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Lee Render

@leerender.co.uk

Publications Manager for the railway. My personal account and all views are my own and do not reflect the operators worked for. Also freelance info designer leerender.co.uk | leerender on twitter | leerender1980 on insta/threads

created June 20, 2023

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Night night

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❤️❤️

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Morning, morning … well believe it or not it’s Friday… that’s all

View up into some trees with the sunlight shining through turning some green leaves to a golden green
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Night night

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Walk 2 a small potter round strava.app.link/CaAT... 2/2

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Two for the price of one Strava Walk 1 West Ealing to Drayton Green strava.app.link/l5gl... 1/2

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Oppsy

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Ooooh…. Have a good one buddy and my you’re a knock - out there x

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An afternoon on the branch prepping it for next week due to a station closure affecting the operating of the service and a spot freight rolling along

South Greenford station sign Timetable poster cases at Castle Bar Park, with a Welcome Poster, Timetable Poster and Strike Poster Greenford Tube station roundel sign and network map Class 60 passing South Greenford station
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Oh she’ll be scrubbing up posh

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🤣🤣🤣 Happens to us all

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No such thing as greed when sex is abound

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They occasionally do but outside the centre yea can be rare

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Oh dear…

4/9/2025, 7:30:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Morning folks - well here’s some early morning sunshine before the clouds rolled over the Chiltern and the rains started to erm rain Thursday is here and on the traditional week, it’s near over … keep smiling early there

Sunrise over apartments and offices in Milton Keynes with the sky a warm glowing of orange and tinges of grey clouds
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Night night

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Polar opposites

3/9/2025, 11:02:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well it’s been another Wednesday and another night of being on stage at halfway playing the temporary Dolly Dealer.. keep an eye on Halfway’s Instagram www.instagram.com/on...

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Oh dear Historic funicular railway derails in Lisbon, with three dead

3/9/2025, 6:52:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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😳

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You’ve got it, flaunt it

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Tehehe

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Very nice and look at you bounce ❤️❤️

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Morning folks hump is here and a wet one it be with showers and downpours

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Right time for bed … night night

2/9/2025, 10:05:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah that because Long Buckby has gone down with a track defect

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☺️❤️

2/9/2025, 5:01:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yep and with both of you too

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Well that’s the cat out of the bag .. so to speak…

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Oooh

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A red hot ginger

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Nah

2/9/2025, 2:24:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Morning…morning, Here we go with another day which can either be filled of run and variety or maybe one that’s a rinse and repeat kind of monotonous day What every it be , have a good

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Night folks

1/9/2025, 10:49:36 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Think of it as a modern day 180 😂

1/9/2025, 8:26:10 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Nah not new for some 🤣 did it a decade ago when Stalybridge was out - and we only had 185s and 170s - similar principles used then and again now

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🥰

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Certainly seeing the change this morning on the Tube starter to be busier again

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Morning

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Morning folks it’s a back to full day week’s until the festive or if a/l is taken and also the kiddies are fully back to School too…hopefully Anyhow a what ever is planned have a good one

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Night might

30/8/2025, 12:01:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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…Then a little bit of more pictures continuing from Thursday night’s theme of testing and capture two stablemates together 2/2

Two IET trains at Milton Keynes Central - one Avanti West Coast and one GWR
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Quick catch up with friend after work earlier…strictly lemonade for me … 1/2

Picture of Miss Penny drag Queen on the stage at The City of Quebec, London Miss Penny aka Matt and Alex pulling faces at The Coty of Quebec
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A typical Madame ruling the roost then

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😳😳😳

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😂😂

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All the fun eh?

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Winning

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🤣🤣🤣

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Daww 🥰🥰

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Morning a bit of a wet one to start with it be ☔️ quite the difference.

A wet grey morning at Milton Keynes Central with rain falling making all the platform surfaces pool with water
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Night night

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❤️

28/8/2025, 11:33:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Silly last minutes dot com things at silly hours a GWR IET doing some late night testing … if it’s not the former 769 units it’s IETS / Turbos passing through

Information screen at Milton Keynes Central with the time of 2347 shown GWR IET 8021012 arriving at Milton Keynes Central
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… and that’s a bit better following a chop 2/2

Myself following a short back and side barbershop trim
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From feeling a bit dog-eared , rough round the edges, tiered and the traits of salt ‘n’ pepper hair….. 1/2

Picture of myself looking a big haggard and showing a good growth of salt and pepper hair
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Totally agree

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Wow

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Eh!!!!?

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V nice

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Where would you wish me to start?

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Morning folks - here we go with a bright start to the day, starting to feel a slight chill creeping in which is welcome

Sunrise over apartments and office in Central Milton Keynes
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Night night

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Quite a lot of those illuminated signs then spring and still around today

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I suspect late 80s maybe around the same time when some stations also received the zoning colours

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Taking pictures of Car Stop Markers and more or less putting together a rough document for stopping locations at an off route station wasn’t on the bingo card for the day - but necessary information collated and handed over

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Very real … and trust me you’ll be fine when it comes round x

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A cost tease you could say 😘

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We’d be shot down with that amount of slides

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Morning folks - well we seem to be at the hump of the week already 🤷

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Night night

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Caught in the spirit of the moment x

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❤️

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❤️

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😈❤️

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Always a downside to a good time as they say…mind think in the end what was the weekend given the silly shifts I did

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❤️❤️

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Sounds suspect …

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😂😂

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Great as always buddy

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Morning, morning After going from a very early on Saturday to a late on Sunday (just within hours from Saturday) - just a weird railway weekend occurred with that turn around, this yesterday was suitably taken slow with a movie in tow… Mind back to it the desk today…

Picture of the fountains in The Hub MK surrounded by apartments and eateries on a grey overcast morning
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Right after stupid o’clock alarm … time for zzz Night night

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Apt to finish the day with the Pride unit as Manchester Pride is in now full swing…

GWT IET 800008 Pride unit named Alan Turin in the station at Paddington
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Take it steady away and you’ll Be fine - slow and steady wins the day

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Looking great x

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Ahhh … the joy for 2hrs

The outside of Swindon Station with its less than appealing, down and out office block View for Office Costa Coffee
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Early morning in Paddington - the sleeper arrival dozes and trains arrive.

View of the Sleeper locomotive and IET train in the platforms at Paddington View across the station at Paddington with trains in the platforms
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Morning Well this is rude awaking for a Saturday morning…0355 alarm for 0505 train Mind in the not too distant past in this kind of timeframe, I’d be finishing a clean down in a pub & then be getting in to bed… Anyhow…

iPhone alarm clock setting with 0355 alarm active and several others inactive Train information screen showing the 0505 London Euston and its calling points
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Well that was a silly thing to do a a bit back, pick up the wrong set of keys and lock one self out - never mind all sorted out with a locksmith with the none-damaging way to open it and get back in. One of those things eh!?

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Tehehe

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👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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WTF

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Right…that sort of a productive catch up day done , in a way, time to head home and shop and then very little and bed given very silly o’clock alarm for the 0508 MKC-EUS to do an early PAD-RDG-SWI-RDG-PAD-RDG diagram with 2h30 ‘As Ordered’ in SWI

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❤️

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Morning folks well Friday has come through the door and has made itself at home. In other news last night’s planned power outage last until around 0200 when the power was restored and a smart bulb turned itself on Rudely

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Night night

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And bang on the dot - there went the power

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That they can - it ain’t happening , this ain’t The States

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Nope but always good to keep a good thick candle to hand

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Nah - just have to Have everything charged up

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