David Marshall @davenextthesea.bsky.social Retired transport planner MRTPI and Dad to Chloe. Trying to stay creative in planning and transport. School governor. Unfinished PhD, P/T student @aber.ac Rock music, real ale and SAFC.
Terrible TfW Signs @badsigns-tfw.bsky.social Sharing my cool hobby of spotting shonky and slapdash signs around the railway stations of Wales.
Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social Head of Archive & Library at The Red House, http://brittenpearsarts.org. Archives, music, metadata; side orders of architecture, landscape history & electronic noise.
Hastings Diesels Ltd @hastingsdiesels.co.uk We run public outings on the main-line railway network, in our lovingly restored 1957-vintage train.
In main-line preservation since 1996
Bring Back British Rail @bringbackbritishrail.org Campaigning for a re-unified national rail network run for people not profit, since 2009 🚆 Sign our petition at bringbackbritishrail.org
Railways Explorer @therailwayjunction.bsky.social Visiting railway stations current heritage and disused
Matt Harrison @mattpharrison.bsky.social I do communications, design and marketing for bus and train operators and authorities, and the occasional bit of writing. Proud Mancunian. European. 🇪🇺
Consultancy 👉 transportdesigned.com
Follow 👉 @transportdesigned.com
Ryan @ryanbate.bsky.social tired of saying “i told you so”.
accidentally ended up writing a blog that people seem to like but also seem to mistakenly think is about transit:
nowletsbeclear.substack.com- B Philip Brown @brownphilip.bsky.social Senior Associate at automaticknowledge.co.uk; Curator of the JR James Town Planning Archive and watcher of sport!
Roads.org.uk 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @roads.org.uk I write about UK road infrastructure and history! Join me for updates and other stuff from the UK's favourite roads website, www.roads.org.uk
Paul Robert Lloyd @paulrobertlloyd.com Independent graphic designer and web developer · Moving slowly and fixing things
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Ness Battery Orkney @nessbattery.bsky.social On the outskirts of Stromness, Orkney.
This important relic of Orkney’s wartime heritage once defended Scapa Flow against enemy attack. For information on guided tours: nessbattery.co.uk
David Roche @papaybirder.bsky.social Patch birder based on Papa Westray, Orkney
Orkney.com @orkneycom.bsky.social Discover Orkney and find out all about life in our vibrant islands. www.orkney.com
@orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social Charity set up to support and promote archaeology in and across Orkney.
St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social A twelfth-century cathedral built during Viking times in the beautiful Orkney Islands. https://www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/our-museums/st-magnus-cathedral/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20St%20Magnus%20Cathedral&text=Built%20from%20local%20red%20and,of%20the%20Kingdom
Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social Birder #WestrayBirding | Orkney Bird Recorder | #birdingScotland #ornithology 🪶 | #TeamMoth | #wildlife #art | 🎶 Punk, Post-punk | PUFC | MUFC | Pro-EU | ✊🏾🏳️🌈 ally
Feeds - Birding Gear, Orkney Birding, UK Patch Birding and BirdWeather PUC.
Philip Butler @artdecomagpie.bsky.social English photographer documenting Britain’s surviving interwar architecture.
Books:
226 Garages out on FUEL
Trackside Transformation - British Railway Stations 1923-1947 out on ADM
Peter H @peterontheel.bsky.social Trains, planes and automobiles. From Weymouth, living in London, working in Birmingham.
Lea Worrall @leaworrall.bsky.social Coach painter/Bus restorer. Specialist subject: The history of public transport in Greater Manchester 1969-2015.
Manchester, England.
Sam Jessup @samjessupdesign.bsky.social Brand Designer for LNER. Award-winning transport design and branding guy. Road-trip loving campervanner. Unashamed nerd. samjessupdesign.co.uk
Modern Railways @modernrailways.keypublishing.com Updates from the team at Modern Railways magazine, which has provided news, views and analysis on the UK's railways for 60 years.
Subscribe today at shop.keypublishing.com/mrsubs
Andy Bowes-Roden @andyroden.bsky.social Husband and dad first and foremost. Also Deputy Editor of Modern Railways, sub-editor of Hornby Magazine, general railway hack, author and director of Tavistock Okehampton Reopening Scheme. All views my own, natch. Cornwall, UK
Michael Holden @holdmch.bsky.social Two-timing refugee from X, to see if I can make this work. 50 years’ rail experience but not quite finished yet. Collected an FCIRO along the way
Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland @theahss.bsky.social www.ahss.org.uk
Speaking For Scotland's Buildings since 1956! Campaigning. Membership. Events.
The Architectural Heritage Fund @archhfund.org.uk Helping communities across the UK to reuse and regenerate historic buildings, with grants, loans and advice.
https://linktr.ee/ArchHFund
RailAdvent @railadvent.bsky.social Follow us as we visit different #railways around the #UK. Visit the website (www.railadvent.co.uk) for News, Videos, Pictures, Event Calendar and lots more!
Paul Childs @spheroview.bsky.social Trained as an architect. Retired architectural photographer and former Railway Heritage Trust Company Secretary.
Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social Ex-London Underground and retired back to "The North" - transport, design history, things industrial, architecture & heritage - all tickle my fancy. Postings often link to my Flickr account for more things!
The Railway Heritage Trust @railwayheritage.bsky.social Awarding grants to restore railway heritage structures which are listed or in conservation areas, & assets of Network Rail or Nat Highways Historical Railways Estate
Kevin Gibson @gslug1.bsky.social Drives trains. Likes concrete, synthesisers and 1980s computers.
Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden) @markonthemaps.bsky.social 🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
Train Songs Central @trainsongscentral.bsky.social Where the parallel lines of trains & music meet. Home of 'The Train Kept A-Rollin' - How The Train Song Changed The Face Of Popular Music' by @SpencerVignes.bsky.social - visit http://www.spencervignes.co.uk/ to find out more.
Greg Morse @gregmorsedphil.bsky.social Rail history, rail safety, rock etc.
Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Railway Operators.
Author of 'The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge'.
Global Centre of Rail Excellence @gcre.bsky.social The Global Centre of Rail Excellence (GCRE) is a new, purpose-built facility being constructed in South Wales that will become Europe’s leading centre for rail and sustainable mobility innovation.
@thomasmanship.bsky.social @thomasmanship.bsky.social
BusAndTrainUser @busandtrainuser.bsky.social After a long career running buses, retirement involves enjoying the delights of bus and train travel around Britain and blogging about the experiences.
Richard Long @rclongauthor.bsky.social Full time dad and part time railway author. Winner of Third Prize Non-Fiction at the 2025 Isle of Wight Book Awards for “Upgrading the Isle of Wight’s Railway”.
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rclong
Matt Clements @mattclements.bsky.social Head of Engagement for the railways at RSSB, Chart.PR, MCIPR, Dip CIPR, into comms, PR and trains, grew up in Loughborough, now in Essex, NFFC
The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social Director of the Railway Heritage Trust. But I get distracted by military history, the natural world, Yorkshire, classic aircraft, beer, cheese…etc etc
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
Living Streets @livingstreets.bsky.social We are Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking. #NationalWalkingMonth #WalkThisMay #WalkToSchool #BanPavementParking
#BetterCrossings
Alex Hornby @alexhornbyrail.bsky.social Commercial & Customer Director at Northern. Passionate about the people and places we serve, and the teams who help us do it.- N Andy Flood @ndyflood.bsky.social Human
Nick Job @nickjob.bsky.social Graphic Designer
Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social Semi-professional railman, into humour, rural railways, community rail, otters, cake and coffee. A passing photographer, Scripophillist, Graphologist, Calligraphist and aged likes a good whine.
Daniel Wright @danielhwright.bsky.social Escaped transport journalist and transport planner, sometime librarian and Community Rail support person; currently freelance transport writer of various things (inc @thebeautyoftransport.com) as well as working and living in fabulous Orkney.
Crayonista 🚇🗺🖍📚🏳️🌈 @crayonista92.bsky.social Subterranean tubular railway enthusiast & expert procrastinator. I also rescue books and maps from charity shops. 33/YIMBY/Ace/Queer/ND
https://www.instagram.com/crayonista92/profilecard/?igsh=eWN4eXlvd3dsaTZq
doublearrow.co.uk @doublearrow64.bsky.social British Rail Corporate Identity 1965-1994
Noel Dolphin @noeldolphin.bsky.social Electrify - everything today.... oh yes and public transportify it all. Was @noeldolphin on X.
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Railway Architecture @railwayarch.bsky.social Dr Siobhan Osgood. Historian of 19thC railway architecture/engineering/construction. Alum Trinity College Dublin. @irishrailarch on Instagram www.railwayarchitecture.com Media rep: Past Preservers casting@pastpreservers.com
Midtier @themidlandengine.bsky.social Busy breathing currently
Paul Webster @watfordgap.bsky.social I'm about people & communities in #CommunityRail as UK-wide Regions Support Manager at @CommunityRail.bsky.social. Also #tech4good & a @125.group do-er. Connector. Personal views only.
Chesterfield... or on a train.
Tim Dunn @mrtimdunn.bsky.social Historian, geographer, part of #Railway200 team, presenter @UKTV’s #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt & #SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground, Trainspotter, 🏳️🌈, and always an enthusiast. Own views, obv.
Toby Lloyd @tobylloyd.bsky.social Policy wonk, spad, consultant, writer, Londoner. Housing, urbanism and transport mainly.
Motorway Services Online @motorwayservices.uk Actual, real posts about motorway service stations. There's 97, by the way.
Richard Hebditch @richard.hebditch.org charities streets transport heritage environment philanthropy planning
T&E @transportenvironment.org Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport and energy. Fighting for an affordable zero-emission transport system that benefits both people and the planet.
www.transportenvironment.org
John Kell @jmkpolicy.bsky.social Transport policy in local government. Some local radio on the side. Personal views.
Justin on eurostar @eurostarjustin.bsky.social Eurostar Train Manager, ale and photography fan. Posts when operational duties allow. Contact eurostar for customer support. Bon voyage! #TrainsNotPlanes
🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪🇳🇱🇪🇺
fiona🚄🇵🇸🏳️⚧️💜 @fionaaa.bsky.social i like trains.
i like a lot of other things too, but i really like trains.
i like trains so much that i sell train tickets for a living.
https://youtube.com/@fionaaajade
💕 Joanna 💕 @joannecrompton.bsky.social Small Business Owner
Heritage Railway Volunteer & Steam Locomotive Fireman
Sometimes a bit sweary
All views are my own
Reposts do not equal agreement
Transport Designed @transportdesigned.com 🧡 Design & communications consultancy for public transport operators and authorities.
🚇 Specialists in public transport design, communications, cartography, wayfinding, marketing, branding, advertising and beyond.
👉 transportdesigned.com
Bessie @bessbbe.bsky.social I’m just here to keep an eye on my dad 👁️👁️
@arlosadventures.bsky.social
Bobs Rail Relics @bobsrailrelics.co.uk Railways, Industrial History, Canals and the odd bit of strange Wales
Lee Render @leerender.co.uk Publications Manager for the railway. My personal account and all views are my own and do not reflect the operators worked for. Also freelance info designer
leerender.co.uk | leerender on twitter | leerender1980 on insta/threads
Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me First Class Host in Purple | Hastings Diesels and 225 Preservation Volunteer | Neurodiverse, Asexual, He/Him
Every Last Station @everylaststation.bsky.social Visited Every Last Station in the UK & Ireland! Not as dull as it sounds!
http://ko-fi.com/everylaststation
Peter Hicks @poggs.com Director of OpenTrainTimes, vaccinator, phlebotomist, vegan, considerate cyclist, Open Data advocate, Dad-joke teller, cat and Italian Greyhound lap provider. Probably contains Java.
As seen on TV. Also not a goose. Or pipe smoker.
Road and Rail Sign Reporter @roadsignreport.bsky.social Transport enthusiast ❤ maps and signs. Also like Corrie, Red Dwarf, Real Crime news, London travel network 💜🚆 & MUFC #LOVESUs
https://youtube.com/@roadsignreporter
Emily Pettitt @emilyp.me
Paul Whitewick @paulwhitewick.bsky.social I make videos about landscape history and.... stuff. (He/him). http://youtube.com/pwhitewick1
Peter @invpete.bsky.social Theme Parks & Railways! See it, say it, sorted.
None of this is affiliated with my employer ducky.
Nick Badley @nickbadley.com Full-time university student turned full-time railway enthusiast!
https://www.youtube.com/@NickBadley
Geoff Marshall @geofftech.bsky.social If I had more time, I would have edited you a shorter video.
Transport Filmmaker : bit.ly/2TBWFsX
Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @railnatter.uk and @trainsatlantic.uk. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways) available everywhere. He/him.
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Bryn Buck 🏳️🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @showmeasign.online ⛔ Road (and other) Signs | 🚲🛴🚏 Public & Active Travel | 🚧 Road Safety | 🏳️🌈 Bi/NB (masc: Bryn/femme: Gwen) | Some (re)posts may be NSFW | 🎥 YouTube: youtube.com/c/BrynBuck | http://showmeasign.online
Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social Author & photographer Luke Agbaimoni's project capturing stations & stops on the London Underground tube map.
Tubemapper.com
💰 Book,Prints & Calendars
✉ luke@tubemapper.com
DM for info
Richard Smith @raves.bsky.social He/Him. Travels a lot. Posts a lot. Occasionally complains a lot. @richardavsmith on Twitter and @richardavsmith@mas.to on M
Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube Bringer of transport chaos, rider of buses, inflicter of ferries, creator of polls, ancient Bluesky denizen, unsure what is gender. @theorangeone on birdapp. Am I missing anything?
Dave McCormick @railwaydave.insanity.tube Consultant at WSP, lapsed mathematician, transport connoisseur. Been on almost every UK rail line. Knows too much about postcodes. All opinions my own. He/him.
JenOnTheMove 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jenonthemove.com Exploring the country using every station as a gateway to lesser known places, sharing my journey via YouTube | parkrun addict | https://youtube.com/@JenOnTheMove | she/her
Chris Howe (Rail Focus) 🏳️🌈 @railfocus.bsky.social Freelance transport & engineering journalist, railway campaigner and self proclaimed engineering nerd.
http://Youtube.com/@Rail_Focus they/them 🏳️🌈
Long Branch Mike (LBM) 🇨🇦 @longbranchmike.bsky.social Managing Editor of LondonReconnections.com. Open to colabs. Opinions are mine own. EN/FR (he/him/il/lui)
You know, I'm something of a foamer myself...
Simon Kendler @simonzev.bsky.social Rail Freight Manager & sustainable transport advocate
Travel, rail, transport & languages enthusiast. Mainly here for the trains... He/him
Views my own 🌈🛤🚲🕎
Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk
Can also be found:
Ⓜ️ mastodon.cloud/@respros
📸 pixelfed.social/respros
🍴 beliapp.co/app/respros
Paul Bigland @paulbigland.bsky.social Photographer, Journalist, NUJ member. Likes transport, politics, food and travel. Hates extremism. My blog: https://paulbigland.blog/ My photography: https://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/ #FBPE
CLondoner92 @clondoner92.bsky.social ✍️ Writer & Transport Commentator
🚇 ⦵ Analysing #TfL, #EV & #Hydrogen progress
📈 Public transport is an essential asset for economic growth.
💭 Views my own
🚏🚌🚐🚋🚃🚄
📰 https://clondoner92.blogspot.com/
The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
Scott @merseytart.com Train stations, James Bond, telly, general nonsense. He/Him/Twat. 🏳️🌈
http://www.merseytart.com
Nonsporgersi @nonsporgersi.bsky.social Having fun on the internet. Somewhat multifaceted. Live in the rural countryside West Country. Link in bio 🏳️🌈
Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social Art Deco, Modernism and Brutalism in London's suburbs and beyond. https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.