#blessed to be finally getting direct rail services between Drem and Dunbar and between Chathill and Berwick x

I'd like to thank TOM MCRAE for a spectacular, moving, wonderful evening last Thursday night at Summerhall (but also to apologise for accidentally leaving my camera flash on and blinding him while he was working the crowd 😳) Honestly Tom, you're the best. Thank you so much.

The (accidental) timing of this, given the images coming out today from Euston of dangerously crowded crushes for trains, is... not the best look.

I was born long after Dr Beeching closed most of Britain's minor rail lines. And I'm still furious at his short-sightedness.

thelondoneconomic.com/news/education… Our nearest two council-run swimming pools both closed in the last year due to council funding cuts. Cry me a river.

So that whole “let’s cut investment in rail, no one will use it post Covid” thing is going well huh….

Latest addition to Oasis tour just dropped guys, bet they won't dare to do "dynamic pricing" there! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Such a shame. Click is, and has always been, a class act.

EastWestRail gets a big important step closer. This is brilliant news.

Bedford to Cambridge, 50km away from each other.

This is a very specific type of beautiful.

Dear Peterborough station - This is how you do departure boards. Not making passengers with suitcases descend to platform level to wait ages for a screen to slowly run through 3 pages of departures because each one has to be individually spelled out by a random sign-language guy

youtu.be/l1zWn_zZJDU?fe… That is all.

oh this is such a good one

Called it: lothianbuses.com/news/2025/03/c…

just checking in on the price of a middle-of-the day single train ticket from Edinburgh to London and holy hell's bells