Travelling Stockholm - Hamburg - Cologne - Brussels for a two-day conference about public metal detecting. It'll take 24 hours, one third of which I'll spend asleep. It's the 2024 way to #travel.
Reservoir builders in South Wales used an astonishing array of railways, gauges and engines!
This is a book for the devotee of industrial locos and the systems which they worked
It includes huge variety of machines - in an industry beset with problems!
See our latest review online (text/audio): ‘Reservoir Builders of South Wales’ by Harold D. Bowtell & Geoffrey Hill from The Industrial Locomotive Society
trying to buy #DeutschlandTicket from abroad - until Feb I used to do it via deutschlandticket.de (Transdev) but they switched from SEPA only to credit card only and the billing address can only be D, A, CH - while my card is a UK one. DB navigator app has SEPA with scary looking identity checks that don't work with my (German) online banking. VRR app doesn't like my device. Any suggestions? @seatsixtyone#travel#germany#railways
A map of the Alexandra Dock (Newport) railway as it was in 1919.
The restricted nature of the 1835 Newport Town Dock led to the development of plans for an additional dock (Alexandra Dock) built on a much larger scale incorporated by an Act of 6 July 1865.
During construction of the dock itself, bulk landfill materials were stored near Ty Trist Colliery in Tredegar, in sidings just off the LNWR line.
Is Avanti West Coast the next failing (under-performing) rail franchise to be taken into state hands to resolve the wide-spread problems with its service?
Certainly across the North there are wide spread calls for state action, not least as it appears Avanti lied about improving services ahead of its contract renewal.
Given rail is a key element in any green transition the continuing failure to deliver a reliable & affordable service is a major green issue!
A knock on effect of the chaotic management of the railways in the last decade(s) has been its impact on the manufacture of rolling stock.
While always cyclical, in the current economic environment, firms are less willing to weather periods of low demand & as a result both major manufacturers (Alstom & Hitachi) are now about to lay off staff and are warning about a permanent loss of domestic rolling stock production capacity.
Another aspect of UK's enduring infrastructure 'problem'
"Actually, the business case of the #Nighttrain doesn’t quite addup," explains #IDE alumnus Annabelle Out. That’s why Annabelle designed a carriage interior for both day and night trains as part of her graduation project for the #Engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV.