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Gareth Dennis

@garethdennis.uk

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Railway engineer and author of HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways). Hosts @railnatter.uk. Chairs Yorkshire PWI and NEREF. Co-founder of the Campaign for Level Boarding. He/him.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 20h

I find myself, once again, in Barnstaple and needing to get up to York on eight hours' worth of trains...

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 5h

it was certainly a kebab

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 12h

still at $0 for dog food, my food, or meds 😔 truly anything helps - if I can raise $10-$20 before the corner store closes at 11 i can get a small bag of dog food from there to last us a few days!

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 13h

still at $0/$355 for my late fee, dog and human food, and meds - I’m starting to get REALLY tired and weak, I’m in a lot of pain, and I RLY need to feed this guy so anything helps! 🫡❤️‍🩹 #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest

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Silver the borzoi cuddled into my lap with his eyes closed while I scratch his forehead and ears

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 12h

SUCCESS.
Thanks for your company!

Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 13h

(I must admit I like the medium weight less and less as I see it roll out. It just looks weak, inassertive and identity-less.)

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 13h

...and the implementation on the running-in boards is SMOL. Fill the space!

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 13h

Rail Alphabet 2 (3?) has found its way to Donny, though only half done at this point...

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14h

goodbye sweet chariot
(with @stevewhiterail.bsky.social's rogue 465 in the background)

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14h

and I'm sure everything it did was good for society

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 14h

Happy centennial!

It’s worth noting that originally this body, the first national traffic engineering institute, was funded 100% by one automobile manufacturer: Studebaker. It was named the Erskine Bureau after the company’s president. In 1935 the Automobile Manufacturers Association took it over.

UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies @uclaits.bsky.social · 22h

🎉 Happy 100th birthday to transportation research at UCLA! 100 years ago today, the UC regents voted to establish the nation's first research center dedicated to street traffic issues. Learn more about our century-long tradition of transportation research www.its.ucla.edu/100...

Black-and-white newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Times in 1925 with the headline “Research in Traffic for University: Studebaker Grant Gives Southern Branch First Bureau in Country.” The article announces the establishment of the first university-based street traffic research bureau at the Southern Branch of the University of California (now UCLA). A small portrait photo of Miller McClintock, the bureau’s first director, appears in the lower half of the article.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14h

basically parallels the usual line from Sheffield to Mexborough via Rotherham Central station

Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14h

TRAM TRAIN
(guess I'm on the classic driver route knowledge run via Rotherham Central)

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 14h

it's not great though, and should be removed

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Pete Pann @isgd2bhi.bsky.social · 9d

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 16h

so far so good, I might get home before 1am!

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 16h

NEW STREET DUNGEON REACHED.
(West Coast Flavour Azuma also sighted!)

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 16h

it's a mixture of reasons at Eggesford! station, passing loop, etc etc

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 16h

(this bit of my journey involves sleep and catching up with @fabthepodcast.bsky.social)

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 17h

When given time and involved early enough, very good!

Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 17h

hahahaha, this is so rubbish

Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 17h

currently crashing hard

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 22h

what did she call us | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: MATTIE and one other person are handcuffed on a platform over a big cylindrical vat full of glowing liquid. Behind them, TWO ARMED TROOPERS stand. One is shouting, next to a big lever.
TROOPER: You have all been charged with sexual deviance under the new statutes!
TROOPER: You are hereby sentenced…

PANEL 2: Closer in on MATTIE and the person next to her.
TROOPER (VO): …To being dropped into a big vat of acid, thus dissolving your perverted bodies!
MATTIE: I sure did prefer life before we were overrun by fascist stormtroopers.

PANEL 3: The TROOPERS look at each other.
TROOPER 2: Sorry…What did she-he call us?
TROOPER 1: NOT Cool…

PANEL 4: The other TROOPER from panel 3. He's crying, and pulls the lever. Some acid splashes into the frame.
TROOPER: STOP BULLYING ME!
SFX: CLUNK
SFX: SPLASH

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 17h

there were, on this spot - but they were cancelled

Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 17h

Exeter St Davids, however, as one of the fastest growing stations in the country and the busiest in Devon, is looking tired. Lots of opportunities, but little in the way of action. It needs a full redevelopment as part of a long term masterplan.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 17h

(oriented to match my video up top)

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 17h

To Barnstaple, that is... Talking of which, here's the scale of Junction station at the end of the nineteenth century:

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