Time for tea, with an orange Kit-Kat for the win! ☕️ 🫖 🍫

I don’t care what anyone says, the Pipes and Drums sound ace! 🇬🇧 #RememberanceSunday

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…

Do trains feel unsafe? I’ve used trains a lot over the past 30 years, thru work and as a passenger. I’ve never felt “unsafe” Some people I’m wary of, yes. They make me more vigilant, but that’s not train specific. That’s just life Some people suck

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

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

Pre-flight checks completed, I’m in possession of the relevant paperwork, and I have coffee and a pastie. 66524 ready for take off!

We had a cobblers like this in the village I grew up in. I was once tidying a drawer and found a repair ticket from 1976, uncollected. As a matter of interest, I took it back to him, to see if he still had the shoes. He said they’d be ready on Thursday…

New signs fitted, old signs removed… #Doncaster

Today I have been mostly driving 66509 ‘Freightliner Retirement Association’ I think they’re dropping hints…

Early doors underneath the Sheffield Parkway with 66537. Red sky in the morning and all that… But for now, coffee ☕️☕️ #Sheffield #Yorkshire

Cleethorpes, 1976 Two Class 114 DMUs wait for their next duties I remember 1976 being a little sunnier than this photo suggests, but at least there’s blue skies today. So far… And on that note, I’m off to the seaside. If anyone needs me I’ll be in the club 🍻

I’ve got a full tank and I’ve checked me brake I’ve got a full flask and a warm steak bake Off to Peterborough in a bit with the Felixstowe and 66566

66533 is on the Middlesbrough tonight, Railport to Teesport. I’ve just got to wait for the Southampton to arrive then I can put the train together for departure at 0048 At least the rain is holding off while I’m out in the yard… #Doncaster #Yorkshire

New BR branded signage waiting to be fitted at Doncaster

Doncaster, 1980 Sunday workings Deltic 55012 “Crepello” departs Doncaster for King's Cross on grim and gloomy Sunday afternoon in 1980 This loco was withdrawn a year later and cut up at BREL Doncaster in Sept 1981 #Doncaster #Yorkshire 📷 A Walker

A cheeky little night turn to finish the week. Well, I say little. It’s 10hrs 13mins, so is a fair old stretch really. Still, I’d rather do nights than do earlies… My company for this evening will be 66550, and it’s very dark out here! ✨🌙 #Doncaster #Yorkshire

Leeds, 1975 31s and 08s stabled, and a 44 on the wash road at Leeds Holbeck 9T38 and 9T36 are ballast trains. 1A21 is a KGX passenger express #Leeds #Yorkshire 📷 Unknown

Pre-flight checks completed, ready to depart. Jobs a good un. I’m not booked out till after 6 tho, so time for coffee and a sausage roll! #Winning 🚂🟩🟨🟩🟨💨

Liverpool, 1954 Departure time at Lime Street 📷 Bert Hardy

Reform, “We’ll fix the country by recruiting all the people who broke it in the first place…”

Danny Kruger defects as an MP from Tory to Reform. If he calls a by-election then that’s fine. If not, he is the Dishonourable Member for East Wiltshire.

Danny Kruger. Another upper class pied piper taking the working classes to the river of hope to be drowned in false promises… #PoliticsLive

Ok, so it’s been a couple of days now, free speech and all that. Charlie Kirk was a full weight prick. He was far from a hero. Behave yourselves. End of message.

Cleethorpes, 1976 Two Class 114 DMUs wait for their next duties I remember 1976 being a little sunnier than this photo suggests, but at least there’s blue skies today. So far… And on that note, I’m off to the seaside. If anyone needs me I’ll be in the club 🍻

Skinningrove, north Yorkshire, 1972, photo by Roger Mayne.

We are all familiar with the city walls in York below, but Hull and Richmond are two less famous examples in Yorkshire. Hull's wall was built of brick in the 14th century, with 4 main gates and up to 30 towers, the walls were maintained until the early 1700s. They were demolished

Some remarkable gushing from MAGA Americans over the Kirk chap. Our MLK, our JFK, our Billy Graham (what?!) and so on and so forth… I’ll tell you what he’ll be. In a years time he’ll be an answer to a question in a pub quiz. And not everyone will get it right.

I’ve got a full tank and I’ve checked me brake I’ve got a full flask and a warm steak bake Off to Peterborough in a bit with the Felixstowe and 66566

66533 is on the Middlesbrough tonight, Railport to Teesport. I’ve just got to wait for the Southampton to arrive then I can put the train together for departure at 0048 At least the rain is holding off while I’m out in the yard… #Doncaster #Yorkshire

I guess if you say quite openly, in public, that gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for the freedom to carry firearms, then you can’t really complain when you become one of those acceptable gun deaths These things only happen to other people, of course Until they don’t…

New BR branded signage waiting to be fitted at Doncaster

Farage and Tice hate the North. Being arch Thatcherites this much should be obvious As if you needed me to tell you this - If you live in the north, indeed any post industrial town, do not vote Reform You think things are bad now? They will skin you and hang you out to dry

Doncaster, 1980 Sunday workings Deltic 55012 “Crepello” departs Doncaster for King's Cross on grim and gloomy Sunday afternoon in 1980 This loco was withdrawn a year later and cut up at BREL Doncaster in Sept 1981 #Doncaster #Yorkshire 📷 A Walker

The scale of mental gymnastics that cult members will display to excuse and absolve their leader of any wrongdoing is frankly astonishing…

“Misspoke” 🙄 Fucking golden bollocks tho, he’ll get away with it…

Ghost signs “68/DT Change Ends” at Doncaster Railport #Doncaster #Yorkshire

*Turns telly off* 🙄

Once again, the millionaires get away with it, the working class get shafted. Don’t mistake this as a double standard. It isn’t. I just want a level playing field.

Red sky in the morning… #Doncaster #Yorkshire

Ooo, thunder and lightning! ⛈️⛈️⚡️⛈️⛈️ We could do with the rain mind… #Doncaster #Yorkshire

Top of the bill! 🍻 #SundayPint

Me, reading even more tweets about the ever impending automation of the railways…

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…

A cheeky little night turn to finish the week. Well, I say little. It’s 10hrs 13mins, so is a fair old stretch really. Still, I’d rather do nights than do earlies… My company for this evening will be 66550, and it’s very dark out here! ✨🌙 #Doncaster #Yorkshire

Leeds, 1975 31s and 08s stabled, and a 44 on the wash road at Leeds Holbeck 9T38 and 9T36 are ballast trains. 1A21 is a KGX passenger express #Leeds #Yorkshire 📷 Unknown

Pre-flight checks completed, ready to depart. Jobs a good un. I’m not booked out till after 6 tho, so time for coffee and a sausage roll! #Winning 🚂🟩🟨🟩🟨💨

Through The Gate. 20°C after a few rain showers. Rooks