A stop at #Taormina-Giardini 🇮🇹 on the #Messina to #Siracusa line in Sicily. Easily winning any train-station beauty contest.

After much consideration, I have joined the Greens! I was skeptical at first, especially with the promise of Your Party but the subsequent chaos before founding and the results Zack Polanski and his team have been delivering have shown me that Green is the way forward! 💚

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

The rise and rise of extreme day tripping sees Tui offering day trips to Lapland. www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-... “Day trips to Lapland feel in especially bad taste as flight emissions will directly contribute to damaging the place you are going to see.”

I'm delighted to see the return of al fresco dining and drinking to St Martin’s Lane in the heart of the West End. The road will be car-free from 11am–11pm every day until the end of October, giving Londoners and visitors the space to enjoy outdoor dining and socialising 🍽️

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

While Coventry (a city with twice the population) continues to umm and ahh over their VLR project, Le Havre in France has had a two line system with full sized trams for over a decade now. There's even a 3rd new line under construction! Do better UK...

The fire in Edinburgh is a grim reminder that the climate crisis is happening on our doorstep. And it's our high-carbon, high-consumption lifestyles that are exacerbating it... We must rethink our lifestyle choices and urgently reduce our reliance on flights.

Credit to SNCF Voyageurs today. I missed a connection due to a late train however a bus was provided for the branch line, ensuring everyone reached their final destination and the trains on said branch remained on time!

The Regio 2N is a nice train as it is, but in this intercity configuration, it's probably one of my favourite EMUs to travel on!

Haulage to London was 222001, delayed by none other than the Flying Scotsman!

I was unaware that 170113 was also refurbished, but I'm glad she has been... I love these new refurbs! 🥰

Today I'll be travelling flight free to Rouen, France from my hometown of Nottingham. But first, a short tram ride...

By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists. This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.

There should be package holiday companies using the channel tunnel to run sleeper trains... Like, imagine using Train2 Holidays for your trip to Benidorm! That's something I'd like to see.

🚨ON SALE NOW Our #MusicForTheMany's 'A Summer To Save Music' returns in August with a NATIVE JAMES performing at Hare & Hounds in Birmingham, as well as shows in Glasgow and Edinburgh on 22 and 23 August. Join the fight for our grassroots music venues! 🎟️Tickets: thecorbynproject.com/events

Not just nationalisation. Public ownership is the first step we need to take to make our railways work for all 68 million of us and not just a hand full of greedy share holders. We want the power put in our hands. @garethdennis.uk

#OnThisDay 59 years ago BR abandoned its 'colour bar' - preventing black workers from occupying customer-facing roles at London railway stations - thanks to the campaigning of Asquith Xavier. Asquith pictured here in the role he fought for; Guard at Euston buff.ly/Riixw15

Thoroughly disappointed by Heidi Alexander. Clearly a press release politician!

For years it was Summer of Sixty fucking Nine, but it has finally been surpassed by Chaise fucking Longue by Wet fucking Leg. The sort of fey indie shit that The Guardian makes fucking massive, but would have been piss bottled at Reading 30 years ago. "Mummy, daddy, loo.........."

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

🧵The world’s flagship carbon capture and storage project (in Australia) promised to sequester at least 80% of the CO2 from an LNG plant. Since starting up in 2019 it’s failed to do that—never came close—and it’s failing worse over time. Capture rate has now sunk to 30%. ieefa.org/resources/go...

Why look at this beauty!

Forget the Coventry VLR, this is what Coventry needs! Presenting Coventry CrossCity... Uprgrading the existing line would be an easy win for the city, Warwickshire and the wider West Midlands Region. (a🧵of something I came up with).

Today, Harrie, our Comms Officer is travelling all the way from Montpellier, France to Fort William, Scotland by train - follow this thread to see how their journey goes!

📸 PACHYMAN live at Rough Trade, Nottingham. 7/6/2025.

The Labour government cannot put all their eggs in the CCS basket. We already have access to clean energy and transport technology so we should be investing in that instead, something that is proven to work!

"I can make sensible financial decisions."

We need bold leadership. Now. That's why I'm running to be the next leader of the Green Party. Join our campaign: backzack.com #BackZack

Do you know what day it is today? That's right, it's the 6th annual MINT JAMS DAY where you have to listen to Mint Jams by Casiopea at least once today. Your life and livelihood may depend on it but don't worry, it's only 36 minutes of your time. you'll thank me later www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEI...

I've seen a lot of Americans up in arms about this recent map and I'm here to remind them that Harry Beck's style of map has been in use for over 90 years and is pretty much the global design standard. Quit complaining. It works to show complex service patterns.

🚨Email your MP to back my Bill to ban pesticides from public spaces! 🐝🌱 We’re facing a biodiversity crisis and our urban areas can help reverse this decline. 100 councils have already taken action and with proper legislation and guidance, the rest can too. pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe...

📸 Double trouble in Stirling! 18/4/2025.

📸 You'd never think that these Class 43 HSTs would be 50 next year due to their remarkable condition, yet somehow they will be! Hats of to ScotRail for running such well presented trains... 18/4/2025.

📸 The town of Culross would benefit greatly from the reopening of its station on the Alloa to Dunfermline line! 17/4/2025.

Finding a lime bike in acceptable condition is a near impossible task...

Since when could I not buy a Period Return from a ticket machine??? This country's trains are screwed!

the fart train is about to leave the station

📸 Spring has sprung! (Bilborough, Nottingham). 8/4/2025.

#OnThisDay 122 years ago textile designer Jacqueline Groag was born. Jacqueline was commissioned by Misha Black to design my favourite moquette, the 'D78 Stock'... I have the key ring, the wallet, the scarf, the glasses case, and the wash bag! @ltmuseum buff.ly/AUTLI2E

The grim reality of cycling in the UK...

At bloody last!

Over 20,000 people have already backed my petition calling for a Wealth Tax, not cuts to disability support. As part of our campaigning to get as many MPs as possible to vote down these cuts, I’ll present this in Parliament ahead of any vote. Sign here👇 chng.it/zWMrwRvY8Y

Today's #TeslaTakedown in Nottingham.

Dusk at the Collina Street High Flats in the north of Glasgow. This 19 storey tower block was built in 1968 by Gilbert-Ash Scotland using the Tracoba technique based on prefabricated concrete panels. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #maryhill #glasgowatnight #nightphotography

Finally, with the new #TGVM, you’ll be able to bring your bike onboard! Currently, bringing a full bike on a TGV isn’t possible, you need a foldable bike or must dismantle yours and store it in a bag. The new train will accommodate up to eight bikes, distributed across select coaches 🚲🚄

Let's bring this to Nottingham, certainly during off peak hours!

Nottinghamshire Council elections are coming up soon. If you can help with leafleting against Reform UK in the Hucknall area on the 22nd, please do come along as we will need as much help as we can get!

This is Alan Bite, a Reform UK candidate in Ashfield for the upcoming Nottinghamshire County Council elections. If this isn't discouragement to vote Reform, I don't know what is. Truly disgusting!

Overhearing a conversation between a parent a child on the tram about how public transport works and what the BR double arrow means... The next generation will grow up good! 😁