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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I Fear that ICH KOMME is finally clicking for me 🫡 Tampere 2026 anyone?

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy Birthday Gromit

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

So this is quickly becoming one of my favourite songs at the moment. Hold The Light by Dominik Dudek 🇵🇱 Please let this represent Poland at Eurovision. I need this on that big stage!!! #Poland #ESC2025 #Eurovision

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I’ve been really quiet on here… I think it’s time I picked it up again 😅

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

So if every one of my favourite songs in the Eurovision national finals won… this is what my ranking would be. My ideal top 10 🫡

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I refuse to believe that Niyl and Adgy are so low in every poll that I see. These two songs are so beautiful and powerful. I have a feeling I’m in the minority when I say that I just don’t understand Bobbi Arlo’s song 😅 🇮🇪 #Eurosong #Eurovision #Basel2025 #Ireland #Adgy #Niyl

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Well I’ve just had a wonderful 10 days off, seeing people I know and love. London, Guildford, Sunderland, Darlington, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow. Life is looking good, it’s on the up, sure it’s not perfect right now, but we will get through this tricky period ❤️

Guildford station, taken from the far end of platform 1, so you can see the hills of Guildford behind the station

Darlington station with a TPE class 80x arriving into the station

The entrance of Glasgow Queen Street station as the sun has just set

4 trains lined up next to each other in London Kings Cross Station. 3 LNER trains and 1 Lumo

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Help. I’m being dragged to Kent

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I haven’t pooped all year Madness

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

1st of January 2024 vs 31st December 2024 The progress I’ve made, it looks small, but to me it’s big. And one more thing, I’ve ended the year on a massive high. I am able to be openly gay for the first time. Feels good to say it publicly. 🏳️‍🌈

A selfie of me back on the 1st of Jan 2024, on my way into work

A selfie of me on the 31st December 2024, at work

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas all 🫶🏻🎄

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My ideal Eurovision 2025 line up so far 🇦🇱 - Elvana Gjata - Karnaval 🇪🇪 - Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato 🇱🇻 - The Ludvig - Līgo 🇲🇪 - Nina Žižić - Dobrodošli 🆕 🇱🇺 - Rhythmic Soulwave - Stronger 🇪🇸 - Lachispa - Hartita De Llorar

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Well I’ve made it to Benfleet, the nearest station to Canvey Island! Time to swap the train for the bus, as it is the number 22 to the penultimate stop! I’m gonna be at the ground before the players at this rate 😭 Come on Horsham!!!!

A photo of Benfleet station. The Pink Benfleet station sign is on the left of shot, whereas the train leaving the station, is on the right.

A First Essex Bus (Route 22) arrives at Benfleet station bus stop. This is the bus I will take to Canvey Island

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Canvey Island (A) Getting the train to an away day is always special. Today is cold, wet and windy. Absolutely perfect for a non league game in Essex

An imagine of my Horsham FC scarf in focus, with Clapham Junction station in the background (blurred)

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My ideal Eurovision 2025 line up so far 🇦🇱 - Elvana Gjata - Karnaval 🇪🇪 - Tommy Cash - Espresso Macchiato 🇱🇻 - The Ludvig - Līgo 🇲🇪 - Nina Žižić - Dobrodošli

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Chris the Driver @christhedriver.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

1/23 In case you have only recently started to follow my account, you might not know that I write Railway Explainers covering all sorts of topics. Well, it’s time for a new one… This time: Signalling!

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Ah yes. What an amazing advert at Roadchef Services in Magor 😭 You have to speak flipping Minecraft Enchantment to know what that is advertising 💀😭

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

So random question for railway people. Does anyone know of any books relating to the history of the North Downs line specifically? I’ve become particularly interested in the line I work’s history recently…

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Leicester City FC vs Wolverhampton Wanderers Consider my ticket bought 😎 I’m going to my first Leicester game since January 10th 2024… nearly a whole year. I CANNOT WAIT

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Now that the 38 countries in Eurovision have been confirmed, here are my (semi) baseless predictions WINNER 🤩 🇲🇹 2nd 🥈🇮🇹 3rd 🥉🇵🇹 26th 🇩🇰 Shock Qualifier 🇸🇮 Shock N/Q 🇦🇹 Switzerland Placing 🇨🇭11th My country placing 🇬🇧13th #Eurovision #Eurovision2025 #ESC

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Joe Brown @joebrownlondon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

#OnThisDay 36 years ago at 08:10, three trains collided south of Clapham Junction resulting in the loss of 35 lives and almost 500 injuries. The cause was faulty signalling due to human error aggravated by overwork and poor training and supervision. Image: BBC

The aftermath of the train collision at Clapham Junction, where one train had run into the back of another, with crumpled carriages at the point of impact on the right while on the left a third train which struck the wreckage of the initial collision is being recovered by a crane.

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Well it appears I have hit 600 followers on this dear app. Thank you all for following (I don’t know why you would put yourself through that though!) I am happy to have you join me on my journey. In the new year, Bluesky will be where I post, almost exclusively, so more posts are on the way 🫶🏻

A photo taken by Coastway Will, while I am sat waiting for time at Basingstoke station. I am smiling, as I stand in the door to the back cab of a class 165 train.

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 10/12/2024

Just, and I cannot stress this enough, build HS2 in full.

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It’s time for a new profile picture. Bluesky is going to become my new main platform in the new year, so I’ve decided it needs an identity separate to my Twitter profile So courtesy of @coastwaywill.me , this is my new Bluesky unique profile 💚

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Apparently I make up for not seeing Reading Green Park. I’ll take that 🫡 😂 Wonderful to have you on my services today Will 🫶🏻🫶🏻

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I’m officially obsessed with this

Album cover for “Līgo” by The Ludvig (Latvian singer) which is a candidate to represent Latvia at Eurovision in 2025.

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So one of my favourite bands (Hatari) just released a new song and music video. The video is all AI. All of it. The band was originally one that went against things like AI. Now they’ve used it completely. I feel so sad. It’s not the same band it used to be. Bring back Matthías

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We’re at the point now that work has a stranglehold on my top 10 most frequent journeys 😅 Gatwick - Reading being 54 times in 365 days, when I didn’t do it at all until April / May time… so it’s more like 250 days 😅 That’s just crazy to me

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Well this is fun. Today I’m on a train which is fast from London to Bristol Parkway Always wanted to do it, and finally go the chance to do it today!!!

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

4) what do I post on Bluesky? Train photos, and literally anything else that takes my fancy 🫡

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

5) nationality! BRI’ISH (And Bulgarian)

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

2ND Featuring are the months of February and May! Turns out, not much happened on the 2nd of any month this year 😂 As always, please click on the images to find out more about them in THE ALT TEXT 🫶🏻❤️ Enjoy :)

2nd of February. This was simply brilliant as a day! One of the best of the year.

I knew I had a job at GWR, having found out the day before, and I was filming for Southern / Thameslink and their TikTok launch!

Destination Dash was the name of the series, which involved us doing various challenges across the GTR network.

This photo is at Blackfriars station, looking towards the Shard, and Tower Bridge. This is taken on the balcony on the other side of the glass of the station, as we had special permission for filming there!

To Cal, Tom, and the whole team that made it so fun, thank you (I know you’re unlikely to see this, but hey ho) 🫶🏻❤️

Oh, on this day I scored 2 penalties against a Luton Town U-18 Goalkeeper. Not bad if you ask me 😎

2nd of May

Welcome back to Stockholm in Sweden! This time we are underground in the T-Bane

I love the design of the Stockholm T-Bane. It all looks like it was carved out of the rock, and then just left as it was! No polished walls here, all painted concrete that lines the tunnels!

Wonderful place!

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

1ST (I know it’s a day late… SHHHHH) Featuring are the months of January, February, May and October! Click on each image to find out more about them in the ALT TEXT ❤️ Each photo has some significance to it!

1st of January. 1st day of the whole year. It got off to a flying start on the early turn back on the platforms of Gatwick Airport Railway Station!

I miss this place massively. I have so many good memories of Gatwick.

At this point, I didn’t know that I was going to be leaving the platforms behind in just 4 short months.

This photo was taken from Platform 5, and Features Southern Unit 377402 on its way to London Victoria, from platform 4!

1st of February! Month 2 of the year. This photo has a lot of significance for a different reason to the last.

This is at Twyford station, looking from the slow lines to the fast ones!

This was taken just after I had had my interview in Reading, for the job I now have!

It was on the very same day, but later in the evening, that I found out that I was successful 🫶🏻

Twyford therefore holds a lot of significance for me :)

1st of May! We are in Stockholm Sweden for this one!

The photo is of a Swedish flag flying in the clear skies of the city centre, with the sun shining through the back of it!

This was the first day of my May holiday, which began just one day after leaving my job at Gatwick!

I loved this holiday. I went to Scandinavia for almost 2 weeks, around Eurovision, and started in Sweden, then to Norway, then to Denmark and South Sweden (Malmö). I have no doubt more photos will come up in this thread from this holiday!

1st October.

Welcome to Redhill station at 0440 in the morning. Sleepy, but I’m awake nice and early for the early shift!

By this point I’d been working solo for around about a month, so I had started getting into the swing of things at this point.

I love the emptiness of the platforms, yet I know very shortly, I’ll be transporting so many people across the North Downs!

What a privilege 🫶🏻

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

3) still posting on Twitter? For now I am… I’m pretty much at my limit with that place now though, so I might quit at the turn of the new year tbh

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

2) Any other social media? YES! Instagram is the only place I post things @ nathanthebatwaver over there :) The best of my photos go up onto that page!

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

1) Why am I on BlueSky Twitter is a cesspit Twitter is a place I can’t easily be open about who I am, but here, I can be who I am, and gay as hell 🏳️‍🌈😌

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Good morning all! I’m on a spare today, so when I have a minute, I’ll answer some of these questions! Like away 🫶🏻🫡

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

So today I ticked off a station while working for the first time! Ash With GWR turning around there today, the train changes headcode in the platform from a 1O to a 5V while shunting. I stand on the platform, and it changes headcode, therefore I have ticked it off. Perfect 😂

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

QUESTION OF THE DAY For you, on what day does the Christmas tree go up, if at all? For me, usually between the 1st and 7th of December!

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

All that is in my mind at the moment is “CLICKBAIT” I am falling in love with this song 😭 If you don’t know what I’m on about, find Montenegro’s song for Eurovision 2025 and listen to it. It’s amazing (but not conventionally amazing)

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This first taxi driver has been amazing so far. Simple pleasantries and then silence. Radio has been put on at a low volume, this is the life. This is how I like my taxis

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Today my job consists of more minutes in a taxi than it does on a train 😅🫠 Wish me luck everyone

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Nothing more that I would want on a Sunday morning 🫡

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

You may have seen that over on the old app, I had a bit of a rant today, about homophobia. It’s just depressing, and angering. I hate it. I don’t want to rant here, because I just want to spread love here. To all my queer friends and family, love you all. You deserve it. ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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JenOnTheMove 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jenonthemove.com · 29/11/2024

I've had many opportunities this last week to make the video I've been wanting to make about how awful Euston is... But every single time I've arrived there by train, I've been battered and bruised from the journey...

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Nathan @nathantbatwaver.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Basingstoke was looking absolutely beautiful this morning :)

The platforms at Basingstoke station, showing the signal gantries of platform 4 and 3, with the sun rising behind the buildings

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