It's still dark when #Sounder Train 1502 rushes to the platform at Seattle's King Street Station with cab car 304 leading. This Sounder is inbound from Lakewood, Washington with morning commuters. Once this train is emptied, it will quickly return south to Tacoma as Sounder 1503. Meanwhile, #Amtrak Cascades 505 is readied for its run to Eugene, Oregon. #TrainTuesday#Railfan#Railway#Train
So we made it to Montpellier. The #train journey couldn’t have been smoother or faster. It was lovely to see the landscape change as we sped down through France - pasture and woodland giving way to lavender fields and vineyards, with a backdrop of the snow-topped alps.
Once here we had a lovely meal in the old town while swifts screamed overhead. Will do a spot of sightseeing tomorrow before we head on to Carcassonne for the main part of our trip.
International trains )&^#$%^&(!!
(or should we say: room for improvement)
Daughter travels to Bilbao for surfing holiday. Friend takes plane, daughter takes train. @Eurostar to Paris: Surfboard, no problem. @TGVINOUI Paris-Biarritz: Surfboard?! Illegal! That'll be €150 fine.
Also TGVINOUI: Bicycle? Yeah, we have a separate section for that. Ticket is €10.
Airline: Surfboard? Sure, that'll be €50.
Les parlementaires ulcérés par le débarquement de Jean-Pierre Farandou avant son audition au Sénat: "C'est un mépris absolu du Parlement", tempête un député, pourtant de la majorité. L''exécutif reste bien silencieux sur les raisons de cette annonce choc. Et pour cause: "Il voulait financer la rénovation du réseau, il était dans le dialogue social. Bref, il a vraiment fait le job et pas seulement de la com'". Insupportable pour Macron.
Le PDG de la SNCF Jean-Pierre Farandou va rester à quai. Le gouvernement annonce son remplacement après les JO. Farandou serait bien resté à son poste, or l'exécutif explique son départ par son âge. Mauvaise excuse, Macron multiplie les décrets pour prolonger ces fidèles. "Bruno Le Maire le neutralise juste avant l'AG de la SNCF et il paye sa gestion des retraites", grince un bon connaisseur du dossier.
I'd posted bridge photos from our family rail trail the other day, but just ran across a photo explaining its history. Wright’s covered railroad bridge from 1906 is the last that used the double-web lattice trusses. Some nice photos included a stereograph of the Newbury cut. #train#bridge#NH#history
New at my Patreon... I jumped aboard heritage train RM 2036, to join a rail excursion from Longreach to historic Ilfracombe. The highlight? Its unforgettable pub:
Good morning! I'm somewhere north of Brisbane on the Spirit of the Outback, not far to go till we reach the big city. Has been a great journey back from Longreach.
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Today's historic #photo of the day: Diesel loco X38 hauls carriage set N3 on a Melbourne-bound broad gauge VLine passenger #train near Parwan, Vic, February 1986.
Parwan is 47km west of Melbourne on the broad gauge direct line from Melbourne to Ballarat. In 1986 when this photo was taken, this was the main line between Melbourne and Adelaide, so in addition to local VLine trains, it carried heavy interstate goods trains between Melbourne and Adelaide as well as The Overland passenger train.
Looks like Sydney Trains is going to drop the jargon from its PA announcements.
From the SMH:
"Commuters will soon be told to “get off” the train, rather than “alight”, after Sydney Trains resolved to overhaul its station announcements to favour colloquial language.
"The phrase “this train terminates here” is also being retired, due to concerns the word “terminates” is difficult to understand."
Back on the Spirit of the Outback, for the run back to Brisbane. This time I get to enjoy the journey without making notes - always a relief. It's rare to be doing something I'm not making notes about.
It's hard to depict this properly, but on this trip on the Spirit of the Outback I have a "twin sleeper" for my sole use. What they've done is remove the partitions between some single compartments to create "doubles" which couples can book. You each have a chair that folds down to a bed, thus sleeping foot-to-foot. :)
Here's a photo that might give you a rough idea of what it looks like - I'm sitting in one compartment and looking through to the other.
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