Unhealthy interests in trains, planes and automobiles. Plus tech, telephones, travel, coffee and the environment. Views are mine.

North West, UK
Joined March 2009
Trans-Pennine Connect are holding a meeting in Stocksbridge on the 2nd Nov, which will see a debate on the reopening of the Woodhead Route. Hosted at The Venue in Stocksbridge (S36 1DY), there will be a presentation of the project starting at 6pm followed by a Q&A from 7pm.
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📢 Yn dilyn y tarfu a achoswyd gan Storm Austen a Storm Boelo, mae rhai gwasanaethau'n parhau i gael eu heffeithio. Gwiriwch eich taith cyn i chi deithio. 🔗trc.cymru/statws-gwasanaeth/… 📷 Mae'r lluniau'n dangos y difrod a achoswyd gan y stormydd dros y penwythnos.
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Acidente no monotrilho 😳
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Rare Aesthetic: Art Deco hotels in Miami
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Following a freight train derailment near Barking, c2c services are severely disrupted. We are unable to serve Dagenham Dock, Rainham and Purfleet. Rail replacement buses and ticket acceptance are in place. Please check before you travel: orlo.uk/5ZlaI
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GEC #Class91 91127 ‘Neville Hill’ powers LNER 1A19 1137 Bradford Forster Square > London Kings Cross #InterCity225 through Kirkstall #AiredaleLine
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F1 pit crews replace all four tires in about two seconds
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unitedutilities.com/winderme… @unitedutilities want to charge every customer in the North West an additional £36 to sort out the plumbing mess that is dumping raw sewage into Lake Windermere Excuse me, but what was the additional 34 % rise over the last 2 years supposed to cover?
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🚨 BREAKING: Inception Racing will be back for its fifth consecutive full-time @IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship campaign, although will switch from Ferrari to Corvette in the GTD class. ➡️ sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/i… #IMSA
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Alexei Sayle's Stuff (19th October 1989). A lot more work goes into the production of each episode of Stuff than you might expect.
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**For Sale: Jetsons Flying Saucer Prop** 🛸 #Quirky #Ride
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A GR lamp box for #PostboxSaturday from The Trolleybus 🚎 Museum @TrolleybusSToft at Sandtoft, near Doncaster. Well worth a visit to this friendly #museum, which has the world’s largest collection of historic trolleybuses.
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A1 northbound just north of Grantham is at a complete stop. Little heading south as well. Fire engine just gone through northbound, so likely a an accident. Avoid if you can!
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🖍️| 5Q85 1135 Craigentinny T.&R.S.M.D to Merchant Park Sidings 📣| @ScotRail 🚅| 43468 🚅| 43484 🚅| 385107 📍| Spittal 📆| 06/10/2026 #class43 #43468 #scotrail #class385 📸| Photography by @ASMRailPhotos©️
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Nice one.
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🎥 Behind the magic #AstonMartin #Valkyrie #WEC
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Setting the scene in Barca. Today we brought the cars. Tomorrow, we bring the noise. #AstonMartin #Valkyrie #WEC
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There we have it - x2 GC Class 221s to EMR, on a short term lease - find-tender.service.gov.uk/N… @Modern_Railways @Clinnick1 @TodaysRailways @RailwaysToday
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For only £3 a month you can adopt an economy passenger. Help us stop the brutal and inhumane way we treat them by donating today. You’ll receive a framed picture of your very own economy passenger and regular updates as to where their luggage might be. Thank you.
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F1 just aired footage that no camera ever filmed. The shot follows the Red Bull down the pit lane, swings around the crew during the stop, and ends up directly above Max's helmet. That last angle is the car's own onboard camera. So somewhere in that move, a trackside camera became an onboard camera with no cut in between, and the only way to pull that off is to generate the views no lens ever occupied. A computer built those frames out of the footage around them. Hollywood figured this out in 1999. For the bullet time shot in The Matrix, the crew bolted around 120 cameras in a ring around Keanu and fired them off in sequence to fake one impossible camera move. Months of planning for a single scene, and it won them the visual effects Oscar. Nobody planned this pit stop for a camera. Max boxed on lap 33 of a live race, got his tires, and the replay came out looking like someone flew a ghost camera through the whole thing. The audio gives it away too. Computer-built frames don't have microphones attached, so the replay runs on ambient feed sound and you hear the broadcast booth murmuring instead of an engine. And this was a routine pit stop. Wait until they start doing overtakes like this.
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