Simon 🌈

@trainmad25.bsky.social

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35, Kent. Part of the Railway Family. My pronouns are He/Him. My flags are 🇬🇧🇫🇷🏳️‍🌈

Gentleman in sunglasses and a blue and white striped Sheffield Wednesday football top
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A man in a black & white stripey polo shirt with a white collar, open to reveal chest hair, poses coquettishly with a pair of heart sunglasses
A photo taken on the mezzanine level of London Kings Cross station. The retail outlet closest to the camera is a Gail’s bakery. Next door is a Greggs
The interior display of a Javelin showing that the next station is Gravesend. Underneath, a scrolling message indicates disruption for services via Kidbrooke, which is relevant to passengers connecting via Gravesend.
The exterior display of a Javelin coach reading “London St Pancras”. It is a sunny day and the sky above the train is a tropical blue
An information display on the side of a French TGV in the older livery with blue and silver sides, and green flashes to denote standard class; one of which is visible around the display. The display indicates that this photo is of carriage 16 of TGV 9715 going to Barcelona with a stop at Nîmes.
A lady in a red top sits in a restaurant with a chocolate dessert in front of her. On the bowl, ‘happy birthday’ is written in chocolate around the rim.
A sign bearing the rainbow-coloured logo of the RMT Union with an arrow pointing to the right, showing the direction of the room where the LGBT+ Members’ Conference will be held
A Scotrail Class 43 at Glasgow Queen Street
An error message that starts with a pensive thinking emoji and then reads “Couldn't find a route for that guess... This could be because this station is served by extremely few services, or something's gone wrong on our end - sorry! Your guess has not been counted - please guess again”
A pair of pasty legs with beige shorts and white socks sway in a hammock. A purple book is posed on the chest of the photographer. Stage right is a washing line with T-shirts hanging to dry. The garden has plants, sandstone patio and gravel
Well now that’s official, I can finally tell you all the good news. I’d appreciate if you all read this to the end. But first, a little bad news. Today will be my last day with Eurostar before I move onto pastures new. A few months ago, with all of the Brexit uncertainty swirling around, I realised that I needed to get out before UKIP disguised as Tories pulled the drawbridge up and trapped me on this little island. So, I started applying for jobs on the Mainland and I’m delighted to announce that from next week I’ll be working as a Pilote d’Aiguillage for the SNCF at the Technicentre Bretagne near Rennes. To say that I’m nervous is an understatement but the thought of being able to hold onto my European identity by celebrating the French holidays as a local, and to completely immerse myself in the culture and the spirit of being European. So to everyone I’ve worked with over the past 5 and a half years - thank you for the memories, and this isn’t goodbye but merely au revoir. So, I’d better get learning those French customs and traditions. All that remains for me to say is... Poisson d’Avril!
A row of birthday cards on a white mantelpiece in front of a red wall
A whole array of various model railway trains for sale
A layout based on a London Underground station with a metal grey deep level tube train
The little 3-car Pacer in GWR green with grey doors
A layout depicting the French countryside with a little station and a freight yard. Above the layout is a replica station sign with the name Venterol-Rousset
A 90s era layout named Southgate Park. The platforms have red lamp posts and departure screens. Luggage trolleys are scattered around the station
A 90s era layout where a train of Network SouthEast blue, white and red coaches pass a slam-door train in the same colours
A layout made from Lego. A BR blue & white DMU is passed by a Southern steam loco and green coaches. A series of locomotives including an EWS class 66 and a BR Large Logo class 50 wait on sidings next to them
The fountain in the park on the walk up to the Alexandra Palace
Boxes and boxes of Kelloggs’ Crunchy Nut Hot Honey clusters. The boxes are orange with a red Kelloggs’ logo and a bowl of cereal with flames coming out of it
In the biscuit aisle, on shelves next to all manner of McVitie’s Digestives in different flavours such as milk chocolate and dark chocolate is a pair of avocados. Clearly someone chose biscuits over avocados
Two East Midlands Railway Meridians at Sheffield station
A sign advising that the train is strictly non-smoking and fitted with CCTV, however it claims to be a Scotrail train
A Northern Turbostar arriving at Doncaster
A departure board at Doncaster station showing the 18:18 to Peterborough being expected at 18:50
The Pride colour Azuma rests at York
The full four-track span of the East Coast Main Line at Longlands junction, south of Northallerton
Stockton station with the grand trainshed wall still in situ
A jacket hangs on a coat hook on the side of je seat as a train departs Newcastle and crosses the King Edward bridge. The Centre for Life can be seen out of the window
The reservation displays on an LNER Azuma. It indicates that the window seat is reserved from Newcastle to Doncaster and the aisle seat from Newcastle to Peterborough, the terminus for this train today.
A red & white LNER Azuma arrives into platform 3 at Newcastle station
The New Measurement Train - an all-yellow High Speed Train - rumbles through Newcastle. On the sides of the coaches are Network Rail logos. The rear power car js buffer-fitted
A CrossCountry Voyager arrives at Morpeth station. The platform has a canopy with red columns and cream supports. The sky above is cloudy with small patches of blue
A screenshot from RailMiles showing two journeys; the first of which is the 18:30 from London Kings Cross to Newcastle, operated by LNER Azuma 800113 and arriving one minute early at 22:05 on platform 2 The second entry shows a supposed 22:05 from Newcastle platform 1, but with a 20 minute delay. This means it should have left at 21:46 and thus would have been missed quite comfortably had it been on time
A noisy diesel powered train trundles along in the darkness. There is nothing but night outside the window, so the reflections in the empty carriage can be seen. Above the window, the words “Quieter Carriage” are visible; made a hollow mockery by the loud diesel motors beneath the train
A paper bowl with paella in. Next to it, various lemon wedges sit on a paper tissue
A wood table flanked by two high-backed leather benches. The table is set for three, with white plates, and knives & forks on red napkins. A cocktail menu with the Poco Loco logo of a colourful Dias de los Meurtos skull is visible.
A sample menu from the chocolate cocktail bar featuring a number of sweet cocktails
The front of the Hammersmith Apollo advertising that Dara O’Briain is playing there this evening
A man in a blue & white striped polo, buttons undone, stands in front of a railway station. Chest hair pokes out from the gap in his top. He has blue earphones in his ears.
A man with brown hair sits on a wicker chair next to a tropical backdrop with the words ‘Rooftop Monsigny’ in orange neon. The man is wearing a blue shirt with white squares. He is also wearing sunglasses that reflect the bar area.
Man in a blue & white striped shirt with a plate with three desserts and a coffee on it
A poster behind a vending machine at Chatham station. At the bottom appears to be a train in the old BR blue and white colours scheme. There is a yellow box in the middle with red writing but only the first letters of each line are visible
A copy of ‘Murder by Cheesecake; a Golden Girls cosy mystery’ by Rachel Ekstrom-Courage. The cover photo is a piece of cheesecake with a red topping and a knife stuck in it. At the top of the cover is a picture of each of the four Golden Girls - Dorothy, Blanche, Rose & Sophia. A black bookmark with gold writing is at the top of the book. The bookmark has the Eurotunnel logo and reads ‘Eurotunnel Exhibition Centre - Folkestone, Kent’
Three Eurostar class 373 ‘e300’ trains, also known as Trans-Manche Super Trains (TMST) at London St Pancras
The interior of a former British Rail Class 156 Super Sprinter, as operated by Northern Rail. The seats are plush with royal blue coverings that have a navy blue centre. The tables have a beech wood effect colour and the floor is a creamy grey colour. The carriage is lit by a long strip light that runs along the ceiling. Hanging from the ceiling is a Passenger Information Systems dot matrix screen that reads “This is Cramlington”
A crowd of Benfica players hugging the goalkeeper in his yellow jersey
A television showing the PSG vs Newcastle match. Under the TV is a PS3 and a Nintendo Wii
A Class 156 Super Sprinter dozes in the bay platform at Newcastle as an Azuma prepares to depart for Edinburgh
Selfie dressed as Woody from Toy Story
An EMR Meridian arrives into Leicester station, heading to London St Pancras
A Class 810 Aurora sitting at Leicester station