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In celebration, have some of my photos from over the years of HST services in Britain. From tip of Cornwall to the Highlands of Scotland, I've covered thousands of miles on these wonderful trains, and long may that continue into the future 😊

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 16h

50 years of HSTs! As I came into St Pancras from Sheffield, I saw the 125Group's "Rio Warrior" tour for Manchester Piccadilly departing Platform 2. What a brilliant sight indeed! I still miss these wonderful trains coming in and out of London, half a century is admirable!

An Intercity 125 train departing London St Pancras train station in Intercity executive livery

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 25/09/2026

After 8 days in a row at work, it's time for a well deserved long weekend with @pacerclara.insanity.tube ☺️ If you've never done the TfW Dining Train, what are you doing? It was absolutely divine as always! The best dining train we have in Britain by a long shot. 67017 wins as well 😁

A Class 67 train at Cardiff Central station

A girl in a blue jumper and a boy in a yellow and blue shirt with meals on a train with a train station out the window

A pair of Black Forest Trifles, one of them has cherries

A view out the window of the river Usk and Newport

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 22/09/2026

Didn't long miss me! Was out at 1912 😅

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 18/09/2026

some guy who's bad at stealing

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 18/09/2026

Did some DLR trains with some bloke called Nick watch if you like trains innit

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 11/09/2026

Oh no Stu! Gutted for you 😔 Glad it's nothing too serious

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 10/09/2026

Saw a post about Thameslink seats and happened to be in London Can confirm: the new design (right) is definitely better than the old. The second photo gives you an idea of just how much more padding there is The only issue is if you're a few feet taller than me, you might catch the headrest 😅

Two seats on display, the left has less padding than the right

A close up of two seats, the nearer one doesn't have much padding in the middle but the far one had more padding and a headrest

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 09/09/2026

Stumbled upon a shiny new DLR train yesterday! They're very nice trains indeed, much more spacious than the trains they'll replace. Mind the acceleration and braking is a bit on the bumpy side, but I'm aware they're still tweaking and fine tuning bits and bobs

A B23 stock DLR train at Stratford International DLR station

A B23 stock DLR train at Canning Town DLR station

The wheelchair area of the B23 DLR train with two bays for chairs with red call for aid buttons

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 09/09/2026

As they usually say on the day, "on it!" 🙂‍↕️ Would've been an excellent run had we not followed everything south of Peterborough 😅

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 07/09/2026

Wivelsfield is actually in a hamlet called "World's End" which is definitely not ominous. The junction next to it (which the station used to be named after until it was renamed in 1896) is called Keymer Jct is at least a mile and a half from Keymer 😂

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 02/09/2026

Go smash it Stu! Best of luck!

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 01/09/2026

After 12 days off to unwind, I'm back on the Iron Road once more Have a line up of Meridians at St Pancras at about 10am. These 125mph workhorses are here to stay for a while

A trio of Class 222 front noses viewed from the side at St Pancras

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 31/08/2026

I mean, I'd take a Siemens or Alstom product if it has to be, but imagine crossing the Forth Bridge on a FLIRT with those huge windows and nothing rumbling under your feet!

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 31/08/2026

Please be Stadler, please be Stadler, please be Stadler etc etc

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 30/08/2026

I can find a 1749 in older timetables if that's what you're aiming for? In one iteration, it has a really strange Nee Cross call, but not London Bridge!

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 30/08/2026

For my Coastway friends, the Amber Rudd Seaside Express also returns, albeit to and from Charing Cross www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n... www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 30/08/2026

I've been making notes about the next timetable and it's hard to keep a straight face when Cross Country pull a Bournemouth to Glasgow out of nowhere www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n... With the 1027 from Plymouth going to Manchester, it's presumably a fun Stock Balance 😂

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Realtime Trains | Just a moment

Realtime Trains is an independent source of live realtime running information for the Great British railway network.

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 24/08/2026

Oh god, my eyes need a wash now 😭

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 22/08/2026

What better way to use a Summer Saturday than doing the "Inter7City Circle" Edinburgh - Aberdeen - Inverness - Stirling with @pacerclara.insanity.tube all on I7C's before the clock starts counting down for good. Love these trains so much, even if they admittedly need to be in a retirement home! 😅

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Further strike action called on East Midlands Railway RMT members working at East Midlands Railway (EMR) will take further 48-hour strike action starting from Sunday August 30 over ongoing safety concerns and major train faults. rmtunion.org/4qyBg2X

rmtunion.org

Further strike action called on East Midlands Railway

RMT members working at East Midlands Railway (EMR) will take further 48-hour strike action starting from Sunday August 30 over ongoing safety concerns and major train faults.

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 20/08/2026

Worked to London, worked back to Sheffield, now for 11 days off! 😍 Have a view of the future at St Pancras from last Sunday, three 810s lined up ready for duty. It'll be weird when this is the norm, but there's still a long way to go yet

Three Class 810 Aurora trains lined up at St Pancras train station

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 19/08/2026

I don't think I've said the words "Tapas" or "Ploughman's Lunch" so many times until we introduced them! It's my only vocabulary on lates these days 😂

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 17/08/2026

Oh hey, is that @leerender.co.uk you've randomly come across 😅

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 15/08/2026

No fires or disposable barbecues on the 2132 back home, everyone must've got the message

A Class 810 Aurora train at Sheffield train station

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 14/08/2026

Andy, it's okay, I'm not going to start a disposable barbecue on my train, chill out 😭

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 11/08/2026

"Please hold the line, the resource centre wishes to speak with you" Copped an easy London and back off spare today, Pioneer 101 as my train for the day. Not the most well behaved, but it did the job at least Despite everything, just plodding along day by day. What else can you do after all?

A Class 222 Meridian train at Sheffield train station at night

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 09/08/2026

If you were just an hour later, you would've had me!

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

😎 RMT picket line at Sheffield as members continue to take strike action to urge East Midlands Railway to take its fleet of faulty 810s out of service.

Group of East Midlands Railway workers gathered outdoors holding a banner demanding safety for Aurora trains.

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 07/08/2026

Was just for Wimbledon that cake! Fruit Cake for the time being again

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 06/08/2026

August throughout the years 🗓️ 2023: A GWR Castle at Newquay replacing an IET as far as Plymouth during a unit shortage 2022: 313201 "Big Blue" arrives into Littlehampton 2021: A 313 and 158 share island platforms 1 and 2 at Brighton 2020: 86639 passes Highbury and Islington

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 06/08/2026

Hearing one of those come in whilst meeting and greeting for my train makes me jealous!

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 03/08/2026

2 months after my last visit, I've finally been back in Scotland with @pacerclara.insanity.tube again! 😊 Last week, we tried out Lumo's Meridian from Motherwell to Stirling, taking a 222 in Scotland felt very strange! The former First coaches are decent Seemingly empty after Motherwell though

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 25/07/2026

My 1000 to St Pancras was being held up on its way into Sheffield today, but I didn't mind because look how stunning it was! 😍 How I wished we could've pinched it for my ten o'clock! I need to find an excuse to do the 125 Group's set again

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 23/07/2026

Ironic, that one's my least favourite 810. The amount of issues I've had with that one is silly 😭

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 22/07/2026

Yesterday I visited Cambridge South What a fascinating new build! If I was still doing my A Level Photography, this would probably have ended up in there I really like it! I could've probably stayed another hour just taking photos of it all 😊

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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

RMT strike action over safety at East Midlands Railway RMT members working at East Midlands Railway (EMR) plan to take strike action on Saturday, August 1, and the following two Saturdays over growing safety concerns following the roll out of the 810 fleet. rmtunion.org/4fNq6mU

rmtunion.org

RMT strike action over safety at East Midlands Railway

RMT members working at East Midlands Railway (EMR) plan to take strike action on Saturday, August 1, and the following two Saturdays over growing safety concerns that the company has failed to address...

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 16/07/2026

Reasons to railway job cat 😺 Hope this helps

A white cat with grey patches and light blue eyes in a black travel cage on a table

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 08/07/2026

From factory to service I worked 810022 for the first time today after seeing it in Newton Aycliffe whilst it was still being manufactured. A fun full circle moment. It behaved brilliantly which was a bonus

A nearly complete Class 810 driving vehicle inside a factory

A Class 810 train and Class 222 train at London St Pancras train station

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 07/07/2026

If you need a bloody good chippy, Carringtons is less than 5 minutes down the road, Nott's transport chippy!

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 03/07/2026

Yesterday, I tried out the Railjet for the first time in First What an impressive train! 9 hours to Zurich from Vienna went by very quickly! Lovely staff, extraordinary views, excellent good and @pacerclara.insanity.tube's lovely company made it a brilliant journey ☺️

A Railjet train arriving into Vienna Hbf train station

A plate with schnitzel and potatoes with a glass of water and cutlery on a large tray table

The black leather first class seats inside the Railjet train with red headrests

A hamlet of houses on green turf surrounded by mountains on two sides

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 01/07/2026

For those who say all trains in Europe are much better and on time, may I introduce you to my first ever Austrian train Expected arrival into Vienna, 3hrs late at gone half 1 in the morning after a different train failed on a single line I really haven't had luck on my side 🥲

A corridor of an Austrian train carriage

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 30/06/2026

It's on my to-do list! It seems like such a random thing to do, therefore I must 😆

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 30/06/2026

It's amazing who you get to know and meet out there! Got to meet the wonderful @lorainedoesthings.bsky.social who drove my train to Utrecht Centraal from Amsterdam Centraal incredibly smoothly Dutch and British railways in one photo 😁

Lorraine, a 5ft 9 white lady with black hair and yellow high vis next to Will, 6ft white man with yellow and blue top in a train station

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 30/06/2026

785 minutes behind schedule, finally made it to Amsterdam 1 direct train ended up taking 6 different trains...... Great success 😭

A VIRM train at Amsterdam Central station

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Coastway Will @coastwaywill.me · 30/06/2026

Nick has told me about your issues and it makes ours look like a minor inconvenience at best 😭 Hope you get back okay!

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