{"id":7483,"date":"2022-10-23T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/i-find-myself-choked-up-with-the-emotions-tiktoks-trainspotter-sensation-francis-bourgeois\/"},"modified":"2022-10-23T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:38:12","slug":"i-find-myself-choked-up-with-the-emotions-tiktoks-trainspotter-sensation-francis-bourgeois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/i-find-myself-choked-up-with-the-emotions-tiktoks-trainspotter-sensation-francis-bourgeois\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I find myself choked up with the emotions\u2019: TikTok\u2019s trainspotter sensation Francis Bourgeois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrity and trainspotter are not words you see together very often. But Francis Bourgeois\u2019 unique style and infectious enthusiasm is proving to be a \u2018hellfire\u2019 hit<\/p>\n

How fast can you run?\u201d Francis Bourgeois asks, not waiting for an answer. It\u2019s 9am and we\u2019re barely done with bleary-eyed introductions on platform 5 at Willesden Junction in London. Now the 22-year-old is legging it towards the exit, weaving through the throngs of Thursday- morning commuters. He\u2019s into the ticket hall, through the barriers, down the street and up a grotty roadside staircase. In the centre of a footbridge, he comes to a halt. Bourgeois catches his breath and breaks into a smile \u2013 proper ear-to-ear grin \u2013 as he looks over the crisscrossing railway tracks sprawling towards the city ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night I did a lot of planning,\u201d he says, \u201ctrying to find this morning\u2019s best London train action. And passing through Willesden now are your standard passenger trains, and aggregate and intermodal freight services, but also\u2026\u201d he cuts himself off, hearing something in the distance. \u201cThere it is,\u201d he says, as a train appears on the horizon right on cue. \u201cIt\u2019s the British Pullman,\u201d he informs me, \u201cone of the most luxurious trains in the UK today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nCelebrity and trainspotter are not words you see together very often. But Francis Bourgeois\u2019 unique style and infectious enthusiasm is proving to be a \u2018hellfire\u2019 hit
\nHow fast can you run?\u201d Francis Bourgeois asks, not waiting for an answer. It\u2019s 9am and we\u2019re barely done with bleary-eyed introductions on platform 5 at Willesden Junction in London. Now the 22-year-old is legging it towards the exit, weaving through the throngs of Thursday- morning commuters. He\u2019s into the ticket hall, through the barriers, down the street and up a grotty roadside staircase. In the centre of a footbridge, he comes to a halt. Bourgeois catches his breath and breaks into a smile \u2013 proper ear-to-ear grin \u2013 as he looks over the crisscrossing railway tracks sprawling towards the city ahead.
\n\u201cLast night I did a lot of planning,\u201d he says, \u201ctrying to find this morning\u2019s best London train action. And passing through Willesden now are your standard passenger trains, and aggregate and intermodal freight services, but also\u2026\u201d he cuts himself off, hearing something in the distance. \u201cThere it is,\u201d he says, as a train appears on the horizon right on cue. \u201cIt\u2019s the British Pullman,\u201d he informs me, \u201cone of the most luxurious trains in the UK today.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrity and trainspotter are not words you see together very often. But Francis Bourgeois\u2019 unique style and infectious enthusiasm is proving to be a \u2018hellfire\u2019 hit How fast can you run?\u201d Francis Bourgeois asks, not waiting for an answer. It\u2019s 9am and we\u2019re barely done with bleary-eyed introductions on platform 5 at Willesden Junction in …<\/p>\n

\u2018I find myself choked up with the emotions\u2019: TikTok\u2019s trainspotter sensation Francis Bourgeois<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}