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Can we rewind to 2015 and try again? 🏳️‍🌈🌈🇪🇺. Cycle commuter. ❤️🇨🇭🇯🇵🇲🇨🇮🇲. He/his. Trans/NB ally.

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For just over two weeks in July 2023 I went on a #HeatwaveHoliday on the rails - southern Europe was roasting (and occasionally burning) while northern Europe (and the UK in particular) experienced dismal rain! Here are some threads about what I got up to!
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2 years
@MrsMLG923 @BrianneKohl This reminds me of Human Nigel:
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Never been over here before! 😳
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Rare opportunity working a train with my other half today. “Shall we get a selfie with the train?” “Eh? What? No!” 🤣🙈
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This is Worcester Shrub Hill. Do not try
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Now this idea I rather like; Google Earth representations of trains running over closed lines, to show what’s now on the trackbed
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#GoogleEarth での「伊予鉄道森松線」廃線跡に、列車を走らせてみました。
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Well that’s not where I expected to be driving to when I booked on for duty today! 😳👀 I haven’t signed this route for over two years now… So what am I doing here? Well… (short 🧵) 1/4
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Reading Reading Reading, so good they named it thrice.
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I don’t think there are enough signs here tbh. Add more!!
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Freshly-withdrawn 769007 divided at Cardiff Brickyard siding, awaiting collection by road transport.
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Post-Christmas greetings from Bristol Parkway 😂
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Community note of the year?
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I discovered that one of the stopping points for IETs at Swindon does this - the guard asked me to move the train a few feet and reopen the doors, problem solved.
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Doug Paulley
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I guess I'll catch the next train then, @northernassist . Equality my arse.
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2 years
Run by a former railway roster clerk, clearly!! 🤣🤣
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A rather unusual day at work today, playing my part in #GWRWedding - congratulations to the happy couple! I got a goody bag… ☺️
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If you’d told my past self thirty years ago that I’d be standing in a field in Leicester in the rain, eating awesome cheesecake and watching Rick Astley, I’d have been inclined to disbelieve you…
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Today marks 20 years since I moved from fNW to fGW 😄
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Seven years ago Paddington had a rather different selection of rolling stock!
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Overtaking 60010 hauling a colourful train of TEA wagons ☕️
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This is a new, and pretty cool, thing on gWr “Castle Class” HSTs - barcode on the back of the seat which loads a website of the live progress of the train you’re on! Including links to station departure boards, station information etc.
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There are only two daily scheduled public passenger trains in the UK which still do this:
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Motor dealerships should not be allowed to operate without a safe space to load/unload their deliveries
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@Doug_Paulley I discovered that one of the stopping points for IETs at Swindon does this - the guard asked me to move the train a few feet and reopen the doors, problem solved.
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This evening I found a new vantage point over the platforms at Paddington; just above the war memorial on platform 1.
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A very large signal box! What in the @MrTimDunn is that all about, then? 😁
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As much as we like to complain about daft railway shift times… I worked a week of day shifts last week, near enough 7am-5pm every day. HOW ON EARTH DO NORMAL PEOPLE GET ANYTHING DONE?!?
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How do you think I’m going to manage that, Google?!? 🤪
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1 year
Gotta say hi to the cutest little signal ever 🥰
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2 months
A platform ticket?!? 🤔 (Shame it doesn’t open the barriers though!)
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3 years
A very special treat at Bristol Parkway early this morning, 5Q99 delivering the first two Stadler FLIRT units to Cardiff for TfW. 231002 and 231004 hauled by 66001 🤩🇨🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🚆
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A bit late now but yesterday’s #TrainOfTheDay was 2C75/2U22, my newly qualified Train Manager’s first solo trip and he also happens to be my boyfriend 😂🥰😎
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Today #HeatwaveHoliday takes me on the longest daytime rail journey I’ve ever made without changing trains. I’m travelling from Rome to Taormina on Sicily, covering quite a lot of the length of Italy on the way!
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Today’s #TrainOfTheDay is London Underground’s “Rail Adhesion Train”, formed of former 1962 passenger stock, making its annual transfer move from its summer home at Ruislip depot, to the east end of the Central line where it will work throughout the forthcoming ‘slippy season’.
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Two lengths of very ancient rail have served for over a hundred years to protect a wall at Paddington from damage by road vehicles; now that they’re in a pedestrian area, they’ve had a coat of paint and a little interpretation panel added ☺️
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Strangers at Reading Depot
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2 years
EV charging recessed into the pavement - the solution we’ve been waiting for?
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These are not just signals, these are M&S signals!
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4 years
A worrying new symptom.
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BBC Business
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4 years
People turn to custard and gravy amid the pandemic 🍮🥧
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There’s one thing I’ve not yet seen mentioned regarding ticket office closures, perhaps because it takes careful phrasing so as not to appear dismissive of those who don’t fall into this category and have chosen TO as their career. However… 1/
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The 3-car version is obviously for the reopening of the Aldwych branch? 😁
@Clinnick1
Richard Clinnick
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6 months
A 3-car new Piccadilly Line train has been tested in a climate chamber by @SiemensMobility to see how they endure extreme weather. Tests focused on effects of extreme ambient temperatures from -15°C to 40°C, solar load of 600W/m2, ice and wind speeds of up to 100km/h. 📷Siemens.
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The #SevernsideSirens are a network of 12 sirens around the industrial areas of Portbury and Avonmouth; here’s a little thread 🧵:
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1 year
So that was a fun morning! 🫣
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1 year
Rate my wet floor sign?
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Aah, right on cue… 🙄
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I’m sure blue and grey wasn’t this shiny back in the day ✨
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International train arrives late, missing connections for onward passengers. Rather than provide taxis, SBB find a train and driver to run an additional service!
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Pilote de loc 🇨🇭
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1 year
01:57 du matin en gare de Genève, on prend le premier train qu'on a sous la main (c'est à dire une Flirt LEX qui traîne par là) et on part en train spécial en direction de Morges Je vous raconte...
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2 years
Socket Of The Day
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3 years
This is hilarious 🤣🤣
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3 years
Cutest little loco 🥰
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3 years
This morning I have mostly been building pantographs
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3 months
New pantograph design seems somewhat impractical 🤣😁
@Stadtbahn
Nico 🏳️‍🌈
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5 months
Genau die richtige Minute am Roten Rathaus erwischt
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9 months
Taunton has a complete, functioning, weighbridge on the platform. Obviously it hasn’t been maintained, lubricated or calibrated for many decades, so it’s not too accurate, but it’s still here and it still works! 😃 ⚖️
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Today’s #TrainOfTheDay is 802020 which carries a @MrTimDunn -approved livery on the two driving cars, saying thank you in many languages. I hadn’t appreciated until tonight that all four liveried coach sides are different!
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Usually having the same set all day for two round trips Bristol-London and back would be frustrating (I like variety!), but as it’s this one I can make an exception! Incidentally I got photographed and waved at a lot more than usual 😂 #TrainOfTheDay #WhoWoreItBetter
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The right to not work on my day off is an “archaic rule”? Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.
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2 years
📢 UNOFFICIAL STRIKES: Passengers using Avanti West services should expect disruption today. Archaic rules from 1919 mean working on rest days is voluntary. Unions now stopping drivers volunteering - causing misery for public & staff who won't get paid. We MUST modernise rail.
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Train destinations are now provided in barcode format
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3 years
Track layout of the day:
@CivilEngDis
Civil Engineering Discoveries
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3 years
Buena Vista, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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4 years
Paddington, yesterday - a very neat line up of 9-car IETs! From the left - 802114, 802110, 800303, 800304, 800308
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Today in “I’ve never done that move before”:
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Depot symmetry
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The name’s Bond… Traction Bond
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gWr apparently predicting the imminent demise of the NHS 👀
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Two days driving HSTs! Yesterday’s steed was 43153, which is a significant power car. HSTs were built in two main batches, with various design changes between the two. 43153 is the first of the second batch.
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Can we have a farewell tour please? 😁
@TodaysRailways
Today's Railways UK
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1 year
GWR has scrapped plans to introduce 19 769/9 tri-mode trains “in the face of revised customer growth figures”. The @GWRhelp trains were due to be introduced from 2019, mainly on the North Downs Line, but have been heavily delayed & hit by reliability issues. 📷 David Jackman
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I’m not quite sure what the speed limit is here, can anybody help me out? 🤔 (Wrong answers only 😁)
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Four years ago I went out for a ‘last ride’ to Brighton on the 442s!
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I’m off on an epic adventure today. Probably about 18 hours of travelling, only a vague plan and absolutely no leeway for late trains etc! I’m going to try to tweet as I go along 🤞🏼 but we all know how well that usually ends up. Let’s start with a short hop over to Newport.
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This is genuinely *the* best noise I have ever heard any train make!! 🤣😍
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Simon Andersen
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@FDMS4444 Truly excellent
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Obligatory #Trainbow selfie :) 🌈🏳️‍🌈 @TheProgressTrn
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My first time with #trainbow this year - first time since July 2020 actually! 🚄🌈
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Isn’t there someone on here who loudly proclaims that this isn’t possible, and calls staff liars when they say that it is? 😬
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Ashley
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After 3 years as a planner I’ve finally managed to get 444001 and 450001 formed up as a 9-car for the day!
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Paddington evening
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Destination of the day
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It’s always strange not knowing whether it’s the last time you’ll work a train somewhere…
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Presumably this was once Hyde Park Corner station?
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Taken by surprise by 3Q37 0950 Swindon-Newport @tfwrail @SW_MetroUpdates Stadler class 756 test run passing Bristol Parkway.
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“Britain in 2021” ..problem caused by the British government deciding to impose a unique taxation regime which will require every company in the world in every country in the world outside the UK which exports to the UK to apply and collect British taxes
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Why does every railway I visit try to recruit me as a volunteer?!? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤯
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That’s quite the combination of names, isn’t it 🫣
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They might be leaky, dirty, draughty, rattly and loud; everything you put down slowly makes its way to the edge of the desk and then the floor; water comes in the windscreen and doors... but they’re SOOOO great to drive! That added challenge of everything reacting so slowly...
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A great find for @25kv which breaks *all* the rules!! 600V DC, twin pantographs, each carrying twin … trolley wheels?!?!? 😱🤕
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As someone who’s not religious, doesn’t have kids and for whom every working day is pretty much the same, I have genuinely no idea which Sunday is Easter Sunday unless I double-check it elsewhere. Is it too difficult to put a date along the words?
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When you need more doors in the peak and more seats off peak... 💺⬆️🪄
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Rail Magazine（レイル・マガジン）【公式】
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3 years
京阪5000系の5扉運用が本日の朝の運用をもって終了したということで、12月に取材させていただいた5000系の座席昇降シーンをもう一度…
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HST first test run in Mexico 🇲🇽!! 😃
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Diego Dominguez
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@Clinnick1 @CrossCountryUK @ColasRailUK @PorterbrookRail Talking about new life for HST sets, the ones here in Mexico are beginning their initial test runs. Video by J.A.G via "Ferroaficion del Sureste Mexicano" on FB.
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Fantastic light along the Avon gorge this afternoon!
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In short, ticket office closures potentially reduce employment opportunities for disabled people and those who can’t or don’t want to do safety-critical work. 6/
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It’s only the second time in 25 years driving that I’ve been route conducted outside of a training scenario - the first was an HST on the “Weymouth Wizard”! 🧙🏻‍♂️ 4/4
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Second time in a week! Question is, why use Bristol drivers on these two trains and taxi back from Reading? Surely there must be someone available based nearer? 🤔
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My train is called Dave!! 🤣
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Simulator day for me today; several scenarios done including Single Line Working by Pilot, passing signals at Danger, SPAD risk, depot movements, permissive working, coupling and uncoupling… 1/
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I got “route conducted”. I drove the train while the other driver told me what to do. That includes permissible speeds, whistle boards, braking points for stations, route indications at junctions, and where the next signal is when we received cautionary aspects. 3/4
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Unexpected treat #TrainOfTheDay at Oxford this afternoon was 5Q76 Bicester MOD - Lydney, with ROG 37510 hauling ex-Heathrow Connect 360201 🤩
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Yesterday I went to ride and photograph the Great Orme Cable Car in Llandudno in North Wales; it reopened for the 2021 season in May. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, it wasn’t operating yesterday… (perhaps too windy 💨🚡). Time for a thread anyway…
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One of my favourite features of Paddington are the two ‘taxi road’ bridges, which curve in from where the (new) taxi rank is, and drop down between two pairs of platforms.
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Very pleased to have finally driven through the Severn Tunnel on electric power twice this week :)
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This is very much on my list to do! (Can we persuade TfL to do an LU version? 😁)
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Pascal Thibaut
@pthibaut
11 months
Tourisme métropolitain à Berlin @BVG_Ubahn @BVG_Kampagne
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@driverbod125
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@driverbod125
8 months
I definitely tagged the location in the first post but twitter seems to have decided not to bother showing it! This is Taunton.
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@driverbod125
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@driverbod125
3 months
Quietly excited about this
@GWRHelp
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@GWRHelp
3 months
Our FastCharge battery-powered train has been out on the network undergoing some final tests ahead of a trial which could transform the UK’s railway. The FastCharge technology has been rigorously developed by specialist engineers leading the way in #GWRInnovation Read the full
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@driverbod125
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@driverbod125
3 years
Why yes I did just try to use a train key to open the front door of my house, why do you ask? #DayOffTomorrow #🤦🏻‍♂️
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