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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-08 09:31:30

I have another fun project idea that I'm not going to realize.
What I'd love to have is a heat map of "how soon can I get there". One where I select my train station, and get a map of all train stations I can reach within N hours, each marked with the earliest arrival time and colored by how late I'll get there. Including all the reasonable transfers.
Say, the first train from here goes to Konin, so I get its arrival times marked on all stations towards Konin. Then, I can transfer to a few trains in Poznań, so I get their arrival times on their respective stations. And then all the transfers there, and so on.
So what I'd get is a pretty colorful map, with arrival time getting later with distance, except for major stations where IC trains get earlier than suburban trains, and then backwards from major stations where I can get via IC and then change into suburban going back. It would be such a cool experiment!
And honestly, I could start playing with it even with a partially automated tool: one that lets me select a given train and updated the map if it arrived somewhere earlier than I had before.
#rail

@thijs_lucas@norden.social
2026-07-07 04:57:22

@… berichtet von seiner Reise mit Schiff und Zug von Kiel nach Jolla, Finland. Ein paar wenige Toots mit Fotos garniert.
Er holt sich sein neues Telefon zusammen mit anderen Erstkund*innen direkt aus der Fabrik und berichtet unter #Rail_and_Sail_2_Jolla

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-07 07:22:23

Which of the displays do you identify with? 🔥
#Wrocław Leśnica station building.
#rail

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-07-07 09:02:21

There are people criticizing the plans to bring passenger trains to #Poznań's cargo bypass line.
Well, I for one definitely want to ride a train through this bridge. According to the internets: 2 km long, 10–15 metres above the ground.
Also, I definitely don't want to walk the walkway there. Never.
#rail

@mrwedders@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-23 23:28:35

Anyone else like abandoned stuff? Here's a disused rail line I visited last August (for the third time, I should add.)
#urbex #abandoned #rail

@dankeck@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-06-28 12:26:34

#SilentSunday #Rail #Signs

Looking up at signs on a traffic sign pole. On the back of the pole, facing away from the camera, are two signs in shapes familiar with USA motorists: a letter X indicating a railroad crossing, and a triangle indicating a yield. On the front is a rectangular sign that features the no symbol over a walking person and an all-terrain vehicle. The words read: "Trespassing is dangerous and illegal. Stay off railroad tracks.  Ohio Revised Code 4519.40. No trespassing on tracks or right of way". The s…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-04 15:48:25

Hmm, I wonder how you're supposed to keep that distance when the roofing columns are less than 3 metres apart.
It's on the railway station in #Leszno.
#rail

@edintone@mastodon.green
2026-05-24 13:54:54

Oh, the sad irony! Mile for mile, the Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) is likely to be more expensive than HS2. The latest LTC current cost estimate is at least £11 billion for 14.3 miles of ‘smart’ motorway and tunnel. #rail #roads

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-05-18 19:46:43

An interesting #bridge in #Leszno.
#rail

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-05-28 16:10:09

If the world wasn't so full of greedy, idiotic, assholes we could have ultra high speed zero-emission electric trains connecting North America and Asia and we wouldn't need to pollute the skies or the seas.
🤝
We probably burn more fuel in a day with all the air traffic in the world than it would take to build the entire railway from Prince George or Edmonton through Fairbanks, across the Bering Sea/Land Bridge and on to Yakutsk, Moscow, and Beijing.
It's such a shame, you know?
#Rail #theWorld #Canada #USA #Alaska #Siberia #Russia #Ukraine #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels #HighSpeed

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-05-28 16:21:13

And no, I'm not the only one who has ever thought about it....
But as the #Rail #theWorld #Canada #USA #Alaska #Siberia #Russia #Ukraine #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels #HighSpeed

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-04-10 17:56:58

European Night Train rail renaissance in 3-2-1?
#StraitsOfHormuz #EndFossilFuels #Train #Rail #EURail #EU #AirTravel
bbc.com/news/articles/c3w37ggp