Serendipitous lunch at Waterloo. (If you know, you know …)

A fun run today. 1S13 end to end.

Heading south on 1E16. Glorious day for a run up the ECML.

Google AI on form tonight: There is one station name that ends in "head": Harrow-on-the-Hill (a station on the London Underground). According to the National Rail website

Not quite a Father’s Day picture, but it was lovely to catch up with Chuip maarty™ 🐈 on Friday following the Railway Engineering 2025 conference in Edinburgh.

That fact that government has buggered up the delivery of an infrastructure project doesn't mean it was a bad project. Not sure today's HS2 news coverage has made that sufficiently clear.

This could very well be the pettiest, borderline misogynistic post that we’ve seen from a Reform MP yet - and that is saying something. There’s a pattern starting to appear here: - Complex roles are flattened - Qualifications sneered at - Serious matters reduced to cheap jabs

Word of the day is ‘immiseration’: the act of making people progressively more miserable.

#RailwayChallenge 2025 teams arrived yesterday and the sun is shining!☀️ 🚅 The stage is set for this year’s IMechE Railway Challenge! 📣 Spectators are welcome to join us on the competition days, Saturday and Sunday, click/tap to sign up here —> bit.ly/imeche-railway…

🎥 Behind the scenes at the #RailwayChallenge 2025. Before the wheels start turning, safety comes first. Teams have been fully briefed and prepped on site at Stapleford Railway, setting the stage for a weekend of innovation, teamwork and engineering in action.

Early start this morning. Bit off my usual route.

Coach with a view. A fun afternoon out in the sunshine.

Fuel duty hasn’t risen since 2010, costing the UK £130bn. Wealthy drivers benefit most, while everyone else faces rising rail fares, cut buses, and poor walking, wheeling & cycling routes. We need fair road pricing to fund better options for us all 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Join us on Sunday 28th September for a #Railway200 celebration at Criterion Heritage Centre, Blue Town, Sheerness. An afternoon bus tour will visit key sites on the island. Explore the island's railways, dockyard and aviation history. Info & booking: kentcrp.org/heritageday/

Looking forward to talking about Col Stephens and his railways at this wide-ranging event.

Austerity is the midwife of fascism youtu.be/UMa-aZVLI6I?si… History shows it clearly: austerity creates the conditions in which fascism thrives. When governments strip away public services, weaken safety nets and deepen inequality, people lose hope in democracy and turn to

Redhill up to its usual tricks. Bring in the Tonbridge train and stop as far as possible from the subway, so all the Victoria passengers connecting to Platform 0 have a long walk in the pouring rain. And a fairly tight connection to boot. Southern

To be explicit - no privately developed homes should be built without meeting extremely strict criteria on clean transport access, whether rail or otherwise. Of course, having a rail network that can be readily plug-and-play for new stations requires a far less complex timetable.

For too long Britain's failed to build the local transport that its towns & cities need to thrive. Would you like to change that? The Tram Network is a mission we're incubating with @cbtransport to streamline planning, reduce costs &speed up design &delivery of new trams in UK...

Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.