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The Trainspotter's Notebook: The unmissable book from TikTok's trainspotting sensation

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Most of it is spent on a siding, teaching Bea the correct way to encourage a passing train to toot at you (would-be train enthusiasts should note that there is an incorrect way of doing this, known as “tone-wanking”). When he started on TikTok, his gently eccentric performance made me wonder if this was a cleverly constructed comical portrail of a 'train spotter' minus the taped together health specs. He didn't want his videos to affect this process (which might have been either positively or negatively) or his subsequent career, so he posted under a pseudonym to try to avoid that. It happens in the end, but only after something much more momentous than you would expect from an 11-minute YouTube video. It felt amazing to be able to share my passion with my friends for my birthday, which was on the 9th July" – via Instagram.

It's nothing to do with 'jealousy', they just don't need or want a 'poster boy' making media appearances on their behalf. His book aims to “immerse readers in the sights and sounds of the railway” as he recounts his most memorable trainspotting adventures.In the book, Francis takes you along on his “most memorable trainspotting adventures” as he travels along the “fields and footbridges of the British countryside, passing through grandiose ticket halls, historic terminals and backwater stations. Despite there being "far less railway action," he says the nearby Whatley Quarry continued to pique his interest and evolve his passion for freight trains.

It's more important to be true to your passions than what anybody else thinks according to Francis and I agree strongly with this. Told in his inimitable style, these hilarious and heart-warming tales take you behind the scenes of his most popular videos, and celebrate the places and people of the railway. In the photographs and a promotional short film by Highsnobiety, [11] he plays the part of a train conductor travelling the Swiss Alps, which were superimposed. As he makes his way up a carriage looking for a seat, Bourgeois is peppered with dirty looks and muttered asides and, in one instance, a two-finger salute. Bourgeois is often characterised as recording himself through the fisheye lens of a GoPro mounted in front of his face [8] [9] [10] or by juxtaposing trainspotting with contemporary fashion.

I look down and pull up my sleeve- I've got goosebumps, making all the hairs on my arm stand on end. Pinty announces new mixtape 'Pinty's House' with singles 'Flex' and 'On My Own' Watch Francis Bourgeois cameo in the track's music video".

They're all younger than me though, but I instinctively knew about the thrash even if I didn't know the name.He developed an interest in trains during his early childhood, [10] noting his parents and grandparents became aware of his interest when he was "about three. The anticipation of a train coming by or finding the next spot to watch a loco coming along the tracks is a time of complete focus for me, disconnecting from the rush and busyness of life. The campaign served to promote DIRFT, the logistics aspect of supply chain management, and the sustainability benefits of rail freight.

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