Happy Easter/Shunter Sunday everyone! ❤️

There’s no easy way to explain this, my train seems to have grown a beard 🤔

Seeing as today is April Fuels Day here’s a photo of the refuelling point at the depot 😊

Good morning and welcome to Suspicious Monday! The morning we wake up and are suspicious of the first clock we see as we can’t remember if it’s showing the right time or not 🤦‍♂️

I’ve been getting milk delivered for 4 years now so you’d think I’d have started remembering and stopped going out the front door and kicking all the bottles over by now 🤦‍♂️ Ho hum, here’s a fabulous looking train!

As today is technically my weekend I requested a full day of sunshine so you know what that means… coats on everyone! 😂

The railway gods have been watching over me this week 🤔 A few days ago the train in front of mine was sadly involved in a fatality and then last night a tree fell onto the tracks moments after I passed it! Feeling very grateful right now 😊

I knows that nose 🤔

Yesterday featured the greatest run across London I’ve ever had! Green signals the entire way from Shenfield to the Street 😊 Marvellous!

I made it safely through day one back at work after annual leave with no disasters! Round of applause for me please, thank you 😊

Tis the final day of annual leave today ☹️ I mustn’t complain though as it’s been a lovely week and I’ve made some wonderful memories. Have a great Saturday wherever you go 😊

SITREP: I’m at least 90 percent full of cake and this stunning thing is running around the countryside. Things in this part of Norfolkland are looking pretty good 😊

I’ve done the weekly shop, shall we see what I remembered? Bread… ❌ Milk… ❌ Something for dinner… ❌ Nameplate for a steam locomotive ✅

Happy St Patrick’s Day everyone! I hope today brings you good luck and even better food 😊

In a crazy, unpredictable world it’s nice to find some familiar things you can depend on. Oh look, a Class 37! 😊

That cheeky wink is definitely saying “come drive me 😉”

If you’re feeling that now Monday has arrived the weekend has hit the buffers don’t despair 😊 there’s another one only a few days away 😇

To all the incredible women I’ve been lucky enough to know, Happy International Women’s Day!

I’m miffed I missed World Book Day apparently. I was going to dress as the Train Driver’s Rulebook 🤔 I’d just need to wear something very heavy, be awkward to move about and keep randomly getting changed every few hours 😇

I met a fascinating chap today who started life on the railway working on these for British Rail! He was very impressed by the cab of my Stadler, particularly the air conditioning and sausage roll holder 🙂

Some idiot (possibly me) threw away my flask and carefully packed the paper cup from Costa in my work bag… I’m blaming these early shifts 🤦‍♂️

Today is my first early so I’m ready to leap into action like a coiled spring… or maybe just flop into action like a failed shock absorber 🤔 Have a great week!

Not many people know that the Class 90 tends to hunt in packs. They use long grass for cover and sneak up on unsuspecting prey. If you see one it’s best not to approach it as there could be more you haven’t seen 🤔

On this day in 1981 something happened 🤔 Unfortunately it happened to a TGV and the plaque was written in French so I couldn’t read it so I can’t tell you what happened just that something happened. You’re welcome! 😊

I panicked for a moment when I got a message saying “there’s a weird orange thing in the sky!” Turns out the sun has just come out for a change, panic over 🙂

Just goes to show how flat Norfolk is, on a clear day you can see Blackpool Tower from just outside Great Yarmouth 😇 I’ll see myself out

I am on a mission! Last time I was in London I found a cafe that made an omelette so fantastical it made me completely forget where I bought it 🤔 Today I have 35 minutes in London to seek out the source of this omelette. Wish me luck guys 😊

I am not an early bird. If anything I’m an eternally optimistic seagull 🤔 Anyway, today is a special day as it’s the day I get to switch off my early alarms as I swap to late shifts 🥳

According to my calendar today is “someone’s” birthday 🤔 If that’s you I’m sorry I didn’t send a card, I don’t know who you are. Have a celebratory steam engine instead 🥳

For Lent this year I will be giving up train… guess I’ll try again next year 🤷‍♂️

Wednesday is almost over which means the weekend is peeking round the corner 🥳 I’m working all weekend so no idea why I’m excited but here we are 🙂

Happy Pancake Day! A day we celebrate by cleaning out our kitchen cupboards 🤔 That might sound random but it’s fairly normal compared to the Easter Bunny!

Last night I met an old friend. The first train I ever drove on the mainline 😊 It might be looking a bit rough around the edges but to my eyes it still is and always will be special 🥰

It’s time to wrap up your tiny shunters, it’s started snowing again! ❄️

I had to do a double take when I looked outside and saw the sun shining! Wherever you are I hope you’re getting some decent weather too. Happy Valentines Day you lovely lot 🙂

Nice to see modern technology being embraced by a heritage railway as they test out Bluetooth coupling here 😂

Last night I found bits of model railway track joiners in my hair. I’m not sure I’m doing this modelling thing quite right 🤔

There’s something so very satisfying about this 🤔 it’s a class 745 being shunted into a siding if anyone’s wondering

I just wanted to dispel the myth that I only ever travel by train and have never experimented with any other modes of transport. I did try a car once. Hated it. Cold and slow. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a train to take out 🙂

Tis the simple things that make me laugh 🤷‍♂️ Landed at our destination and as he walks past my cab my guard, with a wink and a grin, calls out “thanks for the lift Chrissy” 😂

Saw a person collapse earlier today. The speed and number of people who rushed to help this total stranger was truly heart warming. There are good people out there 😊 Have a cracking evening wherever you are 🙂

According to my phone I took this photo in Chelmsford 🤔 Err, okay 🤦‍♂️

I still insist early shifts have no effect on me whatsoever… Though I will admit the apple I thought I packed for lunch before leaving yesterday morning turned out to be an onion 🤦‍♂️

Tomorrow is my day off and not even the power of these 2 would be able to drag me out of bed much before 11 😊

I’ve found one of those pens people use to write on blackboards! I’m off to a pub to cause mayhem. Have a photo of a train to distract you while I go alter some menu boards 😇

No matter how many times I do it, driving a train up off the ground and into the air will always feel odd 🤔 No idea how the crew of the Polar Express do it every year 🤷‍♂️

Yesterday it was my turn to be stand-by driver. So I stood by and watched this beast 😍

Last night was marvellous fun! When the fog is so thick you can’t see the track train drivers flex their muscles and show off their route knowledge. Even in 0 visibility they bring 100s of tons of train to a stop with pinpoint accuracy and keep to a timetable. I love it 🥰

Today I have my favourite route not once but twice! If I get a route learner who wants to join me and is in possession of a bag of sausage rolls this could be my favourite shift of all time! 🚂

If you were hoping to get a seat on the next train out of Wymondham I’ve got some bad news for you 🤔