Gareth Dennis

@garethdennis.uk

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Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @railnatter.uk and @trainsatlantic.uk. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways) available everywhere. He/him.

tweet today from official Network Rail account: "Happy birthday to #Euston station - 189 years old 🎉 The station opened #OnThisDay in 1837. 😲 Its name can be traced to the Domesday Book in 1087! Here are five things you didn't know about Euston station: 👉 etc "
official No 10 tweet from 3h ago appointing director krennig as Treasury Secretary For Burning Money On Useless Shite
cabinet office tweet above an image of Louise Haigh reading: "We’re pleased to welcome Louise Haigh as First Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office."
Gene Tierney in the 1945 thriller "Leave Her to Heaven"looking fed up reading a magazine and looking fly as hell
cows. lots of cows. and a very low sun.
Gareth standing in front of a big red sign with a double arrow, the test tracks name, and "Welcome to your Test Tracks." written in stunning bold Rail Alphabet 2
a tweet from Modern Railways grandee Roger Ford reading: "The basic problem with the Class 810 is that EMR ordered a train that didn't exist from a manufacturer with no experience of that type of duty. The train had to match the 125 mile/h performance of the Class 222 - both diesel powered and under the wires. Was it a bi-mode too far?"
THANKS With thanks to Gareth Dennis for his expert input on all things rail
an EMR train
a southeastern train
a young woman rides a bus, with the text reading "free bus travel would save young people £155 a year"
front cover of the report, included illustratively but you can get the PDF at the link
a Soviet poster of a very strange hybrid rail system using conventional rails and a sort of Wuppertal overhead support as well, but with cool vibes
screenshot from #Railnatter podcast showing Mattie Lubchansky's brilliant illustration of Ed hosting the hit gameshow Is That Good, with Gareth and his guest laughing painfully
united kingdom? United dingdong more like
a view from inside a bus of a red well surfaced cycle path and footpath integral to the design of the road we are driving on
"The site is identified as a draft allocation in the Sites and Policies DPD Submission Draft for a mix of market and affordable housing with a yield of approximately 600 dwellings as well as a neighbourhood centre to include a primary school, local retail facilities, food store, community uses, together with 2.5 hectares of employment land, a new rail station and car park."
front cover of an Arup report, titled "Harrogate Borough Council and North Yorkshire County Council Manse Farm Rail Station Consolidated Project Inception Report" dated July 2012
two great transmission network towers rise into a soaring blue sky, framing flat fields of unripe cereal and a vanishing footpath into the depths of some wizened foliage
it's the goon room panic alarm
two interlocked trains having crashed, with trains compressed and deflected
Starmer walking through a corporate corridor very strangely lit with his diatribe subtitled and frozen at "lots of energy, lots of vibe."
one very soft looking scrunchy foot, within a baby seat, within a carpeted train vestibule
a Labour party graphic congratulating Burnham on his win in Makerfield
it's the perjury sign a.k.a. Form 176 that sits on the desks of registry offices, but is this one or the next one the original?
the imposing baroque Benningborough Hall, with Gareth walking across the grass in the foreground with the top of a wee head of a baby in a front mounted carrier and a Hirbawi keffiyeh around his neck. Free Palestine!
Gareth, a disheveled scruff-prat of a man, replete with moustache and ego, takes a mirror selfie with a sleeping nipper attached to his front looking both enormous and tiny, in a sleep suit colour matched to his bright blue phone
it's a coal barge but it's also a bookshop, sat surrounded by new, tall residential towers
a street level subway entrance with steps dropping into the deep, painted nicely and looking smart
the mostly demolished remains of Northern House, a multiple storey office building, with little left but the grubby walls of the buildings surrounding it
a twitter account called "anon socials" trying to report me to the Engineering Council via their dormant twitter account
it's the front end of a glorious Caledonian Railway 0-6-0 tender locomotive puffing steam into a blue sky with the hulking brutes of the Cairngorm plateau rising up behind, with warm autumnal trees and grass in the midground
tweet from RAIL magazine with a headline reading: "West Coast Railways resumes Jacobite service with Mk2 coaches" with a picture of a crimson diesel loco hauling crimson coaches
grinning Gareth with bigger little one on his shoulders draped in the classic pride flag, baby in buggy draped in a kufiya, and a beautiful woman pushing it in the corner of the shot, in the background is the front of the York pride parade with a bus and streetside crowds congregating
the York pride logo above two delighted looking drag queens waving at enormous crowds
David Mitchell in peep show looking angry and saying "I'm sorry what the fucking hell are you talking about?"
sparks fly as a team in orange cut into a rail in the dark of night
a news headline saying "Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump" above a picture of his contorted evil face
BBC news article headlined "Better WiFi for hundreds of trains under government plans"
tweet replying to Marie's old Twitter account saying "if I ever get round to writing a book (and someone's daft enough to publish it) I will absolutely do this as often as possible"
the bright red and white front cover of How The Railways Will Fix The Future with a "signed by the author" sticker on the top
a colourful array of books in the transport and general politics corner of a bookshop
the word Trainsatlantic in yellow serif font superimposed on the view out of the front of a train cab, giving a heavily 70s vibe
a tweet from a lib dem saying: "Passenger numbers increased substantially under privatisation." above the graph of GB passenger numbers over time, with vertical drop lines showing key moments such as grouping and nationalisation, with the line climbing steeply from 1992 onwards
some holier than thou lib twat going "far left purity test bla bla" then going "you're all the same" and blocking me when I ask which particular evil thing Labour are doing is just a purity test
a newspaper front page, in the case of the i, reading: "HS2 will cost more than Nasa's [sic] Artemis Moon mission"
Proposed Changes 7. The assessment proposes the following package of changes: a. Reduce the maximum line speed from 360kph to 320 kph. 360kph is faster than any current railway globally. 320kph represents a standard ‘new build’ maximum operating speed in Europe. b. Remove Automatic Train Operation (ATO) – ATO would be a global first-of-a-kind train control and signalling system for a high-speed railway, introducing novelty that would require extensive proving. No other European railways are actively pursuing ATO for their high-speed lines and it is not needed to deliver the requirement of 10 trains per hour (tph). c. Reduce the signalling system (ETCS) specification – Without the requirement for ATO it is possible to adopt a proven ETCS version (v2.1) to align with other UK and European projects, including the live delivery programmes; Transpennine Route Upgrade and East Coast Digital Project. 8. These three elements of the current HS2 specification drive significant cost, time and risk into the HS2 programme. Given the advanced nature of the design and build of the civils programme between Birmingham and London HS2 programme it will continue to be built. The changes outlined here reflect the biggest opportunities to reduce complexity and improve confidence in delivering HS2. If these changes are not implemented, proving the railway operation at 360kph could take significant time and money and potentially result in a later decision to change the scope.
a very obviously rail natter square thumbnail with a black outline and a pile of muslins in the middle, set onto white