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Mark Middleton

@markmiddleton745.bsky.social
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Lab dad, sufferer of Norwich city, wine crank, In a relationship with coffee. Driver of trains and in the care of my wife. Happiest when on a ship with my wife. I’ll respect you as I wish for you to respect me…..and we’ll be just fine. Abuse survivor.

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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years on. Still remember that day. I always wanted to see New York, see the towers I’d seen in so many films…and never did. We’ve to been New York twice now, and look forward to going back again when things are different. #neverforget.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was half way up the East Suffolk, signaller came on the radio and said what had happened, still unsure of details. My break in Ipswich I saw the news and the full scale became apparent. Was a different trip home….
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social a masterclass in tearing apart a Reform voter who clearly has only the spoon fed lines and no conception of rational thought. Well done, sir, well done.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I think the idea that Farage is genuinely worried about this one is funny as f*ck!!! But if he wins, the standards committee doesn’t go away….
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
And then we get to see just how little a failed Tory knows about rail…..
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Early walk with the boys as it going to be a scorcher today. Far too many people still walk dogs at ‘their time’ ignoring heat, because they don’t think. Meanwhile I have work later at the hottest part of the day!!! Happy Sunday from JayDee and Bruno🐾🐾
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social listening to you talking cruises…and Mrs O’B’s hesitation. Just do it. Try it.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Foreign Secretary- are you suggesting the Foreign Office doesn’t know what it’s doing? Prime Minister- no, I’m saying they’re not telling US what they’re doing!! Yes, Prime Minister
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So the standby driver was activated!! One of our London colleagues was so late in and needed a break, so off to Chelmsford I went! On the cushions back to Norwich now!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I’d pay to see that…
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Remembering my boy Toby, who left us seven years ago today. Never forgotten.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🤣🤣
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Read hardback…VERY good. Recommend if you like a good courtroom thriller.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Mrs M has an early alarm…she’s just done something similar!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Yet nearly all are silent….
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Trump to the UK, 6 March: "We don't need them any longer... We don't need people to join wars after we've already won!" Trump six days later: Publicly begs for the UK to send warships.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Much needed R&R…Celebrity Infinity from Athens..happy place mode activated.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I know what you mean. I did four Yarmouth’s the day I did the Norwich half!!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Traditional start to holiday….
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Good luck…
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
And the moon is made of green cheese.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Last time I was there was on a 116. But that was 1984!!!!
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Vote Reform get....
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We’d work the occasional ballast in there….long time ago.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Been a loooooonnnnnng time since I’ve been in there!!!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Boom indeed!!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
You are so right. I open it every now and again just to see the comments🤣🤣
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There is, on the flip side, an opinion that it’s nice to continue the old methods and ways and do ‘real’ railway work. Some of us enjoy it….
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
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Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time
Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
It’s an idea that’s been tried in railway preservation for a few years. I know I was always an advocate for training guards from 16 so they could pass out, experienced, on or as near to their 18th birthday as possible. Drivers effectively start training at 18 when qualified to be fire/secondman.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
18 year olds will not be driving trains. This is a way of getting drivers trained and competent in time to pass out at an admittedly earlier age than current….i think the idea is 20 rather than 21, but with an 18 month training regime with other qualifications or apprenticeships.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
You wonder just how much they knew. 12 million to keep her quiet, agreed by the rest of them, all that’s gone on…no way am I saying they’re complicit in what he has *allegedly* done, but they are in the cover up.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Ooh….looks amazing!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Could be!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Went on a mate’s stag weekend there…brilliant place. Did a stop on a cruise once, on the bus through the city, said to Mel “oh look..that’s that great bar we found coming up” only to see it had turned into a sex shop…..that was embarrassing 🤣🤣
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I do like both, admittedly!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Ahh…lounge!! I quite like the sparkling rose they have. And yes, it’s always 5 o clock somewhere!!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Frothing at the mouth and acting crazy. But that’s me after a four Yarmouth’s🤣
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I was pleasantly surprised last time I went to Leeds that they weren’t the a*se numbing seats I thought. They’re not the best, don’t get me wrong, but not the worst. 700’s and 387’s take that crown. But the mark 4’s are still better!!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
The email from HMRC sort of out a dampener on Monday. And Mondays weren’t bad enough….
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Bit feisty at the end…
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Afternoon shed turn allowed me to watch this. Talk about a game of two half’s!!!
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I enjoyed reading this column, which somehow blames Keir Starmer for the result of an employment tribunal following laws passed under the Tory government regarding an incident and suspension that took place before the last election.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Have a good shift….overnight in Cambridge for me!!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Overnight Cambridge….😴😴😴😴
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Going to have a snooze before my night…one-off guest appearance.
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
We like to think it’s ours…but in reality, it’s theirs🤣🤣
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Saturday sleepies whilst Hoodad watches the football.We’ve had walkies and playtime, now wake us for din-dins, please!!!
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Mark Middleton @markmiddleton745.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
No. He can’t even get defection right, being rumbled by the serially clueless Bad Enoch. He’s toast at the next election.
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