First train journey of 2026 at last.😂

A wander around the yard at Bescot on January 27th 1990 featuring 20019, 47117, 58007 and 85109.

Out of the house for the first time since I broke my leg.😀

Schrödinger's carriage, either that or the train is having an existential crisis.

Going through some old pictures earlier, here's a picture of the Gosport Ferry outside the Houses Of Parliament in 2017!

The world's fastest rhino arriving at Heathrow in November last year!

A typical afternoon at Havant Junction back in 1999.

Tuesday starts with a T and so do these lesser known stations! Tile Hill, The Lakes, Trehafod and Town Green!

There's much less colour in the skies these days, white seems to be the de facto base livery for most airlines. It wasn't always like this however, British Midland at Heathrow, United Airlines at Los Angeles, Northwest Airlines at Phoenix and Pacific Blue at Sydney pictured here.

An Iveco bus trundles down Imperiali Fori in the shadow of the Colosseum in Rome back in 2017.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

A Summer Suffolk day out in June last year. 720115 at Roydon, 720556 at Newport, 720586 at Sawbridgeworth and 745109 at Bishops Stortford.

Twenty one years ago today, Thai Airways HS-TGG climbing out of Heathrow destined for Bangkok.

Coalville Open Day on June 4th 1988, this is the only surviving picture from that event but at least it's a reasonable one. 14029 or D9529 in old money in a fresh coat of BR Blue.

Tranquility, sunset at sea from the Sunset Bar on MV Britannia.

Four from July 1995 and an All Line Rover, 101680 at Manchester Piccadilly, 303021 at Glasgow Central, 465026 at Waterloo East and 142024 at Middlesbrough.

Looking out of the window on the long flight home from Singapore to London in June 2006 which also included a medical diversion to Mumbai thus making it a seventeen hour flight!

158773 at Manchester Piccadilly back in July 1999.

It's the seventh of the first so it must #701Day. Here's a quartet of them in Hampshire. 701005 at Southsea, 701011 at Sway, 701019 at Marchwood and 701060 at Southampton Central.

Proud mother watching her little one prepare to take flight!

Day three: *Boredom intensifies*

43071 coasting through Eastleigh with 43101 at the front on January 20th 2001 with 1S39 1120 Bournemouth-Edinburgh.

701026 arriving to Guildford on December 28th.

Unfortunately 2026 has gotten off to a rather rubbish start for me.🙄 Hopefully I can be back on my feet again later next month.

Happy New Year to everyone on here!

222017 at Loughborough back in March 2014.

450094 & 450012 at Portsmouth Harbour, they’re my units right through until 2315 tonight.

That’s 450016 safely deposited at Southampton Central and the end of my work for the day.

After a very pleasant week off it’s time to start paying bills again, off to Waterloo with 450083 & 450014 first.

The hotel view is better than last time.😀

Day three of three starts with 158748 & 158750 in the low level platforms at Southsea.

Off to London next with 444019 from Bournemouth.

Today starts with 450022 over to Southampton from Southsea.

377460 stands under the light of the Spinnaker Tower on this damp night in Portsmouth.

Starting the day by passing to Guildford then working the same train to London.

158750 & 158766 in Southsea with a Cardiff service this morning.

508120 arriving at Town Green on December 5th 2022 with a service to Hunts Cross.

G-VATL pictured arriving in Hong Kong back in February 2005 ready to take me to Sydney for a few days.

Autumn colours in full effect this month.

450078 & 450016 from Fratton to the harbour and is all I’m doing today on my spare shift, seen here at Portsmouth Harbour adjacent to 450063 on the 1739 to Havant.

Eight years ago in the last half hour of the long flight from Bangkok and we were flying over @barryh71.bsky.social country with Felixstowe and Harwich down below.

321320 & 321425 side by side at Liverpool Street in August 2017.

Back to Portsmouth with 450067 to finish my day.

Costa Coffee looks to be on fire here in Southsea.😔

And now for a trip to Southampton with 450031.

Starting the day with a couple of Havant shuttles, 450086 & 450007 are my chariots.

Day two of seven is a wet one, 444013 stands in the rain at Fratton.

Vietnam Airlines A350 VN-A892 arriving into Heathrow earlier this month, another visit to the airport is booked in for next month!

207017 wits in platform six at Salisbury on Valentine Day in 1989 ready to work a service to Portsmouth Harbour calling at all stations.

458535 leaving Waterloo earlier this month.