@carl50035arkroyal.bsky.social
From North West Leicestershire👍🏻
Been known to like railways, beer,cake, pasties, Cornwall, Devon, moaning etc etc
Bonkers about class 50’s
Drove one once & loved it
Also a Ferrari nut
Can’t stand Musk or his companion’s that’s why I defected
Been known to like railways, beer,cake, pasties, Cornwall, Devon, moaning etc etc
Bonkers about class 50’s
Drove one once & loved it
Also a Ferrari nut
Can’t stand Musk or his companion’s that’s why I defected
Not long now.
After next weekend sights such as this will be no more as GWR are retiring their Hst fleet.
GWR Hst power cars 43186 and 43042 accelerate though Dawlish Warren on 20th June 2025 with a service for Exeter St Davids
Will I be down there to mourn their passing?
Never say never🤞🏻 🙏
After next weekend sights such as this will be no more as GWR are retiring their Hst fleet.
GWR Hst power cars 43186 and 43042 accelerate though Dawlish Warren on 20th June 2025 with a service for Exeter St Davids
Will I be down there to mourn their passing?
Never say never🤞🏻 🙏
December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Not long now.
After next weekend sights such as this will be no more as GWR are retiring their Hst fleet.
GWR Hst power cars 43186 and 43042 accelerate though Dawlish Warren on 20th June 2025 with a service for Exeter St Davids
Will I be down there to mourn their passing?
Never say never🤞🏻 🙏
After next weekend sights such as this will be no more as GWR are retiring their Hst fleet.
GWR Hst power cars 43186 and 43042 accelerate though Dawlish Warren on 20th June 2025 with a service for Exeter St Davids
Will I be down there to mourn their passing?
Never say never🤞🏻 🙏
Don’t see many Volvo 850’s around do you!
Fell over this leaving work & thought oooh I likey.
2.5 ltr on an M plate
91,000 from new.
134mph sleeper barge.
With plastic wheel trims too.
Lovely stuff
Fell over this leaving work & thought oooh I likey.
2.5 ltr on an M plate
91,000 from new.
134mph sleeper barge.
With plastic wheel trims too.
Lovely stuff
December 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Don’t see many Volvo 850’s around do you!
Fell over this leaving work & thought oooh I likey.
2.5 ltr on an M plate
91,000 from new.
134mph sleeper barge.
With plastic wheel trims too.
Lovely stuff
Fell over this leaving work & thought oooh I likey.
2.5 ltr on an M plate
91,000 from new.
134mph sleeper barge.
With plastic wheel trims too.
Lovely stuff
Presumably within a few weeks a XC voyager will be seen knocking about wearing XC’s new colours
No idea about the photographer but the unit is apparently at Litchurch lane Derby getting a make over
No idea about the photographer but the unit is apparently at Litchurch lane Derby getting a make over
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Presumably within a few weeks a XC voyager will be seen knocking about wearing XC’s new colours
No idea about the photographer but the unit is apparently at Litchurch lane Derby getting a make over
No idea about the photographer but the unit is apparently at Litchurch lane Derby getting a make over
Yep very nice steak 🥩
Home made chunky chips
Garden peas
Fried plum tomatoes
Delicious 🤤
Home made chunky chips
Garden peas
Fried plum tomatoes
Delicious 🤤
December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Yep very nice steak 🥩
Home made chunky chips
Garden peas
Fried plum tomatoes
Delicious 🤤
Home made chunky chips
Garden peas
Fried plum tomatoes
Delicious 🤤
Saw that there was a 5Q54 Widnes Transport Tech to Ely Papworth earlier
180113 was on it.
Ely Papworth if I’m right is cold storage.
Doesn’t bode well for the units.
Hopefully a buyer overseas will take them otherwise it’ll be a one stop shop to Kingsbury for disposal
180113 Doncaster in 2015
180113 was on it.
Ely Papworth if I’m right is cold storage.
Doesn’t bode well for the units.
Hopefully a buyer overseas will take them otherwise it’ll be a one stop shop to Kingsbury for disposal
180113 Doncaster in 2015
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Saw that there was a 5Q54 Widnes Transport Tech to Ely Papworth earlier
180113 was on it.
Ely Papworth if I’m right is cold storage.
Doesn’t bode well for the units.
Hopefully a buyer overseas will take them otherwise it’ll be a one stop shop to Kingsbury for disposal
180113 Doncaster in 2015
180113 was on it.
Ely Papworth if I’m right is cold storage.
Doesn’t bode well for the units.
Hopefully a buyer overseas will take them otherwise it’ll be a one stop shop to Kingsbury for disposal
180113 Doncaster in 2015
Yep had that happen to me when I popped up to Glasgow not long back.
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Yep had that happen to me when I popped up to Glasgow not long back.
How the hell does someone manage that?
I remember the days when Stobbart drivers were king.
To think the canal path was drivable for a HGV.
Doylem!
I remember the days when Stobbart drivers were king.
To think the canal path was drivable for a HGV.
Doylem!
December 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
How the hell does someone manage that?
I remember the days when Stobbart drivers were king.
To think the canal path was drivable for a HGV.
Doylem!
I remember the days when Stobbart drivers were king.
To think the canal path was drivable for a HGV.
Doylem!
👏
Brilliant😂
Brilliant😂
December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
👏
Brilliant😂
Brilliant😂
Total wipe out!
Saw the AWD badge & thought far east.
Don’t think I’d have got that after a week
Saw the AWD badge & thought far east.
Don’t think I’d have got that after a week
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Total wipe out!
Saw the AWD badge & thought far east.
Don’t think I’d have got that after a week
Saw the AWD badge & thought far east.
Don’t think I’d have got that after a week
Photo by Andy81E Flickr
Best/worst rhtt livery I’ve ever seen
Best/worst rhtt livery I’ve ever seen
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Photo by Andy81E Flickr
Best/worst rhtt livery I’ve ever seen
Best/worst rhtt livery I’ve ever seen
Morning, 7 hrs uninterrupted sleep👍🏻
Tucking into my lovely tiger loaf toast I see that the SVR has uploaded the timetable for the diesel bash on Monday 29th December
Looks good but I won’t be there as I’m working.
Prob doing the GWSR either side of that date anyway
svr.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Tucking into my lovely tiger loaf toast I see that the SVR has uploaded the timetable for the diesel bash on Monday 29th December
Looks good but I won’t be there as I’m working.
Prob doing the GWSR either side of that date anyway
svr.co.uk/wp-content/u...
December 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Morning, 7 hrs uninterrupted sleep👍🏻
Tucking into my lovely tiger loaf toast I see that the SVR has uploaded the timetable for the diesel bash on Monday 29th December
Looks good but I won’t be there as I’m working.
Prob doing the GWSR either side of that date anyway
svr.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Tucking into my lovely tiger loaf toast I see that the SVR has uploaded the timetable for the diesel bash on Monday 29th December
Looks good but I won’t be there as I’m working.
Prob doing the GWSR either side of that date anyway
svr.co.uk/wp-content/u...
Sat having a final drink before calling it a day
Had a lovely chicken stir fry earlier watching a Vera.
My bed is calling me 💤
Had a lovely chicken stir fry earlier watching a Vera.
My bed is calling me 💤
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sat having a final drink before calling it a day
Had a lovely chicken stir fry earlier watching a Vera.
My bed is calling me 💤
Had a lovely chicken stir fry earlier watching a Vera.
My bed is calling me 💤
New Lidl store opens tomorrow in Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire
Won’t be gracing the shower of 💩 with my presence
Can’t even spell the town correctly
Bloody tw*ts!
Won’t be gracing the shower of 💩 with my presence
Can’t even spell the town correctly
Bloody tw*ts!
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New Lidl store opens tomorrow in Ashby De La Zouch Leicestershire
Won’t be gracing the shower of 💩 with my presence
Can’t even spell the town correctly
Bloody tw*ts!
Won’t be gracing the shower of 💩 with my presence
Can’t even spell the town correctly
Bloody tw*ts!
Ta Neil.
Searched 4 fields of trees first.
No luck.
Then tried two fields by the fishing lakes & I kid you not we found our tree literally within 20ft of where we got last years tree
Should’ve just gone there first but the owner told us the top 4 fields.
Next year…well you know.
X marks the spot
Searched 4 fields of trees first.
No luck.
Then tried two fields by the fishing lakes & I kid you not we found our tree literally within 20ft of where we got last years tree
Should’ve just gone there first but the owner told us the top 4 fields.
Next year…well you know.
X marks the spot
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ta Neil.
Searched 4 fields of trees first.
No luck.
Then tried two fields by the fishing lakes & I kid you not we found our tree literally within 20ft of where we got last years tree
Should’ve just gone there first but the owner told us the top 4 fields.
Next year…well you know.
X marks the spot
Searched 4 fields of trees first.
No luck.
Then tried two fields by the fishing lakes & I kid you not we found our tree literally within 20ft of where we got last years tree
Should’ve just gone there first but the owner told us the top 4 fields.
Next year…well you know.
X marks the spot
Can’t have you feeling left out😂
"University of Strathclyde"
"University of Strathclyde"
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Can’t have you feeling left out😂
"University of Strathclyde"
"University of Strathclyde"
Part one done after spending 3 hrs larking about & picking a tree in a slightly muddy field in Leicestershire.
Blinking cream crackered
Shopping trip tomorrow morning (local) then the back garden gets the ho ho ho treatment
Blinking cream crackered
Shopping trip tomorrow morning (local) then the back garden gets the ho ho ho treatment
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Part one done after spending 3 hrs larking about & picking a tree in a slightly muddy field in Leicestershire.
Blinking cream crackered
Shopping trip tomorrow morning (local) then the back garden gets the ho ho ho treatment
Blinking cream crackered
Shopping trip tomorrow morning (local) then the back garden gets the ho ho ho treatment
The winner of the creepiest Santa ever goes to this weird bod.
Walking through a mini forest to pick a Christmas tree & came face to face with him.
Enough to put kids off him for life
Walking through a mini forest to pick a Christmas tree & came face to face with him.
Enough to put kids off him for life
December 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The winner of the creepiest Santa ever goes to this weird bod.
Walking through a mini forest to pick a Christmas tree & came face to face with him.
Enough to put kids off him for life
Walking through a mini forest to pick a Christmas tree & came face to face with him.
Enough to put kids off him for life
Arty one through the palisade fencing mate.
222001🙁
222001🙁
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Arty one through the palisade fencing mate.
222001🙁
222001🙁
1000 lights
Brand new
Came out of box like this
Clearly someone had a bad shift at the packing station
I maybe here for some time
Bugger
Brand new
Came out of box like this
Clearly someone had a bad shift at the packing station
I maybe here for some time
Bugger
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
1000 lights
Brand new
Came out of box like this
Clearly someone had a bad shift at the packing station
I maybe here for some time
Bugger
Brand new
Came out of box like this
Clearly someone had a bad shift at the packing station
I maybe here for some time
Bugger
Even though since 2023 I’ve taken literally thousands of photographs of rail services I still rate this one as one of my favourites.
D9000 with 87002 dead on rear approaches Atherstone giving it the beans.
Vid passing Atherstone by someone else
I was further around the corner
youtu.be/56dYhfv66qs
D9000 with 87002 dead on rear approaches Atherstone giving it the beans.
Vid passing Atherstone by someone else
I was further around the corner
youtu.be/56dYhfv66qs
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Even though since 2023 I’ve taken literally thousands of photographs of rail services I still rate this one as one of my favourites.
D9000 with 87002 dead on rear approaches Atherstone giving it the beans.
Vid passing Atherstone by someone else
I was further around the corner
youtu.be/56dYhfv66qs
D9000 with 87002 dead on rear approaches Atherstone giving it the beans.
Vid passing Atherstone by someone else
I was further around the corner
youtu.be/56dYhfv66qs
Just popped out to a local charity shop to drop off a car load of donations & saw this at the side of the A511 between Ashby De La Zouch & Coalville
They’re not wrong
On the other side it says that he talks a lot of what goes down the toilet 💩
Again they’re not wrong 🤣
Quality
They’re not wrong
On the other side it says that he talks a lot of what goes down the toilet 💩
Again they’re not wrong 🤣
Quality
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Just popped out to a local charity shop to drop off a car load of donations & saw this at the side of the A511 between Ashby De La Zouch & Coalville
They’re not wrong
On the other side it says that he talks a lot of what goes down the toilet 💩
Again they’re not wrong 🤣
Quality
They’re not wrong
On the other side it says that he talks a lot of what goes down the toilet 💩
Again they’re not wrong 🤣
Quality
Still have these for the time being up north though but the clock is ticking on these too.
November 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Still have these for the time being up north though but the clock is ticking on these too.
If in the Plymouth area with time on your hands today then the following power cars will be out to be enjoyed
43004 + 43156
43093 + 43198
43186 + 43187
Wanted to get down there myself one last time
Can’t see how but never say never.
If not then I said goodbye in September 🙁
43004 + 43156
43093 + 43198
43186 + 43187
Wanted to get down there myself one last time
Can’t see how but never say never.
If not then I said goodbye in September 🙁
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 AM
If in the Plymouth area with time on your hands today then the following power cars will be out to be enjoyed
43004 + 43156
43093 + 43198
43186 + 43187
Wanted to get down there myself one last time
Can’t see how but never say never.
If not then I said goodbye in September 🙁
43004 + 43156
43093 + 43198
43186 + 43187
Wanted to get down there myself one last time
Can’t see how but never say never.
If not then I said goodbye in September 🙁
Last time photographed that working it had Drs 66’s on it
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Last time photographed that working it had Drs 66’s on it