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European human rights court sets climate limits for the oil industry - Greenpeace International Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order ...

HUGE result from @greenpeace.no, @naturogungdom.bsky.social and youth activists

The European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that the Norwegian government must take the global climate impact into account before approving new oil and gas projects

A person in orange hi vis adjusting the ornate station clock in the roof of Kings Cross Station, London

Don't forget BST ends tonight, time to adjust the clocks again

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

Reform's Russian 'asset' - the Kremlin shadow over Nigel Farage | Searchlight Nathan Gill - Russian asset On 26 September, former Welsh Brexit Party MEP and Reform UK official Nathan Gill pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to eight coun ...

Reform’s Russian ‘asset’ – the Kremlin shadow over Nigel Farage

At least 30 injured in Russian strike on railway station, Zelensky says Preliminary reports indicate that train staff and passengers were at the site of the strike, he says.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Calstock viaduct with a class 150 train travelling over it. A reflection of the viaduct and train can be seen in the river

Possibly the most forgotten viaduct in England…

Calstock viaduct is amazing and definitely worth a visit!

Henbury station secures planning approval - West of England Combined Authority

www.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/news/henbury...

President announces Santo Domingo monorail project DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Project promoter Fitram has called tenders for the detailed design and construction of the first phase of Santo Domingo's monorail project, following President Luis Abinader's anno...

www.railwaygazette.com/monorail-and...

*Inserts obligatory Simpsons quote* 🚝

@garethdennis.uk

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

ARE

YOU

PAYING

ATTENTION

YET?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Class 37 loco on a low loader arriving at Kidderminster Station

Screengrab from Facebook SVR Page advertising the Diesel Gala with a photo of 37901

A week to go before the Autumn Diesel Bash at the SVR, 65 years of Class 37s.
@geofftech.bsky.social @sarahwiththetrains.bsky.social

svr.co.uk/event/65-yea...

Teenage Warwickshire Reform UK council leader George Finch 'wanted to teach' George Finch, the UK's youngest council leader at 19, had thought he would become a history teacher.

And in this BBC interview he said that

"People can't afford homes, they can't have a car"

So how do they get around? walk, bus and cycle presumably... 🙄🙄🤬

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An LNER Azuma train passing under the Grade II listed Hexam signal box, built on a steel gantry spanning the tracks

An LNER Azuma train passing the Grade II listed Hexam signal box, a tall red and cream painted wooden structure on a brick base, with the train framed by a quaint cream and red footbridge

Unusual sight last weekend due to ECML closure, Azumas on the Tyne Valley line - seen here at Hexham and Haltwhistle

Ex National Coal Board steam Loco No 49 being filled with water at Bridgnorth Motive Power Depot as the sun is rising behind it. A man sits on top of the water tank and is about to remove the 'bag' (rubber pipe) used to fill the water tank, which is overflowing, water running down the sides of the loco. Steam and smoke mingle in the air in front of orange clouds

NCB No 49 gets an early watering at Bridgnorth MPD, SVR Autumn Gala

GB Railfreight class 66, number 66721 with a train of woodchip hoppers used for imported woodchip to fuel Drax power station, claimed to be green renewable energy when the woodchip is imported from Canada

GB Railfreight 66721 at Healey Mills B junction with 4M36, 09.54 Drax Aes to Liverpool Biomass Tml, 16th Sepetember 2025

New footage shows the scale of the fire after a Russian strike on an Epicenter logistics facility in Kyiv region. The damage is significant, with rescue services working at the scene.

We all need to be having these conversations.

65 Years of Class 37 - Severn Valley Railway The Autumn Diesel Bash will be taking place at the Severn Valley Railway from 2- 5 October, celebrating 65 years of the Class 37.

We have an Autumn Diesel Bash celebrating 65 years of CL37, lots of tractors operating, if that's tempting?

svr.co.uk/event/65-yea...

Steam loco 73082 Camelot being winched slowly off a low loader trailer onto the rails at Kidderminster yard

BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot arriving at Kidderminster for the Severn Valley Railway Autumn Gala, this coming weekend

Another delivered to Kharkiv, with Wyreforest2Ukraine
Mitsubishi L200, did a basic conversion to front line evac ambulance, now with 68th Brigade, volunteer unit formed in 2022.
Onto the next one!
More 4WD single cab pickups urgently needed to evac injured troops from front lines.
#ukraine
#aid

Ukraine’s standard gauge ‘iron link’ to the EU opens UKRAINE: Standard gauge trains from the EU can now run directly to the city of Uzhhorod, following the opening of a 1 435 mm gauge track from Chop near the Slovakian and Hungarian borders.

www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructu...

You for some reason hate public transit and would never take it? Ok, but what if our taxes made it high quality, leading to more people abandoning their cars and utilizing it, freeing up the open road for you to more easily commute by car?

Yeah, it's that simple.

Middlehaven roundabout locomotive plan approved The installation is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8z2g28818o

Building the Dudley Dasher together Pre Metro Operations has spent the past six months in active dialogue with local leaders, MPs, businesses, and transport authorities to advance the Dudley Dasher - our proposed Very Light Rail (VLR) l...

We want the Dudley Dasher
premetro.co.uk/building-the...

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

If you nudge the council into supporting it again, there's free stands available at Park That Bike. Oxford's not currently involved, but was in 2023

www.parkthatbike.info

Fixed it

A flowchart describing different type of public transport vehicles. It explains that anything running on rubber tyres on a road is a bus and not a tram

Steve needs to see the #notametro flowchart, courtesy of @garethdennis.uk

A burnt out car with no tyres on, dumped on a railway track

"If you take the tyres off and put it on rails its a tram"...

Random Railways | Flying Scotsman at the SVR Gallery: Flying Scotsman at the SVR on Random Railways

SVR was busy again yesterday, loads of people out watching the Scotsman. Including at Victoria Bridge. The people photographing it crossing the bridge add that bit extra to this photo imho

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