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The Guardian says: I first saw it from this tweet, which referred to the "PM" but not the country https://twitter.com/nashthomas/status/1503206248820269057 A follow up to that noted:

Shackleton's Endurance has been found 3000m deep on the sea bed under the Weddell sea in the Antarctic Dan Snow sent a tweet about it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/1501452764131598342 where he wrote: Dan Snow has been on the ship that has been searching for the...

Anything You Can Do is a radio documentary from 1988 on the Mallard steam engine record. It was repeated last Tuesday and Wednesday and is available for another 24 days at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b8b7qb

The Train at Platform 4 is comedy on an "Arriviata" train from Kings Cross to York https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00132xq Its written by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The Train Manager is Rosie Cavaliero

This is a video of a tram traffic jam from Friday November 27th https://www.tiktok.com/@jupanurobotu/video/7034773910633663749?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id6903324216125621765 This is a Google translation from a news report...

Does anyone have any views on which electric cars have been engineered for a long life? At the moment I have a diesel Mondeo. I paid £8500 for it from a Ford dealer, when it was 2 years 9 months old when it had done 56k miles. I've done 17k miles a year for 7 years, so its now at 175k miles...

At www.gwr.com if I search for a train from Ely to Tenby leaving at 9am on Saturday 25th September, coming back at 9am on Saturday 2nd October, it reports some trains but says "No tickets available" If I try through www.chilternrailways.co.uk then it gives a super off peak return, where the...

A couple of weeks ago, on his Radio 2 show, Bruce Springsteen played Take That Night Train to Memphis by Roy Acuff: The lyrics include this: Does anyone know where that train would have come from? Would a "night train" run from 3.57am to 11am, or 3.57pm to 11pm? This is a quote from this...

https://twitter.com/stevefaeembra/status/1406706424839815175/ has this picture with the elevation of the Scotland's rail network, ignoring disconnected sections

On Thursday January 14th at 12.30 Bristol Libraries are hosting a free online talk "The SS Great Britain: the Concorde of her Day" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lunchtime-lecture-ss-great-britain-tickets-133120830989

https://spoortijdlijn.nl/ is an interesting map which shows how the passenger rail network in the Netherlands built up. Its in Dutch, but in Chrome, Google Translate does a good job. The creator https://twitter.com/NiekGuis/with_replies commented that it doesn't include all the local lines.

There is a new consultation on travel between Waterbeach and Cambridge at www.greatercambridge.org.uk/W2C-Consultation Its says: https://consultcambs.uk.engagementhq.com/5526/widgets/17061/documents/7076 is a PDF with more information...

This is a picture from https://twitter.com/Railraptor/status/1309434080233230336 at Black Bank Drove on September 25th. There is more information here: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/investigation-launched-staggeringly-dangerous-traffic-19041815 This video from June shows a...

The Office for Rail Regulation released this report this morning https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/1548/rail-finance-statistical-release-2018-19.pdf (revised URL to the one earlier) Net government support in 2018-19 was £7.1 billion. This was up 8.9% compared with 2017-18, when adjusted for...

I was on in the second coach of a 387 at Cambridge North this morning. As the doors opened there was a loud bang and a shower of sparks from the pantograph. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/G46609/2019-11-01/detailed says that it stayed on the platform for 15 minutes...

September 30th is the anniversary of the first broadcast of Thunderbirds. https://www.century21films.co.uk/#/thunderbirds-day-2019/ says:

https://www.londondesignfestival.com/event/victoria-through-years says Its a free exhibition on Platform 7 at London Victoria from September 14-22nd.

https://twitter.com/Judoon_Platoon/status/1120007378521473024 is a thread on twitter showing how Beyoncé is picking up styling cues from Class 66 locomotives

Construction has started on the hotel next to Cambridge North station. This was sent in a Travel Plan Plus newsletter. There is a consultation on developments in the area with details here: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/media/7029/print-a5-nec-southcambs-booklet.pdf

https://twitter.com/BritishPathe/status/1084761566057283584 has a link to https://www.britishpathe.tv/video-category/railways/ It has: