66517 waiting in platform 2 at Southampton Central last night with a service to Leeds, with me as far as Eastleigh 😅🙄 3rd night back at work and I've done 9 trips between Eastleigh and Southampton 😂😵‍💫

Quick trip out to Chichester today to get Stagecoach South 18515 working Route 53 between Chichester and the Witterings. Even jumped on for a trip and then got a photo from the footbridge shortly before getting my train back home. @alitrains114.bsky.social @anthonyf2024.bsky.social

Managed to get a ride on Guildford based ALX400 18510. Wonderful bus! I wonder if @anthonyf2024.bsky.social & @teamgreen70020.bsky.social approves of this?

One last journey for 18519 today (24/04/2026), seen being picked up at Winchester depot by T.I. Recovery Volvo FH16 wrecker.

3x of Winchesters finest Tridents. 19079, 19158 and 18520, All parked up in the depot today. Even got to drive 18520 around Winchester for a bit 😍😍

A collection of training buses parked at Winchester Depot yesterday. 27561/62/67 all of which I used to drive daily on the 23 in Portsmouth. Oddball 33189, a Dennis Dart with East Lancs Mylennium body and finally tucked away was Dennis Dart SLF 34638.

Another vehicle that runs on track, but of a different kind. Tiger day at Bovington Tank Museum today, one of just a couple times a year where they get their celebrity tank up and running 😻

08/04/26. Due to a colleague error, I had no relief at Nuneaton. So I had to wait for my return train to arrive so that driver could work the other one forward. This gave me the opportunity to photo both of my trains in the station at the same moment 😅

Day 3 of groundhog day 😂 up with 66780 to Nuneaton and return to Eastleigh with 66503 😁

2 days running now 🤩 I can obviously be trusted with it, it seems 🤣🤣 66780 "athe Cemex Express" before leaving Eastleigh for Trafford Park, with me as far as Nuneaton. Hopefully tomorrow will be the 3rd day in row 🤞🏻

Red pen!! 🖍🖍 GBRf 66780 "The Cemex Express" on hire to Freightliner, working a service to Trafford Park with me as far as Nuneaton 🤩🤩

It would appear that we have GBRf 66780 on loan (don't know for how long) but it's currently working our 4o29 Trafford Park FLT to Southampton Maritime tonight.

A stop off at Swindon on my way back from Cardiff this morning. Only expected to get 18420 & 421. But 422 and 447 showed up aswell.

After 3 weeks of route learning, I completed my first solo drive to Wentloog this morning 😬😅

29th September 2017. Wright bus Streetdeck demonstrator SN64CTU. On loan to First, It never received a fleet number, (nor, I believe) was it ever used in normal public service. I think, I'm the only one to drive it in service (as seen working shuttles for Ageas Bowl). It left the fleet shortly after

Freightliner fugly, 70005 departs platform 16 at Leeds with 6M55, the Hunslet to Tunstead. Nice to see a 70 working through Leeds again, that low down grumble has been missed! #Class70 #Fugly #LeedsCityStation #Freightliner

22nd October 2017. The Great South Run is taking place in Portsmouth and I got a shift working one of the shuttle buses. My steed for the day was 32701. Some of the other buses were 32708, 801, 849, 33001, 187. I had noted all the buses, but the paper was lost to time.

Thanks to @anthonyf2024.bsky.social for the heads up 😃 I made my way out to Winchester today to see 18512 working a service 5 to Badger Farm, seen arriving outside Winchester Station. I already know that @alitrains114.bsky.social will appreciate seeing these 😁

After a failed attempt at route learning today, I decided to stop off at Winchester & planned on only seeing 18521, but ended up seeing 18504, 19079 & then 18521 while walking from the railway station to the bus station and even caught 18520 back to the railway station!

Bit of a busman's holiday. A couple of nights in Torquay, I managed a few snaps of Stagecoach buses operating in the area. Starting with E200EV 63145 & 63147 and mini E200EV 46046 and Optare Solo SR 47840 seen at Paignton bus station.

Short weekend in Torquay and a quick hop over to Paignton to see 18308 😁

This is Alex, one of the earlier Dennis Trident ALX400s delivered new to Manchester 😁

Getting its lean on.... 66524 waiting on the Didcot avoider yesterday at midday, witha a service from Leeds to Maritime. With me from Birmingham to Eastleigh.

No Cardiff today.... covering a turn due to sickness. Here's a few photos taken at Landor Street Junction this morning while waiting for my return working back to Eastleigh. 170115 & 113, 153311 and then 66200 all showing up before my train did 😅

3 years ago today I undertook my first solo driving shift 😬 starting with 66593 "3MG Mersey Multimodal Gateway" from Maritime to Basingstoke via Andover, then 70002 (same route) and finally 70006 from Eastleigh to Maritime 😄 (only photo NOT taken that day is of 66593)

Meet Trent, the newest bus character. Based on the Dennis Trident ALX400.

Somewhere I've not been for over 3yrs now. 66514 at Wentloog FLT having just arrived from Southampton, sitting next to a silent 66524 in the early hours. I'm spending the next 4 weeks route learning Southampton to Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😃😃

66505 behind Redbridge station propels it's train back towards Maritime, having just arrived with a service from Leeds.

66517 waiting for the signal to clear at Tyseley this morning as I near the halfway point of my shift. And 66571 waits to be put onto my train and brake tested at Lawley Street terminal, to form my return working back to Eastleigh.

66522 waiting at a red signal at Acocks Green in the early hours this morning with a service to Leeds from Southampton Maritime.

A dwindling breed. Dennis Trident ALX400 18510 seen arriving outside Basingstoke railway station on service 12. I fondly remember driving these 😁

Another day in orange being a shunt driver. 66572 waiting to be brake tested before heading out on 4M55.

The humble container. What was essentially a nothing photo when I took it, but actually turned out better than expected.

Drew the short straw and I'm playing shunt driver at Maritime all day. Well if I'm in full orange gear then so should my loco! 66502 with the first move of the day. And just passing over the bridge is a 45ft MOL container, quite rare around these parts.

DB Cargo 66013 & 66102 are currently on loan to Freightliner Intermodal. Now I just need them to come down my way so I can red pen some red sheds 😁😂

Busy looking scenes at Southampton Maritime this morning. XC Voyager passes the terminal with a service from Bournemouth to Manchester. 66502 is shunting away its wagons after arriving from Manchester.

66510 waiting to depart from Maritime this morning with a service bound for Lawley Street terminal. With me as far as Eastleigh.

Same loco, two different days. 1st photo taken yesterday, sees 66502 departing from Maritime. And the 2nd shows 502 having just arrived into Maritime with me this morning.

Can anyone guess what loco these two items might be from 😉 sourced them at the end of last year to save them being thrown in the bin 😃😃😍

I will get to drive them again 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 #Team70 youtu.be/cjakU8elxmI?...

Last train of the shift. 66505 waiting at Eastleigh for the next driver to book on (we arrived early from Maritime). 505 still sporting the old style company name, having never received the G&W style.

66517 waiting at Eastleigh in the dead of night while changing over crew. I had just brought it up from Southampton Maritime.

66508 "City of Doncaster" at Mottisfont & Dunbridge in the early hours this morning. Again heading from Maritime to Basingstoke via Andover.

First night back at work after some time off. Here's 66515 at Basingstoke, having just arrived from Southampton Maritime via Andover.

Managed to get 11231 the other day. Finally.

Taken 13 years apart. Firstly being branded up as the "Surf" for route 23 between Southsea and Leigh Park. Then it gained standard 23 blue ribbon branding before the fleet of them were split up. 27560 was gutted and retained for training purposes. The memories came flooding back! 🥲🥲

My class 70 statistics, from 017 being my first drive to 015 being my last and everything in-between. Some were around for a while and others? Not so much 😆 but still clocked 31,000 miles at the controls 😁

66596 waits to depart from Southampton Maritime for Leeds in the early hours of the morning, just as 4o31 rolls into the terminal from Leeds.

Unexpected jolly out of Maritime with 3 locos for Eastleigh East Yard tonight. 66563, 66534 "OOCL Express" and 66551 (on loan to Colas) seen waiting in platform 1 at Southampton Central.

After working 66516 down from Nuneaton to Southampton Maritime, I now have to work 66597 "Viridor" up from Maritime to Eastleigh, where I can finally finish for the day 😁