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https://bahn.bet/ lets you place bets on the delays for Deutsche Bahn trains. https://bahn.bet/about says: It ends with

https://bsky.app/profile/ogilvie.org.uk/post/3mcx5a5i4x22i says: It was from Storm Harry. This picture is from Sky News Italy showing some of the damage: This is a google translation

mods note - split from this thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/do-you-think-that-the-uk-switching-to-electric-vehicles-is-realistic.231438/ For me, the ideal would be to buy a car from someone that I trust, who is selling it for a good reason, and not because it will soon need...

If you were given a time machine, what would you tell you former self? The time machine only works once, and the message only goes to you. 1752510760 Mine would be to read up on the symptoms of a heart attack. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/heart-attack/symptoms/ For me, it felt like...

https://bsky.app/profile/helenczerski.bsky.social/post/3lthqgw7w522d has this picture of a vending machine at Exeter St Davids for Penguin paperback books. https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/were-taking-the-penguin-books-vending-machine-on-the-road says: That was from 2023. I wonder...

I have a day return from Marylebone to Oxford. I also want to go on the Marylebone-Aylesbury line and then Aylesbury-Princes Risborough. I will then carry on to Oxford. From the forum tickets site I did a search for Marylebone to Princes Risborough via Amersham for today: Marylebone 09:27...

https://www.righto.com/2024/06/montreal-mifare-ultralight-nfc.html is an article on the single use tickets. They are made from card, embedded with a MIFARE Ultralight EV1 NFC chip. The chip is the size of a grain of salt and each one costs ~5p

How much luggage do you take if you were going to be away from home for 2 nights trip by public transport?

Cambridge Station has an advertising screen in the middle of platform 4. It has all the traffic to get from four platforms to the exit. Who thought this was a good idea?

larstransportmaps.com has some unofficial schematic rail maps for various European countries. This is a new one of the weekday train services in Belgium

In recent years, the first train on a Sunday morning from Ely to Cambridge has been about 9am, which gets to Kings Cross after 10am, Stansted at 11 and after 12 for Heathrow and Gatwick. I just checked on RealTimeTrains which has times for last weekend and through to October. These are the...

The Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company is a crowd funding campaign to save a class 317 to convert into a class 210 DEMU. Rail Magazine says they are looking to raise £35k. https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/class210demu says its £20k.

A few miles from Toledo in Spain someone stole a steel railway bridge. https://twitter.com/i/status/1631000584445722636 has a video of a locomotive crossing the track in any case. Its near Algodor 39°54'01"N 3°53'54"W

https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2022q4/003438.html says: # Call for Participation: Railways and Open Transport Devroom FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org) is Europe's largest gathering of Free and Open Source Software developers and enthusiasts, with thousands of people attending each year...

A few days ago, there was an in cab journey from Lancaster to Barrow in Furness on That's TV on Freeview. It looks like it was from this DVD https://www.videoscene.co.uk/a-journey-on-the-furness-railway-en The schedule for That's TV is available at https://tv24.co.uk/channel/thats-tv but I...

I just got back from watching Bullet Train. I've not been in the cab of a bullet train, but I'm not sure that this movie gave an accurate portrayal of how to drive one.

Is there a WWW site which will let me enter details of a UK railway journey and send me an email when tickets become available for a given price? It could give me a link to buy the tickets and get some click through revenue. It could also send me suggestions for trips from my home station with...

I'm travelling by Eurostar on Saturday, and returning the following Saturday. I just went to Ely ticket office and asked for a ticket with CIV protection, using a Network railcard. They said that I needed a £43.15 Euro Standard Return, and not a £31.15 Euro High Saver Return, to get the CIV...

I've got a Dutch Flyer Rail Sail ticket from Hook of Holland to any Greater Anglia station. I want to end up in Ely. I'm arriving early on a Saturday morning, and I'd like to know which trains I can take, and can I break my journey. In this 2019 thread, @Bletchleyite wrote At BR Fares the...

On BBC Radio 4, at 7.15pm this evening, there is a program Screenshot: Trains on screen