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danielonrails.bsky.social
Freelance journalist: Mostly write about trains and cars. Paloma Faith enthusiast and a snooker anorak as well. Email: [email protected]. Own views.
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Back in January, I travelled on @amtrak.com's ‘Floridian' service between Chicago and Miami. It was fascinating to experience long-distance rail travel in the US for the first time. My piece for @theipaper.com went live yesterday (on my birthday of all days): inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I am - apparently - a 'rail expert'. Not my words, those of @theipaper.com. Thanks for quoting me in this fun piece @saskiaodonoghue.bsky.social: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Pleased to have a played a very small part in the launch of Realtime Tickets as I wrote the copy for the Daytripper feature - something a little different to my usual work. I learnt a lot about towns and cities in the UK: did you know Southport is home to the British Lawnmower Museum, for instance?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It has been a while since I’ve been on a Eurostar service. Off on a little adventure for the next few days, starting with an E300 to Brussels.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

In today's edition of @theipaper (and also online), I've written about one of the last bastions of restaurant carriages in the UK: @gwr.com's Pullman Dining offering, including quotes from @seatsixtyone.bsky.social and Lord Berkeley: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting line from Freightliner CEO Tim Shoveller at Rail Partners’ Parliamentary reception just now: the tipping point for a container moving from the south ports used to be Birmingham, today it is Manchester, thanks to a rise in costs, which is affecting all FOCs.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments