This is fun:
How many of the 20 largest UK Metro areas have I been to?
London✅
Manchester✅
Birmingham✅
W. Yorks✅
Glasgow ✅
Solent ✅
Liverpool✅
Newcastle✅
Sheffield✅
Bristol✅
Belfast✅
Brighton✅
Leicester✅
Edinburgh✅
BCP✅
Cardiff ✅
Coventry✅
Teeside❌
Stoke ✅

The 2nd paragraph is staggeringly frightening, and if happens it’s another shameful step towards fascism.

What has the U.K. become? 😔

It’s nice that this has been achieved only ~200 miles from me at this point in time.

When I was in Portugal I went to Cabo Saõ Vicente to the south which is Europe’s most south westerly point.

I’m about to head back from Seville. This is indeed, a wonderful part of the world

But to be honest, I could just share this entire journey for the sheer joy of drifting electrically, efficiently along beside the shining waters, the waves of the promenaders and cyclists, the little reminders of Portugal’s past and the odd palm tree. #Atlantic24

Whilst I wouldn’t usually choose bus over train travel, the Comes bus I got through Omio was rather good and only 20 mins slower than the fast train back to Seville.

Also, you get to arrive at this wonderful art deco bus station.

It’s gorgeous!

Why are journalists not being allowed to robustly confront Israeli officials ? What is being ring fenced here exactly…?? LBC reinstate Sangita Myska and I hope her colleagues make themselves heard too

Arrival at a delightfully warm and sunny Cádiz station. Shared with the funny Tram Trains to Chiclana de la Frontera

The Thameslink railway tracks to the south of Farringdon station.

The British experience says privatising the railway leads to higher ridership. Except most growth happened under emergency nationalisation.
The French comparison suggests privatisation is not that big a deal. Except the French railway is now more privatised than the British one.

New: we were told Brexit would make food cheaper.

Next week, border checks on EU imports begin which will make food more expensive.

Analysis for ITV News shows the government’s BTOM could add £8.50 a month to the average household shop.

Full story 👇
itv.com/news/2024-04-2…

Join #YRPWestMids in an exclusive joint event by the Major Projects Association Early Careers Network & Young Rail Professionals on:

Transport as a System

9th May, 15:45 start at WSP in the UK,
The Mailbox, Birmingham

Sign up in the link below for your ticket:
youngrailpro.com/events/EventDe…

This is good to see - marking an accident that was much less severe than it might have been, thanks to the prompt action of a signaller:

railstaff.co.uk/2024/04/19/bil…

700 bodies now discovered at Nasser hospital alone (1,500 uncovered at Al Shifa), patients, some with catheters still attached, children, with hands still bound, doctors and nurses, still wearing their scrubs, many shot in the back of the head at point blank range execution-style