Welcome to my Train Manager Twitter account! Just a bit about me. I joined LNER in lockdown 2020. I thoroughly enjoy my job. No two days are the same, which I love. Please come and say hello if you see me out and about. Any questions about LNER, ask away!
I absolutely adore having dogs on my train. I’d like to introduce you to Boris. Boris is on his way up north and he is a bit of a celeb. He is touring with the west end show of Annie. To date he is my favourite celeb to travel on my train 🥰🐶
#LNER
#dogsontrain
#Azuma
Sitting by the popes palace in Avignon enjoying a nice lunch.
Happy that there is spraying water in the umbrellas above to keep me cool.
Anyone else love just sitting there and people watching? 🇫🇷👀🍺
Work done for two weeks 🥳🥳🥳
Haircut done ✔️
New shirt bought for travelling tomorrow and modeled for you ✔️
Packed ❌
Printed off all train tickets ❌
Opened the Rose wine and already believing he is in the south of France ✔️✔️✔️
Now don’t you lot go breaking the rails 🙌🏻
Final day by the pool. Flight back to London tonight. Decided to be sensible and stay in the shade!
QOTD (part 2) Wander often, wonder always. ♥️
Have a great Thursday you wonderful lot 🙌🏻
Absolutely love a Saturday morning in bed with a cup of tea and listening to the birds in the garden ♥️
Anyone have any exciting plans for the weekend?
QOTD: Weekends are a time to reflect on the gains of the past while planning the wins of the future.
#nowork
#bedhead
Happy Saturday you lovely lot!
Final day of my annual leave. Off to pick up the nephew and his friend who are coming to stay with me for a few days.
Have a great weekend 🙌🏻
QOTD: Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Yes or no to the hat?
Final day in France before heading to Dubrovnik for a few days!
Any suggestions of things to do, places to eat, send them my way 🙌🏻♥️
Good afternoon 👋🏻
That’s another shift done. I’m trying not to burst into flames on this route master bus. How is it 30 degrees hotter on here 🔥🥵
Hope you are all well and staying hydrated?
QOTD: Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose
Good morning you lovely lot 👋🏻
Zooming along the ECML on a nifty 5 car Azuma to Lincoln.
How is everyone doing?
QOTD: You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Have the best day ♥️
#LNER
#AZUMA
Hope you all are having a great Monday?
Still managing to hold on to the holiday tan (JUST)
What would your dream job be? Or a job that you’d like to have had?
I always wanted to be a teacher🤓
What a week it’s been! I’m already tired for next week 😂😂
Excited to be heading to my happy place, Rye 🥳🏡
Any exciting plans for the weekend?
QOTD: The mind is everything. What you think, you become ♥️
Starting to finally relax into the holiday. I think I have eaten my body weight in cheese, bread and rosé wine 😂🍷🧀🥖
QOTD: I would rather own little and see the world than own the world and see little of it ♥️
Good morning you beautiful!
How are you all doing? How is your Monday looking?
QOTD: So. Monday. We meet again. We will never be friends — but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.
Have a wonderful day 🙌🏻♥️
#LNER
#Azuma
Absolutely knackered after that shift.
Is it wrong to go to bed at 5:49? Asking for a friend 😂
Also can we all just agree that tiredness should be listed as an official language?
Good morning ♥️
Got my coffee and waiting for my trainee, Mehmet. Don’t forget to say hello if you see us about ☺️
Heading to York and back on the
#intercity225
NL16
Have the best day and make every moment count 🙌🏻
#lner
Feeling a bit nervous as i have my partial rules today. I’ll be assessed on the Azuma and 225.
I hope you all get to enjoy this weather. Stay hydrated and don’t forget your suncream! 🌞
QOTD: There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow
I’ve had the most amazing and beautiful day. Celebrating my best friend getting married and being there as her best man. Absolutely loved it ♥️👰🏾💍
#bestfriendswedding
#kos
Can it really be spring 😍
Can I now go out without a coat or umbrella?
Or is this a cruel trick of nature? Only time will tell 🌹🌼🌱☀️
#wishingittobesummer
Good morning 👋🏻
How are we all doing?
I’m sure this is an easy one for you lot to guess - which station am I currently waiting at?
QOTD: Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
Have a great day and keep safe 🙌🏻♥️
I absolutely love my job but sometimes, just sometimes, I do wonder what it would be like to win big on the lottery. Especially on nice days like this 😂☀️
QOTD: When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Good morning X
I hope you all had a great BH weekend?
I will be taking a training session this morning. Anything exciting happening with you lovely lot?
QOTD: Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
#LNER
Happy to be back home and sat outside reading. Cannot believe it’s September ♥️
QOTD: September, a month of new beginnings and fresh starts, presents an opportunity to refocus our energy and set new goals. It serves as a reminder to embrace change and embark on new adventures.
One man and his pup enjoying the sunshine!
Hope you’re all having a wonderful bank holiday weekend??
QOTD: No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anyone but one’s self.
Life without coffee is like something without something…sorry, I haven’t drank my coffee yet.
Thankfully I’ve got my ‘get me through Monday’ juice.
Working 🛤️🚂
KGX - YRK- KGX
KGX - GRA - KGX
Don’t forget to say hello if you see me out and about 👋🏻
@LNER
@CostaCoffee
Days off + heatwave = sea swimming and chilling 😎 be safe and drink plenty of water if travelling or working. Phoebe (my pup) wants to also wish you all a great day 🥰😎🐶
Back home after a brilliant time in Greece 🇬🇷
Happy to reunited with Phoebe. She went absolutely crazy when I walked in!
I also kept my promise and brought the sun back with me ☀️🙌🏻
Have a great Sunday. Back to work for me tomorrow 🚂
Good morning 👋🏻
Loving my new lanyard ♥️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Zooming to Leeds on the mighty Azuma and back on the beast that is the MK4 💪🏻
Have a great day and stay safe!
QOTD: You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
#lner
#inclusive
Good morning you lovely lot!
I see you 👋🏻
On a spare shift today.
Question: what’s the most sensible thing you’ve heard someone say? Either directly to you or overheard?🤔
Good morning peeps!
On the 07:06 to York and back on the mighty
#Azuma
.
If you see me - 👋🏻 or say hello 😎
QOTD: In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.
#TrainManager
#LNER
Good morning 👋🏻
No trainee for the next week as she is on annual leave.
How is everyone doing?
QOTD: Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let’s all be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world ♥️
#LNER
Had the pleasure (and the doggy kisses) of having Bailey and her owner on my train. Bailey is an assist dog, but was off duty at this point, and with the permission of her owner I was allowed to say hello! What a beauty she is 🥰🐶
#LNER
#dogsontrains
#assistdog
Morning 👋🏻 🥱
Even on my day off I’m still using some form of transport. Today im off to the airport to pick my sister up. I’m excited to have her come and visit. ♥️
QOTD: They say that no matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.
Last shift before Christmas 🎅🏼🎁
Cruising up the ECML to NCL and back!
How is everyone doing?
QOTD: May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.
#LNER
#azuma
#Christmas2023
What a difference a day makes! Yesterday heavy rain and wind. Today blue skies and sunshine! Have a great day people!
QOTD: You know, you can start over each morning ♥️
#bankholidayweekend
Afternoon peeps 👋🏻
Feels weird working this late. Yet here I am working the 1600 to Aberdeen. ♥️🚂
QOTD: You will be let down by people you trusted. Forgiveness is very good but in the process don’t lose your self-respect and never let anyone take you for granted 🙌🏻
Day off = house chores.
House chores done = happy James (would be happier with hiring a cleaner)
Also happy because my friend is coming to stay 🥳🥳🥳
Have a good Thursday peeps!
QOTD: My housekeeping style is best described as “there appears to have been a struggle.”
Morning 👋🏻
Late to the party today. I’m lucky to be working NL13 Intercity 225 to York and back.
Today is
#NationalGoFishingDay
- can’t say I’m an expert but I have tried ice fishing in Finland, which was a brilliant! Any exciting tales of fishing?
#LNER
#intercity225
And that’s me signing off from work for a week. Heading off to be best man for the wedding of my best friend, Lex 👰🏾♥️💍
Stay safe. Be kind. And enjoy your BH weekend 🙌🏻
QOTD: You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Made it through security and now waiting for our
@Eurostar
train.
I need coffee. Lots of coffee.
At least one of us can sleep! 😂😇
QOTD: Work fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. ♥️
Just arrived at
#villaorabelle
and feeling knackered after a 3am start. But this view and hotel have given me a second wind.
Thank you to everyone who recommended things to do and places to eat. ♥️🇭🇷
Happy Monday morning to y’all
I’m tired but chirpy. Heading to York and back today :)
QOTD: If you know anything about me, you know that my life’s taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!
#LNER
#AZUMA
Great morning walk along what used to be the old railway tracks in Langley Park, Durham. Also it’s not raining which makes a change 🌞
Phoebe and Isla were joined by their doggy cousin, Tilly 🐶🐶
QOTD: Walking is a persons best medicine ♥️
If I was ever to change career I think I’d have to take on Gordon Ramsey in Hell’s Kitchen! Got the mean and moody pose and whites down to a tee.. right? 😂😂😂
What would you be doing/like to do if you weren’t in the role you are in? 🤔
That’s fine Eleanor! You just relax whilst some of us work 😂
Good morning all. Working the
#Intercity225
to York.
QOTD:1 Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
# LNER
Happy Sunday peeps!
Zooming to Leeds on a 5 car Azuma! Taking
@LUFC
fans to watch their game against Preston! Good luck against Preston 🙌🏻
QOTD: There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
G’day you lovely lot!
Cruising along the ECML On
#intercity225
NL16 from KGX -YRK
Have a wonderful day and stay safe!
Say hello if you see me along the way 😊
QOTD: Be brave to stand for what you believe in, even if you stand alone ♥️
Good morning you lovely lot!
Heading to York and back on the
#Intercity225
NL26 with my new starter who is doing amazing!
Be safe!
QOTD: It’s a toxic desire to try to be perfect. You realise later in life that the challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.
#LNER
Good morning 👋🏻
I struggled to get up today but here I am ready to zoom up the ECML on the 05:55 service to Leeds 🚂
QOTD: There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for 🙌🏻
#LNER
#azuma
#saturday
Can anyone guess where
@TM_James_
is today? 🤔
I’m coming to meet my new mentor which I’m very excited about it!
QOTD: Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
Great walk down at Rye Nature reserve.
If you haven’t been you should.
The machine gun pillbox used in the Second World War are still tact and are a stark reminder of the past.
QOTD: War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Happy
#internationaldogday
I could not let it pass without celebrating my beautiful pup, Phoebe.
She has been by my side for 10 years now. She is the most loving, kind and caring dog.
I’d be absolutely lost without her and my life is enriched by having her in it 🐶🐾♥️
Happy Easter y’all 🐣
If you are travelling onboard our services today, you may be in for a little treat!
I promise I didn’t eat these eggs! And the children LOVED them ♥️
Have a great and safe Easter! 🐰
QOTD: Easter is the soul’s first taste of spring.
#LNER
#Easter
Well that’s the swim done. I’m not
Going to lie. It was bloody freezing 🥶
The feeling when you get out is incredible👊🏻🌊
QOTD: I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.
Good morning you lovely lot 👋🏻
It’s a bit of a miserable Sunday isn’t it? Anyone got any exciting plans?
Have a great day ♥️
QOTD: What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
#LNER
Good morning!
Anyone else suffer with hay fever? Tablets don’t seem to make any difference? Any hints or tips?
Heading into work for a SBY shift today. However have a suspicion that I will be given a job, taking you wonderful lot away to enjoy the bank holiday/half term ☺️
What’s all this balloon malarkey. Look like I’ve managed to steer myself to the ripe age of 22 years old (plus another 22 😂)
And have a day off to celebrate - go me!
QOTD: We turn not older with years but newer every day. ♥️🥳
#birthdayboy
I apologise to you all about getting excited and bragging about it being spring. Mother Nature gave me the 🖕and laughed in my face.
#notspring
#weatherforducks
Good morning 👋🏻
Standby shift from Kings Cross today.
How is everyone?
QOTD: Everyone has inside of them a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! 🙌🏻
“Hi would you do us a favour and swap to a later shift. It’s the 1600 to NCL and then back on 20:17 to KGX
Me: ‘yeah it will be nice to have a change and do a late shift’
Me now… NEVER AGAIN! 😂I need my bed already 😴
#earlybird
#notanightowl
#lner
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. Steve would not only take the bus with me. He’d bloody well get me a kebab to eat on the bus too (even tho I’m on a diet 😂)
#bestfriends
Good morning 👋🏻
It’s a double Lincoln kinda day today.
Pleased to see the weather has got a bit more mild. Is this a sign that spring is on its way 🌼🌷
QOTD: Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
#LNER
#Azuma
Good evening you lovely lot!
Quite liked the moody B&W filter! How was everyone’s weekend? Zooming back to KGX from NCL on the 19:03
QOTD: A champion is someone who gets up when they can’t.