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Gareth Dennis
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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 · 16d
For no particular reason, here's a graph showing the total number of passenger train vehicles reaching retirement by year between now and 2060...

For comparison, the 2015-2022 wave of new trains saw nearly 7000 vehicles introduced averaging almost 1000 a year.
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 8h
LET'S GO
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 17h
oh boy, i hope ukgov isn't betting the farm on AI

(handed paper from offscreen)

my APES
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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d
“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 20h
long overdue actually
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 1d
Doug is a legend. His hard work is making life directly easier for thousands and thousands of travellers - and indirectly easier for the rest of us.
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 1d
TOP TIP: don't try to defame my "relentless but not vexatious" (the ORR's words, not mine) friend Doug Paulley when you've completely failed in your duties to provide at least an attempt at an accessible travel experience. He'll win.
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Doug's determined face above this headline: "Coach firm to pay thousands to accessible transport activist after driver lied that he threatened violence"
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 1d
oh look another id verification related breach
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404 Media @404media.co · 1d
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 1d
it's extremely unlikely.
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Tall baked comrade bf @tallbakedcomradebf.bsky.social · 2d
@postoctobrist.bsky.social @wtyppod.com @donoteat.bsky.social @garethdennis.uk @victoriascott.bsky.social Thanks for the inspiration.
Image shows the interior of an airplane full of people with their oxygen masks on and the caption reads, Please secure your gender before helping anyone else with theirs." Meme was inspired by the Well There's Your Problem podcast, episode 186.
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 1d
bottom contact third rail fairly commonplace!
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Sotiris Tsern @sotiristsern.bsky.social · 2d
@garethdennis.uk the Tempi saga continues.
Panos Routsi, grieving father, took the most extreme form of peaceful protest, to force the greek justice system to approve his son's exhumation and tox-exams: Hunger strike. For 23 days in front of Parliament. They approved his request today.
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 2d
cool, bye
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 3d
I've got a number for it somewhere, but not a good breakdown... £4M then, £12M today for the Snow Hill tunnels reopening
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pglux.bsky.social @pglux.bsky.social · 4d
In 🇨🇳, HSR makes airlines bleed

On Beijing - Shanghai 🚄 has 83% market share against ✈️ (17%)

1,200km, 4hrs18min at the fastest.
100 daily return services

+CR450AF at 400km/h from 2027:

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With its high-speed train, China has achieved what seemed impossible: flying is not profitable on an 808-mile route. - Evidence Network
With ultra-fast journeys, connected comfort and exemplary punctuality, the Chinese high-speed train is redefining travellers’ priorities, to the point of suffocating domestic air traffic between ... R...
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 4d
I wish! it's a regular brown mop
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 5d
that is pretty rural(ish) - they only did about 5 years on there didn't they?
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James W @twentyzeronine.bsky.social · 5d
@garethdennis.uk spotted in Waterstones Exeter 👍
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 5d
Settle Carlisle was a mainline that's future was saved well before Pacers arrived!
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 5d
that's an intercity railway with intermediate stops
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 5d
That's not true though - before the introduction of the Class 142s it was already understood that they were more costly than the 150s. And even Serpell said in his grubby report that closing fringe lines had little bearing on fleet costs.
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 5d
no engineering disasters at the @nationaltrust.org.uk today, @wtyppod.bsky.social
extremely average looking man with many chins wears WTYP federal agency style baseball cap, yellow sweatshirt and navy stitch long coat with a Palestinian solidarity pin badge, set against a warm blue sky
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 6d
this I VERY MUCH want to do
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 6d
it's one of those classic British places that's serving a significant population for half of its length and nobody the rest - and would be an electrified suburban line in central Europe (in this case it so nearly is!)
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 6d
ha, yeah latter is a fair point though I guess it reverse makes the case because they were useless on those lines... I'd still say Preston Ormskirk is suburban/semi-urban, given it's linking two major cities in the NW
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 6d
I'm not sure! They were all used on suburban lines or the lines between cities in semi-urban Yorkshire (for example).
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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 6d
(said as someone who refuses to fly domestically but does drive quite a lot at the moment, and has family I'd simply not see without flying to the other end of Europe)
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