BMLBod

Husband. Dad. Railwayman (glorified loudspeaker). My opinions are wholly my own and not representative of any organisation! ✞ #BHAFC 🇬🇧

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

I get that rail is important to millions as a service, but it is also how I make a living. I post in a personal capacity, often in the context of it being my job, rather than as a general commentary of the service. I do like to have a little fun with it. I hope you understand.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

It’s an advertising wrap which, while I think serves a useful purpose as an additional revenue stream, isn’t especially pretty on the side of a train. They used to wrap TL and GX trains in them way back and I confess I wasn’t overly fond of them then either.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

The BA-liveried GX 387 has been through so many times in the last two days I’m already bored. I do wonder how long before we get an 8 car set made up of the BA and GBR units though. The clash in aesthetics, if not colour palettes, will be a little unseemly, I fear.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

It’s just so terribly rotten all round, for everyone and in the context of everything that’s happened on the ECML in recent days and over the past few months. ☹️

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

@brightonsnapper Maybe once upon a time! Usually one of each item (except maybe 2 eggs) is enough these days.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

@MonsieurPiddly Tuesday is good for an occasion like that. Mine’s next year on a Friday. I’m rostered a night…won’t be working it! 😂

Glad you had a good one anyway.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

@davwheat_ Seconded

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

The price of fancy instant coffee has gone through the roof. You’re better off making proper stuff with some kind of filter.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

Both London and Manchester have a Victoria. Down here, people tend to drop the city name and internally, it is referred to as ‘Vic’ on account of the station code. Don’t know if it’s similar up there.

[Southern @SouthernRailUK]

📸 Station Snap

👇 Down below we have Earlswood (Southern and @TLRailUK services) and Earlswood (@WestMidRailway services).

🤔 There are many stations across our network which share the same or a similar name. Can you name any more?

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

@AnthonyMangnal1 What good is a tax cut for businesses if people have no disposable income left to go out, once mortgage/rent, bills, food for the month are paid for? Even the discount supermarkets aren’t especially cheap any more.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

This bloke is making a habit of not giving us the full picture. Nationalised railways last week, cafes in Marlborough this. Take a look at the customer reviews for Polly Tearooms and then for similar, independent competitors in the town. It was not very popular by comparison.

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

Awful.

Another business gone and more jobs lost thanks to Rachel Reeves' Jobs Tax, endless red tape and regulations.

It's all piled on the pressure.

Labour have no idea how much damage they've done to business because so few of them have proper private sector experience.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

@DanielJHannan The TA reviews aren’t great, sadly, which will have counted against it in the internet age. A lot of people check that stuff out before choosing a place now.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

We don’t have the luxury of snootiness in the present moment. 😂

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

Do people really spend their whole time judging other shoppers when out buying groceries? M&S are a business looking to survive a hostile economic environment by making their product range more accessible. Seems logical enough to me.

[Clem 🌿 @SirClmnt]

I said it before it got to this point & I will say it again, M&S will ruin their image in the eyes of their actual customer base with these “snacks”

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

Remember 20-odd years ago when they seemed perennially in trouble? Now, they’re one of the few high street shops one feels pretty certain will make it through the toughest times. I even like their clothes these days.

[Steve Dresser @dresserman]

M&S remain on a generational run in new products; as they always have been.

But to continue to innovate as they are is so impressive.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

@TheDailyDraught Thank goodness for Guinness.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

A decent pension from your employer will reduce your dependence on the state in old age.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

Are DB pensions ‘extremely generous’? They were once the norm, let’s not forget, until most employers stripped them out.

[NPC9000 @xueyan94600]

@abroundercover The year to year changes are on top of an already ludicrously high base and obscenely generous pensions.

No they do not deserve to be massively overpaid, this is taxpayer money being set on fire.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

If the economy reaches a point where workers have to behave like painter-decorators trying to offer homeowners the most competitive quote for a job, then we’ll have reached true serfdom.

[BMLBod @BMLBod]

@driverbod125 @thetramspotter Yesterday while driving, the car informed me that it’s forward impact detection sensors would not work because the visibility was so poor. Never had that before.

[Tim Longhurst @tim_longhurst]

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