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scavengedluxury · 3 days

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Austro-Hungarian armoured train pulled by a motorised gun carriage, 1916. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#budapest #hungary #railways #world war 1 #1910s

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unbfacts · 11 months

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#baboon #intelligent #animal #railways #employment #astonishing

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ysociety · 2 months

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#nara #japan #street photography #original photographers #artists on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #portra #nihon #nippon #canon #g5xm2 #trains #railways #yellow #blue

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robertogreco · 1 month

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Susan Kare: “The Amtrak USA route system, interpreted in pixels for “The National” magazine in 2018.”

#Susan Kare #2018 #maps #mapping #trains #rail #railways #Amtrak #pixel art

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nobeerreviews · 2 months

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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

-- E. M. Forster

(Copenhagen, Denmark)

#trains #railways #termini #e m forster #travel photography #copenhagen #denmark #train station #train tracks #quote

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ceciasa · 9 months

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NWR Poster 1 - Enthusiast Run

Young Nor' Westers - Natasha Morozov

#art #ttte fanart #artists on tumblr #digital art #ttte #thomas and friends #ttte human oc #ttte gordon #North Western Railway Poster #art deco #railway poster #railways #the railway series #rws #thomas the tank engine #Young Nor' Westers

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world-of-yana · 7 months

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#a train #railways

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sprava-zeleznic · 2 months

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Railway ask game!

Favourite railway station?

Weird thing that happened to you on a train/on a train station?

Do you feel like railway and the tracks belong to the landscape or do you feel like they invade it, they are unnatural?

Do you have a favourite song about trains/which features trains? (If not, please listen to Plenty good room here)

Favourite railway company (other than Správa železnic. We know everybody loves us ofc)

Do you have a favourite locomotive/train type? If not, pick one and share a picture.

The most beautiful route you have taken so far (by train ofc)

Have you ever met friends with anyone on a train?

Delays, unexpected events and so on: complaining time! Tell us.

Your favourite train in fiction, if you have one. If you don't, do you remember any train from a book or a movie?

@zssk @ceske-drahy @regiojet @arriva-cr @mavcsoport @valtionrautatiet-official @flixbus-official @nederlandsespoorwegen @british-rail-official @british-rail @deutsche-bahn @zeleznice-slovenskej-republiky and other 🚂

#trains #transportation #train #vlak #vlaky #eisenbahn #railway #ask game #railways #junat

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weirdowithaquill · 4 months

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Fish in An Engine's Tank? It's More Likely Than You Think:

So, recently I wrote a story for my 'The World Famous Engine' fic (read here) which focused on the Flying Scotsman getting fish and weeds into his tanks, which clogged up his injector.

While on the surface, this sounds like a rehash of 'Thomas Goes Fishing' from Season 1, it's actually a rehash of a real-life event that happened to 60103 Flying Scotsman in 1958.

The story of the original incident goes as such: back in the late 1950s, the Flying Scotsman worked on the ex-GCR mainline through Leicester. On the way to London, the injectors failed one after the other, leading to pandemonium on the footplate as they were forced to basically drop the fire at speed and try desperately to get the injectors working again before their engine blew up with a full express. You can imagine their relief when the water started flowing again!

And despite all of this, they were only five minutes late to Marylebone!

The reason for this absolutely frantic and tense few minutes? Well, the outlet pipes from the tender to the injector were protected by wire mesh, which was absolutely clogged with algae and weeds! And then they managed to extract roughly three buckets worth of live fish - and not little minnows, I'm talking bream and rudd - from Flying Scotsman's tender!

And the cherry on top? The fireman, Ken Issett, recalls a lady who said to the crew: "Thank you for my safe journey."

Yeah, this actually happened. The world's most famous engine was very nearly destroyed by some weeds and fish.

But how did the fish get into Flying Scotsman's tender? The answer lies in where railways got their water supply from: anywhere and everywhere. Railways needed a lot of water in an era when pump infrastructure and feed-water was treated a lot less carefully. Furthermore, a lot of railways (in the UK at least) also owned canals, which they would simply take the water from and use. The water was moved to water towers via either gravity or pumps, and then stored before being loaded into the engine's tanks. And the pipes were big, to handle the amount of water required by steam railways.

Some firemen from the era recall using homemade rods to go fishing in tenders and water towers and catching fish! Others recalled the fact that they disliked going into the water tanks to clean and inspect unless they were ordered to. One account literally says:

'The bigger tanks were best, not the smaller side tanks. Better than the canal, though.’

Another said:

‘On Friday afternoons they had trouble finding cleaners because we were all up in the water tank with rafts!’

From this, I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Thomas getting a fish in his tank after having to use a bucket is surprising, not because there was a fish in his tank, but because it wasn't pumped in months ago! Apparently steam locomotives were just massive, unwilling fish tanks.

Considering this, it's a real wonder that there weren't more stories about fish causing an absolute menace on the railways!

For those who want to read the article this is based on, here is the hyperlink and the URL:

#fanfiction writer #weirdowithaquill #railway series #thomas the tank engine #ao3 stuff #ao3 link #real world trains #fish #steam engines are just massive fish tanks #railways #flying scotsman #ttte thomas

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allthecanadianpolitics · 2 months

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The union representing 9,300 workers at Canada’s two biggest railways says public safety is at stake after contract negotiations ground to a halt this month, with a potential strike on the horizon.

Teamsters Canada president François Laporte said demands by Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. are “non-negotiable.”

“CN and CPKC aim to eliminate all safety-critical rest provisions from our collective agreements. These provisions are necessary to combat crew fatigue and ensure public safety,” he said in a press release on Monday.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #unions #strike #railways #railway workers #safety #workers rights #workers' rights

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scavengedluxury · 1 month

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Tata-Tóváros railway station, 1990. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#Tata-Tóváros #hungary #architecture #railways #green #1990s

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gingertomcat · 10 months

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If you live in the UK right now I seriously urge you to fill out this consultation.

The government and the rail operating companies intend to close nearly 1000 train station ticket offices because they deem them "a waste of money". This is not true. Ticket offices are important, not only to people that are unable to buy their tickets online but most importantly to disabled people. Ticket staff and station attendants are the ones responsible for providing accessible literature and information about travel and helping people board and leave trains safely and securely. Furthermore, they deal with station security, should an accident happen at the station, the ticket staff are first to attend. The government and the train operating companies want to shut these vital services down which will not only make thousands of people redundant but also make the railways a much less safe place to travel.

If you're not from the uk please boost this.

#UK #uk politics #uk #trains #railways #ticket offices #ableism #disabled #disability #gwr #great western railway #fuck the tories #fuck tories #glass door display fridges

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life-spire · 14 days

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