My Lego model of a Southern Region diesel electric multiple unit (DEMU), a 3R ‘Tadpole’ unit without the middle trailer, positioned on a siding rail in front of a full sized DEMU, a 3D ‘Oxted’ unit also without the middle trailer. Both full sized and model motor units are in classic BR blue and grey livery with yellow ends. Taken from a place of safety and with supervision. https://flic.kr/p/2mt9C7p

#WeekJforJuxtaposition
#AlphabetChallenge

2R meets 2D at the Spa Valley Railway
#Lego #Thumper #DEMU #ModelTrains #RailBlue

37080 Stratford 12/03/82 Stratford used to see an occasional freight through Platform 8, the main down platform for the evening commuter trains. Sometimes sand, in this case oil. Hard to forget the raw sound of the clanking, ...

Love that long spotters’ view across the platforms 👍

That train reminds me of the occasional oil trains through P8 at Stratford, the evening commuters taking a step back as the tanks clanked and bounced past. #RailBlue #Class37

#EnglishElectric family gathering at Kingscote.
Thumper, Shoebox and Hoover assemble!
#BluebellRailway #Diesel Gala #trains #RailBlue

60000 Hastings in 1980s blue/grey livery at Horsted Keynes. The up platform starter signal is cleared for the departure

Right Away, first train of the #BluebellRailway #Diesel Gala.
60000 Hastings looking fantastic in the early sun at Horsted Keynes in grey and #RailBlue, just as I remember them. Thanks
@hastingsdiesels.co.uk
#Bluesky

Rail overhead pylon with sunrise behind it.

One more. #ECML #LNER #RailBlue #photography

Very painterly shy of a patron’s and arch in very deep shadow.

Still like this of York station #photography #RailBlue

Brussels Central #RailBlue #TrainTwitter

Trains for #RailBlue!

73119 in BR ‘Dutch’ livery, yellow with dark grey lower sides. Named in memory of Paul Taylor, GBRF manager, prostate charity campaigner and SVR supporter. Photo taken at the Greatest Gathering, Derby https://flic.kr/p/2rkeSNT

73119 ‘Borough of Eastleigh’ in BR Blue at Eastleigh 100 https://flic.kr/p/2rkdNx8

Electro-diesel 73119 ‘Paul Taylor’ at the #GreatestGathering yesterday and as ‘Borough of Eastleigh’, on its home turf at the Eastleigh 100 event in 2009.

16 years, 2 great events, same locomotive
#RailBlue #BRBlue #Class73 #Eastleigh
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekEforEasyE

Also at Derby today! Really looking forward to this. Nearly at St P for the trip north, can’t wait!
Any other Blueskyers attending #GreatestGathering today?
#RailBlue

A lovely return journey on a 1938 stock between Acton Town and Uxbridge despite the hot weather. #RailBlue

Morning everyone. The wonderful West Coast Main Line terminus of Glasgow Central. Time to jump on board rail blue 86224 ‘Caledonian’ for the journey south. Have a great day, whatever you have planned. 👍
#Class86 #AL6 #RailBlue #BritishRail #GlasgowCentral #WCML

Rail blue at finest, work stained and weathered! No heat 47369 speeds through Hest Bank with northbound service.
#Class47 #Duff #BritishRail #RailBlue #HestBank

4VEP electric multiple unit 3417 ‘Gordon Pettit’ in P3 at Eastleigh. The unit is in the original blue with aluminium window frames, half yellow ends, red blinds Class 73 73213 hauling to Swanage Gala, in GBRF livery

4VEP electric multiple unit 3417 ‘Gordon Pettit’ on the up fast at Eastleigh. The unit is in the original blue with aluminium window frames, half yellow ends, red blinds Class 50 50008 hauling back from the Swanage Gala, in Hanson & Hall livery

Red Blinds at Eastleigh. Outwards and Returns of the day, almost exactly 12 years apart.

@gordon3417.bsky.social on its way to the #SwanageRailway gala, May 2013 and on its way back, today, May 2025
#RailBlue #SETG #4VEP #EMU #Eastleigh

Excellent day out at the Swanage Railway gala yesterday.
Fantastic to ride in a proper slammer again, Thanks to the @gordon3417.bsky.social team.
15 years this month since the last slammers ran in the South, the end of the Lymington shuttle.
Ker-lunk, tic-a-tic-a-tic-a…
#RailBlue #SwanageRailway

Refurbished old #RailBlue Hornby 47, converted to DCC, hauls my now illuminated Lima Mk2 coaches with new 3D printed interiors. #ModelTrainShow2025

The corporate colours of British Rail looking amazing on the this class 86. The bare cab front end, with no additional jumper cables, and lack of headlight just gives it such a clean and uncluttered appearance.
#Class86 #AL6 #BritishRail #RailBlue

37021 on the refuelling road at Stratford Depot Open Day 1983. Class 37 locomotive, rail blue livery, split head code, yellow end face on the the camera https://flic.kr/p/2ku9pvy

Long time ago, on a refuelling siding far far away (Stratford Open Day 1983)
#Class37 #RailBlue

BR diesel locomotive 'Peak' 46010 in the loco bays at King's Cross 14th September 1982. The locomotive is in BR Blue with yellow ends, the original headcode panel replaced by 2 headlights https://flic.kr/p/2krJDfV

46010 in BR Blue at King's Cross, September 1982

#MidWeekPeak #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBB
#KingsCross #RailBlue

Last "planned" commute of 2024.....a first trip on a South Western Railway Arterio. Waited a long time to go on one of these. #RailBlue

#FiftyFriday Sir Edward Elgar at Cannon Street for the London&Greenwich 150 celebrations. 23-24 August 1986.

A Grand Day Out. Who was there?!
#RailBlue

Front cover of book "The Railway Paintings of Terence Cuneo". Image is an oil painting of a blue express passenger locomotive, "Mallard", streamlined into a wedge shape at the front. It carries a British Railways emblem and number 60022. If you know the front cover of Blur's "Modern Life is Rubbish", it's the same sort

If anyone needs me, I'm in the library looking for mice

#RailBlue #BookSky

50047 Swiftsure on the middle road at the southern end of York station after major overhaul. The locomotive is in BR Blue. It would work a train back to its WR home. May 1980 https://flic.kr/p/2qwZ1Lf

50047 Swiftsure looks absolutely mint at York, after a major overhaul at Doncaster works in May 1980.

My first view of a class 50, a good way to start. Happy #FiftyFriday!
#RailBlue

Class 33 33005 leaving Southampton with a train to Bristol on 28th July 1981 under the classic gantry of semaphore signals at the western end of the platforms, heading off into the bright afternoon sun. The locomotive is in BR Rail Blue with yellow ends, and the first vehicle is a Mark 1 Corridor Composite coach in blue/grey livery, with a yellow line above the first class compartments https://flic.kr/p/2mNgaCa

Time to resurrect a theme I used to run on t'other place.
#ThirtyThreeonaThursday

33005 powers away from Southampton with the train to Bristol in July 1981. The great gantry of semaphores only has a few weeks left in service. I wish I was on this train... @semaphoria.bsky.social #RailBlue

45125 at the head of a parcels train at St Pancras, 3 April 1985 https://flic.kr/p/2iVy5nt

St Pancras, before #Eurostar

45125 ready to lead a parcels train out of the quiet and dingy station. What a contrast to today's scene!
#midweekpeak #RailBlue

Twin Tractors and Double Duffs 37053 37044 47244 47297 Ipswich 100585

Following with interest. I took a few trips out to Ipswich and Norwich around 1985, the transition from 47s to AC electrics on the Ipswich run flic.kr/p/2kEfyZg
#RailBlue

The scene at a wet Hastings station, 29 March 1984, like several journeys for me in the early 80s. The Long and Short of it - 5L (ex 6B) 1031 has just worked the 14.45 down from Charing Cross with me on board, while 6S 1004 gets ready to leave for Cannon Street (23 headcode) at 16.42 https://flic.kr/p/2qtiLLn

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSquares #RailBlue
A scene from the past - Hastings station in March 1984.

A couple of Thumpers in the platforms, diesels ticking over and fans whirring. 5L 1031 has just arrived from Charing Cross, my transport home, while 6S 1004 is ready to depart to Cannon Street.

33116 in BR Blue livery leads 4TC unit 417 out of Southampton, driving trailer 76301 in Network SouthEast livery leading, under the Southampton station footbridge, which is decorated in naval message flags. 1989 The flags read 'Welcome To Southampton' https://flic.kr/p/2j8GHCF

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforSquares #RailBlue
33116 leads 4TC 417 out of Southampton, 1989.
Both loco and coach survive: 33116 at the Great Central railway, and 76301 now at Swanage. Future reunion...?

The flags read 'Welcome To Southampton'

92024 J.S. Bach and the northbound Caledonian Sleeper at Euston 13 July 2014 I really miss these journeys, sights and sounds. Always an adventure https://flic.kr/p/2qrV3Dr

92024 J.S. Bach and the northbound Caledonian Sleeper at Euston 13 July 2014. The locomotive is standing at a red signal, the locomotive cabs and carriage vestibule are lit, and the EWS panel is illuminated by a light on the platform. I really miss these journeys, sights and sounds https://flic.kr/p/2qrWK9v

At journey's start, Euston. Always walk up to the front for a quick look, found this beast humming ready to go.

I really miss trips on the Caley Sleeper, doubt I will justify the cost of a trip now. Still love the 92s though, amazing machines and evocative names #RailBlue

Bumblebee busy in a poppy, backlit by the sun. June 2023 https://flic.kr/p/2qqRt21

Hot work! #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRed

Had to take a break for a few days, hoping to catch up with some more #naturephotography this week. Planning some more #RailBlue and #bsmrguk posts soon as well