise a military that can respond instantly to threats and attacks but the price tag is huge

Surely this is the UK’s biggest challenge of this decade, and yet there’s no sign that either of the two key houses in Downing Street are even listening

It’s scary what we need to spend on defence

www.thetimes.com/article/cd12...

23.11.2024 13:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It was good to participate in our Connected Leaders alumni event this afternoon in the City. Lots of positivity and energy in the room about the looming changes to the rail industry. But I haven’t had to wear so much clobber out in London for ages!

19.11.2024 22:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I will wait to see the small print of the actual announcement before rushing to judgement

16.11.2024 17:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Interesting point. Of course the one at Guildford is now a M&S Simply Food!

15.11.2024 18:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Well obviously not 😉

14.11.2024 22:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0