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.
Pinned
Reintroduction thread:
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
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."
"On behalf of the committee...
...the sign in the Gents saying 'Wet Paint' is a statement and not an instruction...
Now, let's have a cheer for Roger Whittaker!"
...the sign in the Gents saying 'Wet Paint' is a statement and not an instruction...
Now, let's have a cheer for Roger Whittaker!"
“Before we crack on with the meat raffle, could the owner of a yellow Vauxhall Corsa please move their vehicle? Dave from the mobile discotheque says he can’t get his van in”
October 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
"On behalf of the committee...
...the sign in the Gents saying 'Wet Paint' is a statement and not an instruction...
Now, let's have a cheer for Roger Whittaker!"
...the sign in the Gents saying 'Wet Paint' is a statement and not an instruction...
Now, let's have a cheer for Roger Whittaker!"
Looking to form a heavy metal band?
Not sure of a name?
Just listen to Radio 4's Farming Today!
I bagsy 'Pig Unit' and 'BSE Explosion', coming to an edition of NME near you...
Not sure of a name?
Just listen to Radio 4's Farming Today!
I bagsy 'Pig Unit' and 'BSE Explosion', coming to an edition of NME near you...
October 8, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Looking to form a heavy metal band?
Not sure of a name?
Just listen to Radio 4's Farming Today!
I bagsy 'Pig Unit' and 'BSE Explosion', coming to an edition of NME near you...
Not sure of a name?
Just listen to Radio 4's Farming Today!
I bagsy 'Pig Unit' and 'BSE Explosion', coming to an edition of NME near you...
I have a reputation for breaking things, but the power to make railways disappear just by hovering my mouse cursor over them is a new power that I'm not sure I deserve. 😂
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I have a reputation for breaking things, but the power to make railways disappear just by hovering my mouse cursor over them is a new power that I'm not sure I deserve. 😂
She's kicked the Bouquet.
😔
😔
Keeping Up Appearances star Dame Patricia Routledge has died
Keeping Up Appearances star Dame Patricia Routledge has died
Actress Dame Patricia Routledge, best known for TV show Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 96, her agent has said.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
She's kicked the Bouquet.
😔
😔
Otherwise known as me after a cooked breakfast...
October 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Otherwise known as me after a cooked breakfast...
I have no argument with this.
Maybe growing up within easy (and frequently-utilised) reach of Stevenage has some bearing on this, but I do love me a New Town.
People sneer at them now, but so readily forget the unbearable Dickensian conditions they replaced in the lives of their early inhabitants.
Maybe growing up within easy (and frequently-utilised) reach of Stevenage has some bearing on this, but I do love me a New Town.
People sneer at them now, but so readily forget the unbearable Dickensian conditions they replaced in the lives of their early inhabitants.
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I have no argument with this.
Maybe growing up within easy (and frequently-utilised) reach of Stevenage has some bearing on this, but I do love me a New Town.
People sneer at them now, but so readily forget the unbearable Dickensian conditions they replaced in the lives of their early inhabitants.
Maybe growing up within easy (and frequently-utilised) reach of Stevenage has some bearing on this, but I do love me a New Town.
People sneer at them now, but so readily forget the unbearable Dickensian conditions they replaced in the lives of their early inhabitants.
SPREAD CREAM NOT CHEESE DISEASE!
October 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
SPREAD CREAM NOT CHEESE DISEASE!
Coo.
21:00 finish at work, time for a pint then down to Birmingham International for the 22:42 @caledoniansleeper.bsky.social to Fort William. Breakfast passing Corrour and, finally, sat on Mallaig harbourside by lunchtime. 🏴 🐟 🍟 🥃
Yup, I like the sound of that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
21:00 finish at work, time for a pint then down to Birmingham International for the 22:42 @caledoniansleeper.bsky.social to Fort William. Breakfast passing Corrour and, finally, sat on Mallaig harbourside by lunchtime. 🏴 🐟 🍟 🥃
Yup, I like the sound of that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Caledonian Sleeper train to link Scotland with Birmingham
The new service will start in January linking Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William to the West Midlands.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Coo.
21:00 finish at work, time for a pint then down to Birmingham International for the 22:42 @caledoniansleeper.bsky.social to Fort William. Breakfast passing Corrour and, finally, sat on Mallaig harbourside by lunchtime. 🏴 🐟 🍟 🥃
Yup, I like the sound of that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
21:00 finish at work, time for a pint then down to Birmingham International for the 22:42 @caledoniansleeper.bsky.social to Fort William. Breakfast passing Corrour and, finally, sat on Mallaig harbourside by lunchtime. 🏴 🐟 🍟 🥃
Yup, I like the sound of that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Really, really not feeling life tonight. 😐
Time for some good '90s playlist and, hopefully, a decent sleep.
🎶 But we're traaaash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just traaaaash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do 🎵
Have a train.
Time for some good '90s playlist and, hopefully, a decent sleep.
🎶 But we're traaaash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just traaaaash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do 🎵
Have a train.
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Really, really not feeling life tonight. 😐
Time for some good '90s playlist and, hopefully, a decent sleep.
🎶 But we're traaaash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just traaaaash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do 🎵
Have a train.
Time for some good '90s playlist and, hopefully, a decent sleep.
🎶 But we're traaaash, you and me
We're the litter on the breeze
We're the lovers on the streets
Just traaaaash, me and you
It's in everything we do
It's in everything we do 🎵
Have a train.
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The bees have discovered Brutalism
Happy birthday to my favourite method of transport, the means of earning my salary and my unwavering lifelong passion.
Have a train.
Have a train.
September 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Happy birthday to my favourite method of transport, the means of earning my salary and my unwavering lifelong passion.
Have a train.
Have a train.
This is the sort of 'Breaking News' I can thoroughly get on board with. 😀
September 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is the sort of 'Breaking News' I can thoroughly get on board with. 😀
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Fucks hake.
September 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Fucks hake.
Reposted by Capt. Osbert Twinge Bt. KCB.
🎶 When your eel gets all wack
On a Thames full of gak
That’s a moray 🎶
On a Thames full of gak
That’s a moray 🎶
September 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎶 When your eel gets all wack
On a Thames full of gak
That’s a moray 🎶
On a Thames full of gak
That’s a moray 🎶
Back in the UK, and I felt it'd be unseemly not to partake of @lner.co.uk's new menu.
Take it from me - the steak bavette is *gorgeous*. 😀
If you get a chance to enjoy 'steaks on a train', do!
Take it from me - the steak bavette is *gorgeous*. 😀
If you get a chance to enjoy 'steaks on a train', do!
September 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Back in the UK, and I felt it'd be unseemly not to partake of @lner.co.uk's new menu.
Take it from me - the steak bavette is *gorgeous*. 😀
If you get a chance to enjoy 'steaks on a train', do!
Take it from me - the steak bavette is *gorgeous*. 😀
If you get a chance to enjoy 'steaks on a train', do!