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Unsurprisingly, this petition is racing at pace. 👇👇

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

One day the remote control device we put up Trump's ass will take pride of place in KGB museum.

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In the March 2025 issue of Today's Railways Europe OUT NOW: Big changes for Brussels - Amsterdam services, farewell Fret SNCF, Osijek: a Croatian rail centre, and 29 pages of news from 28 countries. Subscribe and save: bit.ly/3D9cRcB

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🇮🇹 A new luxury train to tour Italy: “Orient Express, La Dolce Vita” leaves the workshop. A dining & sleeper train from Orient Express for Italy, 3 day trips €8,000. www.orient-express.com/la-dolce-vita/ (State rail has Treni Touristici for €300 if you’re not in that league! www.fstrenituristici.it)

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37 years ago tonight, at 2200 on 14 February 1988, British Rail signed off the formal acceptance for the first Class 91. That very locomotive, now numbered 91101, was in service with @lner.co.uk today. Here it is ready to work a rake of Mark 3 coaches to Leeds in June 1989, captured by Carl Looker.

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ÖBB has ordered 30 additional Mireo EMUs from Siemens. The order, which comprises 25 3-car and five 4-car car sets, will take ÖBB's Mireo fleet to 100 units.

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Ah. CSU in Bayern wants out of the Deutschlandticket from 2026 www.deutschlandfunk.de/bayern-will-... Short sighted. Non collaborative. Smug. Superior. And wrong. Exactly what you'd expect from the CSU on transport policy.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Eurostar services between Amsterdam and London resume today with three daily services on weekdays and Sundays and two on Saturdays. The new UK Terminal at Amsterdam Centraal also opens today. Eurostar plans to gradually ramp up capacity on the route to five daily services by 2026. Photo: Q. Vosman

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465908 freshly repainted in Network SouthEast livery is seen peeking out of the shed at Wabtec Doncaster Works.

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ÖBB has released images of the first Class 4706 (Stadler KISS) double-deck EMU for Railjet services. 14 of these 200 km/h 6-car units will enter service on the Vienna–Salzburg route from 2026. Photo: ÖBB

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If you are one of the 13 million people now struggling to access NHS dental care share this jaw dropping report & join me & the @thebda.bsky.social in asking @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social where the governments promised plan to fix NHS dentistry is?

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

When something is a success, people like to associate themselves with it. So it's noticeable how quiet the Brexiters are. inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

submitted 30 days ago • 80 comments

Design team being recruited to increase capacity at St Pancras International. #TrainsNotPlanes www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...

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Good news from Interrail! Spanish open-access operator @iryo_eu will join Interrail & Eurail schemes from 1 April, reservation costs: Singular €10, Singular Only YOU €13. community.eurail.com/news-and-ann...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

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Trenitalia has announced its Paris - Milan service will resume from 1 April with two daily train pairs. A new Paris - Marseille service will also begin operating from 15 June with four daily train pairs. Ticket sales will open in mid March.

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Coming up in the February 2025 issue of Today's Railways Europe ON SALE MONDAY 27 JANUARY: Finland's Class Sr1 electrics, rail freight in Latvia, rebuilding Switzerland's Bulle - Broc line and 30 pages of news from across Europe. Subscribe and save: bit.ly/3D9cRcB

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A photo taken at #Helsingborg 🇸🇪 in spring 1985: this is the 14:25 international service, train number 464, with through cars from #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Oslo 🇳🇴. They were transferred from #Helsingør by train ferry across the #Øresund #Öresund a few minutes earlier. #PastTrainTrips

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37674 and 37695 working the 6S55 Burngullow to Irvine china clay slurry tanks at Ponthir on the 27th April 1995. More fo my Class 37 images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...

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First trip out with the camera in 2025 and DC Rail 60028 just about stays ahead of the cloud at Breaston east of Derby with 6L92, the 11.08 Chaddesden Sidings - Kings Lynn empty sand train on 3/1/25.

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It's out! 📜 The negotiation results between 🇨🇭 and 🇪🇺 on the update and extension of the bilateral agreements are here. And there's a part about railways in it! 🚄 Let's dive in! ⬇️ #Rahmenabkommen #CrossBorderRail

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

Paxman Valenta’s were ace! Penzance 1989

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

Good to see the UK government is finally looking at Eurofima to finance investment in new rolling stock. www.politico.eu/article/uk-b...

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An #ÖBB 🇦🇹 Class 2095 narrow-gauge diesel at #Gmünd, awaiting further duties on the #Waldviertel 760mm network. We note the Opel Kadett behind the loco, its varnish matching almost perfectly with the 2095’s #Jaffa livery. Summer 1991 #PastTrainTrips

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Why go to the trouble of expanding the network with proven, standardised conventional rail when you can have an isolated proprietary gadgetbahn with a fraction of the capacity?

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

A shot from my book on the Cornish Main Line, available from Platform 5 - order now for pre-Christmas delivery: bit.ly/49RMw16 43002 'Sir Kenneth Grange' leads 1A81, the 08.44 Penzance - London Paddington near Chacewater between Redruth and Truro on 14 October 2016.

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B134 at Powerstock, 25.2.1975 The line closed completely just over two months later. #Powerstock #BridportBranch

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LNER HSTs wait to head north at King's Cross on this day in 2017. 43302 is now preserved at Locomotion in Shildon, 43274 is still in service with Colas Rail and 43238 is stored at Great Yarmouth.

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Austria always gifts the Christmas tree to the European parliament, and just like the last few years, the tree arrived by NightJet in Brussels

submitted 95 days ago • 6 comments

Ten years ago today Hitachi Rail unveiled the first Class 800 to the UK railway press at its Kasado plant in Japan. 243 Class 800-810 trainsets are now in service or on order with seven operators.

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The idea that prioritising cars somehow provides people with more choice is the biggest misconception in transport. Instead, making it easier to drive sets off three distinct vicious cycles that lock in more car use and less choice

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