Kite

Enjoys to explore the various parts of GB, either by train, by bus or by foot. Train Guard by day (and by night if on a late shift lol)

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@JuoPosts Normal timetable is Sundays hourly towards Salisbury from 09;12 to 17;12 with a couple of extensions (Yeovil Pen Mill & Gillingham). During the week the services depart ECS.
Gets more services when there is engineering works blocking the line between Basingstoke & Woking

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159010 (plus 158882 at the front) at Reading earlier today, on the 15:12 service to Gillingham. Quite busy it was with customers avoiding the extended journey times going via Staines.

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@MattJennings337 Closed all weekends in June other than the 20/21 June weekend looking at the engineering poster outside Salisbury.

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I've just uploaded a new blog post from a couple of trips at the start of the week, when it was rather Scorchio at times. Featuring the Macclesfield Canal & Ashby Canal with a spot of the Ashby - Nuneaton Joint Railway thrown in.
https://t.co/OApDgF2aiP

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The Network Rail HST near Salisbury station. 🍌

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@DownOnTheStour It was described as a Points Failure on 1V61, quite a few network rail vans around Bushbury

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A XC voyager crossing the North Rode Viaduct and a Northern 323 crossing the Congleton Viaduct. Both taken from the Macclesfield canal towpath ☀️

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I've just uploaded a new blog post from trips at the end of last week & the weekend, featuring the Macclesfield & Huddersfield Narrow Canals, part of the former Woodhead railway route & Poole:
https://t.co/bBvOJ00qWf

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@DownOnTheStour And most likely payment for them is strictly optional, a foreign concept.

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159016 at Yeovil Junction having worked the Friday only 23;40 Waterloo to Yeovil Junction service (1L79).
Time to relax on the ECS back to Salisbury.

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@CLondoner92 So by "Simpler Ticketing" means those cheaper "Thameslink only" fares getting the axe, replaced with more advance fares which will magically disappear on summer weekends when half of London decide to head to Brighton?

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@RMcCarthy86 ThunderSkip away

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@MattJennings337 I hope it was a safe trip to Bournemouth :)

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After 4 days off, it's back to work with a trip to Reading on day 1 of 6 late shifts. 159107 on platform 15 at Reading with the view of Southcote Junction from the back cab.

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A couple photos from a walk from Mossley along the former Micklehurst Loop line towards Diggle, with a Manchester bound TPE 185 and the rear of a freight towards Huddersfield from I presume a newish footbridge replacing a foot crossing (near Uppermill Junction)

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When did 195s start popping up on the Manchester Piccadilly - New Mills Central stoppers (rather than the more usual 150s?)
195127 at Strines earlier this afternoon

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A mere 196 minutes late. Bond to the rescue. I suspect taxi firms at Crewe/Shrewsbury will be busy later.

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Thunderbird to the rescue of a broken 67012 on the outskirts of Manchester

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@O_TTravels Can Walsall support 8 coaches or will the service attach/divide at Birmingham New Street with a single 350 going to/from Walsall?