I swore I wasn’t going to mention politics and campaigning today as I couldn’t imagine things could only get worse for Sunak. However, his campaign and PR team said ‘hold my sinking ship’. Not content with the parody of a piss-up in a brewery, they decided to go the full monty and add a Titanic metaphor with an utter debacle of a visit to Northern Ireland and the very shipyard where said sunken liner was built. Not only that – his campaign team managed to alienate the local media – as you can read here.

That aside, my day’s been good. I’ve been involved in one of the final events of community rail week which involved taking a group of teenage school students to visit Northern’s traincare depot at Newton Heath in Manchester. It was a busy but rewarding day that I’ll blog about at greater length another time. For now – here’s a couple of pictures..