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Fortnightly magazine and website covering news and views from Britain’s railway. The brand behind the RAIL100 business breakfast club and #NationalRailAwards

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RAIL magazine

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We're pleased to announce the shortlist for the #NationailRailAwards ! 🏆 Congratulations to all the finalists! 👏 Wishing you the very best of luck on the night 🤞 Have you secured your place at this year's awards? There's still time to book! #rail

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RAIL magazine

3 years

That is utterly extraordinary. I've picked up 100 followers in 15 minutes after doing the LBC interview with @mrjamesob . I suspect none are railway folk but the audience so poorly served by the MSM on rail matters - ordinary decent folk who just want to be better informed?

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Wow. Just....wow.... What a picture.

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OMG. How good is this. ECS for ‘the’ farewell train. Looks absolutely beautiful.

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…..and once nature has done it’s thing it will be virtually invisible. Just like HS1 has been for years.

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Chris Blythe OBE

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#hs2 blighting the landscape

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Had to say goodbye to my 92 year old dad at the weekend. After a near 3-year debilitating illness which inflicted declining mobility and steadily increasing indignities, he left us at 1340 on Saturday. John Brian Harris: 11/3/31-11/2/23. RIP.

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7 years

Ref last tweet about Mali the explosives dog. This is amazing. If you can read this without a lump in your throat, you hv a heart of stone!

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5 years

I promise you, this is no quick once-over...this is a really beautiful paint job. Major hat tip to the paint shops concerned. A job to be really proud of. And salutes to @LNER for doing this. A very worthy network wide farewell. A privilege to be part of it.

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Just agreed to talk to @mrjamesob LBC, 015. Having heard James' approach to recalcitrant guests I admit to a certain queasiness...but let's roll, as they say.🙄This is important! I've never seem 100 faster 'likes' than appeared on James' tweet that I'd agreed to chat!

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RAIL magazine

3 years

They asked me last night to do Today on precisely this Anna - but cancelled at 0646. Sure that's happened to you many times! Yet more evidence of really dire news editing - politics trumping specialist analysis on behalf of the ordinary folk most affected?

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Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍

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Seriously?? #DominicRaab on #Today (in 5 mins) defending cancelling #HS2 East & Northern rail projects…. The man who didn’t understand the importance of Dover-Calais to British biz & who’s keen to stop misogyny against men …. Seriously?? #clueless

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1/ An HS2 thread. Sitting comfortably? Good. I shall begin. You know how chefs make those very strongly flavoured 'reduction' sauces where they simmer and boil and reduce until you have a very thick, gloopy sauce whose flavour is intense? That's what I'm going to try and do here

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2 years

I've always really liked this!

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1 year

Inconclusive?! She received a text from a very senior manager saying “how about you and me in a hotel room?” How ‘inconclusive’ or ambiguous is that?! Unbelievable. Jo has put up with this for years.

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Female steam train volunteer claims she was sacked for making sexism complaints

Management at East Lancashire Railway, where Joanne Crompton hoped to become a driver, said its ‘exhaustive investigation’ was inconclusive

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6 years

Dear national journalists, please put a sock in it, take a long look at this picture and think - just think - before your next story, link or intro. It’s appalling out there and thousands are grafting to keep things moving. I hope you have a better day than this driver. Thankyou.

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4 years

1/I've been giving more thought to media coverage which either at worst directly implies Driver Brett McCullough was going too fast (he wasn't) or at best leaves the unpleasant whiff of the question hanging in the air. It does come from judging rail speeds as road speeds are

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2 years

I do like the new ⁦ @LNER ⁩ info displays. This rather fine clock is at Doncaster.

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11 months

We all come to forks in the road and this is a big one for me. This decision has been crystallising slowly since February and now is the right time for me to slip out of the RAIL driver’s seat. This announcement was circulated to my Bauer colleagues earlier today.

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RAIL magazine

5 years

I say again: @afneil at his most dangerous and lethal best! Britain’s best political interviewer. End of.

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Tory Fibs

5 years

Yowza. Tory Minister comes on to attack Labour's plans to build 100,000 Council Homes and walks straight into Andrew Neil's trap. Beautiful television.

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PS: Final very important thought. The fact that Brett McCullough was running at 72-73mph on section having a linespeed of 75mph is NOT indication he was 'pushing his luck' - it's clear proof of his professionalism. Running at or near the linespeed is a requirement, not a fault.

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@markantro That’s plain silly .... look at all the stuff that the BBC does that Prime and NF don’t. I’m a BBC critic but that’s just a daft comparison.

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11 months

Sunak is emerging as a clear and present danger to all our railways.

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6 years

Can I suggest that we all save this picture and then RT the hell out of it whenever anyone makes a fuss about the requirement to remove trees from the lineside. It is this simple.

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3 years

What an ill-informed and dangerous tweet. This horrific pic explains why this ignorant initiative must stop. Every signatory supports a major safety risk which puts not only every train driver at mortal risk, but also maybe 300 passengers in their trains, at up to 125mph.

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@RosCoward

Ros Coward 🍃💚🍃

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Across the country Network Rail is massacring trees just to save on maintenance. So much for UK's COP26 commitments. Help shame Network Rail:sign the petition. UK Parliament: Stop Network Rail's Environmental Destruction - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

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Whatever your subject, this is why you do not go and sit in front of @afneil without having done your homework and mastered your numbers.

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Paul Embery

5 years

Andrew Neil at his best, forensically taking apart some of the alarmist scaremongering by Extinction Rebellion. Yes, we face some serious environmental challenges. But the world isn’t about to end. We should stop turning our kids into nervous wrecks.

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The last quartet of main line HSTs stand on the blocks at Paddington, amidst lots of well-wishers and their Hitachi 800 series sucessors, at about 1745.

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2 years

Graphic illustration of the new leisure led railway. A fact which only some on the railway - and no-one in Govt - properly appreciates and is responding to. This lot are not commuters. They have a choice. And they will not continue to choose this. Urgent action is needed.

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Wayne Jones

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. @tfwrail 2 carriages to Cardiff and already full at Bangor

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I wonder how many folk are more upset right now than they either thought they would be, or are prepared to admit? RIP Queen Elizabeth II

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4 years

“The driver is thought to have been trying to use an alternative track...” BBC R4 Today flagship 0800 news bulletin a couple of minutes ago. Appalling to hear such ignorant, poorly researched, simply incorrect claptrap 24 hours after the event. Shame on you, BBC.

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4 years

Remember these ....and the wonderful smell of caps....

@seventiesuk

Seventies Time Machine UK

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Cap Gun 🔫

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First gravity train of the day on the FR passes Tan y Bwlch.

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I very rarely post pages from a RAIL which is still on-sale. But the high stakes for the UK about the threat to HS2E prompt me to do that here. This is from R397, replaced by 398 on Weds. Be in no doubt: scrapping HS2E will be catastrophic for transport and decarbonisation.

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A personal shout out to train drivers everywhere for an uneventful shift today. Be safe one and all and may there be no fallen trees. 🙏🙏🙏🤞🤞🤞

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6 years

A bit personal, so please forgive me for sharing a Big Moment. I used to dread these stairs at St P -had to grit my teeth at knee discomfort. I just went to the top without touching handrail. I used to have to haul myself up. Thankyou Rupert Clifton, my ace surgeon. Life changing

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11 months

TPE Mk 5 coaches to be withdrawn and stored, maybe scrapped? Utter madness. They should find a new home immediately! Scotland, Wales and the South West spring to mind. ?m

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5 years

My apologies if I’m committing a copyright faux pas here, cos I’ve forgotten where I got this, but it’s a brilliant and - if you dont know - startling illustration of the difference in size between deep Tube and sub-surface stock. Certainly made me gawp when I first saw it!

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2 years

This why train designers need to think really carefully. One pax; three wheelie cases. Inconvenient truth: we need to bring back the van. Sorry - but we do. Tell me I’m wrong!!

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3 years

Wow! Imagine such vehicles on the West Highland….the Kyle Line….the Highland main line….the S&C….in Cornwall….on the Norlthumberland Coast…the Cumbrian Coast…. Cambrian Coast….

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The Man in Seat 61

3 years

I really REALLY like this car…

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1/ Your periodic reminder about why we should have no line side trees at all between the boundary fences. RAIB concludes poor rail adhesion likely cause of wheel slide Salisbury SPAD by SWR driver. Tunnel pic by Jack Boskett - note leaves on the track More pix on linked tweet..

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Quiet day today, after a very emotional week. We had to take the devastating decision to put this little chap to sleep. A lovely, affectionate pal, who leaves a huge void. RIP Bozzie, cDec 15 2005-April 26 2021, aged 16 yrs and 4 months Bye l'il boy....till we meet again 😰💔

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7 years

I thought you might all enjoy this super image of the Waterloo upgrade - in the 1980s. The PPE underwear bottom right is worth a mention!

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7 years

As most of us prepare to eat, drink and be merry with our families and loved ones, please join me in thanking the 36,000 (yes, really) engineers out working over Christmas, on a massive programme of NR infrastructure upgrades. Likewise the @BTP officers out there on patrol.

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1 year

A quick reminder of classic crisis management, should anyone in Bu*y be interested. When you’ve badly got it wrong: 1) Admit you made a mistake - and mean it. 2) Put it right - quickly. 3) Move on. But you only get to do 3) if you do 1) and 2) with sincerity. That is all

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OK, good morning everyone 🙂 I'm back....so, did I miss anything during my four months away....?! 🙄🤨

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3 years

As KX has been in the news a lot, I thought I'd post this as a reminder of how far we've come, from the hell-hole it once was.

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Just heard @SkyNews report that the Government is demanding urgent reports from the rail industry re 800 issues. Govt should damn well kebab and vilify whoever specified these trains and insisted the industry use them... Oh, wait.....

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3 years

1/ I'm tolerant of 'spin' - I understand that many organisations want to present their story in the best light...to highlight its advantages. It's my team''s job as journalists to set spin in context, so that readers are guided through the spin to see the facts as they are.

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5 years

Happy new year to all in team RAIL. May 2020 be kind to each and every one of you. Thankyou for all the friendship, engagement and support in 2019 - here’s lots more in 2020. It’s going to be an interesting year.

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5 years

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg He’s back pedalling faster than Wily Coyote heading for the cliff edge.

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1 year

I'm hearing whispers that LNER is under pressure from DfT to withdraw the entire Cl 91/Mk4 fleet simply to save money, regardless of their success and popularity with pax. See also GWR Cl 769s, Cross Country HSTs.....

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Philip Haigh

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I wonder for how much longer we’ll see Class 91s on East Coast services? I could see cost pressures forcing LNER to switch to using only IEP stock. Anyway, here’s 91105 just landed at York.

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3 years

A reminder to those who get angry about the removal of line side trees - the driver sits immediately behind this window.

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2 years

I shall never tire of this magnificent building.

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5 years

‘Do you want to come up, son?’ - a long and noble tradition. I always do it when I’m on steam. I cannot tell you the feel good I get from the thrill kids and parents get from climbing into a cub. It can be life changing - and even industry changing, in due course.

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Paul Kreese

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Amazing gesture from the driver of a HST into York earlier. My son was just looking over and got invited in! Thanks so much @LNER

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3 years

At last!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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4 years

Assuming HS2 is approved tomorrow, can I make a plea? I urge supporters do NOT follow the appalling example set by bile-driven ‘Leavers’ who sneered endlessly at ‘Remainers’ like me that “You lost! Get over it!” Magnanimity in victory is so much more grown-up and effective.

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1 year

This is beyond outrageous. It’s not you who is dragging the ELR into disrepute, Jo.

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💕 Joanna 💕

1 year

This ones going to be a long one kids, so sit down and grab a brew and read. Unfortuntley its a sad tale, let's give it a happy ending for the future generations. Please read the attached statement because it's really, really important.

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A lot of interest in HS2 today, so here's my last Comment Special about it, actually in the current issue, which goes off sale tomorrow. We don't normally post material currently on the news stand but I'm making an exception today, to help inform thinking more widely.

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They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them. Lest we forget.

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An ambition achieved. Cab ride in an HST from Dundee to Newcastle - a fantastic privilege - thankyou @LNER Fabulous to do the 'Bridges Hat Trick' - Tay, Forth, Berwick - from the front end. Here's a glimpse. Note the sharp gradient change on the Tay bridge.

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3 years

How many times? There should be no trees inside the boundary fences. End of. We’ve been saying it for many years now.

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matty

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@CrossCountryUK Ouch

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RAIL magazine

7 years

Ready to leave Newcastle at 0240 for the first 100mph pax train since the end of SR steam in 1967. Well done all!

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RAIL magazine

2 years

This should be a contractual obligation during WCML disruption - no more replacement buses!

@IanHardie9018

Ian Hardie

2 years

Virgin Trains liveried Class 57 57311 'Parker' approaches Ribblehead Vidauct passing Blea Moor on 31st March 2007 with 1M18 Glasgow to Euston #Class57 #BrushType4 #Bodysnatcher #Ronnie #GeneralMotors #VirginTrains #SettletoCarlisle

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Dear NR/GBRTT, RIBs are for pax info and imho are NOT a sponsorship opportunity. Can we PLEASE stop this pernicious practice, which is taking ever more space, now 50%. Thankyou.

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3 years

I really, really REALLY hate adverts on station name boards. Just put ‘Peterborough’ twice the size. That is all.

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RAIL magazine

5 years

Here we go - day 3 of the @LNER Four Day HST Farewell Tour. Our lovely train - and crew! - arrive on Platform 2. Leeds here we come - stopping everywhere! Come and say hi if you see us en route. Let’s do it 😊😊

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4 years

My most surreal driving turn ever. Ancient engines gala on the GCR. I'm driving cabless FR 20, in pouring rain, for the full 1860s experience, on a main line opened in 1899, 30 years after my engine was built. Then, 1829 vintage Stephenson's Rocket comes t'other way. Beat that!

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5 years

Just a quick festive shout out to Network Rail and it’s contractors who are out working improving our railway. I hope the jobs go well and please, stay safe.

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5 years

Ok. Look at the shape of the front of the A4, from either side of the chimney, to where it narrows between the lamps. Now look at the yellow panel and above on the Azuma, as defined by the grey strips flanking the windscreen. Sorry, but I don’t buy that that is a coincidence!

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john sparrow

5 years

New+old at Darlington! 800103 works @LNER 0648 Glasgow Ctl-London KX +60009 'Union of South Africa' on 5Z60 transfer from the NYMR-ELR.

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@mrjamesob @LBC If you’re genuinely interested in the real issues James, yes, because this is too important to millions of people for anything else.

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5 years

I am sitting on a bench at Machynlleth station enjoying the tranquillity and awaiting a train. From somewhere within the station building the silence has just been broken by a Welsh male voice shouting: “Aaahhhh....BOLLOCKS!” Just that. Silence has now returned.

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2 years

This utter BS from Shapps is contemptible. And towering ignorance in TV and other newsrooms means it is broadcast unchallenged.

@grantshapps

Rt Hon Grant Shapps

2 years

As union bosses waste time touring television studios, I'm getting on with the job at hand and modernising our railway. This £1bn investment will replace outdated Victorian infrastructure with cutting edge digital signalling on the East Coast Main Line.

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You know, I’d forgotten the bufffets were branded like this. Wonderful to see again.

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Farewell tour @LNER HST arrives at Inverness for Day 2 - back to Edinburgh.

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2 years

1/ Found a few mins before dashing out so here's my personal reflections on the deplorable failure of the Government to use the Royal Train for the Queen's last journey from Scotland to London. I'll post some vids to go with it separately.

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About once a decade I’m rushing for a train at KX for P’bro - and end up in Grantham, Doncaster, or York. Guess what? Tonight’s the night. And it would be the most irksome option 🤬🤬 Quiet at the back! 🙄🙄🙄

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1 year

Every weekend...discretionary travel is booming. Key word: discretionary. They will not continue to choose this. Problem: Treasury and DfT simply don't care. Obsessed only with cost.

@EngFocus

Chris Howe - Rail Focus

1 year

Why do I get the feeling TOCs simply aren't adapting to changing travel patterns? £20 each for the privilege of standing for an hour. And we wonder why people drive. @tfwrail

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1/ Thanks to a superb collaborative effort between QRTC, Vivarail, Network Rail and Transport for Wales, I am delighted to announce that we are able to offer a rail connection into RAIL LIVE 2021 this week (Wed/Thurs June 16/17) from Honeybourne.

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4 years

What complete and utter moron came up with this?

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5 years

The last main line HST leaves Swindon for the West. And it’s all over....

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5 years

Farewell, old friend.

@Trainhelp1

Train help

5 years

And there she goes. Leaving Kings cross for the final time #HSTFarewell #InterCity125 @LNER

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5 years

As I pour my first Christmas Eve drink, I'd just like to wish all members of twitter team RAIL a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a prosperous and, above all, a healthy new year. Thankyou for your engagement and friendship in 2019. Here's a few of my seasonal snaps...

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5/is more sneakily worded & says the Leeds "upgrade was completed following publication of Government's £96bn IRP...." That is not what its tweet says & DfT should withdraw that untruthful tweet immediately. The press release qualifies as heavy spin. The tweet is dishonest

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3 years

Blood moilingly annoying. Having spent years fielding criticism that HS2 is all about shorter journey times, Government is now extolling the view that NOT building HS2 will...improve journey times. You couldn't make this up.

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2 years

Oh no! Bernard Cribbins has died, aged He was omnipresent in my childhood. And a legend in The Railway Children. “Rightaway, Mr Perks!” RIP

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5 years

@SimonWeller @LUCYLucyprior @stephbreakfast Cheers Simon - seen it now. She's gutsy - at a NRA she hosted for me she told of a bloke who'd made some comment about her appearance and she retorted: "Have you looked in the mirror lately yourself, you fat twat?" Brought the house down. The crowd of 1,200 loved her for it.

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2 years

3+2 seating is an utter aberration and should be banned!

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AndyBTravels

2 years

Not impressed with these @greateranglia due to narrowness between seats making it uncomfortable to walk through. Basically designed for human crabs…. Should be 2 + 2 seating IMHO

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4 years

WHAAAAAAT?! 😳

@Ogilvie_CJ

Chris Ogilvie

4 years

🇨🇳 China may have the world’s biggest high speed rail network, but it’s reliant on guys sat on top of a train with wooden sticks to de-ice the overhead power lines in winter! @25kV

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2 years

OMG….how mad is this?!

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Ranggajati 🔞🇮🇩

2 years

Spirited away

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This pic of HS1 from Brian Stephenson dispels the BS from HS2 ‘antis’ about how it will ‘destroy’ the countryside visually and aurally. Tosh. This 300kph train is passing a perfectly relaxed and undisturbed calf or ten.

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RAIL magazine

4 years

Courageous beyond words: RNLI nearly rolling over looking for a complete nob who chose to go surfing in today’s high seas. Volunteers all. I pray they returned safely.

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Paul Hogg

4 years

Brave boys from @RNLI off out to rescue some idiot surfer off Hastings in #StormCiara . Come home safe boys

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2 years

The railway surely needs to get a grip on jargon……what on Earth is wrong with ‘cleaning.’? I’d wager most non-industry pax have no clue what this means…..

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RAIL magazine

5 years

Oooooooo......I like this!

@CadgeSteve

the_train_guard

5 years

@LNER Azuma and a beautiful evening sky #azuma #lner #trainenvy

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RAIL magazine

3 years

Wow! What a picture!

@davew70

Dave Wright ⚒

3 years

Forgot to post this, was so happy to get this photo on the flight home from London on Friday.

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1 year

David, HS2 isn’t, wasn’t ever and never will be primarily about reduced journey times. It’s about creating capacity on WCML/MML/ECML by taking the expressed off and onto HS2. You then use that released capacity for inter urban fast pax to all stations, plus freight.

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David C Bannerman

1 year

2/2 whether we should commit to tens of billions more. My real worry is the business case. Your excellent @RAIL has reported how season ticket sales have collapsed on rail. With Zoom and online meetings, is 30 min time saving now so valuable? I support high speed rail but HS2?

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3 years

Delighted to see this letter, in today's Financial Times, regarding the crucial importance of HS2 East, from Professor McNaughton.

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4 years

My sincere apologies for misleading folk here. Memories played tricks. The DB ICE visit to St Pancras was not 13 years ago, as I said here a couple of days ago, but 11, as the pix make clear. The point holds good though: this should be a common sight by now!

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1 year

…but we’ll still keep raising rail fares every year….🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

@transportgovuk

Department for Transport

@transportgovuk

1 year

From tomorrow, tax will be slashed on flights within the UK, a move that will help boost UK-wide connectivity. #AirPassengerDuty #Aviation

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3 years

This, this and thrice this! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

@EurostarJustinp

Justin on eurostar

@EurostarJustinp

3 years

Only 1 driver needed. Just saying... #railfreight

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RAIL magazine

3 years

Other TOCs please note this fine example. This is how to do it.

@DavidWilding271

🍦🇬🇧 David Wilding 🛩️🐾

@DavidWilding271

3 years

Well done @LNER for running Edinburgh services via Carlisle and avoiding buses. Comfortable ride, and never travelled the Carlisle-Newcastle line before - stunning scenery! Fantastic train crew to Newcastle too @DavidHorne @RAIL

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RAIL magazine

6 years

I’ve just made a decision. I support and engage with honest, balanced campaigners. But I’m utterly sick of no-pic, no-details trolls with a handful of followers who simply snipe & sneer at the railway just for the hell of it. All blocked henceforth. There are too many decent folk

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@RAIL

RAIL magazine

6 years

The freezing of road fuel duty for nine years has now cost around £50bn - nearly the cost of HS2. Yet rail fares have risen relentlessly every year.

@ABCommuters

Association of British Commuters

6 years

Never forget, rail fare rises are this government's ideological choice. After the May timetable collapse a 3.1% rise proves #FailingGrayling has no shame. Join us at King's Cross station tomorrow 7.30-9.00 to make this point loudly! #FaresFreeze #RailRevolution ✊

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3 years

Watching the news. The German Ambassador (and even Nicola Sturgeon) are magnanimous in their congratulations for the English footy team. Our fans boo the German national anthem. I hate what some sections of our people are becoming.

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