Top Deck Cat

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Figuring out how humans get around. Sometimes chasing birds up trees.

Me (a cute, cuddly black-and-white cat) sitting at the stop of a railway station staircase. A sign on the railings at the back of the staircase says "Welcome to Jude Bellingham station".
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) at the front of the upper deck of a bus on a city street with railway bridges and a station entrance in the background. We can also see the wall with silhouette murals of greyhounds.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) on pavement, next to a wall with murals of greyhounds. There’s a red London bus in the corner of the picture.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) on a station platform with a Class 466 train departing. It’s another two-track, third rail electrified railway. The other platform has a yellow-brick building. Doors and columns are painted grey with dark blue bands.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) on a station platform with a Class 700 train arriving at the other platform. It’s a two-track, third rail electrified railway. There are modern flats behind the other platform.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) on the pavement next to a bridge parapet alongside a station entrance. A big sign says “Welcome to Jude Bellingham station”. Someone has written “The G.O.A.T” on the sign. Another sign alongside says “This is bridge CAT 480”.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) at the side of a station name sign reading “Jude Bellingham”. I’m at one end of a side platform on a two-track, third rail electrified railway with another side platform for the other track.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) sitting on a bench at a railway station. The big sign says it is Elephant & Castle station. There are lots of tower blocks in the background.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) sitting on the top of a table on a Thameslink train. Through the window we can see a station platform, on a bridge over a wide river. There are other bridges in the background, along with a city skyline dominated by a pointy tower that looks like a shard of glass.
Extract from a musical score showing a descending chromatic scale in several of the instruments.
Me (a cute cuddly black and white cat) sitting on the ledge at the front of the upper deck of a bus. Behind me is the windscreen, through which we can see it's night-time in a city street. The traffic includes a red double-decker bus no. 388 to Stratford City.
Me sitting in front of Greenwich station building. I’m a cute, cuddly black-and-white cat.
Me standing on a capstan in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Behind me is the stern of HMS Victory in her dry dock. In the background is Victory Jetty, part of HM Naval Base Portsmouth. We can see the forward and central superstructures of a Type 23 frigate, the predominantly white funnel badge confirming her to be HMS Portland. It is mostly cloudy but the sun is coming through, low in the sky, behind the two ships.
Me on the planked upper deck of an old but well-cared-for wooden warship. In front of me is a brass plaque reading "Here Nelson fell, 21st Oct 1805". Behind me are two cannons, the gunwhale and the inside of the structure that is protecting this part of the ship from the weather.
Photo of a paperback book. The front cover text says “Arthur Ransome. Swallows and Amazons for Ever! Coot Club and The Big Six. Abridged for the superb BBC TV adventures.” The cover photo is of five boys and one girl, sitting or standing on the cabin of a small boat called “Death and Glory”, on a narrow waterway surrounded by trees.
Me (a cute, cuddly black-and-white cat) standing at the gangway entrance to the gun deck of an old sailing ship. The camera is looking into the ship, which as far as we can see in this picture, looks well-used but well-loved. A nameplate set into the step, just in front of me, says 'Victory'.
Me (a cute, cuddly black and white cat) wearing a naval cap with a tally reading 'H.M.S. Victory'. I'm indoors somewhere with a herringbone wood-block floor.
Me (a cute, cuddly black and white cat) on a lawn with a paperback copy of 'Night Watch' by Terry Pratchett.
Me (a cute, cuddly black and white cat) sitting on the side windowsill of a train cab. The train is green and is under overhead wires. In the background a large office building is under construction alongside the railway.
Extract from a song in a song-book, with crotchet rests written like back-to-front quaver rests.
Photo of a paragraph from a book. It explains that in the early days of Euston there was "land reserved for the Great Western Railway's London terminus. That company planned to bring its Bristol line to a junction with the L&BR near Kensal Green, but there were arguments between the two parties about the terms of the GWR tenancy at Euston and the matter was further complicated by the GWR's determination to use the broad gauge. In the end, the Great Western withdrew and built a separate terminus at Paddington."