@elwick70.bsky.social
Yorkshireman. Train Driver. Coffee Mostly photos of trains I’ve driven and the railway I work on, especially the old bits that really should be in a museum. And other things
They’re not reyt in t’ head
02.11.2025 19:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Imagine the right wing filth that resides there
02.11.2025 18:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well, Twitter (sorry for mentioning it) is behaving much as expected…
02.11.2025 18:14 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0😆
28.10.2025 21:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Unlucky. It’s not easy, that’s for sure.
Good luck next time!
😁
23.10.2025 22:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ah, good evening 413. We meet at last
My company for the first half of tonight’s shift will be 66413. That’s all of the 66/4s in my log book now 📕
Finishing the week with a couple of night turns. I like working nights. Nobody around, the world to myself, and I’ll be going to bed just as you lot are getting up for work
That’ll do for me
That’s a shame, although I’m led to believe that account has been closed and reopened again on other occasions. Probably takes a lot of crap from the unwashed.
21.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Night Freight (Condor)
Terence Cuneo, 1960
A Class 28 ‘metrovick’ hauls Condor, a London to Glasgow express container train, the forerunner of today’s Freightliner services
And that’s what I’ll be doing tonight, driving the night freight…
Seems to be correct
20.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Quite
19.10.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I try to avoid it right up to the lights. It just awful
19.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s earlies that kill me. Any job that needs an alarm clock, you can have 😁
16.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I like seeing the distant lights of far off villages, car headlights snaking their way thru the darkness and all that. Most agreeable
16.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very rarely late, us lot. We have the advantage of being able to go early if we’re ready 😉
16.10.2025 20:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Absolutely dark for most of my route, but towns and villages lit up in the distance every now and then, and the lonely headlights of a solitary car…
16.10.2025 20:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m off to Peterborough vis the joint. Only takes 2 hrs but I’ll have a 2 hr layover in a Nottinghamshire loop cos engineering down south somewhere…
16.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Finishing the week with a couple of night turns. I like working nights. Nobody around, the world to myself, and I’ll be going to bed just as you lot are getting up for work
That’ll do for me
Correct 💪
15.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Correct 😁
15.10.2025 19:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Doncaster Railport to Felixstowe, as far as Peterborough
15.10.2025 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That pasty lad’s eating a pasty, but I guess looking as pasty as he does, no one will sit with him…
15.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just one 😆
15.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Tis. It’s even on the internet 😁😉
15.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pasty is one’s complexion when under the weather
Pastie is for eating 😉
Pre-flight checks completed, I’m in possession of the relevant paperwork, and I have coffee and a pastie.
66524 ready for take off!
Very good 😁😉
15.10.2025 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The last one around here has just closed. The old fella died, and it died with him. A mile away from where I live now, in an ex colliery village. Like the one in the article, a literal time machine
Must’ve been an interesting job for the shop fitters who dismantled it
