92 all out. Not a bad innings So long Dickie #RIP

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…

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Deltic 55012 “Crepello” departs Doncaster for King's Cross on grim and gloomy Sunday afternoon in 1980 This loco was withdrawn a year later and cut up at BREL Doncaster in Sept 1981 #Doncaster #Yorkshire 📷 A Walker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

The Lackfield family of Blackley, Manchester, set off on a day trip in the rain, August 1942 (Daily Express/SSPL/Getty).

When the driver of that car parked opposite you in the car park forgets to put his handbrake on. Yeah, that… 😩

It’s an orange club kind of morning…

The best pop. In the world.

Liverpool, 1954 Departure time at Lime Street 📷 Bert Hardy

Why is a tax panic is sweeping through the middle class? I’ll tell you why The likes of the bloody Tories, and Reform, and the Telegraph, and the Mail, and the Express, and the Sun, putting the shitters up everyone who’s willing to listen That’s why

Twitter this afternoon “These days, you get arrested and thrown in jail, if you say you're English, don’t you” These days…

Normally I would be against making prisoners fill potholes, remove graffiti etc, as this work should be done by a person earning a salary However, as there is “no money” and this work clearly isn’t getting done, perhaps it’s time for them to contribute…

This plan has already failed, at the “surplus RAF bases” bit. It’s been tried. Scampton and Linton-on-Ouse are “surplus RAF bases”. The NIMBYs said no. Try again…

It might be a bit late, but I’ve just got in from work. However, it’s still Friday, and that means just one thing… Chippy tea!

The Docklands Light Railway is on strike next month. You know, the driverless DLR, the example always used by the unwashed as a paragon of technology which would, at a stroke, stop striking train drivers “holding the country to ransom” or summat… 😆😏