Michael C

@mikewillsee.bsky.social

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He/Him Sustainable transport advocate & enthusiast (usual trainspotter) Human rights enjoyer Founder of @networknews.org.uk I also make YouTube videos: youtube.com/@mikewillsee

Michael sits excitedly in front of the microphone at a radio station whilst giving a thumbs up to the camera
Meme showing someone facepalming with the caption "My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that?"
Michael sitting in the radio studio giving a thumbs up to the camera while sitting in front of a microphone.
A GWR (Although who knows, as the livery seems to be completely fictional) class 800 sits within some nonexistent platforms (roughly in the same area as the Eurostar platforms) at St Pancras International station with a nonexistent footbridge passing over the top, A questionably photoshopped-in YouTuber can be seen standing on the empty (nonexistent) platform in his pyjamas.
A picture taken earlier today of the new Okehampton Interchange station, showing how the platform and footbridge look pretty much complete and ready to go.
Michael C standing proudly in front of the first ever GBR-liveried class 387
A lumo class 222 running at speed along the west coast mainline. Seen at South Kenton.
A meme featuring two panels. Panel one shows Michael holding an LNER coffee cup whilst smiling into the camera, with the caption "Me when HS2 was going well". Panel two shows Michael in a large amount of discomfort with a blurred coffee cup and the caption "Me after Sunak cancelled all the useful bits".
The opening ceremony for Bedlington Station, featuring Alex Hornby, Dennis Fancett, and Glen Sanderson, amongst others.
A Tyne & Wear Metro Class 555 pulling out of a station. Overhead catenary can be seen above it with the train connecting to it via a rooftop pantograph.
A screenshot of my account page on Bluesky featuring a new banner showing me in front of the recently opened Bedlington station with a Northern Class 156 in the background.
A screenshot of a new YouTube video from The New Statesman of an interview with David Lammy and the thumbnail text "The Greens will never take my seat"
Michael sitting in the radio studio giving a thumbs up to the camera
Michael points at a class 455 pulling in behind him at Clapham Junction
A SWR Class 455 sits in Kingston Station wearing a special nameboard reading "Class 455 Farewell"
A lumo class 803 sits in Glasgow Queen Street station having travelled up from King's Cross.
A wet footpath next to a road which just ends abruptly with nowhere obvious for pedestrians to go.
Me sitting in the Surrey Hills Radio studio preparing my show whilst giving a thumbs up to the camera
1. Use the westernmost track out of Koln Hbf Platform 1
The 'Absolute Cinema' meme except it's ME putting my hands up with the caption underneath.
A British Rail Class 158 in Regional Railways livery
A screenshot of the technical drawing showing the planned car park layout at Blyth Bebside station, with the location of the disabled parking spaces highlighted in a red circle.
A painting of the Skerne Bridge from the inaugural journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway. A large crowd can be seen watching the Locomotion No. 1 from a field, whilst dressed in Edwardian clothing.
A picture of the book ‘How The Railways Will Fix The Future’ being held up in front of a 2 car Class 168 in a dimly lit London Marylebone station.
George, the Stourbridge Junction Station Cat, curled up on a chair behind the ticket desk. A series of birthday cards addressed to him can be seen in the background!
A half pint of beer sits on a pub table underneath York’s grand train shed, which nicely frames a Northern 170 sitting in the platform behind, awaiting its next service. The pub table, meanwhile, is right on the platform!
A map of the proposed Northern Powerhouse Rail, showing: Upgraded lines between Liverpool Lime Street and Warrington A new line from Warrington to just west of Huddersfield with stops at Manchester Airport and Manchester Piccadilly The line splitting in two after Huddersfield: Branch A: Upgraded lines direct to Leeds Branch B: A longer route comprising a new line between Huddersfield and Bradford followed by an upgraded line to Leeds Upgraded lines from Leeds to York and Hull
A traditional Cotswold Village with beautiful stone buildings full of lovely little shops, ruined by the fact that the road running through it has a traffic jam om both directions, and on-street parking om both sides.
One of the options listed in the Integrated Rail plan, titled "Potential Wider Network" with a price tag of £25bn A map shows the potential lines that could be included, with HS2 shown to Manchester in blue, and other lines to Liverpool, Bradford, Leeds, York, Sheffield, Doncaster and Hull in green. A caption underneath reads: "In addition to the Core Network a section of new or Reopened line connecting Manchester - Bradford (via Huddersfield) with electrification and/or upgrades between Manchester - Sheffield and from Leeds and Sheffield - Hull and York to Newcastle.
A pair of class 222s sitting in Derby station
A black and white picture of an old Swiss Electric Locomotive.
A proposed service pattern map from the report on the Liverpool - Manchester Railway showing how trains could operate across the three railways between Manchester and Liverpool. Notably, some of the proposed services run on the new line from Manchester Piccadilly through Manchester Piccadilly and Warrington Bank Quay, before splitting off to serve Crewe and Chester on the existing network, despite previous plans indicating that all trains would run through to Liverpool unless HS2 was built.
A picture of me in the Surrey Hills Radio studio sitting in front of a microphone whilst giving a slightly goofy thumbs up to the camera
One of London Northwestern Railway's new 5 car class 730/2s at Northampton Station
A selfie of me in front of Coventry's Very Light Rail tram
A picture of me sitting inside a radio station with a microphone in front of me
A picture of me aboard a train, with a BBC News ticker underneath reading: "Michael C, Youtuber and rail enthusiast"
That meme that goes: "Well of course I know him. He's me."
A picture of a CrossCountry Class 221 "Voyager" train.
A picture of myself and Hugh Hillier, from The TfL Three, standing together on a pavement.
A sign aboard a train reading "Wheelchair Ramp Stowage"
An advert for my radio show "Turntables" on Surrey Hills Community Radio. The picture shows me sitting in a radio studio with text overlaid advertising: Turntables 2nd/4th Tuesday of each month 5pm - 7pm
A screenshot from Open Railway Map showing the Old Dalby Test Track passing through the site of an abandoned former station called Widmerpool.
A screenshot from Star Trek where they're talking about "The Irish Unification of 2024"
A screenshot from trainpal showing a saving of more than £100 on a ticket from London King's Cross to Ashington through use of split ticketing. Cost without split ticketing: £132.02 Cost with split ticketing: £31.40
A quote from a recent guardian article saying "Mark Wild, the chief executive of HS2 Ltd, told MPS a "fundamental reset" was needed but a new plan would take until mid-2026 to devise. "We have to acknowledge that HS2 in its core mission to control costs has failed," he said. "We must break the cycle."
A Victoria line carriage map showing interchanges with the Overground at Euston, Highbury & Islington, Seven Sisters, Blackhorse Road, and Walthamstow Central. Despite being 5 different lines, they are all shown in the same orange colour!
Me holding Gareth Dennis's book "How The Railways Will Fix The Future" whilst aboard a London Overground class 378