Proudly Sad, Happily Obsessed:
The Clothing Range

For Those Who Understand the Sacred Art of Locomotive Appreciation

We know who you are. You're the ones who can recite locomotive wheel arrangements like poetry. You've got seventeen notebooks filled with running numbers and departure times. Your idea of a perfect Saturday involves a flask of tea, a Platform 4, and the 10:47 to anywhere with the right traction.

And yes, you've absolutely bowed down before a Deltic. We've got photographic evidence.

This clothing range celebrates that beautiful, bewildering obsession that makes perfect sense to us and absolutely none to everyone else. "Proudly Sad, Happily Obsessed" isn't just a slogan—it's a lifestyle statement, a confession, and a battle cry all at once.

The Philosophy

Let's be honest: there's something magnificently absurd about the depth of emotion a railway enthusiast can feel towards 3,300 horsepower of Class 55 engineering excellence. That moment when you finally see the locomotive you've been chasing for months? That's not just happiness—that's transcendence. It's spiritual. It's the kind of joy that makes absolutely no sense to explain at dinner parties, which is precisely why we don't bother trying anymore.

We're proudly sad because we mourn every withdrawn class, every closed line, every scrapped locomotive that deserved better. We're happily obsessed because we've found something that ignites genuine passion in a world that often feels too cynical for wonder.

The Range

Available in t-shirts, hoodies, and polo shirts, this collection lets you wear your obsession with pride (and a healthy dose of self-awareness). Whether you're heading to a preservation railway, standing in the rain at Doncaster, or simply want the world to know that yes, you can identify a locomotive by its engine note alone, we've got you covered.

The design features the now-iconic image: a young enthusiast in full worship mode before 55007 Pinza at York—arms outstretched, head bowed, paying proper homage to 3,300 horsepower of Napier Deltic magnificence. It's reverence. It's devotion. It's exactly what non-enthusiasts will never understand, and frankly, that's their loss.

Who Is This For?

This is for the trainspotters who've made peace with the stereotype and decided to own it completely. It's for the preservation volunteers who give up their weekends to keep history moving. It's for the teenagers who get excited about traction variety. It's for anyone who's ever tried to explain to a bewildered partner why you need to leave right now because there's a Class 37 hauling a charter through Peterborough.

It's also the perfect gift for the railway enthusiast in your life—the one whose eyes light up at the mention of TOPS codes and who considers "boring train talk" an oxymoron.

Wear it with pride. Wear it with irony. Wear it with both.

Because being Proudly Sad and Happily Obsessed isn't just acceptable—it's the only honest way to live.