Aidan Knight

Train & Plane geek 🚂✈
Controlling Freight Trains 🚄
Lib Dem 🟡
Views are entirely my own 🧠

Described as 'Still better than Greg Davies'
He/Him

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@joeymandrews The East Mids Railway service I was on earlier offered me connections to Luton Airport via the DART..... when arriving at Norwich 😕 🤣

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

More direct does not necessarily equal quicker... can't even moan at it was one of ours that had a 'little hiccup' 🙃

[Aidan | Flights and Times @flightsandtimes]

After a all to brief visit to Scotland its now time to head home and I'm heading south via a more direct route. LNER's Azuma 801229 waits at Edinburgh to form 1E20 to London Kings Cross, calling at 8 intermediate stations enroute to the capital.

#LNER #Azuma #Edinburgh

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

I need to go back to Cobh at somepoint soon, just for the social media engagement, let alone the beautiful town! One of my best performing posts on F&T.

[Aidan | Flights and Times @flightsandtimes]

A highlight of my recent trip to Ireland was heading out of Cork to the coastal town of Cobh, a historic gateway to Ireland. The town is beautiful with St Colman's Cathedral sitting high above the harbour and with a cruise ship in port, there was a lively buzz around the town.

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

After 5 hours at home, I'm now on my way to Somerset with the obligatory stop at Gloucester services. I'll be on 900+ miles in 3 days by the time we reach our destination tonight, with almost 550 today alone!

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

Today is the start of a 9 day marathon of travel for work and leisure that includes Scotland, Bristol and Germany. Not worked out the mileage but I'm sure it'll be 4 figures.

First stop, to visit the wildlings north of the wall for work.

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And now back south on the early train. 700+ miles done by the time we're back to Peterborough.

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@colasgrid Yeah, doing an assessment today and then covering the desk tomorrow day whilst they all do some training 👍

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@colasgrid @S26PHY @Toms9171 @bessbbe @SlugsUploads Ouch!

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@colasgrid @S26PHY Nothing exciting, just an ever-changing plan and the usual lack of resources....

If nothing else over the last couple of weeks, I've learnt the names of some random junctions in Manchester 🤣

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@stephen37292ML Thanks @stephen37292ML, from a freight perspective it was obviously a frustrating one but we got everything moving in the end. Thanks to you and everyone for doing what you do!

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

I like the HSTs but they should never have been cascaded to Scotland as 'new trains'. Hopefully @ScotRail and @scotgov have a tender requirement for @LevelBoarding

As a side note I'd love to see some 5/6 car bi-mode FLIRTs in Scotland 😍

[ScotRail @ScotRail]

The Scottish Government has announced a procurement to replace ScotRail's InterCity high-speed trains. A commercial tender will now be launched in the coming weeks, setting out timescales for the replacement. This is good news as we work towards a green and reliable railway.

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@LNER @Seatfrog when selling an upgrade to 1st class it might be worth not making the reservation the same seat as someone else....

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@bessbbe Which works out at roughly 1 & 2/3s locos....

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@bessbbe what's the correct conversion from Brachiosaurus' to Double-decker buses? 🤔

[GB Railfreight @GBRailfreight]

Today we opened our new maintenance hub in Tonbridge!

💷 A £2.5 million investment.

🚌 It’s larger than nine double-decker buses

🚂 A purpose-built hub to maintain our class 73s, 69s and 66s.

Read more on our website: https://t.co/rWdkZ2ytNt

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[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@poggs @SimonZev @bessbbe @realPeterSpokes This definitely got out of hand whilst I was asleep 🤣

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@bessbbe @poggs @realPeterSpokes I think that would need an RT3973...

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@bessbbe Always happy to help 🙂

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@bessbbe According to MCA, 22 wagons, 2310T, 52SLU 🙂

[Aidan Knight @aidankknight]

@bessbbe Whoops! Typos are definitely understandable in the excitement of spreadhseets 🙂