#Railway

This seems really weird. What made the NZ response (and ROK, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, etc) work is that they have prevented infection arriving via quarantine.The other big UK mistake was
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Konosuba characters if they were British railway wagons: a thread Kazuma: RCH 7-plank wagon-Most common type of wagon-Versatile but not particularly skilled at any specific job-Able to survive a surprisingly
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Small - mostly rural - bus companies are one of the things that have made me think hardest about #LocalHistory, being a historian and how we describe histories of place.
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Reading @Richard_rail’s exclusive with the new @chilternrailway MD in the week’s @RAIL. Great that Richard got an interview but, wow, a lack of vision from Richard Allan /1 As a
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New research from @RMTunion reveals that the private rail companies in Scotland set to make over £28 million in profit under Covid-19 Emergency Agreements, equivalent to up to a 7.4%
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I have been staring at some rather marvellous late 1850s/early 1860s photos on the National Galleries website that show the Canal Street railway station which served the Scotland Street tunnel.
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This, and a lot of the replies, are deeply reckless - but also inaccurate. It’s not something the industry is necessarily helping, but let’s put a few facts straight...https://twitter.com/every_station/status/1278249506753187842 Travel
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Kaduna: Crossing Over the River of Snails byChristian O. EmmanuelHausa historians employ the instruments of falsehood to distort the details of the history of their neighbours. This has always been
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Good morning to everyone except for Cardiff Councils Planning Committee It’s disappointing on the surface that the planning committee approved plans to begin enabling works yesterday. By approving the enabling
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There a great info in here about frequency vs. cost that would also hold true for things like rail service to Sarnia.https://www.railwayage.com/news/second-in-a-series-cutting-service-actually-costs-more/ When train frequency is reduced fix
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Thomas Sankara is my favourite Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary and here's why: >Drove out French colonialism >Vaccinated 2.5 million children>Planted 10 million trees >Outlawed forced marriages >Carried out a national lite
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Okay I know I said I wasn't gonna comment on it again butA Transformers fan shitting on Thomas fans for being upset with this is such cognitive dissonanceI'm also a
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1/ (long read) Here’s today’s AMN (Antidote to News Misery) pix posting. I first visited the East Lancs Rly of today in 1982, as Assistant Editor of Steam World. My
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Before you support #FarmersProstest, heard about “Cancer Train” of Punjab?Poor people suffering from several types of cancers as Rich Farmers use banned pesticides to maximise their profit.Report by @ndtv yet
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With the newly released map @Conserva_North that has ppl talking about logging old growth, it triggers for me our struggle with industrial logging - we have lived in our remote
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Yesterday, @JuliaBradbury asked #whyHS2 is happening and if I could say a few things about it...Hopefully we'll have a chance to have a proper Q&A about it in a couple
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