More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

Congratulations to the Rhondda Tunnel Society for obtaining planning permission to excavate the Blaencwm Portal of the Tunnel (shown below - it’s a field). We have awarded a £100k grant to support this work. The current method of accessing the tunnel is not easy as I found out in 2023.

Here I am… X is not a healthy place to be!!

Fenny Stratford Viaduct BFOB1 visit today. Thanks to the Eastwestrail Alliance for arranging the visit. Hosted by @atkinsrealis.bsky.social @paulbigland.bsky.social @locusinpes.bsky.social @teamgreen70020.bsky.social - one day you'll get there! @trainstramstracks.bsky.social

RIP Bob Weir. I was lucky enough to see him at the Royal Albert Hall last year, his final appearance in Europe.

Amazing to see #ArmandoIannucci announced for Taskmaster! Catch Armando ahead of the new season at Slapstick Festival (Wed 4th - Sun 8th Feb, Bristol) reuniting with Chris Addison and Rebecca Front to get into #TheThickofIt, a career retrospective and introducing #InTheLoop. Tickets below 👇

Fantastic day with some great friends! Back home now warming up. Can barely feel my feet!

Ribblehead viaduct at sunset featuring Avanti… It’s very very very cold here! But worth braving the cold for a photo I think

On this day in 1949, Southampton said goodbye to its tram system. It started back in 1879 with a horse-drawn network, before the system went electric in 1900. By the end of WW2, the whole system needed upgrading and modernising, but the council decided that buses would be a better alternative. 1/8

With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.

General Boxing Day rail services were withdrawn steadily in England and Wales from the 1950s, but in 1975 BR withdrew the remainder. They returned only in 1977 (with some exceptions) The ad from 14 Dec 1963 evidences the competition from cars "Go by train, and relax let someone else do the driving"

'Old train take me back again To the one that I love' - 'Deltics' by Chris Rea (1979) 📷 Robert Davies

This is your annual reminder that Chris Rea wrote 'Driving Home For Christmas' after his record company, Magnet, refused to buy him a train ticket from London back to his native Middlesbrough. Instead wife Joan drove south by car to pick Chris up & bring him home. 📷 Keith Holt

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

Inspiration - done! Yesterday we took the Railway Work, Life & Death project onto the #Railway200 exhibition train, at #Southampton. A hectic - but excellent - day. Thanks to everyone who visited, & the @railway200 team on board & all behind the scenes. Some highlights ...

Great to meet Mike of @rwldproject.bsky.social at Southampton & BBC Solent. And a reunion with @drdavest.bsky.social a former colleague from 1976. Hosted by Phil Dominey of SWR. The @railway200.bsky.social Inspiration train visits @thewatercressline.bsky.social & Swanage Railways in 2026.

Uk to rejoin Erasmus scheme - set to be confirmed formally tomorrow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Project co-lead Mike will be on BBC Radio Solent tomorrow morning, at about 10.30, live from Inspiration, the #Railway200 exhibition train. He'll be talking about the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts exhibition, alongside Phil Dominey, from South Western Railway, hosting the train at Southampton.

If we are really worried about the pressure put on the NHS by flu then shouldn’t we have offered the flu vaccine to more people for free?

The section of Metrolink between St Peter's Sq and Deansgate-Castlefield, during construction. 1991.

Antwerpen Centraal is considered by many to be the most beautiful railway station in the world. Unfortunately it is let down by the wonky Christmas tree in Le Royal Cafe - have they never heard of a spirit level??

I see the founder of the Design Council has a favourable view of the new 'great british trains' livery. Oh, wait...

Electro-diesel Stadler Flirts selected to replace Dublin – Belfast Enterprise trains www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and....

Great British Railways flies the flag as logo goes back to the future

🚨Railway200 news!🚨 The Railway Work, Life & Death project is in the partner zone on Inspiration, the #Railway200 exhibition train! Come on board at #Southampton Central - we're there on Tuesday 16 Dec, with our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts work! www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/finding-the-...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Why is the Prime Minister ignoring his own Chief Economic Advisor, who recommended a Customs Union with the EU to boost growth? Instead he's choosing to hike taxes in a cost of living crisis.

'You're just taking your ass to the top of that building Throwing yourself under cars and trains Taking the pill that you know will kill you Under the wheels, the same, the same' - 'Cars and Trains' by George Michael (2004) - 📷 Grantham, England, 1962, taken by Jack Ray

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

The Altrincham interchange where Greater Manchester buses link with overhead electric services of British Rail. From Buses magazine, November 1978 - Pic: J. G. Glover

Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice. Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in. It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her. open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...

I'm trying to unpick Heidi Alexander's speech... We are "only supporting projects that are fully costed and affordable".. so we cancelled Midland Mainline electrification - without costing or ensuring the alternative was affordable (1/2) www.railwaygazette.com/uk/midland-m...

Do you want your taxes to increase? No thanks. Do you want financial chaos? No thanks. Do you want public services and investment to collapse? No thanks. Do you understand trade-offs? People like me are sick of politicians...

The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.

Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.

We must restore our Transporter Bridge "The Transporter Bridge has to be restored and put back into full working action - whatever it takes" - Andy McDonald MP northeastbylines.co.uk/region/teess...

Enjoying a nice day out and supporting the @iblrg.bsky.social

A quick whizz round parts of Yorkshire this evening - first up was Cameron’s Strongarm in the Head of Steam, Leeds where

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the promise broken is a necessity of the present. Machiavelli

Happy Halloween everyone. #WorldBollardAssociation 👻

Let's have a look into the #CrossChannelRail 🔮 and see where all this is heading after today's news Virgin Trains will have access to Temple Mills depot This thread is speculative - please forgive that - but somehow I am left with a kind of impression we're missing some parts of the jigsaw still

What was that Sooty? The children can't hear you!

Andy Street is spot on. Birmingham is a brilliant city. Vibrant, diverse, wonderful.

James Watney returned to earth to see his Watney bitters in 1981

🔴 BREAKING: Chancellor believes allowing young people to live and work across Britain and the EU would boost the economy and reduce the need for tax rises in the budget. https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_outlines_ambitious_yms

Obama says Trump linking paracetamol to autism is ‘violence against the truth’

This sums up one of the huge problems with British media - utterly shameful

We’re not sure about Trump’s Tylenol/Paracetamol claims. But we’re pretty sure we know the best way to get the economy going again in the UK. #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM #RestoreFOM #CostOfLiving

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

And, because these utter fucks have slashed education programmes and defunded healthcare, fewer children will get diagnosed and get the help they need, and they will claim they cut autism in half. GUARANTEED this is what will happen. It's just too, too depressing.