🚇 "Earliest version of Tube map expected to fetch £100,000 at auction." The annotated proof of Harry Beck’s London Underground diagram shows work in progress on ‘one of the most influential designs of the 20th century’ ⏬️ 🆓 www.thetimes.com/article/0f40...

Stunning photos of Italy’s landmark loco class E444 as it returns to mainline service on a test run near Rome. 3,000kW, built 1967 for 200kmh/125mph trains. Nickname Tartaruga (tortoise) with cab side sticker. E444R rebuilt 1980 with remodelled front. www.instagram.com/p/DQ4ATmaDzY...

I wish crews locked overhead bins... ✈️ The Times: "The terrifying day I used WizzAir’s emergency slide... An exclusive look at the low-cost carrier’s safety training - including a take-off, a landing and a frighteningly real emergency evacuation." 🆓⏬️ www.thetimes.com/article/70b5...

Trains collide near Bratislava. Dozens injured, nine seriously Two Slovak Railways (ZSSK) trains collided near the town of Pezinok, north of Bratislava, on Sunday evening.

🥸 Who’d have thought it? 🥸 Russian activist held in Poland admits he worked as FSB agent, court papers say. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🚂🚞🚋🚞🚋. Architects have just days left to throw their hats into the ring for the chance to design a £6.3 million visitor centre for the Glenfinnan Viaduct in Lochaber, which featured in four of the Harry Potter films www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...

🍁🍂🍇 The summer sun is fading as the year grows old…. but Italy’s heritage trains from #FondazioneFS bring life to the countryside. Today DMU/ALn 668 on a 3hr, 100km, €8 trip Avellino-mountain top village Cairano. 📍 maps.app.goo.gl/Lth1uRzENvUZ... ℹ️: www.fondazionefs.it/en/itinerari...

🚌 "UK investigates remote ‘kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses. The Department for Transport is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to understand whether vehicles made by Yutong can be remotely deactivated." 🆓 ⏬️ www.thetimes.com/article/1b71...

Rail symbol socks available from the Design Museum Shop… designmuseumshop.com/collections/...

🇺🇸 The San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority (SJJPA) is proud to introduce a new chapter in the history of California’s intercity passenger rail services The rebrand from Amtrak San Joaquins to Gold Runner, effective November 3, 2025. media.amtrak.com/2025/11/amtr...

Yorkshire Post: “The North has been 'very patient' waiting for better train network, Lord Hendy Rail Minister says. He promised the Government would set out a fully funded and realistic plan for Northern Powerhouse Rail.” www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...

YouTube travel vloggers alert; 🇱🇰 “I flew to Sri Lanka for £177 - here’s how you can too. Why spend 11 hours flying direct when you can do it in 100 hours instead? Our writer got bonus stopovers in Istanbul and Dubai before arriving in Colombo.” 🆓⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/5253...

BIG NEWS On 7/12/25, GM sees the biggest change to rail services for 30+ years. A new fairer, simpler fare system will come in across our 96 stations. 🐝 Singles will be half the price of returns 🐝 Tickets will be valid on any operator 🐝 Average fare will fall by 5.6% 1/2

🛜 "British Airways to offer free wifi from Elon Musk’s Starlink. IAG said the satellite internet connection, due to come into service next year, would be as good or better than home connectivity. It will be available on all routes." 🆓 ⏬️ www.thetimes.com/article/d87d...

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Great news! Our Cyrville Station livestream is back! Come check it out here on YouTube youtube.com/live/M6-qGZh...

BREAKING! Blogger's idea to get EU to legislate against scraping trains to happen! 😂 My 2021 blog post: jonworth.eu/the-eu-shoul... Today "Commission will propose, in 2027, measures to ban anticompetitive scrapping of functioning and safe rolling stock" transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/...

So, the latest GreenSignals podcast about Virgin getting access to Temple Mills is now up www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikDn... My job was to knit it all together, but there are v interesting parts from Phil Whittingham (Virgin) & Diccon Spain (Ashford councillor), esp about Trenitalia #CrossChannelRail

Nice to see my old office, York's North Eastern Rly HQ, now 5⭐️ hotel, piping St Pancras! "12 great railway-themed stays. To mark 200 years of UK railways - the most memorable station hotels, converted carriages & station houses for a unique getaway." 🆓 ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/e920...

“Cumbria train derailment: four injured after incident near Shap. A train was derailed by a landslide while travelling at 80mph in Cumbria on Monday, causing minor injuries to four people and disruption to railway services for“a number of days”. 🆓⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/baa5...

My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

✈️ We've gone full circle. BA Business Class fare from LHR now better value than budget airline from Out-of-town airport + bag + train fare + hotel. BA540 to Bologna, no Scheghen hassle so far either. 🛂

🛜 Just when you thought on-train WiFi couldn’t get any worse! 🙄

Oh no just found myself with transport influencer @ogilvie.org.uk and look where we turned up...

‘It’s fantastic’: How changes to Enterprise service have transformed Dublin-Belfast rail travel

The Times: "The mistakes I’ve made travelling by train, and how to avoid them. Riding the rails is one of the best ways to travel, but it’s not without pitfalls. ⁦‪⁦‪Oliver Berry‬⁩ shares his railway blunders from decades of experience." 🆓⏬️ www.thetimes.com/article/0b5f...

🇵🇹🚉🇪🇸 “Five-hour Lisbon-Madrid rail link to go ahead by 2030, say Portuguese and Spanish governments and the European Commission.” www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...

Class 20 English Electric engine Steam heat Mark Is Keighley & Worth Valley Railway 🔊 Sound on.....!

🚇 The Times: “Richard Branson promises ‘shake-up’ of Channel Tunnel travel. Virgin Trains wins legal challenge to Eurostar, its owner pledges cheaper fares and more cross-Channel destinations from 2030.” ⬇️ 🆓 www.thetimes.com/article/1930...

🌉 “Italian court rejects Sicily road & rail bridge plan in setback for Meloni government. Meloni and Salvini lash out at court ruling and vow to forge ahead with construction of bridge.” www.wantedinrome.com/news/italian...

So it's VIRGIN TRAINS that gets access to Temple Mills www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/... #CrossChannelRail

Rail blue DMUs, diesel fumes from under the platform and glowing saloon light bulbs - my memories of the 80s. Just missing the filthy 🚬 carriage. A fabulous example of BR(E) at Keighley today.

#Rail200 keeps giving... I'm at Keighley to see "Inspiration Train" and the fabulous Worth Valley Railway. Steam, diesel & DMU trains & a look through 200 years of rail history on platform 3.

New travel options proposed by Open Access operator Lumo - uplift for the Stirling to London route - Introduction of Rochdale to London - this a resubmission following a review of the previous aborted application - a new Cardiff to York service

The Times: 🇮🇳 "10 of the best luxury train journeys in India. There’s no better way to experience the stunning sights of India than from one of the country’s palatial trains - these are the most incredible trips" 🆓⏬️ www.thetimes.com/article/dd75...

Finally - I’ve discovered the Stourbridge Shuttle! A unique train on a unique 1.3km line - the shortest line in UK with a daily service. The class 139 train is powered by a Ford Puma car engine, converted to LPG. Trip takes 2.5 minutes Stourbridge Jn-Town.

Great trip on the Avellino to Rocchetta S. Antonio line yesterday in Southern Italy to celebrate 130 years since its opening. Many thanks to @ogilvie.org.uk for great work publicising the www.fondazionefs.it/it/treni-sto...!

In a change to Italian trains, I’m in my old home of UK this week, visiting some new & unseen rail sights… First, at Wakefield, a 5 car former Virgin West Coast super voyager. Now on east coast mainline with CrossCountry to Penzance.

🚉 Sunday Times: "Britain’s railways may be a mess, but at least we’re not France. The longest-running Network Rail chief criticises unions and laments policy flip-flopping - but he still insists that Britain has the best railway in Europe" ⏬️ 🆓 www.thetimes.com/article/2d0c...

The Times: "Mark Smith, ⁦‪@seatsixtyone‬⁩ the voice of rail travel website, gathers his family and takes the scenic route to the Turquoise Coast via Prague, Budapest. My two-week Tring to Turkey rail holiday - that even won over my teens." 🆓 ⏬️ www.thetimes.com/article/6e5f...

✈️ LS948 NAP-MAN Ready for takeoff! Jet2's 21 year old 737 has seen better days. Seems to be a Croation aircraft.

Mark Smith,⁦‪@seatsixtyone‬⁩ tells The Times: “Hooray for the double-decker train! I’ve a soft spot for them. As Eurostar announces the launch of a two-storey fleet Mark Smith, The Man in Seat 61, says it’s just a shame we had to wait so long.” ⬇️🆓 www.thetimes.com/article/1ea8...

My assumption that the 30 Avelia Horizon trains Eurostar has ordered would NOT be used on #CrossChannelRail routes initially drew some criticism yesterday Here I explain why - looking at Eurostar's fleet - replacing ex-Thalys trains with Avelia Horizon is most likely jonworth.eu/working-out-...

🚉 Cowley branch line: "Oxford rail link to reopen as ‘Europe’s Silicon Valley’ takes shape. The chancellor has given the green light, & £120m, to the reopen the Cowley branch line following a campaign co-founded by the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford." ⏬️ 🆓 www.thetimes.com/article/37c8...

🚅 Double-decker trains for Eurostar. Replacing Thalys & TMST 373 stock, 400 metre trains carrying 1,000 passengers to arrive at London St Pancras from 2031. A €2 billion deal between Eurostar and French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom." ⏬️ 🆓 www.thetimes.com/article/55a4...

🛬 "Parking private jet at Edinburgh airport ‘cheaper than a car’. Motorists parking at Edinburgh’s drop-off and pick-up zone, a short walk from the terminal, are charged £18 for an hour, which is more expensive than the cost to keep a small jet on the airfield." www.thetimes.com/article/5c3b...

🇧🇪 "A three-day strike action will take place on 24, 25, and 26 November against the Federal Government's budget cuts, the unions announced on Tuesday. Railways will strike on Monday 24 November & all public services in Belgium on Tuesday 25 November." www.brusselstimes.com/1805614/thre...

🇯🇪 "Plan to reopen Jersey railway splits islanders. The proposals would see the restoration of track between the Channel Island’s capital St Helier and the west of the island, together with a new line to the airport." 🆓 ⏬️ www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/5e86bef...

Tetley Malthouse, Mill Street, Leeds, winter 1973, photo by Peter Mitchell.

🚌 "Flixbus, the coach company with no coaches, eyes the No 1 slot. Five years ago the firm was not even a competitor with National Express but now its services criss-cross Britain. It says its tech-savvy approach helps hugely." www.thetimes.com/article/bbb2...