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Essex based Train Driver, Cat Dad and Cyclist. Love going on holiday and spending time with my gorgeous wife 😊 Former National List Match Official and GB Age Group Duathlete. Chelsea FC and Boston Red Sox fan. London Marathon class of 2026
801215 seen at #Doncaster heading to #EdinburghWaverley #Azuma #class801 @lner.co.uk 11/03/26
PHWOARRRR!
37508 bellows as she heads for Chaddesden Sidings with a track machine.
#Class37 #ThrashMachine #SteelCityDoggoPhotography
Gorgeous 😻
Greater Anglia wins four national awards for punctuality and reliability, achieving a “quadruple treble.” New trains, focused teams, and work with Network Rail have helped several routes exceed 95% on-time performance.
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Since it seems bsky users like sunsets, here's another one while enroute to DCA this evening on an E175. #avgeek #sunset
#OnThisDay 174 years ago the West Cornwall Railway opened from Penzance to Redruth, partly over the mainly mineral 1837 Hayle Railway. Extending to Truro that August, it was isolated until connecting to the Cornwall Railway at Truro in 1860. A busy Penzance in July 1982: Clive Smith buff.ly/FKSeozp
Railfreight Coal sector liveried 56069 eases its fully loaded merry go round out of Gascoigne Wood. Working round the clock to feed the voracious appetite of Ferrybridge, Drax, and Eggborough power stations!
#Class56 #Grid #BritishRail #RailfrieghtCoal
Morning. Camborne today, where 47752 is on a parcel train from Penzance. It's 23 April 1992. 📷©️ George C Richards. Click the link to see his Flickr selections.
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Day 3/4 and it’s a safety brief day in Stratford. 10 o’clock start so I’ve had a bit of a lie in.
Good morning you lovely lot. Hope you are feeling good today and have a great Wednesday 😊
George is sort of on Sara’s lap this evening #catsofbluesky
Hello? Is that the British Transport Police? I wish to report something that doesn't look right - hell, as a Brit, it's pretty much a hate crime. 🤢😩 #SeeItSayItSorted
🐧 🏴 Penguins pick out pebbles painted by children in hospital
Gentoo penguins at Edinburgh Zoo have been picking out pebbles hand-painted by children at a nearby hospital to present as a gift to a mate. The species is known to gather stones during breeding season to build nests
Goddamn micromanagers!
With echos of the ‘80s, 31128 passes March on 5L31 Chaddesden Sdgs to Yarmouth C.H.S. 10.3.26
After a scheduled wait in platform 4 at Leicester, 31128 'Charybdis' moves slightly south of the station to then reverse into the carriage sidings on 0K31 from Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings. (09/03/26)
Today's #BRNostalgia remembers #Euston as it was in loco-hauled days back in 1990 when engines were regularly stabled inside the station between duties. paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p651486993/e... #railways #photography #nostalgia
After being attached to 515 at Colchester earlier, 720553 is ready to lead it on 1N16 to Clacton
Morning. Like a fool I missed St Erth, so we've gone back to it. Here is D1061 WESTERN ENVOY on an ECS move. It is 4 August 1974. 📷©️Arnie Furniss. Click the link to see his Flickr selections.
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50020 ‘Revenge’ stands forlorn in the scrapyard at Booth’s in Rotherham. With many miles under its belt, a no doubt a flashover or two, its time was almost up. A sad goodbye to what was one of my personal favourites.
#Class50 #Hoover #Booths #Scrap #Rotherham #BritishRail
It’s turning into a lovely morning as 720515 sits at Harwich Town ready to work 1A19 to London
Railways are so beautiful... 🥰
It’s not quite so grey and misty this morning in Harwich. 720515 is my unit this morning and it’s the middle one of these 3
'Ah the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
You came home without Lili Marlene'
- 'Famous Blue Raincoat' by Leonard Cohen (1971)
- 📷 Wood Green, 1969, taken by Trevor Ermel
31128 'Charybdis' with 50008 'Thunderer' in tow heads south of Leicester on 0D08 Leicester Carriage Sidings to Burton Ot Wetmore Sidings via a run around at Wigston North Junction. (09/03/26)
Covered Bridge #Photography
=> #TER sur la => #lignedesAlpes reliant Gap à la vallée du Rhône visiblement en fin d'hiver. La => #BB67400 est en plein effort à hauteur de #LaFressinouse (05) vers Veyne. Pas de date.
📷Loris 05, source : www.fnaut-paca.org
Today’s historic pic: Exactly 40 years ago today, double-ended streamliner B74 in VicRail tangerine and silver ‘Teacup’ livery hauls a VLine train away from Spencer Street station, Melbourne, March 10 1986. Six-month-old N451 and one of her early N class sisters (N452-N457) are visible at right.
Still quite sore today so will be resting after work. Very frustrating but a couple of days off shouldn’t hurt.
Day 2/4 at work, 05:23 to 13:43. Pass to Harwich, get one out of the yard and take it to Harwich Town before working it to London and back to Clacton. I then have a break and either bring back another empty train or pass home 👍