Rich Flint 🇪🇺💙

Chartered electromechanical engineer, geek and pedant. I like the outdoors, travel and photography. Mostly maps, photos and outdoors conversation here. 132/282.

[Rich Flint 🇪🇺💙 @FlintyRich]

@northernassist Thanks. My point was mostly about conflicting information on displays at Doncaster station, which showed the train as both running, and cancelled at the same time.

Also, from platform 6? This would involve a shunt north for the train to travel south to Swinton.

[Rich Flint 🇪🇺💙 @FlintyRich]

@northernassist @LNER What's going on here?

Elsewhere, the 14.20 from Doncaster to Sheffield is shown as cancelled.

[Severn Valley Railway @svrofficialsite]

📢Full-line ready to open this weekend📢

The embankment collapse has been repaired and the track re-laid thanks to a monumental effort by all involved. We're extremely grateful to everyone who has supported the railway.

https://t.co/RH9m6lfbFI
Photos: S Featherstone & L Carr

[Paul Clifton @PaulClifton_]

It’s unusual to have a “do not travel” instruction, but there’s really no excuse for this on the railway: signal failure closes platforms 1-14 at Waterloo

https://t.co/fazTPEgNvC

[The Woodhead Route @WoodheadRoute]

Woodhead station and the original tunnels in @GreatCentralRly days.

© John Minnis collection.

[Stephen Champion @Champs707007]

Less said about today the better….. not bad enough that I was running nearly 3 hours late some little darlings thought it would be nice to lob a rock at me… enter many bad words here that I want to use.

[Noel Dolphin @NoelDolphin]

Some depressing reading from ORR: 'Reduced renewals delivery plans risks additional deterioration of railway assets which may lead to more asset failures and therefore disruption to train' https://t.co/B2No8qZYjP

[Rich Flint 🇪🇺💙 @FlintyRich]

@CarouselBus I'm not impressed by the driver of the 1C bus I'm on taking a cigarette break mid-journey.

[Graeme Peacock @GraemePeacock1]

The bare, bare, oh so bare & treeless palimpsest expanses of Upper Coquetdale in Northumberland. No one will ever convince me this is the most environmentally-productive form of land management. Admittedly the resident ovines may well beg to differ (:

[Well There's Your Problem Podcast @wtyppod]

frustrating to do an episode about a disaster before it happens and then it happens anyway

[Rich Flint 🇪🇺💙 @FlintyRich]

@alexfenlon @SnappitysnapsP @ChimeWhistle @EC_mk2 @Jimmy5Priest @GarethDennis The industry is full of reliance on individuals for certain skills or knowledge. That won't change for a very long time.

[Philip Haigh @philatrail]

A source reminds me that this scheme is vital if there’s to be any hope of restoring the second hourly Newcastle-Manchester service. That service is something Northern politicians only grudgingly gave up to let more East Coast Main Line trains serve London.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The German road innovation uses porous granite and a hidden drainage system to absorb up to 4 tons of water per minute, a design proven effective in flood-prone areas

https://t.co/5n5BR4sX0Z

[The Woodhead Route @WoodheadRoute]

The train standing on Platform 1 at @NetworkRailMAN on the 11/11/1969 was the 1145am service from Sheffield Victoria via Woodhead in the hands of E26055 " Prometheus "

Passenger services were withdrawn on the 4th January 1970.

© George Woods.

[Driver H. Potter @DriverPotter]

#Silence

[Puppy Bess and Auntie Kes @Kesthecollie]

BTW two of my brothers have yet to find homes. If anyone is looking for a male tri-coloured collie puppy

[Graeme Peacock @GraemePeacock1]

I was working in the quite exquisite surrounds of @ushawdurham today. A real treat. This is somewhere that everyone should visit at least thrice. Such gilt-edged opportunities don’t come along often & so I came prepared with 3 camera/lens combos. Here’s No1. Hope they pass muster

[Nigel Danson @nigeldanson]

The Gathering

[Roger Ford @Captain_Deltic]

When HS2 started I decided to let others cover it for @Modern_Railways . This was because I realised that reporting on such a major scheme at the level readers expected would restrict my time available for coverage of the working railway.
A prudent decision in retrospect.

[City of Doncaster Council @MyDoncaster]

This #WorldRefillDay we’re calling on sports clubs, players, supporters and venues to help reduce the use of single-use plastic on and around our fields🥤

Pledge an action and you could be in with a chance of winning your club team-branded water bottles: https://t.co/jgRTOVb8al