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Solar railways are successful apparently.
https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/05/italy-could-be-the-next-country-to-build-a-solar-railway-after-switzerlands-successful-tri

Switzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next?
Solar railways could soon become commonplace in Europe, following a successful trial in Switzerland.

‘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

Extreme heat is “pushing infrastructure beyond its design limits”, the EEA says.
Going forward, European governments need to carry out dramatic upgrades to create climate resilient infrastructure at a much faster pace.
This month’s heatwave has laid bare the urgency of this, scientists say.
“Roads, railways, energy systems, and buildings must be redesigned or retrofitted to withstand higher temperatures,” the EEA said.
Climate considerations must be at the centre of ur…

This is why Europe was so fatally unprepared for the June heatwave
Europe’s hottest ever June has laid bare the failures of successive governments across the continent to prepare for extreme heat. Now, scientists say, we have reached the point where climate change is having a severe impact on daily life. Alex Croft reports

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.

You know those complex economic #boardgames with loans & company takeovers that are about railways? 18XX series & also others?
In 100 years, I bet people will be playing similarly convoluted games loosely based on OpenAI/Anthropic/NVIDIA/Grok/Oracle/SoftBank et al
PS: <3 those boardgames & their communities

Crimea has been a bridgehead for Russia since it seized the territory from Ukraine in 2014.
But the peninsula is now looking vulnerable.
Ukraine has stepped up its drone campaign, targeting strategic infrastructure including electrical substations, bridges, oil depots and airfields.
Drones are also severing the roads, railways and waterways that connect Crimea to Russia.
Isolating the peninsula completely would give Ukraine a strong hand in any future negotiations…

#OTD 2014 Cross-border rail @ Brussel-Zuid / Bruxelles-Midi
SNCB - NS - DB - SNCF