Garry Keenor

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UK-based rail electrification engineer with AtkinsRéalis | Electrification Junkie, Catenary Shagger | #electrifyAllTheThings | Want to know how overhead line electrification works? Get my FREE book at http://ocs4rail.com/downloads

Video out of a train window. It is raining heavily
Poster for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, with me raising my middle finger to it
Matthew Broderick in War Games
View from an e-bike along a segregated cycle route in Utrecht. People are cycling and the sun is out
"The most specific answer I got from anyone else was: “He hasn’t done what he said he’d do.” So there it was: as well as a modern tendency to loathe politicians that regularly seems arbitrary, whipped-up and way over the top, a sense that Starmer’s sheer blankness – his painful lack of clarity and the absence of a halfway coherent story about his own government – was making a lot of people dislike and mistrust him all the more."
A station sign with a white arrow on a blue background, oriented to point to the right. Inexplicably, it is accompanied by white text on a blue background which says "keep left"
A Swiss electric-steam locomotive with a pantograph. Shortage of coal during World War 2 drove Swiss Federal Railways to fit two such engines, hydro-electric power being plentiful in the region. The locos used traction current from the 15kV 16.6Hz OLE to boil water using an electric heating element, creating steam pressure to move the locomotive. Pressure was sufficient to run off the wires for around 20 minutes before returning to recharge.
800008 in Trainbow livery at Swindon station
John Lennon wearing a cowboy hat and walking like a chicken while Yoko laughs
Two operatives in full orange and hard hats apply a live line tester to overhead line equipment on a railway as a train goes past
The British rail nuclear flask safety test train hitting the flask
Google maps showing walking time from Worcestershire parkway to Worcester centre of 90mins
David Icke
View of the Yorkshire fells out of the window of a class 807
Red For Danger by L.T.C. Rolt
A close up of the GBR logo. It is very boring and poorly spaced
According to the boffins at CERN, much of the universe is made of dark matter, which outweighs visible matter roughly six to one and accounts for around 27% of it. A whopping 68% is postulated to be formed of dark energy, which is distributed evenly across the universe and exerts a global effect on it as a whole. Neither can presently be detected and their nature is unknown, yet the most popular and credible scientific theories depend on the existence of something undiscovered to make them work. Something similar could be said of the Railways Bill, published...
Screen grab of the original Wolfenstein
A group of people in hi Viz constructing a cantilever on track
Hitachi class 800008 with progress colours in the platform
Rooney from Ferris Buellers Day Off on the phone, looking shifty
An abstract statue of a person playing a flute
Seat 61 on a class 374 eurostar
An intercity livery robin reliant on front of an intercity livery class 91
Ordnance survey map showing the village of Wolvey
Ordnance survey map, showing the village of Norton-Juxta-Twycross
Ordnance survey map showing Sheepy Parva and Sheepy Magna
Map of West Wiltshire; Calne, Gastard and Seend are all circled
John Worth presenting his Cross Channel connectivity project
Search screen showing an article that I wrote for the IET
June Osborne from a Handmaids Tale
A tote bag one a shelf in a shop, selling for £8.50. It has the Greggs logo and six pictures of Gregg Wallace's face on it.
A ginger cat reclining on a bed like he owns it