Bryan
@elwick70.bsky.social
Yorkshireman. Train Driver. Coffee
Mostly photos of trains I’ve driven and the railway I work on, especially the old bits that really should be in a museum. And other things.
Mostly photos of trains I’ve driven and the railway I work on, especially the old bits that really should be in a museum. And other things.
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Bryan
@elwick70.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Well, if you’re going to be delayed you might as well be delayed in Prosser and Peachey’s magnificent 1877 train shed
#York
#York
January 4, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Well, it’s back to work. So here we are up Sheffield mountain with 66596 waiting for the London Gateway to be loaded.
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
January 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Well, it’s back to work. So here we are up Sheffield mountain with 66596 waiting for the London Gateway to be loaded.
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
Reposted by Bryan
Reposted by Bryan
Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
January 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
Reposted by Bryan
Snow In East Yorkshire. -1°C. Redwing.
January 3, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Snow In East Yorkshire. -1°C. Redwing.
Hang on. What?
Trump has had the leader of sovereign country, and his wife, kidnapped whilst bombing its capital?
Trump, the President of Peace?
Guess he is actually mental after all…
Trump has had the leader of sovereign country, and his wife, kidnapped whilst bombing its capital?
Trump, the President of Peace?
Guess he is actually mental after all…
January 3, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Hang on. What?
Trump has had the leader of sovereign country, and his wife, kidnapped whilst bombing its capital?
Trump, the President of Peace?
Guess he is actually mental after all…
Trump has had the leader of sovereign country, and his wife, kidnapped whilst bombing its capital?
Trump, the President of Peace?
Guess he is actually mental after all…
Well, it’s back to work. So here we are up Sheffield mountain with 66596 waiting for the London Gateway to be loaded.
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
January 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Well, it’s back to work. So here we are up Sheffield mountain with 66596 waiting for the London Gateway to be loaded.
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
I have coffee ☕️ ☕️ ☕️
Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
January 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Doncaster, 2nd Jan 1982
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
44 years ago today Deltic 55015 “Tulyar” departs a cold and snowy Doncaster on its last BR run, the Deltic Farewell Scotsman
A Young Pretender waits in Platform 8
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #OTD
📷 M Barstow
Reposted by Bryan
‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
January 1, 2026 at 8:23 AM
‘January’ (Shell Guide, Flowers of the Countryside, 1955)
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Artists: Edith and Rowland Hilder
Happy new year!
And I’m totally still alive, I think…
Looks like Dr Jane’s done a runner tho.
Let’s hope the other conspiracy theory maniacs follow her like so many preposterously uneducated lemmings over the cliff of confused gullibility…
And I’m totally still alive, I think…
Looks like Dr Jane’s done a runner tho.
Let’s hope the other conspiracy theory maniacs follow her like so many preposterously uneducated lemmings over the cliff of confused gullibility…
January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Happy new year!
And I’m totally still alive, I think…
Looks like Dr Jane’s done a runner tho.
Let’s hope the other conspiracy theory maniacs follow her like so many preposterously uneducated lemmings over the cliff of confused gullibility…
And I’m totally still alive, I think…
Looks like Dr Jane’s done a runner tho.
Let’s hope the other conspiracy theory maniacs follow her like so many preposterously uneducated lemmings over the cliff of confused gullibility…
Reposted by Bryan
Reposted by Bryan
London, 1948
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
London, 1948
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
ES: What’s today, my fine fellow?
Boy: Be f*cked if I know sir
ES: What a delightful boy…
Boy: Be f*cked if I know sir
ES: What a delightful boy…
December 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
ES: What’s today, my fine fellow?
Boy: Be f*cked if I know sir
ES: What a delightful boy…
Boy: Be f*cked if I know sir
ES: What a delightful boy…
Merry Christmas all!
🎄🏠🎄 🚂🚃🚃🚃💨
🎄🏠🎄 🚂🚃🚃🚃💨
December 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Merry Christmas all!
🎄🏠🎄 🚂🚃🚃🚃💨
🎄🏠🎄 🚂🚃🚃🚃💨
London, 1948
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
London, 1948
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day
#Christmas 🎄
Doncaster, 2018
No snow this Christmas, so instead we’ll have this HST in VTEC colours heading south thru Doncaster during the Beast from the East ❄️❄️❄️
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #Christmas
No snow this Christmas, so instead we’ll have this HST in VTEC colours heading south thru Doncaster during the Beast from the East ❄️❄️❄️
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Doncaster, 2018
No snow this Christmas, so instead we’ll have this HST in VTEC colours heading south thru Doncaster during the Beast from the East ❄️❄️❄️
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #Christmas
No snow this Christmas, so instead we’ll have this HST in VTEC colours heading south thru Doncaster during the Beast from the East ❄️❄️❄️
#Doncaster #Yorkshire #Christmas
Christmas Eve, 1981
Deltics at Doncaster
55019 ‘Royal Highland Fusilier’ delivers a sad present to BREL Doncaster in the shape of 55010 ‘The King’s Own Scottish Borderer’
#Doncaster #Yorkshire
📷 K Long
Deltics at Doncaster
55019 ‘Royal Highland Fusilier’ delivers a sad present to BREL Doncaster in the shape of 55010 ‘The King’s Own Scottish Borderer’
#Doncaster #Yorkshire
📷 K Long
December 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Christmas Eve, 1981
Deltics at Doncaster
55019 ‘Royal Highland Fusilier’ delivers a sad present to BREL Doncaster in the shape of 55010 ‘The King’s Own Scottish Borderer’
#Doncaster #Yorkshire
📷 K Long
Deltics at Doncaster
55019 ‘Royal Highland Fusilier’ delivers a sad present to BREL Doncaster in the shape of 55010 ‘The King’s Own Scottish Borderer’
#Doncaster #Yorkshire
📷 K Long
Ont district again, inspecting the manor
Bit foggy ont toppa ‘hill today…
#Brodsworth #Doncaster #Yorkshire
Bit foggy ont toppa ‘hill today…
#Brodsworth #Doncaster #Yorkshire
December 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ont district again, inspecting the manor
Bit foggy ont toppa ‘hill today…
#Brodsworth #Doncaster #Yorkshire
Bit foggy ont toppa ‘hill today…
#Brodsworth #Doncaster #Yorkshire
This is what is wrong with modern click-bait media. You have to read to the end before you find out it wasn’t a bomb.
Most people, and Trump, and Musk, will only read the headline and come to entirely the wrong conclusion.
Good work by the bomb squad btw, not so good from the Standard.
Most people, and Trump, and Musk, will only read the headline and come to entirely the wrong conclusion.
Good work by the bomb squad btw, not so good from the Standard.
Westminster Bridge locked down after bomb squad called to suspicious package
Army disposal units rush to scene as commuters evacuated from central London landmark
www.standard.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is what is wrong with modern click-bait media. You have to read to the end before you find out it wasn’t a bomb.
Most people, and Trump, and Musk, will only read the headline and come to entirely the wrong conclusion.
Good work by the bomb squad btw, not so good from the Standard.
Most people, and Trump, and Musk, will only read the headline and come to entirely the wrong conclusion.
Good work by the bomb squad btw, not so good from the Standard.
Reposted by Bryan
Last one for today. "Roseberry Topping in the snow" courtesy of Chris Coombe CC BY 2.0 DEED
December 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Last one for today. "Roseberry Topping in the snow" courtesy of Chris Coombe CC BY 2.0 DEED
Reposted by Bryan
Snow Effect, The Boulevard de Pontoise at Argenteuil - 1875
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8631
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8631
December 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Snow Effect, The Boulevard de Pontoise at Argenteuil - 1875
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8631
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8631
How to plan your trips to the USA for 2026, 2027 & 2028:
1. Don’t bother
2. Sorted
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1. Don’t bother
2. Sorted
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December 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
How to plan your trips to the USA for 2026, 2027 & 2028:
1. Don’t bother
2. Sorted
🇺🇸
1. Don’t bother
2. Sorted
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