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A shiny 60099 at Aylesbury today.

As an atheist I am happy with any faith peacefully praying in public but Tory Nick Timothy and his near Nazi language should fuck off.

What fucking harm does it do you having a group of people pray in a public place? Yours A massive atheist

@RexKram55112378 I remember the LSWR signal box at Pinhoe. Photographed it in 1986.

Finally my last SWR station, Pinhoe. Now for a walk to Polsloe Bridge rather than wait an hour.

I can't help noticing how the far-right microparties are riven by internecine cuntiness contests right now. Divide and conquer, normal, decent folk

Finally, back on the iron road after an interminably long delay. 🙄

I think I agree with Daniel Hannan. That's a sentence I never expected to utter.

@Railraptor Not sure about compressor speed up. Our 168s don't have it, but the 168/3s (ex-TPE 170s) do have it.

@RPMarks No compressor speed up button,pro active DRA and if I remember rightly the Guard couldn't de select the doors

170104 arriving at Gloucester with a Crosscountry Cardiff - Nottingham service. The unit still carried its Midland Mainline teal paintwork, with Central Trains swishes and a Crosscountry logo sticker. 29/03/09.

Class 117 set L720 departing Barking with a Gospel Oak service on this day in 1995. The class 116 cab was transplanted onto this unit following accident damage.

@burge1987 @djh84 @UU_Ess_Pee If my 18 month year old grandson decides to follow his mum and granddad into train driving, he has nothing to fear from automation. It is much further away than is generally appreciated.

@djh84 @UU_Ess_Pee Driverless cars rolling out in the US. If they can do that, think how easy it’ll be to automate a train.

Nobody who “runs a kitchen” gets £60k a year unless they’re doing 70hr weeks. Facts.

The Diffws Casson slate quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog in July 1989. Upturned in the foreground is a slate waste wagon.

@atlantean526 It's a shame, because I find that sort of group interesting, but I'm put off by the gammony comments.

@RPMarks I think it attracts the older, more gammon-based Facebook users.

75% British by heritage. 100% ashamed by the utter, dogshit racism on this platform.

@atlantean526 Yes, the nostalgia-based FB groups seem to attract a lot of wrong 'uns.

@RPMarks Facebook just as bad. All of those local history groups and so on are full of racist twats.

@atlantean526 It's one long platform face, but technically it is two separate platforms joined end to end.

@RPMarks To be honest, I always thought Gloucester station was just one long platform.

155313 at Gloucester's slightly strange platform 1, on a service to Cardiff. April 1988.

@RupertLowe10 It just means there is a small, but significant pool of toxic, fuckiwtted cunts within the electorate. There always has been. You are just the newest maypole for them to dance around.

Restore Britain is now the fourth largest political party in the country - we launched just over four weeks ago. Even our political enemies, of which there are very many, must admit that is impressive. I suspect they won’t. Not a word in the media about it - this is no surprise. You can all ask yourselves why. The growth of Restore Britain is entirely organic. We don’t have a TV station endlessly promoting us. In fact, the media coverage we receive is simply attack after attack. 114,000 members, almost all from social media. Our ground game is starting to take off, so I expect this number to grow and grow. Look - we’re not going to get everything right. We will make mistakes, we already have. We’re not all going to agree on absolutely everything. And that’s fine. Nobody is being reported to the police for policy disagreements in Restore. We’re not going to get involved in that filthy nonsense. Healthy disagreement is good. I like it. It means we’ll be more effective. Restore Britain will not be some corporate political party. There will be no pyrotechnics or confetti. It will be rough around the edges. Good. I like it like that. Real people, debating real things in a real way. This is exactly what Britain needs. I had hoped we would start well. I did not expect it to go this well, this soon. There is much more to come.

@Councillorsuzie This will appeal to idiots, so I see why you're doing it. Dismal though.

Let’s face it Sadiq Khan hates motorists- looks like more charges/levies on the way

@funkeechicken1 @UU_Ess_Pee A really, really silly comment. I'l like to think you are better than this, and you've just sounded off in frustration.

@UU_Ess_Pee Members of the travelling public, by virtue of their fares, keep your mortgage paid, for directing a large dodgem car down a metal track. The least they can expect is members of the "up and down the rail track club", to actually turn up and press that button.

It always strikes me as strange how members of the travelling public have access to CrewPlan and other rostering/resourcing systems. Oh, they don’t? That’s strange, as they always seem to appear well placed to blame the crew for their delays when they actually know FUCK ALL.

@RexKram55112378 Brilliant! I'm back this week too, following a fatality that didn't bother me too much and a lot of rail industry twaddle that did bother me.

Today I'm finally off the 'sick list' at work, after seventy five days of slacking I'm using up my outstanding leave this week before returning to light duties for a while. Hopefully back to full duties by the end of April. Have a desiro.