Even more excitingly, I get to wear PPE, like a proper grown up, or George Osborne
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Oh, there's the abandoned station
@AprilPreston_ was telling me aboutpic.twitter.com/Ypn0KamCK2
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Dr Who's not the only one getting a new costume todaypic.twitter.com/jTI6kIksD6
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Slightly disturbed they had trousers that fit because I don't remember telling them my size. Does Network rail keep records of these things?
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The arch is apparently asymmetrical though it's hard to tell from herepic.twitter.com/VNiDaOjGjT
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The little downward bit at the far side is purely aesthetic: way of linking the arch over the river with the flat bridge over the ring road
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One of the guys who worked on it was saying they should light it up. Make it a new Mancunian landmarkpic.twitter.com/mF94LWWsAl
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BONUS CONTENT: Manchester Liverpool Road, arguably the world's first intercity station, is now a museum. Here's the booking officepic.twitter.com/U07fAWiJXf
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When they first built the railways, some people worried that the horses would all be unemployed.pic.twitter.com/Cq2dyHiJjr
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When they rebuilt London Road, they renamed it Piccadilly. The Times hated it.pic.twitter.com/3JfLo7pDLb
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(Although TIL that Deansgate was originally Knott Mill, which is a vastly better name for the station IMO)
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Last one: a tiny model of the new chord. Right. Back on the train to London.pic.twitter.com/QMnfBcEd96
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