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Driver Potter
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Twitter refugee. Slightly involved with @Gordon_3417 - also available of Bluesky! Powered by tea & bad language. Fairly dull & surprised that people apparently listen to me. Usual disclaimers about work and suchlike.
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She looked better second time around!
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Red Blinds at Eastleigh. Outwards and Returns of the day, almost exactly 12 years apart.

@gordon3417.bsky.social on its way to the #SwanageRailway gala, May 2013 and on its way back, today, May 2025
#RailBlue #SETG #4VEP #EMU #Eastleigh
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Talk about dream come true getting to run your models on the real thing. We took #Project3417 Jnr x3 to Strawberry Hill Depot to see the real @gordon3417.bsky.social & all became kids again playing trains on trains! Huge thx to Steve, Lynn & Darren for accommodating us
#VariousMultipleUnits #bsmrguk
After yesterday’s deeply sad shift, it was a relief to just do a nice little spin out to Alton and back.

Turn the page; tomorrow is always a new day.
Express man again today: 10 down to Pompey and 8 back up.

Found myself on a pass train to Waterloo, looking around and grinning because I’m lucky enough to be a tiny cog in this great British Railway Machine.

Not a bad thought to carry into the start of a shift.
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The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.
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50008 with @Gordon_3417 5W50 Strawberry Hill CSD to Swanage potters (!) through Reading West.
@driverpotter.bsky.social
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A small browse through Twitter has reminded me how pleased I am to be on #Bluesky.
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Meanwhile Lynn The Trim has seen the results of her labours fitted to the East Anglian Railway Museum’s Class 101 DMU - astonishing work!
Change of plan - I’m now mooching at Waterloo, cunningly disguised as Myself.

(Yes - it’s one of those evenings)
If anyone needs me, I’ll be sitting at Alton.
We don’t do rushin’ about at Wimbledon Park. #EasyDoesIt
If anyone needs me, I’m currently sat in the Up Bay at Weybridge.
We’re trained to do it, although it’s like anything; when you do it for real there’s a lot of adrenaline involved…
I make no apology when I say I wept a little yesterday.

Just having a man like him say that I had done something well, challenging my opinion or giving me the benefit of his experience… Imagine the best teacher you ever met; that respected voice, the person who’s approval you valued and treasured…
I can. Yon big wooden jobbie is known as a Short Circuit Bar. It’s used to cut out the 3rd Rail traction current in an emergency.

750 DC & civilians don’t mix. When you need the juice off quick, this is how you do it.
He invited me to call him Gordon.
I couldn’t do it - he was always “Mr Pettitt.”

I was the third generation of my family to meet him; not a bad boast….
We’re deeply saddened to announce that Gordon Pettitt passed away on 31st March. He was charming, knowledgeable, supportive; a manager of the old school.
Our thoughts are with his family and his friends - we are honoured to have known him.

#GordonPettitt #RIP
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We’re deeply saddened to announce that Gordon Pettitt passed away on 31st March. He was charming, knowledgeable, supportive; a manager of the old school.
Our thoughts are with his family and his friends - we are honoured to have known him.

#GordonPettitt #RIP
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Another two little jobs quietly boxed up today - Oppo D Door (right hand) seat bay refurbished and fitted. FMAs 0404 and 0446 closed.
#quietlypleased
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Buy your buckets and spades; Gordon is off to the seaside!

We’re delighted to announce that 3417 will be joining the Swanage Railway for their Diesel Gala 9th to 11th May 2025.
Just passed a 400-series Driver’s assessment…

Blimey.