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15 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
If you enjoyed tonight's wonderful series finale of #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt🧣 then remember you can catch @MrTimDunn and I on last week's #RailNatter taking a cheeky behind-the-scenes look at the hit @YesterdayTweets show!
Oh, and if you want to see Tim and I exploring inside the old Curzon Street station principal building as well as a plod around inside the roundhouse (courtesy of @HS2ltd), then you can watch this old thing:
Plus make sure your fingers are crossed for Series 4 of #TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt!!! 🤞🤞🤞
Also I hope everyone spotted mini-Tim! 😆
#TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt🧣

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18 Nov
Well, the #IntegratedRailPlan (a.k.a. #RailBetrayal) has landed. And immediately we can see that their plans are just a re-announcement of things that have already been planned (or indeed cancelled): Image
Actually, the proposals precisely mimic the NIC's Rail Needs Assessment from last year, despite government decrying it loudly after its publication.

If you want to understand why those plans were bad, I wrote about it in reasonable detail: #RailBetrayal
garethdennis.medium.com/the-nic-have-f…
Good god. You know what? It isn't possible for me to thread this document as I'd planned to as it is genuine top-to-bottom bullshit. #RailBetrayal

This paragraph, for example, is completely untrue. How on earth did the HS2 plans prevent electrification? This is fiction! Image
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18 Nov
I've no doubt I'm going to be popping up all day talking about the government's awful #RailBetrayal - but here's a warm up in the @Independent: independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
My key #RailBetrayal line:
“Running faster trains on the existing network will actually result in a railway that can carry fewer passengers and less freight than it can today.”
I popped up at around 06:05 this morning on @bbc5live if you want to hear the exasperation in my voice at the government's unbelievably cynical pronouncements on their "glorious plan".
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17 Nov
As pointed out by @JenWilliamsMEN and others, there is a lot of confusion in the midst of this week's #RailBetrayal news over what the various legs and phases of HS2 and NPR actually refer to...

So, I created a map (click to pause):
The white lines are the existing network, in case you hadn't worked it out...

It becomes pretty obvious why the Eastern Leg is so crucial when you see the map above, but if you want another animated map then this explains things clearly:
Want a static version of the map in high-res? Be my guest (note that some of the HS2/NPR stations have been omitted for clarity): Image
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5 Sep
The last leg! Paris to York! 😭

(terrible PTI of course, as with all high speed European trains)
So little left of our 4000km epic from south east to north west Europe...
Well, this is true... I'm already getting giddy about passing through it, as I always do.
Read 32 tweets
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4 Sep
So, our journey from Rome to Paris begins... With the 62 bus, and its total lack of suspension. My spine has popped up into my brain and is giving me a headache.
We're catching the Turin train from Tiburtina station which is a striking enough edifice... Though I must say for a ten year old station its fabric hasn't aged well.
IT'S A TRAIN.
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3 Sep
I've changed my mind on vaccine "passports" for limiting access to shared venues to only those who've got the vaccine or aren't able to for genuine reasons... Possibly as a result of seeing them in action in Italy.

What do you think? Bombard me with your thoughts.
It feels like a non-intrusive way of penalising people who've chosen not to vaccinate themselves and thus put all of us at risk and keep *all this* happening...

Before, I was against it as it felt a bit slippery slope-like, but in reality it's mostly just like age ID is already.
Actually, as the very clever person next to me has pointed out, it's less about the nutter anti-vaxxers and more about lazy people (lots of them young, it must be said) who've not got round to it yet... Not being able to go indoors to eat/drink would give them a gentle shove.
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