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TheCrofter

@thecrofter.bsky.social

Ferroequinologist. Retired Rail Electrification Engineer. Wulfrunian. Not the geezer from Reef. Posting mainly Railway related but occasionally other general stuff. https://linktr.ee/thecrofter

119 Followers  |  133 Following  |  77 Posts  |  Joined: 18.08.2023
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Unusual visitor through Burton-on-Trent as @chilternrailway 165017 works its way back to Banbury on 5Q69 12:48 Doncaster Works Wagon Shops > Banbury Depot

11.12.2025 14:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Similar. Rugeley Trent Valley 2021.

18.08.2025 08:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Same here but a D suffix. Challenged HMRC after first years’ pension with tax who said that’s what DWP informed them. Contacted DWP twice to say they’d given HMRC wrong info - no reply! Happens every year now.

15.06.2025 18:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He’ll be glowing soon 😉

24.05.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

769959 I’m led to believe

13.05.2025 20:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s actually quite good. 👍

12.05.2025 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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12.05.2025 10:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Got to be Erdington / Gravelly Hill on Xcity 🤔

10.05.2025 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Charlotte Owen is related to…

06.05.2025 08:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Junior ISA

02.05.2025 21:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Staffordshire County Council election results as they happen - Lichfield Live® Lichfield Live will be keeping you updated as the results come in for the Staffordshire County Council elections as they happen.

Staffordshire County Council election results as they happen

02.05.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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28.04.2025 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not a bus fan😉

26.04.2025 09:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well I’m one of those statistics from 2019. After 47 years in industry it really was time to go as one voice could not make a difference and in fact our age group were seen as just dinosaurs 🦖. Glad I’m out!

22.04.2025 06:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It is good. Looking forward to series 3.

18.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That’s exactly how it was done when I started on BR in 1972. Inside would have been an army of women cleaners as well.

14.04.2025 21:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sutton Park?

24.03.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also known as an Aldi TT

22.03.2025 17:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Oh the irony 😉

21.03.2025 15:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I meant the Grid Site.

20.03.2025 15:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hams Hall is beauty to behold 😉

20.03.2025 14:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So why did it take a decade to resolve?

19.03.2025 18:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Someone clever did this to a lamppost on Coverdale road and now I am disappointed that every lamppost doesn’t have one

12.03.2025 05:28 — 👍 3985    🔁 927    💬 38    📌 56

Yep. Added to my Home Screen. 👍

11.03.2025 22:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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High-speed freight trains emerge as fresh alternative to trucks in UK The trains are not only much faster than a truck but carry far more, while requiring only a single driver

Was not expecting to see Varamis Rail in the FT. Electric freight 👏👏👏
www.ft.com/content/9a40...

11.03.2025 08:24 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

4 - no phone connected

10.03.2025 09:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Birmingham too😠

07.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Who’s” (i.e. who is) not whose in this context please.

23.02.2025 10:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hope he’s not been embellishing his achievements unlike a certain Rachel from accounts 😉

18.02.2025 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sad to hear but not surprising really. Our kids had their shoes from there many moons ago.

10.02.2025 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0