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Flowers at East midlands parkway by jim scott, on Flickr

no, not me on that, dont go to grantham anyway some from today, should have been traction conducting the DBSO over to lowestoft but the job got caped so we just ended up going peterborough to derby via oakham and melton mowbray, never done that line before, very interesting indeed peterborough east mids parkway and into derby and that was that, back to peterborough for my van and home, had a cracking run across the A47 through rutland, never been that way before but the scenery is beautiful around manton where you are right on top of the hill looking across the wide valley plain, you can even see manton viaduct at one point stretching out across the valley, almost looking at it from above, if i wasnt so keen to get home i'd have stopped for a picture

some from this morning, derby shunt 37116 in colas colours, first time ive seen it close up 37175 this 73 is pristine silver on one side and the other is vinyled up to look 1/2 shabby and 1/2 pristine, couldnt get a clear pic as 37025 was in the way.... .....see then i took 37421 to etches park and walked back to the RTC there is a sheeted over meridian on etches from the incident at mountsorrel a few months back when it hit the unloading chute of the self discharge train at 100mph that was overhanging the mainline, the fibreglass cab shell has been removed completely from it Then off to peterborough for tomorrows job, ECML to finsbury park, NLL to stratford and then the GEML to chelmsford and back to liverpool st, should be an interesting day

popped into trains 4 u earlier in peterborough, gareth as some in the cabinet (3-4-5-6) EDIT: See below

i know DRS not giving anything away for free by the look of it! not too long a night really, managed an hours sleep in carnforth due to the signalling going down at tebay so that took the edge off it a bit derby shunt tomorrow and traction conducting the rest of the week, peterborough, lowestoft, old oak common, liverpool st, marylebone, euston and newport amongst other places, dont think i'll be seeing home til thursday now!

only one interesting thing today in carlisle on my way home, couple of 20s and a debranded 37 with some barrier coaches, off to craigantinny apparently then the 37 to its new home in leicester

i assume the lee spur is the avoiding line that 465010 is on, didnt look like it was used much then that came along

point and shoot at 30mph at 23:30, quite pleased with it even though its a bit blurred/grainy, nice sense of movement

i did, not had time to think about the answer!

and filling the gaps with pics from the proper camrea first up lewisham hither green and out and about, in no particular order and thats just about it, travelled home today but wasnt in a camera mood

They fight back in Australia I can't actually watch that video as it scares me too much

Nope, too many spiders for my liking!!

You would think I'm obsessed with it, this is the first time this year, ok it's the 2nd time in 6 months but what the hey! And as its a night off I'm having a beer too

Damn right Got to say jersey boys is a cracker too, better than I expected

This makes me smile! 6th time is a charm (naturol of this parish' son is playing the lead tonight too) Jersey boys first though in about an hour

Some more from today, just IPhone pics for now After getting to the hotel at lewisham it was on to the train to hither green Some units in lewisham Then it was prep the train ready for the nights work and away Being as I was only needed for the DBSO bit I stayed in the train and had my own private branch line tour when the 37 was leading Getting ready to depart DBSO leading to Waterloo Changed ends on arrival And over to Clapham jn Changed ends again and back to Waterloo And back out to Epsom Back to Waterloo then back out again to shepperton! Back to Waterloo for the final time and then out to Wimbledon to head back to hither green, had to go the long way as the direct line was shut And finally back via Clapham, Stewarts lane and Wandsworth road to hither green Shut down and back to the hotel for a good sleep! More pics on my proper camera that I'll upload when I get home

Mmmm, pointy!! And off in this to the depths of 'that london' couple of days down in the smoke, hopefully get some pics while I'm out and about

some from today, covering an IM job starting in langley mill up to toton and round to lenton Jn changed ends and then headed back to toton couple of bits passing by and over no more pics as time was tight but onto the RTC and stabled up for the weekend

no not me, a was up north, here are a few pics from the last week or so carlisle, heading for wigton voyager rare old beast, a coal train! 325 unit heading south by now it was lashing down! pendolino and 185 70 heading north then my train came in, passing a colas 37 in the sidings 37423 and that was that until yesterday when i caught the train back south to warrington to work the logs to chirk, caught it in wigton where i had a nice surprise of 66431 dragging brand new 68023/24/25 from workington to kingmoor then my train arrived, 37402 leading into carlisle, again/ lashing down! 66304 37 departs for barrow while a 156 heads to newcastle and a 153 in the sidings and up to warrington to wait for my train (that i passed looped just outside lancaster) 60059 on a peak forest to dallam stone train 47580 and another WCR 47 empty biomass heading for liverpool manchester WAG express and my train arriving, loco swap last night so 60096 this time, first time on the logs i think? and thats yer lot

No probs, I was tempted to call in there yesterday and see if the last 2 were still there, I only discovered jacksons late last year as they are tucked away in a back street in wigton, cracking little shop, lots on offer and as can be seen by the price of the HIAs (£21.99) very reasonable prices too, they had a 2nd hand Heljan EWS 58 last year for £90 which I was very tempted by but managed to resist!

the new album 'super' is barmy, at first i thought 'what the hell is this' but the more i listen to it the more it grows on me, not a vocal album at all and having checked the BPM of the tracks on my DJ app they are mostly 120-130 BPM, in fact ive already mixed the album into one long mix for a bit of fun, (going to redo it though with the remix of pop kids instead of the original) i did something similar with electric which is one of my favorite PSB albums ( i have 300+ unique PSB tunes in my collection, lots of obscure dance mixes of stuff)

go to options at the bottom of the screen then at the top you will see 2 opposite hands holding an iphone, click the unlit one and it will revert to right handed operation

I asked the driver on the Cumbrian coast loco hauled earlier why they put a tail lamp on the train and it's because a signaller reported that he couldn't see the tail lamps lit on a loco a while back so since then they put one on

I told the guy in jacksons models I'd put it on rmweb that he has some and to expect calls!!

Jacksons models in wigton have the 4 green ones in stock (15:00, 5/4) I've nabbed the 2 white ones for my rake They have only ordered 6 in total so get a shift on if you want the last 4 (£21.99 each)