Graeme Pickering

On 22 February 1943, 83 years ago today, the Scholl siblings and a friend, all three active in the “Weisse Rose” resistance movement, were murdered by the Nazis.
#NeverForget

Me wearing a dark coat and trousers standing next to a black metal fence in a car park with brown brick building in the distance, alongside the BBC Tees branded radio car with the branding '95.0FM DAB' and below it 'BE PART OF IT'. Vinyled in white the car is missing some of the trim on it's just visible passenger side rear door.

Me in 2013 with BBC Tees's Peugeot 806 radio car, nearing the end of its career, lacking some trim & vinyls. The weight of the mast and broadcast kit made negotiating roundabouts on all four wheels seem difficult even at a snail's pace which was about as fast as they went anyway!

I'll always regard the '91s' as the last generation of ECML racehorses. Elegant, powerful and with their own distinctive character. So looking forward to some more miles behind them before they go.

91114 at #WakefieldWestgate on the 18.19 to #Peterborough #class91 #LNER @lner.co.uk 21/02/26

British Rail Class 37 hauling the sleeper train captured at Auch with Beinn Dorain in view – Fort William line. (1980s) Pic: Dennis Hardley

Passenger Information System screen showing the timetable for our train.

Train dispatch equipment on the platform in Lille Europe.

9167 back to the island again. Arrived Brussels 8 minutes late, left 7 seconds late, entered the Channel Tunnel 2 minutes early.
#TrainLife

Crescent moon 'on its back' with slight cloud in the night sky and trees illuminated by two white street lamps below it. Looking west from the car park at Sainsbury's Team Valley, Gateshead, tonight.

'The moon from Sainsbury's car park'.

Newcastle, 1969, photo by Elliott Erwitt, French-born American photographer, b.1928.

Remembering TV presenter and music impresario Tony Wilson, born on this day 1950 in Pendleton, Salford.

Doncaster, 2017

The 142, 144 and 321 have been scrapped now. Doncaster built 56105, which is over 40 years old, is still in service

Always take photos, however mundane. They’ll be historical documents in 20 years time

#Doncaster #Yorkshire

A chilly morning at Northallerton, but there are plenty of passengers awaiting the service to Kings Cross. Other than that, it’s an AT300…A red and white one…🥱😴
#Azuma #LNER #Northallerton

With a cleared semaphore on the tall bracket at the platform end, Northern DMUs 158861 and 158817 have just departed Appleby working 2H92 Leeds to Carlisle.

Departure from Appleby. 4 January 2026. #railway #photography

57314 ‘Conwy Castle’ tagged onto the rear of the Scarborough Spa Express as it leaves York during summer. Emergency traction power and ETH duties today, just in case Tornado has any issues up front.
#Class57 #Thunderbird #WestCoastRailway #York #ScarboroughSpaExpress

DB 66655 passing through Wandsworth Rd this afternoon 18/02/26 working 6O62 Churchyard Sdgs Tarmac to Angerstein Wharf #class66 #trains #Wandsworth #London #DBCargo

#Lyon #Perrache 🇫🇷 in May 2007: an #SNCF “BB Jacquemin” class 25200 dual voltage electric (with an interesting logo mix on the front) is awaiting departure, ready to work a rake of Swiss #SBB carriages. To the right, one recognises a #Z2 unit displaying a blue regional livery.

Please get him off LinkedIn...

Night night sweet dreamies

Trust your own voice a little sooner, you don’t need to shrink yourself to fit places that were never built for you.
The right people will value your kindness, your quirks, and the way you care deeply about the world around you.

I've lived on Tyneside for 20 years, but only found out the original Northumberland County Hall, now the Vermont Hotel, remained NCC HQ for seven years after Newcastle itself ceased to be in the council's area. It moved to its current Morpeth HQ in 1981.
co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/vermont-hote...

37423 ‘Sir Murray Morrison’ powers along the Mallaig extension near Lochailort with the InterCity Land Cruise Mk1 stock. These white roofed InterCity coaches always looked amazing.
#Class37 #InterCity #MallaigExtension #WestHighlandLine #Lochailort #Scotland #Trainspotting

On this day

Snowplough duty for 31214 and 31302 at Brigg on 16th February 1979.

The greatest problem on this day wasn't the snow but the massive icicles inside the tunnel at Kirton in Lindsey.

© Philip Hewson.

a fluffy cat sits in a tall narrow box

Mr. Cat loves his box.

The loco combo you never knew you needed.

How's this for a timeline cleanse, on a grey & wet Sunday! 👇

#bird #photo #photography #birdphotography #birdoftheday #Kingfisher

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

I never have been a fan. It confuses me why anyone who had done well in a serious journalistic career would bin that for rage bait talk shows and quiz programmes and even more so when they don't really have the personality for it but clearly some people think he's great.

Plushy mouse and mole with red roses and a small heart shaped chocolate box.

“Roses are red,
Moley is Taupe,
He’s cooked something special
For supper, I hope”
says Brenda in vain.
Happy St Valentine’s Day! 🌹

Direct Rail Services #Class68 68002 ‘Intrepid’ hauling #TescoExpress, 4M52 0011 (Middlesbrough) South Bank Tees Dock > Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, at P2 Derby