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Mixed traction engineer. My opinion is my own and represents no one else!

East Midlands, England
Joined October 2012
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"Thames Water has estimated the cost of upgrading its flagship Oxford sewage works has risen from £40mn to £435mn over just four years." Yet another way that we're been conned by industry and regulators. Inflate the supposed cost, squeeze bill payers for the extra money, approved by the regulator of course and pocket the money. And don't think for one second that @thameswater is the only one at it. Oh and by the way do you know that @ofwat doesn't check what WCs have actually spent your money on. 🤔 ft.com/content/edd76ff0-37de…
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Two years since opening, The Elizabeth Line moves 441,000 cars' worth of people per day and has contributed £22 billion to the economy more than it cost. If building truly great transit can double a return on investment in two years, why aren’t we building transit everywhere?
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A) It’s not £65,000 B) If it was, it’s still less than @OfKawczynski’s salary C) Kawczynski has had 6 pay rises in the last 6 years D) The train drivers in question haven’t had any pay rises. At all E) What’s good for Kawczyski is good for everyone
“£65,000 is a staggering amount” Conservative MP @OfKawczynski condemns train drivers’ union @ASLEFunion for not settling a two year dispute over pay and conditions #PoliticsMidlands bbc.com/news/articles/c4n14k…
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People don't choose to be on disability benefits. It's their last resort. Stop blaming people with mental health problems. If the Secretary of State wants a grown-up conversation about this, then he should meet with us. We've sent an invite. 1/3
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Funny you should mention that! I seem to remember myself & @Bennybizzle1 caught that return from Wellingborough to Kettering & saw you on there. This was 43274 after we get off at Kettering.
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A long shot I know, but I wonder if we can get a retweet for our fundraiser for @KidsOut from any railway royalty? 😁🤞 youtu.be/d1nsyiVl03Y?si=91bF… justgiving.com/page/austinsf… @rodstewart @PeteWatermanOBE @MrTimDunn
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This man has no idea how the major infrastructure projects of his own department are funded. The cancellation of HS2 has released precisely zero pounds for roads, other rail projects, nothing. Saved nothing. £0. He’s lying to you.
We're announcing how London's boroughs will benefit from £235m of HS2 savings - part of the biggest-ever funding uplift for local road improvements. Labour don't have a plan to improve our roads, @Conservatives do - and we're delivering 👇 gov.uk/government/news/gover…
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Retweet this tweet , to enter into giveaway , I will pick 3 winners for $100 each of Ethereum on my next stream !! Dont have to be in stream , just have DM's open so i can message you if you won !! kick.com/kyletooreal
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Did you clap our NHS workers during the pandemic? In the coming weeks, nurses, junior doctors, ambulance service and other health workers will ballot to strike. They’re fighting for better – because claps don’t pay the bills. RT if you’re behind them 👊 #EnoughlsEnough
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You and other Tory MPs actively encourage the public to hate me and lie about my work and pay If I did what you did, I’d be sacked on the spot for bringing my company into disrepute It’s not nice being hated, but it doesn’t excuse your behaviour Do the honourable thing. Resign
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Rail strikes!
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Lots of ‘how hard can it be to drive a train?’ tweets out there over the last few days, from people who think they’re edgy and clever but really have no idea…
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2/2 Took a lot of effort to get it to this stage, and I enjoyed operating it and learning new skills during the build, but sadly I'm finding time is not my friend at the moment and I spend little of it working on the layout. #TMRGUK
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Well here's something to start the last turn of the week bit of hst action with another good friend at helm @mole259 on the 1819 st Pancras to Sheffield with 43089 and 43060 providing the power s🔊📣 also 22104 departing on 1m44 #spottingfromwork #unofficalketteringrailcam
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Sunday afternoon down at the Leven viaduct, what’s not to love about it! High tide or not, nothing was going to stop me from getting this photo today! @RAIL @railcamlive #midlandpullman #HST – at North West, England
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A little project I have been working on to celebrate the last @EastMidRailway HST today. I hope you like it! @SRichardBowker @weareEMR @VinPink2 @mattymidland @gawuffy @paulrgentleman @TonyP146 @LUCYLucyprior @birdsnestsblog @AbiBroadley
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Matt Dawson, Train Manager had some final words to say about the retirement of our HSTs: "Goodbye old girls, thank you for all that time you spent thundering through sun, wind, and rain while we grew old together. I won't be sad it's over. I'll smile because it happened." #EMR
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43251 on rear of 1D66 STP-NOT passing through Kettering in full dull and rain. Thanks driver for the hoots. #EMR #MML #HST 11/5/2021
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