#trainspotting

#trainspotting

Bourgeois, for those who have not had the absolute pleasure, is a 25-year-old engineering graduate who came to prominence on social media by making TikTok videos about his great passion: trains. The unforced joy on his face when a locomotive goes by (any locomotive, though his favourite classes are the 37 and 158 and his least favourite the 170), and his ease with his geekiness, quickly made him a star.

A dangerous footbridge in east London that had to be closed after someone fell through the floor onto the railway below has been replaced, three years after it closed. In August 2022, a pedestrian crossing the Kennedy Road footbridge near Barking station had to be taken to hospital with minor injuries after he fell onto the railway. The old footbridge was demolished shortly afterwards, but in doing so, it severed the only crossing over the railway in this part of town.