#TRAINS

The Man in Seat 61

seatsixtyone

Starting any new train service is like running a marathon. Starting a sleeper is like running a marathon in a Winnie-the-Pooh outfit. Starting a sleeper *from London* is like running

Adam Housley

adamhousley

Ok...got more info. While nothing has been ruled out, it's making more sense with factual info obtained that this accidentally escaped. That doesn't make it any less bad because of

hunter ＊はるお

wakuwakuboi

Here’s a new thread bc I just found some of my favorite childhood books Let’s start off with I Spy. A literary masterpiece, it was. Anything Walt did with trains

Wolves Council

WolvesCouncil

Some big news for our city which you might have missed with everything going on right now. Wolverhampton has waited a long time to get it's new railway station - but

Dave DiCello

DaveDiCello

In honor of #412Day, I wanted to do more than share my favorite images of the city. This is a little collection of images that just scream #Pittsburgh, that may

Alex Dalassio

ADalassio

The story so far...https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1319085671852670976 What do the goddesses, heraldry, the foundlings trains, hermaphroditic birth and bees have in common? According to the official narrative nothing much, but I

Mark Cuban

mcuban

It's time to face the fact that PPP didn't work. Great plan, difficult execution. No one's fault. The only thing that will save businesses is consumer demand. No amount of

Khe Hy

khemaridh

"I have a confession. I genuinely enjoy $10/hour work"An email exchange with a RadReader who is stuck in the wrong quadrant.(Early 30s, Investor Relations + Marketing) It's both OK and

AndrewQuinn2020

AQuinn2020

The forgetting curve appears roughly exponential.Let's hypothesize further: Perhaps the forgetting curve is some kind of Poisson distribution-related thing. A "train of thought" is a stochastic process by which you

Sandra Reardon

ReardonSandra

Sound familiar ? Are these activities possibly sponsored by the Commie regime in China? How the Chinese spy network works around the world - https://youtu.be/zdR-I35Ladk * igniting of tensions, rolling

SFBART

SFBART

THREAD: The Bay Area is reopening. BART ridership is very slowly rising. To welcome riders back and regain confidence in public transit, BART is taking the following 15 steps while

Joel MacManus

JoelMacManus

Thread: There's lots of good policy in National’s transport plan for Wellington, but there's also a lot of re-hashing old rejected ideas from Let’s Get Wellington Moving, most of which

Josh Denny

JoshDenny

In the coming weeks, they’ll make existence insufferable for the unvaccinated: we already can’t work (LA), can’t even go out to eat, and pretty soon they’ll make vaccination mandatory to

Paul Codd

PaulCodd

Last week's tribute to the pure unbridled joy and glory of EUROBALISE demonstrated a love for obscure track-mounted boxes for #RailwaysExplained, so here's some more. What could be better than

Ben Greenman

IamBenforReal

1/I’m taking 6 classes this semester. Literally the only one of those classes whose instructors were properly prepared for online learning is Philosophy 101The rest of them are shit shows...I

The Pragmatist

Pragmatictakes

Taleb was peak post-modernism. We're beginning to reacquire our taste for monumentalism. I want trains and Mars missions and a cancer cure and presidential speeches from balconies and less irony.