Another shot from yesterday's #UKRailtours charter on the Northampton & Lamport Railway. 31289 propels the train back into Pitsford & Brampton station past 31601 stabled in Pitsford loop. @bennybizzle1.bsky.social working as motorman in the driving coach. #NLR #GreatestGatheringOfGoyles 17/5/25

Three more views of 31601 'Devon Diesel Society' during the Northampton & Lamport Rlwy running day last Sunday. Pics taken at Boughton and Pitsford & Brampton stations & approaching Boughton signalbox with @bennybizzle1.bsky.social preparing to receive the single line token. #NLR #PedWatch 13/4/25

#TokenTuesday 31601 approaches Boughton signalbox on the Northampton & Lamport Railway. Secondman @bennybizzle1.bsky.social prepares to receive the single line token before heading to Pitsford & Brampton with the 13.30 departure during a very enjoyable diesel running day on Sunday. #NLR 13/4/25

Myself & #SummerTheDog spent a very enjoyable time at Northampton & Lamport Railway this afternoon. Saw @bennybizzle1.bsky.social & had a ride behind 31601 on the push-pull set & 289 on the brake van. Here 'Devon Diesel Society' departs from Pitsford & Brampton with the 15.00 service #NLR 13/4/25

West Coast Railways 86401 "Mons Meg" brings up the rear of a FOOTEX yesterday through long buckby station.

#ChopperTuesday 20225 and 20007 haul a #Colas tamper past Nortoft Lane. Operated by #Railadventureuk The final destination for the track machine was France 🇫🇷 Sounded amazing!

D6808 under an impressive sky outside the shed at #GCRNottingham

#MondayMorningBlues large logo livery 69002 "Bob Tiller CM&EE" passes Glinton Junction with 4L66 return sand hoppers. @GBRailfreight

#SignalBoxSunday @EastMidRailway 158858 passes Whittlesea signal box. I'm rumours are true, there's not long left for the box and semaphore here which is a great shame!

Oh yeah! I've got a blue-sky account! Sorry for the lack of content. Here is SBRail 37607 leading 1Q97 past Dagenham Dock yesterday afternoon. 37099 was on the rear. #TractorThursday

#TractorTuesday D6808 catches the light outside the shed at Ruddington. @GCRNottingham @TheGrowlerGroup

#MaintainenceMonday Did some more work on 31463 on Saturday just gone. 1 of the buffers needs a new spring, a good buffer was removed so that it's spring could be measured as a pattern for the new one to be produced. Opportunity was taken to check corrosion and clean off rust.

#MondayMorningBlues #GBRailfreight 66740 "Sarah" and 66748 "West Burton 50" form a lightly laden 6D80 from Peterborough to Doncaster with what I assume is a move for maintenance purposes. Seen here crawling over Tallington level crossing due to a TSR. #Shedwatch

#SideOnSunday @ColasRailUK 56049 "Robin of Templecombe" comes flying through Tallington Level.crossing on a return engineers working. Could hear the grid a good minute before I could see it. Brilliant! @C56G2

#StationSaturday Services have restarted at the #GCRNottingham. So far, all have been handled by this class 117, which arrived at the railway from Nemesis at Burton upon Trent. Here the unit is seen at Ruddington Fields station. #UnitPhottersUnite

#FrontEndFriday 37009 in the shed at Ruddington half way through work by the English Electric Preservation Group to get repainted. @GCRNottingham @TheGrowlerGroup

#WindowWednesday the iconic class 31 window shape provides a view of 31235, 37108 and 20154. The control desk of 31210 is in immaculate condition, and the rest of the loco is too! #Classictraction #Preservation #Volunteering

#Shedwatch Lickey banker 66159 hauls an intermodal train past Uffington in some gorgeous winter sun. Great to see some original EWS liveries are still around.

#MaintainenceMonday although you could argue this is a bit more than maintainence!! 31463 has come and long way since I started volunteering with the T1LC. This end is very close to be ready for paint and the rest isn't far behind. @GCRNottingham

DCR liveried 31601 'Devon Diesel Society' with BR blue liveried 50007 'Hercules' and Network South East liveried 50017 'Royal Oak' dead in tow heading south from Carstairs South Junction towards Float with 0Z50 Boness - Carlisle Yard 1.8.15 scottishtrains.zenfolio.com/p146979239/e...

#TestTrainTuesday last week there was a smorgasbord of Colas HST power cars around in various liveries. Seen here at Glinton Junctio and Nortoft Lane. #ColasRailUK 43303, 43274, 43251 & 43272

#SyphonSunday #EurophoenixLtd 37423 sporting its "Euro phoenix rail" headboard passes Ketton foot crossing on its way to Great Yarmouth and Eastern rail to collect coaches bound for the West Somerset Railway. #TheGrowlerGroup

#SandySoixanteNeuf 😳🤭 Risking chafing with that hashtag... #GBRailfreight 69006 "Pathfinder Railtours" leads 69008 "Richard Howe" on 4L66 Goole glassworks to March yard.

It is now the year 2025, the year of the #Raturday and to celebrate that fact here is class 25 D7659 getting a good thrashing up the embankment to Weybourne on the @nnrailway back in 2022. On the lines gorgeous suburban coaches.

#FreightFriday a pair of #RailFreight class 90s catch the winter sun at nortoft Lane as they haul a Felixstowe bound intermodal train down the WCML. 90044 leads 90012.

#TractorThursday D6700 stands at Leicester North Station on the last day of 2024. A busy, emotional, but very important year for me with some massive changes. No matter what happened though, I was never far away from a heritage railway of some description. Happy new year all

I'm having diesel gala withdrawal symptoms. I can't wait for the season to start again I love celebrating and enjoying preserved railways and it feels like ages since my last visit. Time for one more ride before 2025 begins... #MondayMorningBlues

Sunday #Shedwatch with @GBRailfreight 66783 "The Flying Dustman" bringing up the rear of yesterday's 6G36 engineers working

Well I wasn't expecting to tick off a winner on this #ShedSaturday! #GBRailfreight came through with 66769 atop 66744 on a HOBC engineers train through Kettering. 66783 was on the rear, making for a colourful train! #Shedwatch

#FreightFriday big wave from the driver of @DCRailOfficial's 60046 "William Wilberforce" made my daughters day. Thanks mate! This is 6L92 taking wagons to Middleton Towers for tomorrow's sand train. Seen at Wing farm crossing.

Merry Christmas to you all. Hope you have a great few days 🎄🎅

It's #SantaExpressSaturday at the Northampton & Lamport Railway & for 1 day only it's diesel hauled! This provided the chance to see 31601 'Devon Diesel Society' one last time this season & it was worth the visit. She sounded excellent pulling away from Boughton with the 11.15 service #NLR 21/12/24

#FrontEndFriday up close and personal with 31601 "Devon Diesel Society" in the @NLRailway's "Down siding", located outside Pitsford and Brampton station and accessed by a 3 lever ground from which has the be electronically unlocked by P&B signal box.

#TractorThursday @ColasRailUK 37421 brings up the rear of a test train on its way to Spalding. Seen here at the footbridge near Glinton Junction. @TheGrowlerGroup

#WorkshopWednesday body work progressing on 31463 at @GCRNottingham soon be time for a lovely coat of paint. I'm very excited to see this finished. I'm very proud to have had a small part in it. Also interesting to see remnants of previous liveries, can you see it??

#MondayMorningBlues do not adjust your tv sets! I walked out of the shed at Ruddington and everything was pink! Very strange atmospherics! 20154 is on standby duties at @GCRNottingham i believe in case the DMU fails.

Grey skies, grey locos, but far from feeling grey! How could you with these two stunners as the backdrop to a days volunteering?! @GCRNottingham #TypeOneLocomotiveCompany

#ShedSunday 66747 "Made in Sheffield" passes Ketton footbridge yesterday with a mostly empty intermodal train. This lock is overdue a trip to the wash! #Shedwatch #GBRailfreight

#SyphonSaturday @RailOpsGroup 37510 hauls a rake of mk3s and a mk2 that had been used for class 93 testing duties through Ketton on its way back to Eastern Railway services base at Great Yarmouth. @TheGrowlerGroup

#FreightFriday @GBRailfreight 66758 hauls the water train north over Wilsons farm crossing on the outskirts of Northampton. #Shedwatch

#TractorThursday is there a better looking nose ped on the mainline?? I don't think so! Once again wearing nameplates 37425 "Concrete Bob" is viewed just after Glinton Junction with the monthly test train. 🚜🚜 @TheGrowlerGroup

#TangoTuesday 70020 in its new party frock looks striking as it passes Nortoft Lane yesterday with 4038 to Southampton. The big GE purring nicely as it came past, and I think it looks great! @RailFreight

I was struggling to choose a photo for February, I managed to capture some brilliant workings on the mainline and in pres that month but settled on this. A pair of @GBRailfreight class 60s lift a biomass empties train off the Drax branch headed back to Liverpool for another load

Wondering what to buy for the heritage diesel lover in your family? How about a BennyBizzle class 31 calendar? All photos by me, taken within the last couple of years. £15 each, no profit for me, just a bit of fun, I have 3 left, will be sent 1st class.

Sheltering on a Sunday...

#SulzerSunday 47848 bears down on me with the 1Z30 Kings Cross to Lincoln railtour. Plenty of clag from the big 47 but not a lot of noise. @westcoastrail

#SulzerSaturday what a treat to see a class 33 out on the mainline! @westcoastrail supplied 33207 "Jim Martin" for the rear of 'The Lincoln Christmas Express' seen here just north of Glinton junction.

Now we are heading into December I will do some look backs at highlights from this year. Back to January for #FortySevenFriday @LocoServicesGrp 47712 shoving the scotrail set with DBSO in the lead. Seen here from Ketton footbridge.

#ThursdayThirtyThree an arty depiction of Dutch painted stunner 33108, shot from the engine house on the @svrofficialsite. This is a great vantage point to watch the trains go by.

@NLRailway is on the short list for the 2025 Steam Railway Award for the Opening of the Boughton extension. I would hugely appreciate it if my wonderful followers would vote for my railway. It is a massive achievement by a small group. To vote go to steamrailway.co.uk/read/hra-awards