im starting the first episode of death in paradise season 14, its so good already

i cannot wait until this opens, i am keen to go and visit nz for it

imagine inaugurating a new intercity (international!) train, with a bistro/dining car, that serves draught beer!

im catching up on the habs playoff game (i have been on a camping trip for the last 5 days) and i am so excited (i know the outcome)

its my work’s 70th anniversary next year and ive just had the urge to collect wild yeast and bake a commemorative loaf for it

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oh! i’ve travelled on the longest single train journey in the eu! (sj euronight, berlin-stockholm)

te huia?

i forgot to say that while i was away, the via rail F40PH that i had preordered from rapido trains long ago (‘love the way’ scheme) finally arrived! i got 6420 because its the locomotive i rode behind on VIA62 toronto-montreal that time

you can get almdudler here in sydney!

i love this gif

ELITE SNIPER COLE CAUFIELD

okay im watching the habs playoff game live

i posed my n scale souvenirs from europe on my layout, just to get a good look at them - an öbb siemens taurus locomotive, and an öbb nightjet coach set

i watched this before my trip and its been suggested to me again by the algorithm. it hits different? makes me wonder about a sydney central station redevelopment/renovation

my postcards to new zealand are being delivered much sooner than my postcards to australian recipients

i haven’t watched any hockey for a few months (except that skellefteå-luleå playoff game that time on the hotel tv in stockholm), so im going to catch up on this morning’s montreal canadiens playoff game

its amazing that denmark is doing a massive 25kVAC rail electrification project, seems to be mainly for passenger traffic? imagine what we could do syd-mel for freight and a bit of passenger service too

looks like i got in on time - the swedish transport authority has cancelled all the night trains to the north/arctic

i hate that we have to frame inequality reduction and social mobility in economic terms (instead of being intrinsically socially good) but if thats what it takes to convince people

i have to say, i am feeling his passing a bit stronger than i thought i ever might about a media personality. maybe its because i'd listened to him on the radio most days for the last many years, more often than i'd even speak to my own parents

Europa Missions xkcd.com/3234/

An Egyptian funery technician cuts a few corners to save on costs and 1600 years later they're finally getting exposed as a shoddy operator, except everyone thinks it's really cool.

my postcards from europe have just started arriving to their recipients, including the ones i sent myself. i am super fascinated by how they might have gotten here. this video is really satisfying me

the swedish transport authority is ordering talgo trainsets for the arctic night train 🤮

i updated my @viaduct.world map!

i’ve been back in australia less than 24 hours and my skin is already clearing up

im just leaving my hotel in copenhagen to come home!

the nation of denmark being educated about pantographs and catenary on the news

looks like kystbanen is running again!

the railway continues past helsingør station on/next to the street

fascinating to me that instead of letting these rural branchlines die out, they contracted operations out and let them run with light diesel railcars

im going to try to get to helsingør (elsinore) by suburban s-stog and branchline lokaltog (to be able to make some pretentious shakespeare-themed social media post)

the trains are even more messed up than yesterday

if they can do a custom desto (“mariyung to the gong”) they could do ‘the fish’ and ‘the chips’ on those blue mountains expresses

it seems like the danes went with cor-ten steel instead of galvanised steel for their overhead line stanchions

im riding one of these cursed units back to copenhagen

the danish language is so strange to me (as a norwegian learner) because everywhere i expect to see Ts and Ps, i see Ds and Bs (and thats aside from pronunciations!)

the train im getting out to odense happens to be a new talgo set!

me in five days

there’s a model railway at copenhagen central station

i love nick so much

look at this frequency

last night train for my trip!

i went to the postal museum today, it was great

i dont know why five guys is trying to get into sweden when max is superior

so SJ doesnt have ticket offices ir even ticket machines anymore - buy tickets online/app or through convenience stores. i just used a self-serve checkout at a pressbyrån and i saw the option! interesting GUI, i guess it prints the tickets on the same thermal paper stock as it does receipts

imagine four levels of government

i visited a museum at uppsala university to see the stuff belonging to anders celsius (his thermometer!), linnaeus, and ångström. i might log this as professional learning hours