She/They | Gay but also Scottish. Thinks about transport a bit too much. Has visited every National Rail station in Clackmannanshire. | Pfp 📸
@Coastway_Will
people complain about queer people making it their whole identity but apparently i can't tweet about something completely unrelated without a stranger bringing up the fact i'm trans so you really can't win
The Tories recklessly mismanaged HS2 and allowed the costs to spiral out of control.
This report lays bare the sheer scale of Conservative incompetence.
We won’t make the same mistakes. We’re assessing the books and will set out next steps in due course.
nothing says "this country takes railways seriously" more than regularly running electric trains on an electrified line using diesel engines because the feeder stations don't supply enough energy
Ok so due to LNER's new fare "simplification", from February the walk up fare from King's Cross to Waverley will be £127.95, or you could buy a ticket for King's Cross to Haymarket for only £57.40. Make it make sense 🤷♀️
Today's exclusive fun takes myself and
@PacerClara
to somewhere that many people used to go, but nowadays, very few tread
Welcome to King's Cross Thameslink! 😁
All the photos on this tour were taken with permission and all strictly supervised by
@13milepost
🦺
The costs of congestion and pollution in Edinburgh are significant. A workplace parking levy could help reduce traffic in the city while improving alternative modes of transport. Share your views in our survey, it closes today!
if you're ever struggling to find room on the Caledonian Sleeper it may be because their silly rule to not accept railcards for shared rooms sometimes makes it cheaper for both passengers to travel in their own separate rooms 🤦♀️
Please be aware, our ticket vending machines are unable to accept new King Charles bank notes. If you wish to use them as payment, please use them at the ticket office.
hello to the approximately 5 trillion people who have found my account over the past few days i hope you like public transport because that's basically all i post about
Customer numbers have more than 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 since opening to Newhaven last year!
🚊9.3m customer journeys were recorded in 2023, compared to 4.8m in 2022.
🚊August was our busiest month when 1.2m trips were recorded.
Read more here ➡️
The ORR has approved Grand Union’s application to run four return daily services between London Euston and Stirling from June 2025, the first for an open access operator on the WCML. Services will be operated by Class 221 or 222 DMUs. 📷 ORR
This iconic ‘Clockwork Orange’ Glasgow subway car 128 was moved the short distance from the Govan Subway depot to its new home at the Riverside Museum yesterday 🙌
You can see Car 128 on display at the museum now 🚆Find out more and plan a visit:
worth remembering that Edinburgh Trams is directly responsible for the infrastructure they use, Lothian Buses isn't, before Edinburgh Trams were made responsible for the infrastructure they actually turned a profit (of course, public transport shouldn't need to be profitable)
"TfL has ordered 10 new class 345s"
me waiting for Transport Scotland to announce the new suburban fleet they said they were launching a tender for two years ago:
congrats to the multiple people who refused to actually read the tweet and are blaming this on the closure of coal power plants for some reason (which Scotland hasn't had since 2016)
once again, Edinburgh's inability to prepare its transport network for the massive festival that happens every year means that buses are full and standing at nearly 10pm
First Class 90s for scrap:
@DBCargoUK
has sold eight long-stored Class 90s at Crewe to local scrap merchants Sandbach Commercial Dismantlers. 90030 and 90033 have already made the one way journey and 90038 was the third to follow this afternoon. 📷 Cliff Beeton
We're pleased to confirm that CAF will deliver 10 new tri-mode trains for LNER.
The trains will be able to operate in electric, battery or diesel mode and will complement our current
#Azuma
fleet of 65 trains.
For more information:
What's more important: retaining the setting of a Grade II* listed viaduct, or doubling the capacity of one of our most important railways? Answers please!
@NQRW
also if you're doing a 4hr journey on a dedicated high speed line then you can presumably have a more frequent service and higher reliability than the ECML (which is honestly laughable at times) which will inevitably attract more people to the rail option
Customers tell us they find train fares confusing and we want to get more people travelling by train so we’ve launched a pioneering pilot to further simplify
@LNER
’s fares between Edinburgh, Newcastle and Berwick to/from London
In just 4 days, Lyon (France) built a tunnel under a highway used by 150k vehicles a day as part of the new tram line T9 project.
And they’re about to do it again in August for the new tram line T10 project!
Both lines started construction in January and are set to open in 2026
Today is the last day of our public exhibition for for the preferred route option for the
#A9Dualling
Pass of Birnam to Tay Crossing scheme:
🔹 10am to 6pm Birnam Arts Centre
🔹 Online exhibition and Story Map also available
Leave your feedback ➡️
#A9
so McGill's are going crazy over getting shortlisted for some National Transport Awards saying it proves we don't need publicly controlled buses but i've looked at the shortlists and i'm inclined to just ignore anything they say, what on earth is this lol
of note, the TTPD tram now has white stripes next to the doors, even more interestingly the same was done to the Britannia trams which would imply there were non-RVAR (or the tram equivalent) compliant trams running in revenue service for the best part of a year
the taylor swift tram is very cool and good but i can't help noticing that the black doors+black wrap combo is probably not compliant with accessibility regulations
Hundreds of
#HarryPotter
fans are waiting at Kings Cross station in London for the annual Back to Hogwarts Day. The Hogwarts Express to Hogsmeade is currently showing on the departures board.
@jeremyzorek
One is a headlight, and actually lets the driver see ahead, while the others are just marker lights. The side on which the headlight is varies based on whether it's day or night