Dinda

Work as a Train Driver on the big railway. Volunteer at the ELR since 1993 as Signalman, Signal Ops Manager and Diesel Driver. All views are my own!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@ChimeWhistle @michael_ro26764 Where are we supposed to get the seat covers from? It’s not like they’re carried on trains!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@ChimeWhistle Having been involved in fatalities, had to talk someone off the track who was stood in my 4 foot and having had to examine for several miles for people, I’d much rather the job was stopped and we sit there for hours as opposed to the trauma and heartbreak of anything else!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@JGourd7 The wires were down on the longsight end of it, so probably had to go into pic to get round them.

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

A little after work look at the thunderbirds parked on the blocks at Pic this evening with the cause of the chaos still sat behind them.

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

Glad to see them home safely after literally blazing a trail across the sky whilst returning humanity to the moon!

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@ChimeWhistle Absolute Legend!

[NASA @NASA]

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@obioneyouknowme Middle engine decided to have a private bonfire moment at 75mph!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@Guard_Ean @ChimeWhistle Amazingly I’ve not had that one before in over 28 years of railway attendance!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

That’s a new one for the train delay excuse list - removal of person who has wet themselves!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

The last non-GWR lower quadrant semaphore signal (Ketton’s Section Signal - K14) has entered preservation at the Midland Railway Centre. The only signal I’ve made the walk of shame to on the Big Railway too! Photo of it in service from the MRC’s Facebook post.

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

A nice day to visit the seaside!

[railway200 @railway200]

International Women's Day offers a salutary reminder that the first named railway employee was a woman.

A 1645 entry from the burial registers of Whickham, a village in North East England and the former site of the Whickham Waggonway, shows the existence of a widow gatekeeper. Despite the intervening centuries, it wasn't until 1979 when Karen Harrison became one of the first female train drivers.

Considerable strides have been made since then, with women now representing more than 16% of the industry's workforce, but still not enough. There are some wonderful charities and networks campaigning for change including Women in Rail, Routes into Rail and Women in Transport.

Find out more about their work here https://t.co/5idUvSW32L

Read the full blog here https://t.co/6SK5VtXB3a

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

Tomorrow marks 28 years since I started work on the big railway. This #InternationalWomensDay2026 I want to thank all those who have supported me along the way. I wouldn’t be driving a train today without each and every one of you! (Not driving or keyed in at time of photograph!)

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@ChimeWhistle That’ll be being saved for the first public runs!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@xboxuk @LukeTheNuke180 #ScoreMoreWithXbox

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

@xboxuk @LukeTheNuke180 #Scoremorewithxbox

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

Last train of 2025 being prepped at the airport. Happy New Year everyone!

[Dinda @Dindathebobby]

Have spent quite some time on Pathfinder trains in years gone by, so had to go out to see the last one, and it just happens to have been my son’s 1st mainline Western too. Shame it was behind the stopper.