The Flying Banana

The Network Rail New Measurement Train was introduced in 2003 to monitor track conditions on the UK rail network. it consists of two class 43 intercity 125 locomotives and if anyone knows where it is I'm a little bit obsessed with it

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Ok so I made this blog partially so that I can train post without clogging up my usual blog but also because I recently learned about the NMT and realised I've definitely seen it at Gloucester before! I thought it was curious but didn't think much of it and didn't know until later that it was a rarity. I'd love to see it again just to say that I have and maybe capture it on film so if anyone knows where it might be hit up my ask box!

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Oh yea it looks like this for reference

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Worcestershire parkway backrooms ass station fr

It's in the middle of nowhere there's nothing there the only reason you go is to get a train somewhere else

There's not even any shelter it's just concrete in a field

I go and I feel like I'm gonna see a fuckin ufo

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On da train scrolling Tumblr trying to scroll quickly past the Yuri on my dash so that the person next to me doesn't see

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Worcestershire parkway backrooms ass station fr

It's in the middle of nowhere there's nothing there the only reason you go is to get a train somewhere else

There's not even any shelter it's just concrete in a field

I go and I feel like I'm gonna see a fuckin ufo

[british-rail-official]

always really fun when preserved trains are also still in service

yayy put that heritage locomotive on the aluminium oxide train yayyyy <3

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Pangaea was wasted on the dinosaurs. Imagine the railway network.

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really really think the sprinter family is the cutest family of trains. adorable girls that i wanna give a hug to. <3

she's so girl to me...

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the real reason trains were invented was to connect beautiful transgender women to each other so that they can [details expunged] and [information redacted]. which is literally so cutes <3

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I got the train-spotting horn!

Adore a class 66 in the wild ♡

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This was just before Christmas in Holloway Road, London on the ECML. Unfortunately a lorry blocked me from getting any more photos and I only came across it by luck but thought you might appreciate.

Legend thank you I absolutely do appreciate, shame about the lorry but this is still so cool!

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A rare siting: a CrossCountry service formed of 8 coaches

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HLY SHIT

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#take a picture of them kissing

Here you go!

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MY PHONE CAMERA SUCKSSSSS

SHE WENT RIGHT THROUGH CHELTENHAM!

IM SO GLAD I WENT OUTSIDE TO THROW SOMETHING AWAY

Date: 2/1/26, time: 19:56, location: Cheltenham

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THERES A BLUE ONE?????

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IVE JUST SEEN A BLUE SPRINTER MARKED INSPECTION TRAIN GO THROUGH PLYMOUTH TWICE AND I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN AAAAAAA I DIDNT KNOW MY GIRL HAD KIDS

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All my train photos suckkkkk because they're always from other trains and over other people's shoulders and the windows on cross country trains are never clear but here he is I had to bother someone else to get the pictures but I'm happy

He's so silly

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THERES A BLUE ONE?????

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IVE JUST SEEN A BLUE SPRINTER MARKED INSPECTION TRAIN GO THROUGH PLYMOUTH TWICE AND I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN AAAAAAA I DIDNT KNOW MY GIRL HAD KIDS

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THERES A BLUE ONE?????

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My favourite train route changed :(

Obviously all the timetables changed on the 13th and they also got rid of the Aberdeen to Penzance direct but now the Edinburgh to Penzance goes through my area around 1pm rather than at 4pm when I used to catch it so now when I want to visit my friends in Cornwall I have to go at a different time

I'm so upset I hate changing at Plymouth it sucks it's always such a walk and there's nowhere easy to get food (when the food trolley has inevitably been cancelled) and I never know what side of the train to get on to see the sea

Old man shakes fist at cloud I know but first they take the HSTs and now this?

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They've announced the new GBR liveries recently. I dislike them for political and nostalgia reasons but which do you prefer?

Which train looks cooler?

British rail intercity 125

GBR Class 800

Voting ended onDec 12, 2025

(this is totally a loaded question you already know which one I like more)

[ftl-faster-than-life]

Kind of funny how when you're obsessed with a certain character their mere presence on your screen can lift your mood. Like yeah I have probably like 10 diagnosed and undiagnosed ways my brain works atypically but one of those quirks makes it possible for The Character to salvage my whole day.