From sunset to sunset, the #RailFreight keeps rolling. GBRf’s 4L68 accelerates through Walthamstow Queens Road on the last leg towards London Gateway. #Freight #London

Paging @noeldolphin.bsky.social and @25kv.bsky.social on impact of this standard change?

Apparently some people are triggered by the idea that something they feel strongly about might have historical connections that are problematic. This film is insightful, interesting & above all factual. If you don’t like it, that’s a you problem. youtu.be/hY-y_41gl3Q?...

Railway's Shameful Secret Finally Exposed

YouTube video by Paul Whitewick

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And just like that, having ridden Class 455s all my life, this really is the last time in revenue earning service. End of an era & another childhood fleet of mine gone… #Class455 #NetworkSouthEast❤️💙🤍

West Midlands to Crewe line may be needed sooner than planned.

Rail minister admits new West Midlands to Crewe line may be ‘needed sooner’ than planned | New Civil Engineer

Phase 2a of HS2 was intended to build a new high-speed railway between Birmingham and Crewe that would have alleviated considerable capacity constraints

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Popped down to West Ealing for my first ride on the @gwr.com record breaking Class 230 #BatteryTrain The latest tech, meets tube train, meets 1992 Tube Stock as well as the Elizabeth Line & I bumped into the delightful @mrtimdunn.bsky.social 🚇 🔋 ⚡️

This is how #DCRail deliver up to 1500t of aggregate into their Chessington terminal multiple times a week. At the moment, using a pair of glorious Class 56s. It was a privilege to get & about and work on these for operational validation work with more to come. #RailFreight

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Likely my last ever ride on a loco-hauled Mk3 set, courtesy of @chilternrailways.bsky.social Prince’s Risborough peak buster. At least we’ll hear those CATs roar for a while yet. #TrainTravel #LocoHauled #BRMark3

The report says “could” and ignores factors like a reduction in hyper local car use due to the LTN and the fact that maybe people could do more journeys not by a car (67% of journeys in inner London are less than 2 miles).

Paul Lewis@paullewismoney.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods cause more pollution not less bit.ly/49iebJp analysis finds.

Well as we hurtle rapidly towards WWIII, at least I’ve got a nice view this morning thanks to SNCF/TER Normandie on this Alstom bi-mode unit from Rouen to Dieppe. The late winter sunrise highlighting last night’s dusting of snow. Magnifique 👌 🇫🇷 #TrainTravel

Israel approves plan for 126 settler homes in West Bank - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-approves-plan-126-settler-homes-west-bank

Israel approves plan for 126 settler homes in West Bank

<article data-history-node-id="433314" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-approves-plan-126-settler-homes-west-bank" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-approves-plan-126-settler-homes-west-bank" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel approves plan for 126 settler homes in West Bank</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli authorities&nbsp;approved the construction of 126 settler homes in the Sanur outpost in the northern West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005, local media reported.</p> <p>Israeli news media Channel 7 reported that&nbsp;the High Planning Council approved a detailed plan allowing illegal settlers to return to Sanur.</p> <p>The report said that the plan is expected to take effect within two months, enabling illegal settlers to return.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

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2025 started with this Highland Cow in Pollok Park on New Year’s Day and ends with this beach in northern France today on New Year’s Eve. It’s been a year of some massive highs & some latent lows #2025 First off #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 Now, my summary of highlights are: ⬇️

Having a fab day working Train 1 of SWR’s #Class455 Farewell Charter Another fleet from my #NetworkSouthEast❤️💙🤍 childhood coming to an end so a privilege to working it today

Controversy as I don’t hate the new proposed GBR brand and livery. I think it needs some tweaks (don’t think it works on the intermediate vehicles) but it’s not bad & will no doubt evolve over time and improve. Happy #GBRDay everyone… #GBR

Nothing like a bit of ‘Inspiration’ in the morning and little can inspire more than the legend of Karen Harrison. Puts me in the right frame of mind for the last day of my 4-day training course in good ol’ Swindon #Inspiration #KarenHarrison #Rail200 #GBRDay

When seeing “Danish-style”, we should be emulating their welfare system, paid parental leave, excellent bike lanes & well funded health+social care systems. We should NOT be copying their awful worsening immigration system. I would know. I was an immigrant living there…

LBC@lbc.co.uk · 9mo ago

'Shabana Mahmood is going to make life measurably harder for genuine refugees. Why?' James O'Brien asks who the Home Secretary is appealing to with tougher, Danish-style immigration controls.

Unrelatedly, I’m currently reading Last Call at Hotel Imperial, and I’ve just reached the point where Dorothy Thompson is kicked out of Nazi Germany for having written unflattering things about Hitler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US revokes six foreigners’ visas over social media comments criticizing Charlie Kirk

State department says it has ‘no obligation’ to host foreign nationals who ‘celebrate heinous’ death of far-right activist

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According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Just the start. Common sense.

From Christian Concern and Sex Matters to the LGB Alliance, UK anti-Trans+ groups share ideological and strategic links with US organisations like ADF and the Heritage Foundation What’s unfolding is a coordinated global effort to erode individual freedom, crush liberation, and control our bodies

Sam Levin@samtlevin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF. Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden@mikeachim.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...