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This is the #Garbce stop on railway line 271 (Poznań — Wrocław), renovated a few years ago.
The platforms end a dozen metres from the railway crossing. However, there is no walkway from the platforms to the crossing; probably because it would need to cross a tiny stream. Instead, a 100 m long walkways have been added to the other end of the platforms, with a tunnel joining the platforms and access to a side road in the town. To reach the railway crossing, you have to walk 700 m.
Ironically, even in the general drought the tunnel manages to feature puddles of ground water. Also including the photo of a platform roofing with weird orange marks.
#rail

Explosions damage railway infrastructure near Kyiv, prompting train route changes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/explosions-damage-railway-infrastructure-near.html

Optimization research for rescue hot standby EMU location and coverage area in a large-scale high-speed railway network
Boliang Lin, Zhenyu Wang, Yaoming Shen, Yufei Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11630

Optimization research for rescue hot standby EMU location and coverage area in a large-scale high-speed railway network
With the extension of China high-speed railway network, the number of railway stations is increasing. The challenge that railway companies are facing is how to reasonably plan the location of hot standby Electric Multiple Units (EMU) and determine the rescue coverage area of each hot standby EMU. It is uneconomical to configure a hot standby EMU for each station. Railway companies want to use the minimum number of hot standby EMUs to provide rescue tasks for the entire high-speed railway networ…

🚂 How to repurpose abandoned railway tracks: Two projects explore driverless electric mini-trains
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-08-23/how-to-repurpose-abandoned-railway-tracks-tw…

How to repurpose abandoned railway tracks: Two projects explore driverless electric mini-trains
Autonomous rail vehicles with few seats could connect low-demand destinations at a very low cost, although Spanish legislation poses a stumbling block

Well, I've seen a few Greater Anglia trains pass by here since Sunday, and they're all still in their private-sector livery. Slightly disappointed, I was hoping for a bit of the ol' blue 'n' yellow. #railway #rail

Solving Integrated Periodic Railway Timetabling with Satisfiability Modulo Theories: A Scalable Approach to Routing and Vehicle Circulation
Florian Fuchs, Bernardo Martin-Iradi, Francesco Corman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11489

Solving Integrated Periodic Railway Timetabling with Satisfiability Modulo Theories: A Scalable Approach to Routing and Vehicle Circulation
This paper introduces a novel approach for jointly solving the periodic Train Timetabling Problem (TTP), train routing, and Vehicle Circulation Problem (VCP) through a unified optimization model. While these planning stages are traditionally addressed sequentially, their interdependencies often lead to suboptimal vehicle usage. We propose the VCR-PESP, an integrated formulation that minimizes fleet size while ensuring feasible and infrastructure-compliant periodic timetables. We present the fir…

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Signs 💚
在路上 - 去西安/ 表象 💚
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Railway explosion in Russia's Oryol Oblast kills 2 National Guard officers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/railway-explosion-in-russias-oryol.html

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…

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

We're used to hearing pianos in public spaces - London Bridge Station has a minimalist organ!

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…

🚂 Trans-Afghan Railway Project Gains Momentum After Eight Years
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/Trans-Afghan-Railway-Project-Gains-Momentum-After-Eight-Years.html

Trans-Afghan Railway Project Gains Momentum After Eight Years
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have signed a framework agreement to build a trans-Afghan railway, a project poised to significantly reduce transit times and boost trade flows in the region.

Today thanks to a defect of another train combined with complete incompetence of Polish railway traffic controllers, I've spend almost 3 hours in a train, stopped halfway between Złotniki Grzybowe and #Poznań Strzeszyn train stops (1.5 km from either). I would lose perhaps half of this time if they instead stopped us at the previous stop, and told us what's up, so we could just go catch the urban bus. But that's not my biggest problem.
These 3 lost hours means I'm behind with work. So I'm hurrying to catch up. Except I'm so completely messed up because of all this, I can't really focus on work, so I had to stop. So I'm going to be even more behind.
#rail #ActuallyAutistic

Ukrainian military intelligence and special operations forces launch combined attack on Russian railway: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/ukrainian-military-intelligence-and-special.html

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

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

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

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…

Rail service is in Canada is beyond half-ass. When booking a ticket between Toronto and Montreal - the country's two largest cities, their urban areas representing something like a third of Canada's population - you learn that, "We are currently experiencing delays of 15-45 minutes on certain Corridor trains due to unexpected speed restrictions imposed by CN, the railway infrastructure owner." It's almost as if government after government after government couldn't b…

The absolute irony of The National Archives sending an email celebrating 200 years of the modern railway and ending with a notice that strike action by the RMT might affect their services.

Insights from Railway Professionals: Rethinking Railway assumptions regarding safety and autonomy
Josh Hunter, John McDermid, Simon Burton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17756 https…

Insights from Railway Professionals: Rethinking Railway assumptions regarding safety and autonomy
This study investigates how railway professionals perceive safety as a concept within rail, with the intention to help inform future technological developments within the industry. Through a series of interviews with drivers, route planners,and administrative personnel, the research explores the currentstate of safety practices, the potential for automation and the understanding of the railway as a system of systems. Key findings highlight a cautious attitude towards automation, a preference fo…

Ukraine behind attack on Russian railway logistics, undermining offensive capabilities, military intelligence source claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/ukraine-behind-attack-on-russian.html

AgriVLN: Vision-and-Language Navigation for Agricultural Robots
Xiaobei Zhao, Xingqi Lyu, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07406 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

AgriVLN: Vision-and-Language Navigation for Agricultural Robots
Agricultural robots have emerged as powerful members in agricultural tasks, nevertheless, still heavily rely on manual operation or untransportable railway for movement, resulting in limited mobility and poor adaptability. Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to navigate to the target destinations following natural language instructions, demonstrating strong performance on several domains. However, none of the existing benchmarks or methods is specifically designed for agricultur…

@… That’s awesome. I always loved the iconic rubber ring design.
The IC2 ran on my little local railway in southern Denmark, my first love (for trains anyway).

#truck #railway

Ukrainian troops strike Russian Black Sea Fleet communications hub and railway #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/ukrainian-troops-strike-russian-black.html

Multi-period line planning for varying railway passenger demand with asymmetric lines
Renate J. H. van der Knaap, Niels van Oort, Menno de Bruyn, Rob M. P. Goverde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02052

Multi-period line planning for varying railway passenger demand with asymmetric lines
A line plan is an important aspect of the quality of the service provided to railway passengers. Although it is well-known that railway demand is varying throughout the day in volume and structure, the line plan is often still fixed throughout the day. To better match this varying railway demand, we propose a mixed-integer linear programming model for multi-period line planning. This model for railway networks incorporates selection of routes, stopping patterns, frequencies, transfers, and the …

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…

Did it turn out that the railway pass bought in KD ticket office doesn't work with the barcode scanners used in KW? Perhaps.
Did I immediately start scanning and analyzing the barcodes? Of course.
Well, KD tickets have two codes: a QR code with binary mash encoded in base64 (unnecessarily), which unfortunately I don't have time to analyze, and a code128 barcode with the ticket series and number, encoded as:
AA000000000 (0)
On the other hand, KW/PR have only code128 with the series and number, but without the digit in parentheses (perhaps a checksum?), even though it is printed on the pass:
AA000000000
#rail

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

#winnipeg Assiniboine Valley Railway

#DearFedi, does anyone happen to know a website or an app that I could use to easily highlight (as in using color) selected parts of the #railway network (ideally by choosing two stations to get everything in between highlighted), so I could mark which parts of the network I've already traversed, and then share it with you? (needs to include Polish railways)
#rail #map #OpenStreetMap #OpenRailwayMap

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

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

Drones reportedly hit railway infrastructure in Russian-occupied Crimea amid Ukrainian strike: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/drones-reportedly-hit-railway-infrastructure.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

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

@… Ok, I see that you're not looking to self-host, and I hear you!
However, if you're not opposed to one-click managed deployments and setting up an SMTP, I've been really enjoying using Listmonk. I use Railway to deploy it easily the generous free tier of an SMTP service, and I don't pay anything so far (list is still pretty small).

Estimating Cellular Network Delays in Finnish Railways: A Machine Learning Enhanced Approach
Saeideh Mansouri, Mohamed Shamekh, Simon Indola, Petri Mahonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05003

Estimating Cellular Network Delays in Finnish Railways: A Machine Learning Enhanced Approach
There is growing interest in using public cellular networks for specialized communication applications, replacing standalone sector-specific networks. One such application is transitioning from the aging GSM-R railway network to public 4G and 5G networks. Finland is modernizing its railway communication system through the Digirail project, leveraging public cellular networks. To evaluate network performance, a nationwide measurement campaign was conducted in two modes: Best Quality and Packet R…

Just had a 45-minute session of picking blackberries in my garden, during which 7 passenger trains passed by on the Bethnal Green and Kings Lynn line. That seems like a remarkable frequency of services for a Sunday, I wonder if there's something unusual happening. #railway

Old railroad signal near the Tioga Transportation Museum south of Newark Valley, NY
#photo #photography #railway #abstract

“So imagine a world whose nations—mostly its rich nations—just decided to keep those Chinese factories (and the ones in India, and Vietnam, and in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district in Georgia, which is the largest in the western hemisphere) busy. Keep them open,all of them, around the clock, churning out ever-cheaper solar panels and then either selling them at the deepest possible discount or maybe just piling them up on every wharf and railway siding in the world for people to come and take away.”
#SolarPunk #UtopiaNotDystopia #AbundanceForAll
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal

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.

Pro-Ukrainian partisans reportedly destroy railway electrical transformer in Southern Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/proukrainian-partisans-reportedly-destroy-railway.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…

T-araVLN: Translator for Agricultural Robotic Agents on Vision-and-Language Navigation
Xiaobei Zhao, Xingqi Lyu, Xiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06644 https://

T-araVLN: Translator for Agricultural Robotic Agents on Vision-and-Language Navigation
Agricultural robotic agents have been becoming powerful helpers in a wide range of agricultural tasks, nevertheless, still heavily rely on manual operation or untransportable railway for movement. The AgriVLN method and the A2A benchmark pioneeringly extend Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) to the agricultural domain, enabling agents navigate to the target position following the natural language instructions. AgriVLN effectively understands the simple instructions, however, often misundersta…

🇺🇦 #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

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

Efficient mechanical evaluation of railway earthworks using a towed seismic array and Bayesian inference of MASW data
Audrey Burzawa, Ludovic Bodet, Marine Dangeard, Brian Barrett, Daniel Byrne, Robert Whitehead, Corentin Chaptal, Jos\'e Cunha Teixeira, Julio Cardenas, Ramon Sanchez Gonzalez, Asger Eriksen, Amine Dhemaied
https://

Efficient mechanical evaluation of railway earthworks using a towed seismic array and Bayesian inference of MASW data
Assessing Railway Earthworks (RE) requires non-destructive and time-efficient diagnostic tools. This study evaluates the relevance of shear-wave velocity ($V_s$) profiling using Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) for detecting Low Velocity Layers (LVLs) in disturbed RE zones. To enhance time-efficiency, a towed seismic setup (Landstreamer) was compared with a conventional one. Once qualified, the Landstreamer was deployed on the ballast for roll-along acquisition, showing greatly imp…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- The time slot allocation problem in liberalised passenger railway markets: a multi-objective appr...
Be\v{s}inovi\'c, Garc\'ia-R\'odenas, L\'opez-Garc\'ia, L\'opez-G\'omez, Mart\'i…

Talking to carbrains always be like:
"Train tickets are more expensive than driving a car."
"Because you aren't counting the costs of buying and maintaining a car."
"But everyone has to have a car!"
So from now on, I arbitrarily decree that everyone, obligatorily and without exceptions, has to have an unlimited railway pass. Therefore, traveling by train is free and driving a car is infinitely many times more expensive. Thank you for your attention.
#rail #CarFree

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7j6KyeMxBE
>USA: NEW YORK: "MOLE PEOPLE" SEEKING SHELTER IN RAILWAY TUNNELS

Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway in Russia's Tula Oblast, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/ukrainian-partisans-sabotage-railway-in.html

reading more about the energia rockets at https://russianspaceweb.com

Canadians who are interested in passenger rail should take a look at what is happening in Mexico right now. They have a National Railway Plan to build 3400km of passenger rail track alongside existing private freight.
CPKC (the merged Canadian Pacific, Kansas City Southern railway) is front and centre.
"CPKC is actively collaborating with the Mexican government to support implementation specifically for the Mexico City – Queretaro and the Saltillo – Nuevo Laredo segments,” the Class I told Vantuono. “CPKC is making steady progress, actively and closely working with Mexican authorities on technical review of project segments. That includes providing detailed assessments and alternatives to facilitate decision-making, and mutual agreements. We are working toward clear agreements that minimize shared infrastructure usage between passenger and freight services. Where interactions are unavoidable, CPKC has proposed infrastructure solutions and operational adjustments, ensuring that the impacts on freight operations and growth remains minimal.””
#Transportation #Railway #Canada #CanPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels

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

The BART dancers need to up their game. Currently on narrow gage railway with a 3 piece band playing in a sardine packed carriage.

Ukrainian drones allegedly hit railway in Russia's Rostov Oblast, 26 trains delayed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/03/ukrainian-drones-allegedly-hit-railway.html

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.

Do you think I could get funding to modernize EN57 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP_class_EN57) to space shuttle version, and extend Poznań Metropolitan Railway to Mars? Until the line's electrified, SM42 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP_class_SM42) can pull it.

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

Caoilinn Hughes - following in Joyce's railway tracks.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/26/train-travel-following-in-james-joyce-tracks-to-trieste

🔊 #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

keep trying
#photography #railway #plants

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oumckr73jxr2fcxqf6l5xnrv/post/3lubun6g4cs27

Stevenof1 (@stevenof1.bsky.social)
In 1879, Mary Walton filtered train and factory smoke through water tanks—cutting pollution before it reached New York’s air. Then, after Edison failed to solve NYC’s railway noise problem, she invented a sand‑and‑cotton‑lined system that muffled the roar. Cleaner air, quieter streets...

its the autumn equinox tomorrow
#night #silentSunday

Automatic Inspection Based on Switch Sounds of Electric Point Machines
Ayano Shibata, Toshiki Gunji, Mitsuaki Tsuda, Takashi Endo, Kota Dohi, Tomoya Nishida, Satoko Nomoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20870

Automatic Inspection Based on Switch Sounds of Electric Point Machines
Since 2018, East Japan Railway Company and Hitachi, Ltd. have been working to replace human inspections with IoT-based monitoring. The purpose is Labor-saving required for equipment inspections and provide appropriate preventive maintenance. As an alternative to visual inspection, it has been difficult to substitute electrical characteristic monitoring, and the introduction of new high-performance sensors has been costly. In 2019, we implemented cameras and microphones in an ``NS'' electric poi…

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

Pro-Ukraine partisans sabotage railway, disrupt Russian logistics 1,600 km from border, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/proukraine-partisans-sabotage-railway-disrupt.html

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…

🔊 #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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
The Railway Children:
🎵 After The Rain (Radio 1 Session, 20 Apr 1988)
#TheRailwayChildren
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OHflV7fWkEKchh0DnVPEs

'Engulfed in flames' — Ukraine strikes Russia's railway infrastructure, fuel tanks, HUR source says, releases video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/engulfed-in-flames-ukraine-strikes.html

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…

A long time ago, back when railway tickets had a different form factor, I used to fold them in a complex way, so they'd fit in the "window" of my wallet, while having all the important bits still visible.
Then the form changed, and instead I ended up putting a single ticket across two "windows".
Today I bought a ticket at Koleje Dolnośląskie, and I had to fold it again — except this time to actually fit it in the two "windows".

‘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

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.

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

Scalable, Technology-Agnostic Diagnosis and Predictive Maintenance for Point Machine using Deep Learning
Eduardo Di Santi (Digital and Integrated Systems, Alstom), Ruixiang Ci (Innovation and Smart Mobility, Alstom), Cl\'ement Lefebvre (Digital and Integrated Systems, Alstom), Nenad Mijatovic (Digital and Integrated Systems, Alstom), Michele Pugnaloni (Digital and Integrated Systems, Alstom), Jonathan Brown (Digital and Integrated Systems, Alstom), Victor Mart\'in (Digital and …

Scalable, Technology-Agnostic Diagnosis and Predictive Maintenance for Point Machine using Deep Learning
The Point Machine (PM) is a critical piece of railway equipment that switches train routes by diverting tracks through a switchblade. As with any critical safety equipment, a failure will halt operations leading to service disruptions; therefore, pre-emptive maintenance may avoid unnecessary interruptions by detecting anomalies before they become failures. Previous work relies on several inputs and crafting custom features by segmenting the signal. This not only adds additional requirements for…

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

Location and allocation problem of high-speed train maintenance bases
Boliang Lin, Xiang Li, Yuxue Gu, Dishen Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13383 https://a…

Location and allocation problem of high-speed train maintenance bases
Maintenance bases are crucial for the safe and stable operation of high-speed trains, necessitating significant financial investment for their construction and operation. Planning the location and task allocation of these bases in the vast high-speed railway network is a complex combinatorial optimization problem. This paper explored the strategic planning of identifying optimal locations for maintenance bases, introducing a bi-level programming model. The upper-level objective was to minimize …

‘It’s like a funeral’ — As US mimics peace talks, Russian missile strike on Kyiv kills at least 17: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/its-like-a-funeral-as.html

Ukrainian drones reportedly target key logistics hub in southwestern Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/ukrainian-drones-reportedly-target-key.html

You're walking down a dirt road, and it suddenly crosses what looks like an overgrown line of greenery between the fields. You check the map. Indeed, a railway line used to cross here.
#rail

Russian attacks kill 3, injure 22 in Ukraine over past day, railway infrastructure hit overnight: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

Russian strikes kill 3, injure 54, hit Ukrainian railway infrastructure over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/russian-strikes-kill-injure-hit.html

Ukrainian drones destroy 2 Russian ammo depots in Luhansk Oblast, Security Service says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/ukrainian-drones-destroy-russian-ammo.html

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

Ukrainian drones hit Liski rail hub in Russia’s Voronezh region, halting train traffic: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/ukrainian-drones-hit-liski-rail.html

Ukrainian forces blow up Russian fuel train near Tokmak, severing rail line in occupied Zaporizhzhia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/ukrainian-forces-blow-up-russian.html

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