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‘There is no great master plan’: anxiety as UK homes, roads and railways sink into the sea https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/23/uk-homes-roads-railways-sink-into-the-sea

from my link log —
The secrets of the shinkansen.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/the-secret-behind-japans-railways
saved 2026-04-14

The secrets of the shinkansen
Japan's railways are the finest in the world. Other countries can copy its formula.

Well, the state of the German railways is poor, so there’s no shortage of schadenfreude from abroad. But at least in Germany there’s a timetable with trains running at least every hour on most routes.
https://www.lemonde.fr/internatio…

Pourquoi les trains allemands n’arrivent plus jamais à l’heure
Retards quasi systématiques, annulations… le réseau ferroviaire allemand s’est dégradé depuis vingt ans, au point que la compagnie Deutsche Bahn devient un sujet d’embarras national.

random thought....
remembering that time I was at a trade-conference and I walked by a CP Rail booth, looked at a couple of their brochures and then turned to a lady behind the table and said.
"my preference would be that the government run the railways”
and then walked away.
The look on her face. lol
#Rail #canada

So I'm reading the changelog for the Polish railways' Passenger's Portal app (i.e. checking what they broke), and it turns out that the developers discovered compression.
I mean, the app's been updating "dictionaries" practically every single day for years (surely available stations change frequently), and they weren't even compressed! What's next? Discovering Last-Modified and refetching only if something actually changes?!
#rail #app

Just realised that installing #solar panels as roofs over motorways and railways would not only aid in climate protection, but might actually be a #DualUse technology.
In #Ukraine, russian drones…

#OTD 2014 Cross-border rail @ Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
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