driverbod

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?

"Pull factors" on steroids.

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I love that SkyTrain is the British Columbia Rapid Transit Company. It sounds like something from 1907 incorporated to build a subway line, not a world-first automated rapid transit system

The photo in the original post, cropped and rotated 90° clockwise, resulting in the two amber lights being side by side, looking like two eyes, and the letter D rotated looking like an open mouth

A RailMiles screenshot including several trips between West Ealing and Greenford

A fun afternoon out yesterday!

Question for @swlines.bsky.social - I wonder how many miles aboard 230001 were logged on RailMiles in total yesterday?

A screenshot of Railmiles train information data entry screen. Departure 01/02/2026 0955, arrival 01/01/1970 0100!

Railmiles has invented time travel! 😃

(For those who don’t know, the train’s arrival time auto-completes when you enter original, destination, date and departure time…)

805004 and 805002 pass Appleby with delayed 1Z92 Preston to Carlisle (Submitted by @driverbod.bsky.social)
#SignalOfTheDay

It is an iPhone 5x zoom picture, but it’s also clearly visible with the naked eye.

However, line speed is only 40mph for passenger trains and 20mph for freight; and the rollercoaster appearance isn’t noticeable as a passenger.

Green aspect at GE47 South Greenford for gWr’s battery train 230001’s first day in service (Submitted by @driverbod.bsky.social)
#SignalOfTheDay

A snapshot of the video Luke posted

I just shared a big update on my mushroom foraging guide I’m writing 🙌 There’s a free video on Patreon patreon.com/luke_venechuk

Pretty sure I used the phrase “hell yeah” more than any other mushroom guide author ✍️

A vending machine selling a packet of Skittles from slot number 404

Skittles not found

Who stole the other track?! Port Lotniczy Gdańsk (Submitted by @driverbod.bsky.social)
#SignalOfTheDay

Could this antique signage be any more sinister?

Near Tczew, the railway passes over the Wisła river and associated flood plain, across a long viaduct. The adjacent road viaduct was not rebuilt after war damage.

Apologies for the reflections in the video, the sun was at a most inconvenient angle!

Malbork Castle is the biggest brick-built castle in Europe, and very interesting to visit. Also very close to the railway!

Thanks to the very conveniently-timed freight train here 🙄

A green and yellow Freightliner class 66 locomotive on a train of wagons, in Poland

There’s no escaping, even on holiday

You like eating whippets? 😱

Duolingo translation “My shirt is big”

Called out by Duolingo! 😳🦉😡

A translation of a menu from Polish to English: “meringue cake witch whippet cream and cranberries”

Translation fail of the day
🧙‍♀️🐶

A pair of semaphores on a bracket beyond the end of the platforms at Lowestoft, with L4 cleared for a departure. There is a disc attached to the base of the bracket. A grain silo dominates the background alongside other light industrial buildings.

Semaphores at Lowestoft. 23 June 2018. #railway #photography

Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]

Funny Numbers

xkcd.com/3184/

Northern DMU 156478 has just passed a cleared semaphore and is approaching the station at Sellafield working a service from Lancaster to Carlisle. Recently-renewed semaphore signal SD5 stands at danger in the foreground.

Approaching Sellafield. 10 February 2025. #railway #photography

So few of these tin tabernacles left, but so lacking in conventional architectural or historic significance that they are seldom protected

Furthest points of my travels in 2025:

North: Stockholm 🇸🇪
South: Beppu 🇯🇵
East: Tokyo 🇯🇵
West: Penzance 😳

“Zone B Europe” roaming is no longer free! It was in May… 😭

Seeking new mobile provider! 👎🏼

This shall be followed by nap time

On the fold down table on the back of a train seat, a gWr-branded paper cup with a slice of Mr Pullin’s fruit cake on top of it.

There was no bacon available for breakfast at Temple Meads earlier this morning 😱😔 but the balance of life has now been restored

Another train in the dark - operating as 6Z02, a railgrinder slowly passes in a shower of sparks.

It’s not the NMT, it’s one of the other IM rakes which used to be TnT 37s or 67s.

Formed of Mk 2 vehicles, though the generator van looks like it might be a Mk 1.

A train in the dark…

1Q22 0743 Derby RTC to Bristol Kingsland Road is seen just before 10pm, close to the end of its journey, passing both ways between Filton and Hallen Marsh.

Power cars 43257/43274 top-n-tail the PLPR3 rake, including TRC 999550, the last loco-hauled Mk2 built for BR.