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We are now in the phase where Russia starts blowing up railwaytracks in Poland....
"Polish PM says railway track blast was 'unprecedented act of sabotage'".
https://www.reuters.com/world/explosion-polish-railway-t…

De schaduwoorlog van Rusland in de EU gaat door met sabotage acties aan Pools spoor richting Oekraine: “We are dealing with the [intelligence] services of a foreign state, and not a gang of scrap metal thieves.” https://www.

Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
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Today is the anniversary of America's time zones. Before the railways forced standardization, every town had local time, more or less based on solar time. That was chaos.
England actually had railway time decades earlier.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-histor<…

With news that another railway bridge in Scotland has fallen into the river below, I feel compelled to share @…'s # CautionaryTales episode on that famous Dundonian poet McGonagall..
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: "Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/genius-still-unrecognised-the-worst-poet-in-the-world
Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/18db03/tracking.swap.fm/track/SxlTEPDY7xDg35RXkASs/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/fd2acf28-383a-4874-b266-b33900f48f7c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70

Utilizing Bayesian Optimization for Timetable-Independent Railway Junction Performance Determination
Tamme Emunds, Paul Brunzema, Sebastian Trimpe, Nils Nie{\ss}en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11181

Utilizing Bayesian Optimization for Timetable-Independent Railway Junction Performance Determination
The efficiency of railway infrastructure is significantly influenced by the mix of trains that utilize it, as different service types have competing operational requirements. While freight services might require extended service times, passenger services demand more predictable schedules. Traditional methods for addressing long-term traffic assignment problems often rely on fixed-value capacity limitations, determined based on specific assumptions about traffic composition. This paper introduce…

Deep in occupied Crimea, partisans cut railway feeding Russia's Kherson and Zaporizhzhia fronts - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/09/partisans-sabotage-railway-near-simferopol-crimea/

Do Railway Commuters Exhibit Consistent Route Choice Rationality Across Different Contexts and Time? Evidence from Tokyo metropolitan Commutes
Yixuan Y Zheng, Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12381

Do Railway Commuters Exhibit Consistent Route Choice Rationality Across Different Contexts and Time? Evidence from Tokyo metropolitan Commutes
Recent advances in data collection and technology enable a deeper understanding of complex urban commuting, yet few studies have rigorously analyzed the temporal stability and Origin-Destination (OD) heterogeneity of route choice. To address this, we analyze one year of smartphone position data from over one million users in the Tokyo metropolitan area to extract high-resolution commuting trajectories. Our methodology is twofold: First, we develop algorithms to process raw position data, accura…

140 years ago we were connected
(This Letter was sent to the Times Colonist on November 7 2025) Dear Editor, 140 years ago today (November 7th, 2025) the last spike was driven near Revelstoke BC, completing what is now known as the Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway. It took just 4 years for government and private railway tycoons to complete that cross-continental railway. Today, we have endured 20 years of dithering, broken promises, and outright denial trying to…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/6B7

We biked next to a section of the Menomonee River that has a railway bridge over it and you can see the debris left from the flood back in August. Yes, the river was as high as the bridge!
#mke #milwaukee #water

Searching For Sarah MacDiarmid
It’s been over 35 years since the night Sarah MacDiarmid vanished from the Kananook railway station on Wednesday, 11 July 1990...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/searching-for-sarah-macdi…

Moody Urbanity - UP 🔝
情绪化城市 - 上面 🔝
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

AI and the railway mania
Michael Roberts.
"A widely cited study from MIT found that so far, 95 per cent of generative AI projects produce no return in productivity growth or profits. To justify the required investment, annual data-centre revenues would need to rise from $20bn today to about $2trn.  Existing revenues will fall short by $800bn.."

AI and the railway mania
The AI bubble continues. The Magnificent Seven of tech media continue to drive the US stock market, along with the AI companies. The ten largest US companies by stock market value, holdin…

Princes Wharf/Wapping Railway Wharf, Bristol, April 2025
#documentingbritain #documentingplaces #blackandwhitephotography

Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway infrastructure in Russia's Rostov Oblast, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/061329.html

Benders Decomposition for Passenger-Oriented Train Timetabling with Hybrid Periodicity
Zhiyuan Yao, Anita Sch\"obel, Lei Nie, Sven J\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09892 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09892 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09892
arXiv:2511.09892v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Periodic timetables are widely adopted in passenger railway operations due to their regular service patterns and well-coordinated train connections. However, fluctuations in passenger demand require varying train services across different periods, necessitating adjustments to the periodic timetable. This study addresses a hybrid periodic train timetabling problem, which enhances the flexibility and demand responsiveness of a given periodic timetable through schedule adjustments and aperiodic train insertions, taking into account the rolling stock circulation. Since timetable modifications may affect initial passenger routes, passenger routing is incorporated into the problem to guide planning decisions towards a passenger-oriented objective. Using a time-space network representation, the problem is formulated as a dynamic railway service network design model with resource constraints. To handle the complexity of real-world instances, we propose a decomposition-based algorithm integrating Benders decomposition and column generation, enhanced with multiple preprocessing and accelerating techniques. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm and highlight the advantage of hybrid periodic timetables in reducing passenger travel costs.
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Good Morning #Canada
As #Halloween creeps up on us, we continue to highlight haunted abandoned towns. Today, we are in Rowley Alberta, a failed railway town near the gates of Hell. Maybe near Drumheller.... I wasn't paying attention. Settled around 1910, it once had about 500 residents but declined after the closure of its train station in 1965, and the construction of new highways bypassing the town. Today, it's a mix of private homes and preserved historical buildings, and the remaining 9 evil residents have worked to maintain its historic charm. They have added new features and even host monthly pizza nights to lure in unsuspecting tourists. Don't go in the old shed with all the sharp farm tools....
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://youtu.be/6huskbX8Hh8?si=oowVXFI_s2RwVipM

Deep Learning to Identify the Spatio-Temporal Cascading Effects of Train Delays in a High-Density Network
Vu Duc Anh Nguyen, Ziyue Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09350 https://…

Deep Learning to Identify the Spatio-Temporal Cascading Effects of Train Delays in a High-Density Network
The operational efficiency of railway networks, a cornerstone of modern economies, is persistently undermined by the cascading effects of train delays. Accurately forecasting this delay propagation is a critical challenge for real-time traffic management. While recent research has leveraged Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to model the network structure of railways, a significant gap remains in developing frameworks that provide multi-step autoregressive forecasts at a network-wide scale, while sim…

For railway enthusiasts and ruin hunters alike,
these so-called "phantom stations" that have ceased service
offer a glimpse into Tokyo’s past.
Hidden from daily view and often closed to the public, they mark moments of transition in the capital’s transit history
— from the early years of railway and subway construction to the rapid postwar rebuild.
More than curiosities, they stand as weathered industrial records of how Tokyo has expanded, reconfigur…

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

It is watch day but not for me. I bought a watch for my wife (left) and my daughter (right). No special occasion and they are not super fancy or expensive. I just, you know, buy watches. 🤷

Russia’s New Target: Ukrainian Trains
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-invasion-railway-trains-drone-strikes/33552449.html

People when they see traffic jams: "one more lane, bro. I swear, one more lane will fix it."
People when they are told about lack of railway capacity: "the best I can do is a passing loop."
#rail #CarFree

Tonight we watched The Railway Children Return. As fans of the original we were expecting to be disappointed. But it was different and very good indeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-z6GbWP4wQ

Physics-Constrained Inc-GAN for Tunnel Propagation Modeling from Sparse Line Measurements
Yang Zhou, Haochang Wu, Yunxi Mu, Hao Qin, Xinyue Zhang, Xingqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03019

Physics-Constrained Inc-GAN for Tunnel Propagation Modeling from Sparse Line Measurements
High-speed railway tunnel communication systems require reliable radio wave propagation prediction to ensure operational safety. However, conventional simulation methods face challenges of high computational complexity and inability to effectively process sparse measurement data collected during actual railway operations. This letter proposes an inception-enhanced generative adversarial network (Inc-GAN) that can reconstruct complete electric field distributions across tunnel cross-sections usi…

Westbound Railway Platform, 9:58am
Late autumn gusts, a
Long strand of floating toilet
Paper, and sunlight.
#haiku

It’s an N-Scale Industrial Revolution tonight! 🚂🏗️
Streaming "Penguin Style" 3D printing on the Linux rig. We are building out the railway infrastructure: ▪️ Tunnel Entrances ▪️ 45' Grain Silos ▪️ Industrial Storage Tanks & Sheds
Come watch the tiny world come together! 👇 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

There’s apparently a railway in Australia that is all-electric with a solar array and a fat battery, which sells most of the power from their array back to the grid.
#HeardOnBBC

We biked next to a section of the Menomonee River that has a railway bridge over it and you can see the debris left from the flood back in August. Yes, the river was as high as the bridge!
#mke #milwaukee #water

"When trains are pricier than planes, there’s a heavy social, financial and environmental cost"
#Transport #PublicTransport #Emissions

Moody Urbanity - Oracles III 🈳
情绪化城市 - 谕 III 🈳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

‘Savage’ Russian double-tap strike on railway station in Sumy Oblast injures at least 30, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/savage-russian-doubletap-strike-on.html

Toto, I don't think we're on the same timeline anymore.
#JaworzynaŚląska, the Railway #Museum in Silesia (I've only looked through the fence).

From CBC in partnership with The Narwhal
Hundreds of animals killed by trains on B.C. railways, documents reveal. So, what’s being done to stop it?
CN reported 340 wildlife collisions between 2020 and 2023, These numbers include 202 collisions involving moose and 67 involving bears.
CPKC reported 182 animals were killed and injured by trains in the Kootenay region of B.C. in 2022 and 2023.

Escape from Berlin… today’s flight to London on BA cancelled. They re-booked us on Lufthansa at 7:25am via Frankfurt. We decided to avoid all airports for a few days so we are going to spend all day on the railway. First step, Berlin to Cologne, then to Brussels, then Eurostar to London.

@… I assume you already saw this, but i wanted to share it just in case you didn't. This was posted almost a month ago, and not sure how I missed it.
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I just realized that the International Organization for Standardization ISO uses a picture from Switzerland to illustrate their popular standards page about ISO8601.
But do you know where it was taken?
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html

Automatic Generation of Combinatorial Reoptimisation Problem Specifications: A Vision
Maximilian Kratz, Steffen Zschaler, Jens Kosiol, Gabriele Taentzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02002

Automatic Generation of Combinatorial Reoptimisation Problem Specifications: A Vision
Once an optimisation problem has been solved, the solution may need adaptation when contextual factors change. This challenge, also known as reoptimisation, has been addressed in various problem domains, such as railway crew rescheduling, nurse rerostering, or aircraft recovery. This requires a modified problem to be solved again to ensure that the adapted solution is optimal in the new context. However, the new optimisation problem differs notably from the original problem: (i) we want to make…

Always has been.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TrainTracks
Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky:
🎵 Copenhagen Steam Railway
#HansChristianLumbye
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Cs1ptS6ncd7HeXMd9DP40

Nationwide protest: Stand up for Gaza
National protests on October 12 mark two years of Israel's genocide. They will demand Labor sanctions Israel, ends the two-way arms trade and expels the Israeli ambassador.
More locations added:
Saturday October 11
- Cavanbah (Byron Bay)
2pm: Railway Park
- Blue Mountains
12pm-1pm, Katoomba Steet, underneath the old library
Sunday October 12
- Albany
11am, Albany Peace Park
- Armidale

Our national railway is a global embarrassment. Canada is a transportation backwater.
#Transportation #Railway #Rail #VIARail #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/via-rail-toronto-ottawa-brockville-9.7011570

I saw a train-related meme and I suddently felt annoyed that English uses the word „switch“ for the railway thing where one track becomes two tracks. That’s just confusing. 🫤
#trains

Moody Urbanity - Nowhere 🔲
情绪化城市 - 无处 🔲
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

its the autumn equinox tomorrow
#night #silentSunday

It’s no joke.
Top 5 in North America in number of fatalities.
It’s deceptive because it’s just 6,288’ and in good conditions it’s a fun day hike.
But it can get seriously awful up there. One fairly well-known and recent death happened in a whiteout at -30F and 80 mph wind.
https://bsk…

Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)
Mt. Washington in late October? The cog railway only goes halfway up this time of year and even there it looks like this. This is where these people hopped off and thought yeah I'll just keeping strolling up into the freakish Extreme Frozen Hell zone. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Russian strikes kill 4, injure 25, hit Ukraine's railway infrastructure over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/02/russian-strikes-kill-injure-hit.html

200 years of the railway.
Rather shockingly I've lived through more than a third of that!
Breeching, demise of steam, reduction of night trains, HSR, privatisation, and no more British Rail yellow fruit cake.
#Rail200

The advantage of using the animal crossing to walk over the railway line is that I run no risk of collision with a train, in case they started running again.

Muni Heritage weekend.
#Transit #PublicTransit #SFMTA #CableCars

From Taras Gresco
Automatic for the People
A Ride on the First Fully-Functioning Line of the REM, Montreal's New Light Metro
#Montreal has a new "light metro" links to the Mount-Royal Tunnel, at 5 kms the third longest tunnel in Canada. Built by the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) between 1911 and 1918, it cuts through Mont-Royal. Trains, which were perforce electric, be…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TrainTracks
- Live from Pitlochry
Tom Service with a musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jv2v

Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The Green Engine, East Coast Mainline, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #railwayphotography

Caught the end of a showing of The Railway Children on BBC4.
That scene, where the older daughter sees her father appear on the platform out of the smoke and steam, always brings a tear.

Intelligent Optimization of Wireless Access Point Deployment for Communication-Based Train Control Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Kunyu Wu, Qiushi Zhao, Zihan Feng, Yunxi Mu, Hao Qin, Xinyu Zhang, Xingqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24819

Intelligent Optimization of Wireless Access Point Deployment for Communication-Based Train Control Systems Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Urban railway systems increasingly rely on communication based train control (CBTC) systems, where optimal deployment of access points (APs) in tunnels is critical for robust wireless coverage. Traditional methods, such as empirical model-based optimization algorithms, are hindered by excessive measurement requirements and suboptimal solutions, while machine learning (ML) approaches often struggle with complex tunnel environments. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) driven f…

Does a #cat walking on a single #rail of a railway track count as a monorail?

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TrainTracks
- Live from Darlington
Elizabeth Alker continues the musical and cultural celebration of a landmark moment: the 200 year anniversary of the birth of the modern railway.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jv2z

Multi-scale friction coefficient: From roughness to system computation using deep learning
Victor Lalleman (LaMcube), Pierre Gosselet (LaMcube), C\'edric Hubert (LAMIH), St\'ephane Salengro (LaMcube), Vincent Magnier (LaMcube)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01741

Multi-scale friction coefficient: From roughness to system computation using deep learning
The presence of surface defects (roughness, surface imperfections, profiles, etc.) in a contact inevitably leads to the modification of its local properties, such as the coefficient of friction. In railway wheelsets, this surface condition is crucial as it dictates appropriate fatigue design for the final use. However, these local phenomena are not well understood and require a real step back. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to propose a multiscale numerical strategy to better understand th…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky:
🎵 Copenhagen Steam Railway
#HansChristianLumbye
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Cs1ptS6ncd7HeXMd9DP40

One of the absolute best things about #portalberni is the No7 Steam Train. It was under repairs for a few years and boy did we miss it but this year it has run on many weekends. It’s doing Santa runs along the waterfront and rail yard every Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening to Christmas!
#trains #rail #railfan #steam #logging #tourism #christmas #volunteer https://socialbc.ca/@vibyrail/115714553027370571

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Mark‐Anthony Turnage & Glyndebourne Festival Opera:
🎵 The Railway Children
#MarkAnthonyTurnage #GlyndebourneFestivalOpera

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Hans Christian Lumbye, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi:
🎵 Copenhagen Steam Railway
#HansChristianLumbye #GothenburgSymphonyOrchestra #NeemeJärvi
https://open.spotify.com/track/1EAyuYxoFgayktf4njuF03

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #TrainTracks
Johnny Douglas, Johnny Douglas Orchestra & Johnny Douglas:
🎵 The Railway Children Overture
#JohnnyDouglas #JohnnyDouglasOrchestra

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
Johnny Douglas, Johnny Douglas Orchestra & Johnny Douglas:
🎵 Perks Must be About It (The Railway Children)
#JohnnyDouglas #JohnnyDouglasOrchestra