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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 17h

D9000 arrives at Lincoln Central passing High Street box 9.11.00. The Lindum Deltic. #SignalBoxSunday

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#SprinterSaturday Pre TransPennine Express. Class 158 in a Northern Spirit livery at Sheffield c1999.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#FreightFriday #ShedGlance 66425 4L48 Daventry Drs (Tesco) to Tilbury2 Container Tml at Gospel Oak 28.9.26

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#TractorThursday InterCity liveried 37685 partners EWS 37797 at Willington, early 1999.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#TractorThursday Unidentified class 37 at Willington, early 1999. The wagons appear to be MHA ‘Coalfish’ which repurposed MGR frames.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#TugTuesday A Rochester labelled tug helps with the turning of @PS_Waverley , opposite Gillingham Marina 26.9.26

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#TrackMachineTuesday A piece of concrete cable trough is used to frame a tamper at North Staffs Jnc , Willington. Early 1999.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#HighSpeedTuesday First Great Western 43xxx, 43151 are joined by Res 47786 on the stops , London Paddington, early 1999.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Inconveniently the routing via Peterborough changed to via Royston so off to London! 6Q86 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Eastleigh Trsmd. 93002 180111 93007 seen through Kentish Town West.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

0E47 Ashford Crane Depot to Rectory Colwick Tmd. 37218 47701 at Gospel Oak. 28.9.26

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thanks to all who keep @PS_Waverley on the water. Another great day yesterday.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SleeperSunday kentrail.uk/nightstar.htm Nightstar stock at MOD Kineton 20.3.99

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#SundayShed NKOTB 66046 passes Willington with empty steel wagons, early 1999.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

93002 & 93007 hauling 180109 at. Uffington, Lincs, 6Q86 Derby Litchurch Lane to Eastleigh TRSMD

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A random stop, after 🚆 📷 , in Stamford on its western edge. @trainingbrewery Proper Job 👍

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#TractorThursday 37250 joining The Edge Hill Secret at Kineton 20.3.99 . Worked the short distance to Fenny Compton (Down Loop) and, later, Morris Cowley to Kennington Jnc, Oxford.

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Miranda 🇾🇪 @smiran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#HighSpeedTuesday The Midland Mainline era at London St Pancras c1999. 43055 ‘The Sheffield Star’ awaits departure .

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MGRMonday Class 58 at Willington, early 1999. Still a footpath across four tracks at this point.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MGRMonday Class 58 crosses the Trent & Mersey Canal at Willington, early 1999.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

66590 at Leicester. Will depart as 6Y76 to Toton North Yard. Platform 3 has been fully restored overnight. #SundayShed

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#ShunterSunday MOD Kineton 20.3.99 . The Edge Hill Secret railtour was unable to run around the internal network as there was activity due to the situation in Kosovo. After a stop to look around the sidings we went around the West Midlands instead.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#SignalBoxSunday (ish😉). 47786 ‘Roy Castle OBE’ sits at MOD Kineton on The Edge Hill Secret 20.3.99 ( www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk ) Stored Jubilee Line 1996 can be seen, awaiting completion of the line’s extension.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#SnowySaturday 218s shunt and run round at Immenstadt 30.12.98

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#FreightFriday Heavy Haul Rail 66545 leads 6M73 Doncaster Up Decoy to Toton North Yard through Chesterfield 17.9.26

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

5Q16 Soho L.M.D. to Gascoigne Wood Sidings passing Tamworth 17.9.26. 93001 hauling 730008

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

17.9.26 1Y15 Leeds-Nottingham, 150135 slows for Chesterfield.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ThrowbackThursday Fragonset Rail 47701 at Birmingham New St on a Virgin XC working , summer 1998.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🐰 🐰 class 218s in diminishing late afternoon light at Obertsdorf 30.12.98 #ThrowbackThursday

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#WindingWednesday A class 373 departs London Waterloo, December 1998.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#ThumperTuesday The Hertfordshire Railtours ‘Wye Knot’ sits with Littlehampton’s usual occupants. 10.10.98

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Mark @rfcider.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

You’d like to think that these attacks on RNLI volunteers are the head-wobble that finally makes people realise these masked thugs are perhaps not the ‘patriots’ they thought they were. But will it?…

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#ElectricMonday Class 92 through Kensington Olympia with an intermodal in 1998.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MoonlightMonday 218464 has shunted onto its train at Oberstdorf ,30.12.98, in the Allgäu region under the Bavarian Alps.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#SaturdaySnowfall 218 459 sits at Oberstdorf 30.12.98. The Vierschanzentournee Skispringen (Four Hills Ski Jumping Tournament) was in town meaning some additional services were operating.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

International platforms at London Waterloo for this #FrontEndFriday Between Christmas and New Year. Dec 1998.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#FrontEndFriday 🐰 DB 218230 emerges from the mist and calls at Hergatz , Dec 1998.

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LeicRailAle.bsky.social @leicrailale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#ThrowbackThursday During a week in Weymouth in 1998 I had a day trip ⛴️ to Guernsey. No trains so have a bus pic.

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