#Rail

There’s been a big thread going on about whether 18 trains per hour (tph) is feasible on a high speed railway, and specifically HS2. Sceptics demand to know whether any
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Today the labour movement & country celebrate the Attlee government's social & economic transformations.Yet as we face crises equal to the postwar era, @Keir_Starmer's Labour backs away from 2019's socialist
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For new followers here's a thread of threads, in case any of this nonsense interests you. I'll keep updating it as I go.Starting (obviously) with the big one...https://twitter.com/TheDreadShips/status/1246364316355514368?s=20 My one
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The way we talk about infrastructure projects in the U.K. is utterly broken. HS2 receives nationwide coordinated attacks on the project as a whole, but the drastically more destructive road
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ALL ABOARD (the above pictures is a twitter stock-gif, and has nothing to do with vancouver, but it's time for Pictures of Old Trains! By popular choice, tonights topic is
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Thread (my first!) 1. Seems like an unusual number of fires and explosions have happened so far this month. Not sure what’s going on, but figured I’d compile as many
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My FavsA Thread... *slowly claps*... Lemme gon head get my husband out the way. Actor kim jisooAge: 25My guy is 6’1 ik he gotta big d- JACKSON MUTHAFUXKING WANGage: 24He
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1/ I work in automation (Autonomous Driving). Of course, no analysis of technology is complete w/o accounting for the economic & political system in which it's developed & deployed.When we
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As was widely reported before the weekend, the Industry Day for #OMFV has revealed more detail on the latest attempt to replace Bradley. A few initial observations I did a
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Thread on BJP GHMC Manifesto. My Take :- Comprehensive Manifesto covering all sections of the society.- Aimed at improving the ease of living of People.- Very Well researched .- I
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"Subprime Attention Crisis" is a new book by @timhwang that argues that the ad-tech market is a bubble created by an ad industry doing what it does best: convincing advertisers
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They say that necessity is the mother of invention. At times it's closer to the Bride of Frankenstein... It's worth unpicking how we got here, "here" being the Carcassone-Quillan railway
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What needs to be clearly communicated about the #coronavirusus debacle is this: We’ve survived Trump this long because he inherited American institutions that were developed and maintained by generations of
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The last GUNDAM thread got really long & in true comics style it feels time for a relaunch. Believe it or not, I’ve only really been into this franchise intensely
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China is interested in Nigeria and the West is MAD !! But why? In 2018, the White House criticised Chinese engagement in Africa, claiming that China was using bribes, opaque
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We need to single out the looters by name. Otherwise our movements will get derailed.Here’s a short list of some folks credibly accused of looting and criminality in Minneapolis that
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