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Bryan

@elwick70.bsky.social
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Yorkshireman. Train Driver. Coffee Mostly photos of trains I’ve driven and the railway I work on, especially the old bits that really should be in a museum. And other things.

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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dear Diary Had a really good first day at my new job as delivery manager for a little fuel company called Fuel2You. Feeling good about this one…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not entirely sure, but if one was caught red handed with a transit van or three full of explosives next to a major military establishment, one, most probably, wouldn’t be granted bail. Just saying, like…
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Harvest Moon rising behind Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Saturday evening in Chicago.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SPaD dream last night. Very real. Ruined my day. Then I was driving a bus 😁 🤷🏻‍♂️ 28 years in, and still having SPaD dreams! When will it ever end?! 🔴
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watching the tide roll away…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh well. At least Nigel had enough time to get his bed plumped and feathered…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Current status:
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don't think I need to use words to respond to Trump and Hegseth anymore. I'll just post one of these three pictures instead...
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The other place is mental today, and it’s only 09:10 GMT! What with Reformers choking on their porridge over the latest polling and Trump banning journalists, it seems like some are not coping too well with the rebalancing. I may need popcorn 🍿
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Stop housing illegals in hotels!” “House them in disused army barracks!” “NO! NOT THAT DISUSED ARMY BARRACKS!”
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And now we go live to Reform HQ…
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Dumpster Fire
ALT: Dumpster Fire
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Up to the top of Tinsley mountain for breakfast. Hiding under Sheffield Parkway while they unload my train… 🚂🟧⬛️🟧⬛️🟧💨
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I will never understand why working people without a pot to piss in would defend billionaires.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I find it odd that Reform complains about the 10s of 1000s of individual British workers contributing to the Labour Party via their union subs and how this can influence politics, but their £77m received from two offshore donors has no political influence at all. Very odd…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Oh well, it’s the last night of the cruise. It soon comes around. Here’s to the next one 🍻 ⚓️ 🏝️ ☀️
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’ll have a donut…. A cream bun…. And a slice of that cake…. Over there! #IYKYK #Columbus #Barcelona 🇪🇸
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sagrada Família keeps a watch over the port. #Barcelona 🇪🇸
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Queen Victoria at Barecelona just now. Don’t think I’d get on there with my shorts and trainers…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Casino Sanremo 🇮🇹 I’ve just asked the fella on the door if I can have a go on the 2p slots. He said, “getta benta” 🤌
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve just been to see Galileo. Just reminded him that he was actually correct all along… #Florence #Italy 🇮🇹
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I hope I’m alright parking there… 🇮🇹 #Florence #Italy #Firenze #Italia
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
MAGA says Europe is lost. Yeah, right… 🇮🇹
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To be fair, Milei can declare what ever he likes. Makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. He can’t do anything about it. Also, Trump is a prick.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After a day at sea yesterday, first port of call today was Ajaccio, Corsica 🇫🇷 Corsica, of course, the birthplace of Napoleon, famous for losing wars and being a sufferer of la syndrome de l’homme petit…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That’s me other boat… #Palma #Majorca 🇪🇸
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The office is closed for the duration. Yorkshireman on tour 🛳️ 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 ⚓️ 🇬🇧 🛫……..🛬 🇪🇸
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump is embracing Mad Cows Disease, coming to a Walmart near you soon. Pretty sure we have almost zero American meat here in the UK, but if you do come across it steer well clear…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fella in Greggs just now, ordered a steak bake and two coffees, ate his stake bake at the till and finished it before his coffees were made, indeed before he’d even paid for it! I asked him if he was hungry. He just looked at me 😆
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Samoyed Puppy
ALT: Samoyed Puppy
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don’t use CrossCountry that often, but it’s very noticeable when I do, that they always smell of poo… #Feedback
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The wrong 80 year olds are dying…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton has died. Sad news indeed. What a life tho, and 80 is a good hit, really. A genuine icon.
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Dolly Parton, Hardscrabble Storyteller Turned Global Entertainer, Dead at 80
Dolly Parton, country music legend, dead at 80.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A cheeky little night turn to start the week with. 66508 “City of Doncaster” is my drive tonight. It’s off to London Gateway with a train full of containers. I’ll get off at Peterborough and fetch another train back up north. Lovely job!
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’ve just got a text message saying, “JUSTICE has arrived!” I looked over my shoulder in panic! Turns out it was just my taxi. The lad driving it was called Justice…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Doncaster, 1979. 40073 waits at Doncaster with a northbound car carrier. I’m covering a Leeds job tonight, a night turn. Not driving a car carrier tho, but long and heavy intermodal train. I don’t mind nights and it’s rest day work, so mustn’t grumble… 📷 S Sienkiewicz
1979. Locomotive class 40 073 waits at Doncaster with a northbound car carrier.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Travelling pass down Stoke Bank at the moment and just manage to catch a view of this beauty! Duxford’s “Sally B” at 1,300ft, the last airworthy B-17 in Europe.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’m not a Tory by any stretch of the imagination, but even I wish the Conservative Party would get their act together…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Stand up to France to stop small boats!”more Britons say in exclusive Sky poll [sic]. If only we were still signatories to the Dublin agreement. Nice one, more Britons…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
YouTube adverts need banning on account of them being a load of Chinese horseshit.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Elon Musk = Oak Bollock
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Who cares.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
First of all, I’m sorry this has happened. Yes, he did wrong, and Cambridge too. Yes, he should’ve answered, learned, made amends. But the way he was utterly devoured by the RW press and social media is a disgrace. Did they learn nothing from Caroline Flack?
bbc.co.uk
Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
Emergency services said a man was found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You can literally smell the cope coming off this post.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Farage investigation reopened by parliamentary watchdog after Clacton by-election win. Lol.
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Politics latest: Farage investigation reopened by parliamentary watchdog after Clacton by-election win
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has won the Clacton by-election - after a boycott by all the other major parties. He triggered the vote after resigning in protest at a parliamentary probe into a £5m "gi...
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Clacton…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
‘I wanted to capture the range of British culture at the time’: the photographer who documented late nights on the 90s London tube.
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‘I wanted to capture the range of British culture at the time’: the photographer who documented late nights on the 90s London tube
In the 1990s, Mark McEvoy took portraits of punks, partiers and late-night lovers on the underground. His images show city life before smartphones – when people still had to rush to make the final tra...
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Currently sat in the yard in the No1 cab of a 66. When I get to Darlo later and round run I’ll be in the smaller No2 cab for my run south on the ECML. Nice…
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
66596 in the Goods at Up Decoy, Doncaster and what was left of the eclipse by the time I’d landed… #Eclipse #Doncaster #Yorkshire
66596 in the Goods at Up Decoy, Doncaster.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Current status:
John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews and Sylvia Sims in the cab of a military ambulance in “Ice Cold in Alex”
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Darlington train shed. On my way Middlesbrough to bring the Teesport to Doncaster Railport intermodal train back to South Yorkshire. Should get back in time for the eclipse! 🌑
The victorian roof of Darlington railway station.
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Don’t let the Telegraph see me drinking Pellegrino while I’m travelling pass back to the depot. They’ll report me for nicking tax payers money and spending it on posh fizzy water or summat. Bloody train drivers…
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