With 98% of votes counted, the results showed that around half of Moldovans favored staying on the EU course. The ruling pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), which has held a strong parliamentary majority since 2021, secured 49.6% of ballots, according to preliminary results. The […]

#Türkiye, #Syria and #Jordan have agreed to revive the historic #Hejaz#jordan#syria#türkiyeilway line. [...] Originally constructed between 1900 and 1908 under Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Hejaz railway line stretched approximately 1,750 kilometers, linking Istanbul to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and […]

#Russia has devised a plan to intervene in elections in #Moldova ...]. The multi-pronged strategy was finalized in spring and coordinated directly by the #kremlin#moldova#russiaThe goal is to undermine the chances of President Maia [#Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity in the Sept. 28 vote and ultimately […]

High-speed electric multiple unit HT80101 Ankara, Turkey. Photo credit: mikhail.krivyy/CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HT80101.jpg #RailwaySunday #train #railways #HT80101 #Ankara #Turkey #Türkiye #Asia #PublicTransport #snow

With almost 14,000 produced units between 1960 and 1999, the ČKD Tatra T3 tram car is still the most widespread of its type in the world (2022). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T3 Photo credit: Praha, Tatra T3SUCS č. 7290. Praha, Tatra T3SUCS č […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

#Norway's minority #LabourParty government won a second term in power on Monday while the populist right achieved its best-ever result, official counts showed, in an election dominated by concerns over rising living costs and wars in #Ukraine and #gaza#ukraine#labourparty#norwayIncumbent Prime Minister Jonas Gahr […]

With up to 116m below the ground, the #Hongyancun station of the Chongqing Rail Transit in #Chongqing, #China is the deepest metro station in the world. It was opened on January 25th, 2022. Prior to that, the #kyiv Metro's #Arsenalna#kyiv#china#chongqing#Hongyancuntion held the record […]

#Paris is fully automating its busy #Metro Line 13, allowing driverless operation. #siemens#metro#parisobility has received the contract, which includes an automation system, a new operations control centre, and equipment for 66 trains. The project should be finished in late 2032. Line 13 is 24km long […]

Today, 34 years ago, #Ukraine declared its #independence from the #SovietUnion (24.8.1991). Unfortunately, the country's independence is at risk right now due to #russia#sovietunion#independence#ukraineongoing invasion. Слава Україні!

La Trochita on the Chico River, Río Negro Province. Photo credit: Ferrocarril La Trochita. Juan Macri/CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trochita_puente_sobre_R%C3%ADo_Chico.JPG #RailwaySunday #Trochita #LaTrochita #OldPatagonianExpress […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

🧵 "Track gauge" is the distance between the two rails of a railway track. Standard gauge with a distance of 1 435 mm is the most widely used track gauge around the world, making up roughly 55% of all tracks. While sometimes a historical or pragmatic choice, building new tracks with a specific […]

#Austria laid the first tracks produced with green hydrogen instead of fossil fuels, making them the first net zero CO₂ emission tracks in the world. The new tracks were used at the western exit from #Linz main station. #öbb#linz#austriaEO, Andreas Matthä, stated, the ÖBB wants to produce all its steel […]

The French brewery La Débauche brewed a beer called "Big Boy", a Chili Imperial Stout (which is really good, btw). It even features a prominent steam locomotive on its label, which, however, doesn't look much like the historical #UnionPacific #bigboy#unionpacific[…]

Tram and traffic on San Martín y Viamonte, downtown Buenos Aires. The Pontiac in the middle indicates that this photo was taken no earlier than 1947. Photo credit: Asociación Amigos del Tranvía/Public Domain […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

A great read for everyone reading "social media" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us "We paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity […]

On June 15, 1667, the first direct blood transfusion to a human was performed by the physician Jean-Baptiste #Denis, when he gave a feverish young man approximately 12 ounces of #blood#denistaken from a lamb. https://www.britannica.com/science/blood-transfusion/Blood-substitutes We have come a long […]

The #EuropeanUnion's draft budget, unveiled last week, includes "unprecedented financial commitment to #rail #infrastructure and #sustainable #transport initiatives." The funds for the #HorizonEurope and #cef#horizoneurope#transport#sustainable#infrastructure#rail#europeanunionoubled to € 175 billion and € 50 billion respectively, boosting infrastructure […]

I regularly see #users on #Mastadon #retooting their own #toots. What is the idea here? I simply imagine them thinking "my toot was so good, I have to repeat it so people can read it again." Obviously I'm missing something, but can't work out what. #AskMastadon #question #socialmedia

During a test run in June, an #ice train has reached a top speed of 405 km/h on the Erfurt–Leipzig/Halle high-speed railway. It provided "valuable data for maintaining and upgrading high-speed lines, as well as advancing high-speed train technology". Typically ICE services operate at a maximum […]

A heritage railway is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) in the history of rail transport. While some heritage railways are profitable […]

The #TbilisiMetro opened on 11 January 1966, making it the fourth metro system in the former #SovietUnion. It consists two lines, serving 23 stations. Most of its stations are deeply built and vividly decorated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi_Metro […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

#Stadler unveiled #RSZero in the #CzechRepublic, a fully decarbonised #locomotive. It offers a green alternative to the country's ageing diesel vehicles. Only 35% of Czechia's rail network is electrified. It is the second country, after #germany#locomotive#czechrepublic#rszero#stadler introduce the RS Zero. It has a range of up to […]

In the Lac-Mégantic #rail #disaster on July 6, 2013, an unattended 73-car #mma#disaster#railreight train carrying crude oil rolled down a 1.2% grade and derailed in the Canadian town Lac-Mégantic. Multiple tank cars exploded, killing 47 people and destroying roughly half of all buildings in the town centre […]

With all votes counted, Right-wing historian Karol #Nawrocki has been elected Poland's new president, the state electoral commission (#PKW) said. PKW said Nawrocki won 50.9% percent of the votes – ahead of Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafal #Trzaskowski#pkw#nawrockin 49.1% percent […]

The #Liziba station is a #monorail station in #Chongqing. #China. It is located on the sixth to eight floor of a residential building, with the rails also passing right through the building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liziba_station Photo credit: A train […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

I think why these these railway arguments annoy me over and over is loads of people just have yes-no answers to everything "It's privatisation!" Errr, it's not so clear - private enterprise can help *sometimes*, but can also present problems, it depends what you do and how "It was all better […]

#SouthWesternRailway (SWR) has been renationalised, making it the first train company to transfer to public ownership under Labour. The first nationalised service, from #Woking to #surbiton#woking#southwesternrailwaydeparted [today ...] at 05:36. [...] Seven more companies will be renationalised by 2027 as each of their […]

Centrist Warsaw Mayor Rafal #Trzaskowski 31.36%] and nationalist Karol #Nawrocki [29.54%] will compete in a second round of the presidential election in [#poland#nawrocki#Trzaskowskin June 1, the electoral commission said based on votes from 100% of electoral districts […]

#Portugal’s ruling center-right #DemocraticAlliance (#AD) won a snap parliamentary #election on Sunday but again fell short of the majority needed to end a long period of instability as the far-right #chega#election#ad#democraticallianceined a record share of the vote […]

Pro-European Union candidate Nicusor #Dan has won #Romania's closely watched presidential runoff against ...] hard-right nationalist George #simion#romania#dan nearly complete electoral data shows. A huge turnout Sunday played a key role in the tense election that many viewed as a geopolitical choice […]

Last week I got a new GPU and was finally able to play #Stalker2. I have been excited since the #game was announced. About 2 hours in, I'm thrilled with the atmosphere of the #zone#game#stalker2It feels much like the old games (in a good way), but with way better graphics. I can't wait to be back in the […]

A #PKP class #SM15. Photo taken at the #TrainMuseum in #Warsaw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP_class_SM15 #RailwaySunday #railway #trains #locomotive #Europe #Poland #Polska #Warszawa #technology #transport #StacjaMuzeum

Staircase in an apartment building in #Warsaw #Warszawa #Poland #Europe #photography #travel

The #SwissNorthernRailway, also known as Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn (lit. Spanish bun railway, named after a local #pastery) was the first railway line in #Switzerland. It opened in 1847 and connected the cities #Zurich and #Baden […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

Marketplace of Brühl with steam train of the Cologne-Bonn RR, about 1900. Photo credit: unknown photographer/Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruehl_Feuriger_Elias.jpg #RailwaySunday #steam #tram #train #railway #Cologne #Bonn #Germany #urban #transport

#OpenRailRouting is a neat tool that allows you to find a #route by #rail#route#OpenRailRoutinghttps://routing.openrailrouting.org/maps/ It does not, however, access schedules to give you actual, real-world connections, but simply finds a route on rail between two ore more points, and lets you download it as a GPX […]

The longest #rail #transport network in the #world is found in the #us#world#transport#railth a total length of 220,044 km (2019). Less than 1% is electrified. At its peak in 1917 it used to be 428,180 km long. In a century, it shrank to half of its former size, but still remains the largest of its kind […]

#NationalRailways of #Zimbabwe 15A class 4-6-4+4-6-4 'Garratt' no. 407 Ukhozi ('Eagle', built by #BeyerPeacock in 1950) positioned with a train on the #VictoriaFalls bridge, Zimbabwe. Photo credit: MaltaGC/CC BY-SA 4.0 […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

The #RiyadhMetro in #SaudiArabia is the world's longest driverless #train network. It is 176km long, has six lines and transports 1.2M passengers daily. https://railway-news.com/yeltech-x-riyadh-metro-powering-the-worlds-longest-driverless-train-network/ […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

According to #DiscoveryUK, the longest and heaviest #train ever rolling on our planet was a 682-car train powered by eight locomotives in #Australia. Its total length was 7,353 meters and the weight accumulated to 99,732.1 tons. The train transported iron ore for mining company #BHPBilliton#australia#train#DiscoveryUKow […]

#PuffingBilly, an historic steam train still running regularly in the mountain district, was built to serve at the turn of the century. The #railway is the sole survivor of four experimental lines used to develop rural areas in the early 1900's […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

#CPKC's first high-powered #hydrogen #locomotive entered regular service. It will be used to haul freight trains carrying coal. Hydrogen can be used to reduce #emissions#locomotive#hydrogen#cpkc greenhouse gases, where cheaper and more energy-efficent clean solutions are not available […]

#Amtrak should be privatised, Elon #musk#amtraksaid at a Morgan Stanley technology conference. As a visitor to the US you'll have "a very bad impression of America" if you use their service. Amtrak, however, says that their "business performance is strong" and "ridership and revenue are at all-time […]

M-7 Kenison (ascending), Mount Washington Cog Railway, New Hampshire. King of Hearts/King of Hearts. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway_October_2021_015_edit.jpg #RailwaySunday #railway #train #MountWashingtonCogRailway #fall #photo

Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau announced last week that the first high-speed line of the country will be built over the next six years. The 1000km long route will connect Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City, reducing travelling times significantly—between Toronto and Montreal alone by […]

With 57% #Zelenskyy's approval rating in #Ukraine is higher than #Trump's approval rating in the #US. It has even increased by 5 percentage points since december. https://www.morgenpost.de/politik/article408352804/ukraine-kontert-trumps-diktator-angriff-wird-zum-eigentor.html #europe#us#trump…]

Ever wondered how the #tramway #tracks look like under the pavement? A #grooved #rail is used, invented by Alphonse Loubat in 1852. It consists of a railhead, which carries the tram's weight, and a guard that may act as a checkrail […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

Last weekend the Open Film Database (https://ofdb.cc) received another update, which included the migration from #WordPress (Blog) and #DokuWiki (Wiki) to #Drupal, front-end improvements for TV shows, improved cast editing, and more! The #OFDb#drupal#dokuwiki#wordpress a database for movies and TV shows with its […]

While #Swiss people think the country's #cohesion is "weak" or "rather weak" according to a recent #survey, they also said that #Switzerland's direct democracy is the main reason that holds them together. These days we often hear about #democracy#switzerland#survey#cohesion#swisscrisis, and it's just nice to read this very […]