Today in York. Dodging the city's worst flood water. Supping on the city's finest beer water.

It was fun to officially reveal our latest named @lner.co.uk Class 91 loco this morning: "National Railway Museum 50 Years 1975-2025", featuring a stunning livery design by @samjessupdesign.bsky.social, cleverly weaving the NRM and LNER brands whist celebrating the museum's history and its future 🙌

Yesterday, had the thrill of my livery design work unveiled on the famed turntable in the Great Hall at the National Railway Museum, celebrating 50 years of this great institution, on an @lner.co.uk Class 91. Huge thanks to @gawuffy.co.uk for the incredible effort to bring the design to the rails!

When in Knaresborough... a pint and a Turbostar. Nice beer, noisy company! 🍻😉👍

Aaaannddd relax. The start of another (very long) camper weekend is ahead - from our first stop at Poolsbrook near Chesterfield, we're bound for Knaresborough, Harrogate and York. Have a great weekend all! ☀️😎👏👍

Another Sam Jessup Design branded fleet hits the rails - LNR's 730 internal and external branding was developed by me and the talented team at West Midlands Trains back in late 2018... from design brief to track takes a few years! Great work LNR & Alstom ❤️👍

A proper railway legend... in front of a Class 91! Incredible work by you and the LNER team as always, Gareth! 😎👍

A fabulous museum curated by the wonderful Tim Dunn has opened on board 1A30! He's seen chatting to Paul who has worked these trains since their introduction in 1989. Check out that InterCity 225 phone brought for the occasion by Aidan, our lovely Admin Assistant! #225Day

Today is the first ever #225Day celebrating our InterCity 225 fleet. These East Coast stalwarts have carried generations over millions of miles since 1989. To mark the occasion, we're proud to unveil that 91106 has been named 'Swallow' after the iconic InterCity emblem of grace and speed.

Behold, the newly named Class 91! #225day 91106 “Swallow” 📷 Alex Hay

What a stunning day for it too! Nameplate (and 225 day logo) designed by me, on behalf of LNER, with a little quirk... Different nameplates on each side, so the swallow icon sits on the 'leading edge' of the plate, pointed forwards, as it used to be on the original Inter-City 225 livery 😉👍

Just discovered the name of the local farm round the corner from where I live. Should I be worried? Or rather, should my innie be worried? #severance

Today's Photos from the Stour 📸 196101 & 196105 form 5T01 from Tyseley To Wolverhampton and back. Interesting sight an 8 car 196 👀 #DOTS #railwayphotography #trainphotography #class196 #CAF #westmidlandsrailway

Wandering into Wipers... paying my respects 🇬🇧❤️🇧🇪

Trains designed and built for Grand Central. Not hand-me-downs. If anyone needs me, I'll he picking myself up off the floor in shock. Seriously, I kinda love that lil' TOC... yes, I know it's Arriva behind it... but it's great to see the brand aiming to survive the all-encompassing GBR monolith.

It's cool, it's colourful, it's Kukenhoef... the power of flowers, looking stunning in the Dutch sunshine 🇳🇱☀️💐

Uuuuuu-trecht... what a beauty of a city! ☀️😎👍

Bye bye Blightly! Off on a week of Dutch/Belgian adventures... unfortunately not likely to feature too many trains but I'm sure I can squeeze a one or two in here or there... 🇳🇱🇧🇪☀️🚢👍

I'm a big fan of brave and different transport design, and this is different. And brave. And frankly, more than a little bit stunning. There's something about that Condor livery, when their aircraft are all lined up like this, it just looks... where'd I put my "chef's kiss" emoji?

Loved this vid, but it was weird to see the Virgin/LNER Mk3 interiors I led through design of, being used across the atlantic! Nice that HSTs are getting a spot of retirement/reuse in the Mexican sunshine 🇲🇽☀️👍

Been desperate to get my hands on one of these so finally!... an OO gauge Hornby version of my Virgin NRM40 livery, from 10 years ago. Loved designing this loco, the reaction it got from the press and public, and paying tribute to 40 years of the fantastic National Railway Museum!

One of the most spectacular railway journeys I've ever done - a proper bucket list experience - you really get to understand just how incredibly massive, magnificently beautiful and utterly beguiling those United States truly are. 🇺🇲❤️👍

Flashback to when red, radical 225s ruled the roost at KGX. As much as I miss my design days at Virgin Trains, it's heartening to know there's new brands and new faces (plus new trains) taking the industry to new creative places. And heck, that 225 does look good in its new/retro LNER outfit, too 😎😉

Endlessly waiting for the summer, for more road tripping adventures with my two favourite things in the world... my camper and my wife (not necessarily in that order btw!) 🚐🌤😎👍

One of the greatest reinventions of an iconic railway livery I've ever seen - using the best of the past to create something just as stunning for the future - you should be rightly proud of this fabulous bit of work Gareth 👏👏👏

March 2016 (8 yrs ago) my photo of the first Azuma to receive any form of branding, rolling out of North Pole depot (not your usual ECML location!) A red and racy launch livery designed by yours truly; shape elements of which still exist in the current Azuma livery, minus the "V" word of course 😉

Meet the train drivers behind LNER's push to get more women in the driving seat @lner.co.uk uk.news.yahoo.com/meet-train-d...

My wife is knitting every day in March to raise money for Alzheimers Research. She made me socks. Pineapple-coloured socks. They are awesome. And so is my wife. ❤️👍

Digging through files for a design project today, I happened across this little gem - back from when East Midlands Trains was becoming East Midlands Railway, I had a personal attempt at a logo/icon which could work for the new brand, while bringing back the 'stag' iconography of Midland Mainline 👍

Yep, looks pretty darn smart to me. Subtle changes to allow for modern visibility compliance, but still a absolutely cracking effort. Well done Southeastern, a nice way to celebrate an iconic rolling stock, colour scheme and Rail 200 too! 🔴🔵⚪️👍 (Photos nabbed, with thanks, from Rail Advent)

Today's FB memory from 2016... the Virgin launch of a new "Flying Scotsman" alongside the original steamy version, in the big glass shed at King's Cross. Was proud to be a key part of the team that delivered VTEC's Scotsman, and nice to know 91101 still carries the rather fetching nameplate too!

A thing of beauty... lovely work (launched yesterday) from New York's Metro-North Railroad, bringing the original New Haven scheme to a modern loco - the fifth in the company's heritage fleet - they've also got one in the iconic 1954 "NH" New Haven livery too 🇺🇲 😎 👍

37 years ago tonight, at 2200 on 14 February 1988, British Rail signed off the formal acceptance for the first Class 91. That very locomotive, now numbered 91101, was in service with @lner.co.uk today. Here it is ready to work a rake of Mark 3 coaches to Leeds in June 1989, captured by Carl Looker.

Portis-ahead! Good news! I know the fine people of the town have been campaigning for this for a LONG time (I've a good friend born and raised there who has never seemed to stop waxing lyrical about getting services back on that line) 👍

You know you're a nerd when you're sat in Morrisons car park (which happens to be opposite the line out of Leamington Spa station) pointing out to your wife the difference between a Class 220 Voyager and a Class 221 Super Voyager. Why did she marry me? Must be for the rolling stock knowledge obvs. 🤓

Personally kinda expected it, given Chiltern's own house livery is/was essentially a tweaked version of Network Southeast (inherited from the Class 165 fleet they got in 1996). Considering it's a rail brand that's outlived so many, it's a shame the overall identity has always felt a bit disjointed 🤔

Well, Liverpool was loverly. Highly recommended for a British city break. Lots to see, fascinating history, good food, friendly folks, and really not that expensive. It was boss, la.

When in Liverpool... all together now... 🎶 We all ride on a (swiss-built, darth-vader-styled, thoroughly-modern, quiet-and-smooth) yellow Merseyrail train, a yellow Merseyrail train, a yellow Merseyrail train 🎶 (with musical apologies to McCartney and co... and my fellow passengers)

Scouse street art. It's proper boss.

Lovely building sighted. Correction... Liver-ly building sighted.

A cheeky weekend in Liverpool has gifted me the chance to dig into a bit of unique railway history, the Liverpool Overhead Railway. Opened in 1893 and running for 7 miles along Liverpool's iconic Mersey, it was the second electric metro system in the world and hugely popular in its heyday...

Seen one of these? It's likely you have! A one-off design I did for BT Openreach (via Stewart Signs) quite a few years ago, for their 'small' new fleet of electric vans. Safe to say the fleet has expanded since then - I see these vans everywhere - it's probably my most used bit of vehicle design! ⚡👍

#OnThisDay 93 years ago, the first of Harry Beck's revolutionary and iconic pocket Tube diagrams were handed out at Baker Street. Rejected at first, a limited trial run of 500 were distributed in 1932 before full adoption in 1933. @ltmuseum collection https://buff.ly/3Pygr64

While I'm here in Brum for the week, my lovely wife is away in our fantastic VW campervan - so I'm just longingly reflecting on our visit (just before Christmas '24) to one of our favourite places in Europe, the gorgeous nation of Denmark - can't wait to get back on the road again soon! 🇩🇰 🚐 ❤️

Good news! The Sprinter is a little past its use-by, so fingers crossed someone has their thinking caps (and sensible hats) on for this one. We need to take the Sprinter's legacy and usably across routes but package it in something new, accessible, green and customer-friendly. Good luck Northern!

Spending a week in the second city (Brum) catching up with design projects - although the main attraction, to be honest, is wandering round the city and seeing my little blue wonders buzzing about - WMM exterior livery, interior signage style and interior moquette origination by yours truly! 💙 👍

This is a fascinating watch, when BBC Inside Story followed British Rail staff working InterCity services between Leeds and London during the winter of 1990/91. The staff and their stories here as they reflect on the past and look to the future are wonderful. youtu.be/H1XIrHcV6dA?...

After yesterday, that's 3 special liveries completed for LNER - all of them truly impactful and well-recieved by both the business and customers - if you're interested in any more of the vast array of rail design work I've done over the last decade, check out my website (link in profile) 👍

Wonderful to unveil our ‘Darlington’ @lner.co.uk Azuma train today, to celebrate the town’s world-changing contribution to the railway throughout the years, in this #railway200 year when we’re marking the bi-centenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway! @railway200.bsky.social