BennyBizzle1
@bennybizzle1.bsky.social
Railway preservationist. Pedmeister General. Takes average photos and spouts positivity about all things diesel powered
West Coast Railways 86401 "Mons Meg" brings up the rear of a FOOTEX yesterday through long buckby station.
March 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
West Coast Railways 86401 "Mons Meg" brings up the rear of a FOOTEX yesterday through long buckby station.
#ChopperTuesday 20225 and 20007 haul a #Colas tamper past Nortoft Lane. Operated by #Railadventureuk
The final destination for the track machine was France 🇫🇷
Sounded amazing!
The final destination for the track machine was France 🇫🇷
Sounded amazing!
March 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#ChopperTuesday 20225 and 20007 haul a #Colas tamper past Nortoft Lane. Operated by #Railadventureuk
The final destination for the track machine was France 🇫🇷
Sounded amazing!
The final destination for the track machine was France 🇫🇷
Sounded amazing!
D6808 under an impressive sky outside the shed at #GCRNottingham
March 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
D6808 under an impressive sky outside the shed at #GCRNottingham
#MondayMorningBlues large logo livery 69002 "Bob Tiller CM&EE" passes Glinton Junction with 4L66 return sand hoppers. @GBRailfreight
March 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#MondayMorningBlues large logo livery 69002 "Bob Tiller CM&EE" passes Glinton Junction with 4L66 return sand hoppers. @GBRailfreight
#SignalBoxSunday @EastMidRailway 158858 passes Whittlesea signal box. I'm rumours are true, there's not long left for the box and semaphore here which is a great shame!
March 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
#SignalBoxSunday @EastMidRailway 158858 passes Whittlesea signal box. I'm rumours are true, there's not long left for the box and semaphore here which is a great shame!
Oh yeah! I've got a blue-sky account! Sorry for the lack of content. Here is SBRail 37607 leading 1Q97 past Dagenham Dock yesterday afternoon. 37099 was on the rear.
#TractorThursday
#TractorThursday
February 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Oh yeah! I've got a blue-sky account! Sorry for the lack of content. Here is SBRail 37607 leading 1Q97 past Dagenham Dock yesterday afternoon. 37099 was on the rear.
#TractorThursday
#TractorThursday
#TractorTuesday D6808 catches the light outside the shed at Ruddington.
@GCRNottingham @TheGrowlerGroup
@GCRNottingham @TheGrowlerGroup
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#TractorTuesday D6808 catches the light outside the shed at Ruddington.
@GCRNottingham @TheGrowlerGroup
@GCRNottingham @TheGrowlerGroup
#MaintainenceMonday Did some more work on 31463 on Saturday just gone. 1 of the buffers needs a new spring, a good buffer was removed so that it's spring could be measured as a pattern for the new one to be produced. Opportunity was taken to check corrosion and clean off rust.
January 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
#MaintainenceMonday Did some more work on 31463 on Saturday just gone. 1 of the buffers needs a new spring, a good buffer was removed so that it's spring could be measured as a pattern for the new one to be produced. Opportunity was taken to check corrosion and clean off rust.
#MondayMorningBlues #GBRailfreight 66740 "Sarah" and 66748 "West Burton 50" form a lightly laden 6D80 from Peterborough to Doncaster with what I assume is a move for maintenance purposes. Seen here crawling over Tallington level crossing due to a TSR.
#Shedwatch
#Shedwatch
January 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
#MondayMorningBlues #GBRailfreight 66740 "Sarah" and 66748 "West Burton 50" form a lightly laden 6D80 from Peterborough to Doncaster with what I assume is a move for maintenance purposes. Seen here crawling over Tallington level crossing due to a TSR.
#Shedwatch
#Shedwatch
#SideOnSunday @ColasRailUK 56049 "Robin of Templecombe" comes flying through Tallington Level.crossing on a return engineers working. Could hear the grid a good minute before I could see it. Brilliant!
@C56G2
@C56G2
January 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
#SideOnSunday @ColasRailUK 56049 "Robin of Templecombe" comes flying through Tallington Level.crossing on a return engineers working. Could hear the grid a good minute before I could see it. Brilliant!
@C56G2
@C56G2
#StationSaturday Services have restarted at the #GCRNottingham. So far, all have been handled by this class 117, which arrived at the railway from Nemesis at Burton upon Trent.
Here the unit is seen at Ruddington Fields station. #UnitPhottersUnite
Here the unit is seen at Ruddington Fields station. #UnitPhottersUnite
January 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
#StationSaturday Services have restarted at the #GCRNottingham. So far, all have been handled by this class 117, which arrived at the railway from Nemesis at Burton upon Trent.
Here the unit is seen at Ruddington Fields station. #UnitPhottersUnite
Here the unit is seen at Ruddington Fields station. #UnitPhottersUnite
#FrontEndFriday 37009 in the shed at Ruddington half way through work by the English Electric Preservation Group to get repainted. @GCRNottingham
@TheGrowlerGroup
@TheGrowlerGroup
January 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#FrontEndFriday 37009 in the shed at Ruddington half way through work by the English Electric Preservation Group to get repainted. @GCRNottingham
@TheGrowlerGroup
@TheGrowlerGroup
#WindowWednesday the iconic class 31 window shape provides a view of 31235, 37108 and 20154.
The control desk of 31210 is in immaculate condition, and the rest of the loco is too! #Classictraction #Preservation #Volunteering
The control desk of 31210 is in immaculate condition, and the rest of the loco is too! #Classictraction #Preservation #Volunteering
January 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
#WindowWednesday the iconic class 31 window shape provides a view of 31235, 37108 and 20154.
The control desk of 31210 is in immaculate condition, and the rest of the loco is too! #Classictraction #Preservation #Volunteering
The control desk of 31210 is in immaculate condition, and the rest of the loco is too! #Classictraction #Preservation #Volunteering
#Shedwatch Lickey banker 66159 hauls an intermodal train past Uffington in some gorgeous winter sun. Great to see some original EWS liveries are still around.
January 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#Shedwatch Lickey banker 66159 hauls an intermodal train past Uffington in some gorgeous winter sun. Great to see some original EWS liveries are still around.
#MaintainenceMonday although you could argue this is a bit more than maintainence!! 31463 has come and long way since I started volunteering with the T1LC.
This end is very close to be ready for paint and the rest isn't far behind.
@GCRNottingham
This end is very close to be ready for paint and the rest isn't far behind.
@GCRNottingham
January 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#MaintainenceMonday although you could argue this is a bit more than maintainence!! 31463 has come and long way since I started volunteering with the T1LC.
This end is very close to be ready for paint and the rest isn't far behind.
@GCRNottingham
This end is very close to be ready for paint and the rest isn't far behind.
@GCRNottingham
#TestTrainTuesday last week there was a smorgasbord of Colas HST power cars around in various liveries. Seen here at Glinton Junctio and Nortoft Lane. #ColasRailUK
43303, 43274, 43251 & 43272
43303, 43274, 43251 & 43272
January 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#TestTrainTuesday last week there was a smorgasbord of Colas HST power cars around in various liveries. Seen here at Glinton Junctio and Nortoft Lane. #ColasRailUK
43303, 43274, 43251 & 43272
43303, 43274, 43251 & 43272
#SyphonSunday #EurophoenixLtd 37423 sporting its "Euro phoenix rail" headboard passes Ketton foot crossing on its way to Great Yarmouth and Eastern rail to collect coaches bound for the West Somerset Railway. #TheGrowlerGroup
January 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#SyphonSunday #EurophoenixLtd 37423 sporting its "Euro phoenix rail" headboard passes Ketton foot crossing on its way to Great Yarmouth and Eastern rail to collect coaches bound for the West Somerset Railway. #TheGrowlerGroup
#SandySoixanteNeuf 😳🤭
Risking chafing with that hashtag...
#GBRailfreight 69006 "Pathfinder Railtours" leads 69008 "Richard Howe" on 4L66 Goole glassworks to March yard.
Risking chafing with that hashtag...
#GBRailfreight 69006 "Pathfinder Railtours" leads 69008 "Richard Howe" on 4L66 Goole glassworks to March yard.
January 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
#SandySoixanteNeuf 😳🤭
Risking chafing with that hashtag...
#GBRailfreight 69006 "Pathfinder Railtours" leads 69008 "Richard Howe" on 4L66 Goole glassworks to March yard.
Risking chafing with that hashtag...
#GBRailfreight 69006 "Pathfinder Railtours" leads 69008 "Richard Howe" on 4L66 Goole glassworks to March yard.
It is now the year 2025, the year of the #Raturday and to celebrate that fact here is class 25 D7659 getting a good thrashing up the embankment to Weybourne on the @nnrailway back in 2022. On the lines gorgeous suburban coaches.
January 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It is now the year 2025, the year of the #Raturday and to celebrate that fact here is class 25 D7659 getting a good thrashing up the embankment to Weybourne on the @nnrailway back in 2022. On the lines gorgeous suburban coaches.
#FreightFriday a pair of #RailFreight class 90s catch the winter sun at nortoft Lane as they haul a Felixstowe bound intermodal train down the WCML. 90044 leads 90012.
January 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
#FreightFriday a pair of #RailFreight class 90s catch the winter sun at nortoft Lane as they haul a Felixstowe bound intermodal train down the WCML. 90044 leads 90012.
#TractorThursday D6700 stands at Leicester North Station on the last day of 2024. A busy, emotional, but very important year for me with some massive changes. No matter what happened though, I was never far away from a heritage railway of some description.
Happy new year all
Happy new year all
January 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#TractorThursday D6700 stands at Leicester North Station on the last day of 2024. A busy, emotional, but very important year for me with some massive changes. No matter what happened though, I was never far away from a heritage railway of some description.
Happy new year all
Happy new year all
I'm having diesel gala withdrawal symptoms. I can't wait for the season to start again I love celebrating and enjoying preserved railways and it feels like ages since my last visit.
Time for one more ride before 2025 begins...
#MondayMorningBlues
Time for one more ride before 2025 begins...
#MondayMorningBlues
December 30, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I'm having diesel gala withdrawal symptoms. I can't wait for the season to start again I love celebrating and enjoying preserved railways and it feels like ages since my last visit.
Time for one more ride before 2025 begins...
#MondayMorningBlues
Time for one more ride before 2025 begins...
#MondayMorningBlues
Sunday #Shedwatch with @GBRailfreight 66783 "The Flying Dustman" bringing up the rear of yesterday's 6G36 engineers working
December 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Sunday #Shedwatch with @GBRailfreight 66783 "The Flying Dustman" bringing up the rear of yesterday's 6G36 engineers working
Well I wasn't expecting to tick off a winner on this #ShedSaturday! #GBRailfreight came through with 66769 atop 66744 on a HOBC engineers train through Kettering. 66783 was on the rear, making for a colourful train! #Shedwatch
December 28, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Well I wasn't expecting to tick off a winner on this #ShedSaturday! #GBRailfreight came through with 66769 atop 66744 on a HOBC engineers train through Kettering. 66783 was on the rear, making for a colourful train! #Shedwatch
#FreightFriday big wave from the driver of @DCRailOfficial's 60046 "William Wilberforce" made my daughters day. Thanks mate! This is 6L92 taking wagons to Middleton Towers for tomorrow's sand train. Seen at Wing farm crossing.
December 27, 2024 at 1:33 PM
#FreightFriday big wave from the driver of @DCRailOfficial's 60046 "William Wilberforce" made my daughters day. Thanks mate! This is 6L92 taking wagons to Middleton Towers for tomorrow's sand train. Seen at Wing farm crossing.