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Marco Chitti
ChittiMarco
1/ During the "lesson from Europe/Japan" session of #ModernRail2020 (un)conference we briefly debated the uncertain destiny of secondary rail linesto follow up, here is a thread about the parallel stories
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Mark Rickerby
maetl
The Ministry of Works trained generations of architects and engineers and built infrastructure to a standard that corporates like Fletcher and Downer have never reached, but its worst tendency was
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John Bull
garius
A LOT of left, right or religious extremist bullshit works by preying on your belief that you are a smart person."You know that thing you think should be simple to
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Toronto Railway Museum
TORailwayMuseum
Nov 28, 1995: @CNRailway ceases to be a federal Crown corporation with the conclusion of its initial public offering. The company had been incorporated 76 years earlier and absorbed two
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Dawar Butt
theLahorewala
#StoryTime“Button Sahib”, born Jahan Dad Khan, renamed John Paul Warburton, called “Wa-ar-button” by Punjabis, in the land he served. Older and lesser known (step)brother of Sir Robert Warburton (the famed
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Dr Craig Dalȝell
thecommongreen
Good thread and it's well worth reading the paper (it's linked in the last post).Some of my own comments in this threadhttps://twitter.com/JohnFinnieHI/status/1349269777689300992 First, it's really good to see that the
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#DhartiDePutt
SPSSM
National cost of 'illegal farm laws' to India as a nation? - threadContinuous protests going on in punjab & haryana since June 2020. Single day protests called by various Kisan
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Simon “Kinematic” K
SimonZev
So today @ImIncorrigible released this clip that shows exactly what kind of horrid ideology the @iealondon are wedded to. Yes, they did say “@NHSuk workers are trapped in a failed
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Blair King
BlairKing_ca
A quick note: by cancelling #KeystoneXL Pres Biden will not reduce GHG emissions since the pipeline was intended to move existing production.Rather, the alternatives to #KXL will generate higher emissions,
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OldRailwayAccidents
RWLDproject
Sneaking in a little #SWOS2020 project thread - on UK railways, accidents & steel!Hopefully you won't mind being Twitterbombed?As several papers so far have shown, transport was crucial to the
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Sanju Verma
Sanju_Verma_
My thread on #UnionBudget2021 shows @narendramodi gov has outlined a vision that is about #Growth,Growth&GrowthCapital Spending,EODB,Tax Transparency,Infra,Health,Education,Asset monetisation,Disinvestment, NPA Resolution&Yes,#Rural
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Tim Dunn
MrTimDunn
At York station is this original North Eastern Rly glazed tiled map, with lines now lost & extant. It includes info that passengers of c.1900 were thought to be interested
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Louise Butcher
LouiseBTS
1/4 Quite a bit of reporting today about what Grant Shapps said yesterday @CommonsTrans about the future of the #railway.A reminder that unless there is primary legislation, any reform to
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NW Friends of Israel
NorthWestFOI
This week marks the 79th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, where the Nazis laid the groundwork for the mass extermination of Jews. On 20 Jan 1942, 15 Nazi officials, led by
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Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
ForeignPoli_C
89 years ago today 2 Canadian frigates docked in El Salvador to bolster a military gov’t that carried out “one of the worst massacres of civilians in the history of
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Tim Dunn
MrTimDunn
Four more of my behind-the-scenes pics from filming ‘The Architecture The Railways Built’ for @YesterdayTweets TV. The v splendid 1877 Grand Staircase at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel (or, as designed
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