James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺

Train Driver Manager & Steam Driver with a desire to do the job well. Like a decent coffee & beer too. All opinions do not represent any company.

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Went for a beer and this happened 😲 Terrier to Eurostar e300
1874 to 1992
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#trains #travel #history

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

@JohnNicholRAF The same parcels van ‘The Cavell Van’ that carried Edith Cavell is currently at Dover Marine / Dover Western Docks as part of this year’s remembrance services. Normally located on the @KandESRailway on display in collaboration with @Se_Railway and @Port_of_Dover

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

On this day 10th November, 105 years ago, the body of The Unknown Warrior arrived in Dover from France on the journey to Westminster Abbey. Travelling the the ‘Cavell Van’ which in 1919 had conveyed Edith Cavell from Dover to London.
A special opportunity to visit…

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

@SteveWhiteRail Makes a mental note to check Gemini tomorrow for allocations!
Be good to see the finished result of the project I had an early hand in 👍

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Unexpectedly found myself as the September page 100 pin-up in @Modern_Railway magazine for an article about The CIRO Fame at last!!
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#railway #magazine #career

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

London Euston looking very empty at 02:53 on a Saturday morning….
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#railway #station #euston #railwaylife #travel #work #space #empty

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Ashford Depot open day, part of the #railway200 events…
Excellent event. Thank you @Se_Railway
Nice to go back after a few years away 👍
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#railway #ashford #trains #class395 #class465 #class73 #terrier #br #networksoutheast

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Early morning in North London with a brace of Pendolinos ready for service….
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#railway #railwayphotography #wembley #train #sunrise #pendolino #class390

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Beautiful evening for a steam through the Kent & East Sussex countryside with the Wealden Pullman evening dining train
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#steam #locomotive #driver #kent #eastsussex #railway #heritage #dining #countryside #bluehour #sunset

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Went off and did some railway things for the day. Great show of what the railway does. Bumped into a few of the Railway Family along the way…
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#thegreatestgathering #railway #derby #alstom #steam #diesel #electric #locomotive #train

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Someone was a busy bee today. Having a lovely time all covered in pollen
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#bee #nature #pollinators🐝 #flowers #blue #yellow #black

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

A few hours at the @KandESRailway Diesel Gala. Fab Network Southeast theme.
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#heritage #railway #diesel #locomotive #nse #br

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

@1701aStarship That’ll be me standing on Plat 12 waiting for a train home!!

Hope you made it to Strood and remembered the power changeover at Ebbsfleet to avoid knocking off the pan on the first bridge after Springhead Jn 😬

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Euston Station Ticket Office ceiling from a different angle
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#railway #architechture #design #arches

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

@HighSpeed_H Waved as I went past on the 07:33 ex Euston to Crewe!👋 👋

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

@1701aStarship All the best birthdays were in ‘78 😊
Wishing you many happy returns 🎁🎂🍻

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

@HunsletTheBear 🤣🤣

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Wandering around Europe and stumble across a couple of @HunsletTheBear ‘s Italian cousins who may have had a little too much Aperol 😬🍹

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

Someone seemed to set fire to the sky last night 😍 #northernlights #AuroraBorealis

[James Veitch 🚅 ☕️🍺 @highspeedjv]

A couple of weeks in France and Italy #france #nice #ezé #italy #como #florence #travel #europe #holiday