Capt. Osbert Twinge Bt. KCB.
@rm86.bsky.social
Railway Route Controller, trying to run a patch of railway across the North and North East. Sometimes I succeed.
Likes trains, which is probably just as well.
Likes trains, which is probably just as well.
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Name: James
Pronouns: He/Him
Location: 🏠 London/Rye
Interests: Travel, My cockapoo Phoebe, family and friends, cooking/baking, Men’s mental Health advocate. Live for Sunday roasts, good wine and a good cheeseboard!
Vocation: Train Manager
Name: James
Pronouns: He/Him
Location: 🏠 London/Rye
Interests: Travel, My cockapoo Phoebe, family and friends, cooking/baking, Men’s mental Health advocate. Live for Sunday roasts, good wine and a good cheeseboard!
Vocation: Train Manager
Reintroduction thread:
Name: Rich
Pronouns: He/Him
Location: 🏠 Bedfordshire, UK 🏢 London
Interests: Travel, outdoorsy stuff, cooking (and eating), 🖖, craft beer, politics, comedy, more stuff/ask!
Vocation: Civil servant
Name: Rich
Pronouns: He/Him
Location: 🏠 Bedfordshire, UK 🏢 London
Interests: Travel, outdoorsy stuff, cooking (and eating), 🖖, craft beer, politics, comedy, more stuff/ask!
Vocation: Civil servant
Reintroduction thread:
Name: Osbert, of course. 😉
Location: 🏡 Belper, 🚂 Birmingham
Interests: Trains (obviously), good food and good beer, a decent book, the radio and spending time on my beloved Yorkshire Coast.
Vocation: Route Controller
Name: Osbert, of course. 😉
Location: 🏡 Belper, 🚂 Birmingham
Interests: Trains (obviously), good food and good beer, a decent book, the radio and spending time on my beloved Yorkshire Coast.
Vocation: Route Controller
The struggle is real...
January 9, 2026 at 7:28 AM
The struggle is real...
I hope he sticks it out. Buddy Holly and his gang grew tired of touring randomly around Minnesota and North Dakota with no logical pattern and we know how that ended up...
...with a *really* long song.
...with a *really* long song.
Everything's terrible, except for it's the 8th of January, and in just a couple of hours Peter Bleksley kicks off his absolutely bonkers tour of the UK and Ireland.
I needed to map it to see if there was a rhyme or reason to his route, but no, it's just as maniacal as it seemed.
I needed to map it to see if there was a rhyme or reason to his route, but no, it's just as maniacal as it seemed.
January 8, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I hope he sticks it out. Buddy Holly and his gang grew tired of touring randomly around Minnesota and North Dakota with no logical pattern and we know how that ended up...
...with a *really* long song.
...with a *really* long song.
Seeing out the last vestiges of 2025 daylight in my beloved York.
Happy New Year, folks.
Happy New Year, folks.
December 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Seeing out the last vestiges of 2025 daylight in my beloved York.
Happy New Year, folks.
Happy New Year, folks.
Suppose it's better than having a goose smashing through her back door, amirite?!
Fnarr.
Fnarr.
December 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Suppose it's better than having a goose smashing through her back door, amirite?!
Fnarr.
Fnarr.
It says something about the state of the world that I can brutally assault my ears with these 1998 episodes of #TOTP and still float into a dreamy nostalgic utopia of terracotta wallpaper and Ellesse sweaters...
...as so capably modelled by your humble scribe in, by remarkable coincidence, 1998.
...as so capably modelled by your humble scribe in, by remarkable coincidence, 1998.
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It says something about the state of the world that I can brutally assault my ears with these 1998 episodes of #TOTP and still float into a dreamy nostalgic utopia of terracotta wallpaper and Ellesse sweaters...
...as so capably modelled by your humble scribe in, by remarkable coincidence, 1998.
...as so capably modelled by your humble scribe in, by remarkable coincidence, 1998.
Last year, I thought it'd be good fun to find and review the Christmas tree at each of London's twelve mainline terminus stations.
You all seemed to enjoy it, so join me again for the Great London Christmas Tree Review (Railway Edition) of 2025!
What larks! 🌲
🧵
You all seemed to enjoy it, so join me again for the Great London Christmas Tree Review (Railway Edition) of 2025!
What larks! 🌲
🧵
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Last year, I thought it'd be good fun to find and review the Christmas tree at each of London's twelve mainline terminus stations.
You all seemed to enjoy it, so join me again for the Great London Christmas Tree Review (Railway Edition) of 2025!
What larks! 🌲
🧵
You all seemed to enjoy it, so join me again for the Great London Christmas Tree Review (Railway Edition) of 2025!
What larks! 🌲
🧵
"Featuring Pan's People."
Biggles is on.
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"Featuring Pan's People."
*plays Thames TV theme in head*
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
*plays Thames TV theme in head*
"On my trolley tonight I have sandwiches, crisps, sweets and fizzy pop!"
Didn't realise I'd stumbled into a children's party. Half expecting to be press-ganged into wearing a party hat (young me didn't do hats) and 'joining in' (didn't like doing that, either).
Have a train.
Didn't realise I'd stumbled into a children's party. Half expecting to be press-ganged into wearing a party hat (young me didn't do hats) and 'joining in' (didn't like doing that, either).
Have a train.
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"On my trolley tonight I have sandwiches, crisps, sweets and fizzy pop!"
Didn't realise I'd stumbled into a children's party. Half expecting to be press-ganged into wearing a party hat (young me didn't do hats) and 'joining in' (didn't like doing that, either).
Have a train.
Didn't realise I'd stumbled into a children's party. Half expecting to be press-ganged into wearing a party hat (young me didn't do hats) and 'joining in' (didn't like doing that, either).
Have a train.
I couldn't give a flying proverbial about colours and flag references and whatnot, it's just that it looks less like a train livery and more like the tracksuit Keith Allen wore in the 'Vindaloo' video. There's no flair or panache to this at all.
4/10. Could do better.
4/10. Could do better.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I couldn't give a flying proverbial about colours and flag references and whatnot, it's just that it looks less like a train livery and more like the tracksuit Keith Allen wore in the 'Vindaloo' video. There's no flair or panache to this at all.
4/10. Could do better.
4/10. Could do better.
Reposted by Capt. Osbert Twinge Bt. KCB.
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
Happy Bernard Black Friday to all who celebrate.
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Happy Bernard Black Friday to all who celebrate.
Speaking as a child of the East, when in Norwich, one must pay due respect to the oracle...
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Speaking as a child of the East, when in Norwich, one must pay due respect to the oracle...
Me flirting:
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Me flirting:
"Describe yourself in five words."
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Describe yourself in five words."
Predictions for next year:
- Irn-Bru sales will spike
- Everyone will be very proud of their suddenly-discovered Great-Great Grandad from Forres
- Rikki Fulton will make a miraculous comeback
- Window displays of Gary: Tank Commander DVDs will abound in Tonbridge HMV
Mark my words.
- Irn-Bru sales will spike
- Everyone will be very proud of their suddenly-discovered Great-Great Grandad from Forres
- Rikki Fulton will make a miraculous comeback
- Window displays of Gary: Tank Commander DVDs will abound in Tonbridge HMV
Mark my words.
Based on my timeline, it appears that Scotland is doing a football.
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Predictions for next year:
- Irn-Bru sales will spike
- Everyone will be very proud of their suddenly-discovered Great-Great Grandad from Forres
- Rikki Fulton will make a miraculous comeback
- Window displays of Gary: Tank Commander DVDs will abound in Tonbridge HMV
Mark my words.
- Irn-Bru sales will spike
- Everyone will be very proud of their suddenly-discovered Great-Great Grandad from Forres
- Rikki Fulton will make a miraculous comeback
- Window displays of Gary: Tank Commander DVDs will abound in Tonbridge HMV
Mark my words.
🎵 He was educated the expensive way,
He knows his... 🎶
He knows his... 🎶
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🎵 He was educated the expensive way,
He knows his... 🎶
He knows his... 🎶
They do realise that Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' was meant to be satirical, yes?
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
They do realise that Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' was meant to be satirical, yes?
Every now and then, I wish I didn't like trains so much.
What. A. Shift. 😫
That wish never lasts long, mind...
Have a train.
What. A. Shift. 😫
That wish never lasts long, mind...
Have a train.
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Every now and then, I wish I didn't like trains so much.
What. A. Shift. 😫
That wish never lasts long, mind...
Have a train.
What. A. Shift. 😫
That wish never lasts long, mind...
Have a train.
Yes, I can be a pernickety bugger, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable in thinking that whether one of its regions does or does not still have sections of line controlled by semaphore signalling is the sort of thing that Network Rail probably *should* know?
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Yes, I can be a pernickety bugger, but I don't think I'm being unreasonable in thinking that whether one of its regions does or does not still have sections of line controlled by semaphore signalling is the sort of thing that Network Rail probably *should* know?
In a similar vein, the mid-'80s BBC Video ident which sent toddler me screaming from the room.
youtu.be/fq4ftiByb6M?...
youtu.be/fq4ftiByb6M?...
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
In a similar vein, the mid-'80s BBC Video ident which sent toddler me screaming from the room.
youtu.be/fq4ftiByb6M?...
youtu.be/fq4ftiByb6M?...
Meanwhile, in local Faceache groups...
October 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Meanwhile, in local Faceache groups...
I think quite a few women have pulled off Bond.
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I think quite a few women have pulled off Bond.
Seems legit.
October 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Seems legit.
"Your best route from Leicester to Nottingham is via Dundee, Addis Ababa and Sark. I can't help you with that.
A Rail Replacement duck is in operation, and acts as a powerful reminder that, sometimes, when life throws you onions, you just have to fall over."
A Rail Replacement duck is in operation, and acts as a powerful reminder that, sometimes, when life throws you onions, you just have to fall over."
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Your best route from Leicester to Nottingham is via Dundee, Addis Ababa and Sark. I can't help you with that.
A Rail Replacement duck is in operation, and acts as a powerful reminder that, sometimes, when life throws you onions, you just have to fall over."
A Rail Replacement duck is in operation, and acts as a powerful reminder that, sometimes, when life throws you onions, you just have to fall over."