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@Lenno1995

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29, Train Driver, Very proud dad to the most amazing little boy! views my own. All Photos taken safely. Also dabble in photography. ASLEF Health and Safety Rep

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@Lenno1995
Dylan Leonard
7 months
8 years today since day 1 of driving training. Since then 2 Depots, 3 tractions and many many miles of routes.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
The big man was a huge lover of @SunderlandAFC . And when he got his hands on the nameplate from 43274, was like a kid in a sweet shop. A fitting photo ❤️ @redleaderwright
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Dylan Leonard
11 months
I’ve found a solution to the overhead wire issues. Replace everything with one of these 👇🏽. You’re welcome
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Today will go down as the worst day of my Career. Being at work and finding out a true true friend has left us is absolutely gut wrenching. We spoke everyday. You guided me through the darkest times of my life. You were more than a friend. Love you mate. Sleep easy 💔💔
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3 years
The lads pulled it out the bag (eventually) and sealed the 3 points. @redleaderwright would have had a field day giving his reaction to that match. No doubt watching from above with a pint in his hand cursing the worlds most frustrating team! Haway the lads. #wrightysmackems
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3 years
First day of Middlesbrough services tomorrow. I’ll be at the helm of 1N23, the first arrival from London into Middlesbrough (Ideally with a KSJ…. 👀).
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
Don’t think I used the horn enough 🤔😂
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Gary
2 years
Ha Ha this going to take some beating from @LNER driver @Lenno1995 passing #WeeArchie today at Grantshouse, the smile says it all,brilliant thanks. 👍👍👍
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3 years
Last one off the Waverley tonight. 1E30, the 2100 departure.
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3 years
To the smoke we go! Nice sunset to start the shift
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3 years
A tradition that is sadly becoming too frequent, and until today, unimaginable in these circumstances. Raising a dram to the big man in the sky. This ones for you @redleaderwright ❤️
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Route card updated. License updated. Durham coast line, Wilton and Middlesbrough now officially signed. Next up Edinburgh (again 😂).
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3 years
Little bit of history whilst sat waiting for the train ahead to scarper off. The final time LNER will be signalled by Middlesbrough Signal Box, before control of this and Whitehouse shifts to the York ROC from Monday.
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
Whilst running ahead of schedule as 5Z93, it gave a rare chance to grab a snap at Wylam.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
And there we have it. The first arrival of a scheduled passenger service into Middlesbrough from London, for a considerable amount of time. 1N23 delivered on time, and 5N23 handed over to the depot staff to prep for it’s morning boro mission tomorrow. A pleasure to be in the seat
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
It might not be Aberdeen. But we got you into Scotland. Safe onward journey to all from 1W24.
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3 years
First drive north for a few years. Relearning the route.
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11 months
A rather snowy Heaton earlier this morning.
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
Assessment complete. Tyne Valley Line to Carlisle added to the card.✅
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Route assessment complete. After a few years since I last signed it, I now resign the ECML North to Edinburgh 😁
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3 years
Break time in the industrial heartland of Teesside
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
A touch of absolute class ❤️. @AvantiWestCoast
@OwlGbamh1972
BR Owl
3 years
@LNER @redleaderwright Sorry to hear of this terrible news. RIP Brother.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Nice trundle round the coast on the chieftain.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Being a pallbearer for @redleaderwright with live with me forever. Me and your boy are drinking to you big man. We love you ❤️❤️
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Dylan Leonard
9 months
Challenge accepted. 👇🏽👇🏽
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Amtrak
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name a more iconic couple
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3 years
Durham coast diversions are upon us again. 3 weekends of meandering round the DCL ahead. Been a while since I’ve seen it in the daylight…
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Great to finally be back in the hotseat after a lengthy spell on the sidelines. Wee jaunt to Edinburgh and back to ease back into it. 😁
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
Another jaunt across the Tyne valley complete. Best weather of the week!
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2 years
1E31 ready for the off
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Dylan Leonard
10 months
Santas blown it. No spare coverage either
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Another day done. Poor run on 1E21, but you can’t complain when you have the best scenery on the east coast to look at.
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3 years
1E20 ready for the off from platform 5.
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
2 trips across the Tyne valley to Carlisle today.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Last drive of 2021 done. 1S26 YRK-NCL. See you all in 2022 👍🏼
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6 months
Ahhh the good old British rail network. Can’t beat a nice smooth journey… 😂
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
What an absolutely stunning mornings drive to Edinburgh with 1S04. Have missed having this on my route card 😍
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
Last one of the shift.
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2 years
A full and standing 1S30 awaits
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Welllll. Today didn’t quite go according to plan. But several hundred happy(ish) people returned (late) to NCL on S28.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
The first of 3 overtime shifts this week at Heaton. Our new resident 800/2 the first set ready for the start of service.
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Dylan Leonard
7 months
No sign of the northern lights unfortunately at Heaton earlier. Just the usual darkness, gloominess and the odd train.
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3 years
5N21 ready to go to Heaton ex Edinburgh
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Looking back over old photos whilst waiting for the go ahead to resume work. Think it’s fair to say, the office has changed slightly over the years. 1 in particular was my absolute favourite to drive.
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3 years
1E21 ready for the off from Platform 2. A very picturesque platform 2!
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3 years
1E12 ready for the off. First stop Newcastle. 🚀
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3 years
1S32 ready to roll.
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3 years
Another visit to Wilton on the empties from Boro. Always an atmospheric scene. A lot of industrial history around this area.
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
Next route to add to the card, the Tyne Valley line. Day 1 of learning it.
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Dylan Leonard
10 months
This will always be my favourite place to have worked in my career, and it was an absolute privilege to drive HSTs, a boyhood dream. But, as the 2nd image shows, their cab construction is unfortunately not safe by modern standards. Fibreglass has no place nowadays.
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
393 Mile journey complete for 1S15. Another 393 journey awaits as 1E24.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
1E18/1N32 to kick off 2022
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
1700 flyer. First stop York. 👍🏼
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
1N33 to Sunderland tonight
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Another day up in the Scottish capital.
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3 years
A somewhat busy last train to NCL
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3 years
Fog on the Tyne
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Dylan Leonard
1 year
Tried something new today. Low level flying photography! (Which is bloody difficult 😂)
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Nightshift done. Not a common sight to see a set on receptions at 0500. A tell tale sign of a night that hasn’t gone according to plan….
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
We will remember them. Always. #LestWeForget
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
N35 tonight. Been a while since I’ve worked this
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2 years
Glorious summers day in the Scottish capital.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Caught in the hotseat at Morpeth by @Thomas43299 recently. Thoroughly enjoyed being back over my old stomping ground over the last week. The Northern end of the ECML is by far the best bit of route we drive on! (Apart from Sunderland obviously)
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
1E23 back across the Tyne valley
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2 years
First time on the blocks at The Cross since January the 2nd. Still know the way💪🏼😂
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2 years
A very busy 1E14 from the Waverley today
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Memories reminding me it’s 5 years since my first ever solo driving turn as a Edinburgh based driver. 91122 doing the honours on 5E08/1E08! Fantastic memories and made some absolute friends for life up there. Always a jock driver at heart. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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2 years
1E99 ready for the off
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2 years
1E24 from the Waverley today 👌🏼
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Working the storm busting last train from Edinburgh tonight. This ought to be fun! 💨 💨
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
Carlisle’s again all week. 5Z93 waiting for the road off
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
1E20 ready to pound the iron.
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3 years
Awaiting 1N23 to Middlesbrough
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Dylan Leonard
10 months
@holdmch I was driving the train directly behind and we got held at Grantshouse. Had we not have got stopped, and I was the train who raised the alarm, like my colleague ahead did I would have deemed this unsafe. Post carmont we take no chances. Job stopper for definite.
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3 years
2x5 on 1E23. Been a while since I’ve came across a 10
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3 years
The limit of our Route Knowledge boundaries for the Teesside area (unless a 10 car. In which case. The next stop marker). The line continues along into Wilton EFW Terminal. Still very much active for freight workings.
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Dylan Leonard
6 months
Double Edinburgh ❌. Heaton then maybe possibly potentially Edinburgh ✅
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
801204 on 1S03/1E12 today. A nice winters morning 🥶🥶
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Dylan Leonard
6 months
There’s worse places to be stuck.
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
2 sets. Diesel to York. A merry go round circuit of the High Level bridge and a metro. Ended 1L into ‘the hole’. Not a bad effort.
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Dylan Leonard
5 months
Full house earlier on the receptions at Heaton. Busy Sunday night
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3 years
Periodic medical ✅. And the all clear to resume driving after a stint on the sidelines. 😁😁
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3 years
That’s exactly the sort of sticker you want to see! 1Y86 is a noisemaker today
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2 years
Another day on 1E24.
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2 years
Bit chilly up here the day! 🥶🥶🥶
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5 months
iPhone memories reminding me that 6 years ago today, I had a slightly different office to the one I arrived with into the smoke today. One of them if definitely the one I’d want…… 43306 back on the Loch Ness flyer, 11th June 2018. What a flying machine it was too!!
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3 years
Kings Cross. Exactly 2 years ago. During evening peak. The start of the madness that was Lockdowns
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3 years
Love seeing old photos. Clocked this on Facebook this morning. Approaching journeys end, passing WGC, after a high speed blast down the ECML with 43310 and 43367. Loved every minute of driving these. Boyhood dream achieved. (Credit to Alex Ayre for the photo)
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Dylan Leonard
7 months
Sunday morning Edinburgh jobs with decent layovers. Nice day for a walk!
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5 months
3Y08/1Y08 to kick start the day
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4 months
Happiest at work when North! Last leg of todays double trip Edinburgh and stumbled across the Acklington regulars! Always a pleasure to make (lots) of noise. Credit to the brilliant Greg Perks (North East Rail Scene group)
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3 years
Sunderland is a 2 train Job tonight. Set swap at Donny
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3 years
@1701aStarship @redleaderwright Trawling through the archives and recall him sending this a while back 😂😂. Think the pair of you were dishing out suitbable grief at the time 😂👍🏼
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2 years
1E14 ready for the off from the Scottish capital. @1701aStarship is actually working trains today too!! What a time to be alive
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1330 ready to rock and roll
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3 years
Todays fun. Daytime jolly round the DCL.
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Dylan Leonard
2 years
A strange atmosphere filled the air on tonight’s Middlesbrough shift. An atmosphere of grieving a national treasure. Everyone glued to their phones/laptops, holding out for positive news. Unfortunately, it didn’t pan out that way. RIP to our beloved queen 😢God save the queen❤️
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Dylan Leonard
3 years
Rolling into york to see @ashleysimpson89 handing you a brew and the key. Not a bad way to end a days driving round the coast. Top man. Cheers brother
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3 years
Well. That was an eventful trip north. All trains being prepped for another day on the iron road tomorrow.
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3 years
Small steps (literally). First time venturing out since major leg surgery. Need a beer now 😂
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Dylan Leonard
6 months
Today is another day where I withdraw my labour in this continuing fight against Tory incompetence and corruption. Solidarity to all striking colleagues today. We stand together. We stand firm. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
@AslefD4DO
Nigel Roebuck
6 months
Solidarity with our members in LNER, Northern, and TPE taking action today @ASLEFunion @ASLEF_Scotland 22months and still fighting
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7 months
This is where HSTs came in handy. Tactical windscreen wash. Face full of screen wash (and other assorted liquids). 🔔 🔚
@tinytrainspott1
tinytrainspotter
7 months
Don't understand the stupidity of some people.
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