Oh, it's St. David's Day. Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus. I give you my motherland at some of its most beautiful 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Please stop describing everything as a hack when it's just a helpful tip or a bit of advice 😭

Today we remember the 10 people who died in the Selby rail crash at Great Heck, 25 years ago on 28 February 2001. Six passengers and four railwaymen lost their lives in this tragedy and 80 people were seriously injured. Today railway colleagues will be gathering in Newcastle and Selby to remember

Just had the most incredible nosebleed. The type that leaves you instinctively running for those useless green paper towels you'd get in the toilets at school.

Feeling remarkably fresh for an early start on a day off (and putting away 8 pints yesterday despite claiming to be a non-drinker). Didn't notice my hair blending with the tree behind me though 🙃

Wakefield Rhubarb Festival today 🥰

I can't tell you what I've been doing today but I did get to see this and that was nice and he wasn't wrong was he x

Our fabulous pride-liveried @lner.co.uk Azuma 801226 "Together" says good morning and would like to remind you that it loves you.

WAS THERE A PANCAKE DAY SONG IN AN EPISODE OF MAID MARIAN BECAUSE MY GOD YOU HAVEN'T MENTIONED IT

The Speedbird Collection over on Instagram have shared pages from the British Airways Landor Graphics Handbook - which is the first time I've ever seen any of it despite wanting a copy for a long time. Now considering what I wouldn't do to get one and have concluded that the answer is not a lot.

Operation "get my old tech working again and pretend that I'm living in the past when the world wasn't quite as scary a place" took another step forwards this weekend. No 2G networks any more though so my iPhone is no longer a phone nor an internet communicator, but instead is a fancy iPod at best 🙃

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

Haribo Supermix > Haribo Starmix

Always lovely to see this one out and about, and given how close these workhorses are to the end of their career now I'm proud that we were able to get that InterCity Swallow livery back on in paint - done proper - for what'll likely be the last time 🥺

It annoys me that I like some U2 songs.

Hello? Yeah, I'm in this picture and I don't like it, but thanks.

I've gone in early for the annual Happy Valley rewatch. Sometimes you find yourself in a place where only a brutal drama can sort you out and nothing else comes close.

A late entry but there was only ever one #SuperbOwl for me, and that's the one I drew with the White Rose of Yorkshire for Leeds Neville Hill depot, and which was cast and mounted to the side of Class 91 locomotive 91127 "Neville Hill". Suberb. Owl.

Not Capgemini there, my old employer, popping up their logo as the timing sponsor of the Six Nations and distracting me from a pitch load of burly men in snug shorts. I'm doing this all wrong.

Going in on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for a rainy Saturday afternoon film. You don't need to tell me that it's just a remake, despite Steve Martin and Michael Caine pairing brilliantly it always feels overlooked - and those late 1980s French Riviera vibes are just 👌

It's a bit weird taking a photo of a stranger's dog, but I'm heartbroken to have to report that I had to leave this best good boy at the coffee shop this morning as he wasn't mine x

Is it wrong that we want to lick this?

I'm so proud to be able to share the interiors of our Class 897 trains, and the culmination of a two-year project I was privileged to lead on the interior design of - working with LNER colleagues, stakeholders and industry specialists to set a new standard for inter-city train interior design 🙌

I'm sure that the York Dungeon is a lot of fun, but as a graphic designer they'll forever sit low in my estimations for using stars as a decorative device in their branding whilst casually allowing you to believe it's received wall-to-wall five star reviews.

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"I didn't see that coming" said person who voted for the person who was banished. #TheTraitors

London backgrounds from 101 Dalmatians, 1961

I've setup a new Starter Pack: Transport Writers of Bluesky. It's looking a bit sparse at the moment, so please suggest your favourite transport journalists, writers and creators to be added, or drop me a DM if you'd like me to add you to the pack 👇

It's two years today since I lost my partner, Simon. Through support from family and friends I've learned to be at peace with his passing, but there was some strange and small comfort in it being so recent that fades with each year. The world keeps turning and you have to try to keep moving with it.

The intro to LittleBig Planet came from a lovely time, didn't it?

From the architect's renders on display at Darlington station its new concourse will be a great place to sit and look at men's bums.

Early morning meeting at @railwaymuseum.bsky.social yesterday meant being able to spy these slumbering workhorses, just as the sun was starting to filter into the Great Hall 👌

This is the #TheTraitors content that I'm here for 👇

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

Feeling conflicted at the thought of finally needing to use my PlayStation 2 network adapter since it's been sealed in its packaging for the last 25 years. If I hadn't developed a yearning to play SSX this weekend then it might as well have been in there forever.

This is, without doubt, what will eventually drive me from iOS to Android. FUCK OFF WITH THIS FUCKING NEEDY SHIT ALL THE FUCKING TIME JUST GIVE ME A BASIC DO NOT DISTURB BUTTON IS IT REALLY THAT FUCKING HARD

You bitch.

I wonder if supermarkets have talent scouts at self-checkouts just in case, you know, someone is *really* good at it?

Boxing Day walk along the Shropshire Union Canal (but not that bit) and across Telford's 70ft tall aqueduct over the River Ceiriog at Chirk. The parallel viaduct came with the railways almost 50 years later. Lovely day to feel less guilty about everything I managed to shovel away yesterday.

Staying with mum for Christmas and 72 hours in I wish I'd started a thread of all of the things she gets irrationally angry about. This morning is, surprisingly, the 2021 census as it's clearly got the population of her local village wrong. I'll be drinking heavily from lunchtime. Merry Christmas x

Peak desire path on my walk yesterday. 10/10 no notes. I stuck to the pavement though.

Getting up early and being in town for 9.30 to get my shopping done was the right thing to do as I'm now back home drinking tea in my pyjamas before midday so I win x

Quite sad and tired and it's only Thursday.

There, I've finally done it, and now I can probably stop carrying my passport with me whenever I go anywhere that doesn't have a York postcode.

Classic cars in front of classic aircraft is a theme I can get onboard with but once you find a BMW M1 Procar in front of Concorde it's probably not worth looking any further.

I have such an irrational dislike of those 'your year, unwrapped' things (just as I have an irrational dislike of pretty much everything tbh), to the point that I'm now convinced that when I die and my life flashes before my eyes it'll be in that format.

You'll never stare at your laptop more intently than you do when you're on a train sat at a table with three strangers.

Going in for another re-watch of Michael Winterbottom's wonderful The Trip ahead of its fifth outing (whenever that may be). I've got a list of new shows to watch but neglect for the few I keep returning to and allow to envelop me like a comfort blanket. Ridiculous, contrived melancholia. Superb.

Lol #R4Today referring to the 2008 financial crisis as having been 17 years ago. They really should check their basic maths before they report that- oh, shit.

Yeah we've got Stranger Things this week but Disney have snuck out the remaster of the 1995 Beatles Anthology documentary too and finally it's got pacing that makes it watchable. Superb.