Tag: trains
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Underground and Overground in the City of London
Taking advantage of the new railway station on his doorstep, Dan takes several trips to London, spending them both underground and overground in the City.
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View through vents from ventilation shafts above Victoria Line platforms, Euston tube station
In May 2016 I was lucky enough to get to take a tour through the disused/non-public tunnels underneath Euston Station in London. The whole experience was fantastic, but a particular highlight was getting to stand in a ventilation shaft directly above the Victoria Line platforms, where this video was taken. Travelling the underground, it's easy … -
Not sure I want to take the train, any more...
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Network Rail engineers near Redbridge Park & Ride sit in their van as it sinks into a field. I feel really sorry for them!
AltNetwork Rail engineers sinking into a flooded field
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Is somebody chopping onions on this tube train? Oh wait: yes, actually.
AltChopping onions on a tube train
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TIL that in 1970, British Rail patented the design of fusion-powered interstellar spaceship
British Rail flying saucer
The British Rail flying saucer, officially known simply as space vehicle, was a proposed spacecraft designed by Charles Osmond Frederick.
Purpose
The flying saucer originally started as a proposal for a lifting platform. However, the project was revised and edited, and by the time the patent was filed had become … -
Snow Day Like Today
Dan and Paul brave heavy snowfall to take a series of trains from Aberystwyth to Preston for Christmas.
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The Danville Public Service Announcement
I don't visit Facebook often. In fact, I usually only log on once or twice a month to clear out the billions of requests to install applications (and block those applications) that people don't seem to have noticed that I never accept, or to check up on a mis-placed phone number or e-mail address for …
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Claire’s Birthday, and Preston
Well, Claire and I are in Preston. We travelled up here last night (after a few false starts, including getting to Mach before realising we'd left the Green Day tickets blu-tacked to the wall "so we don't forget them" in Aber and having to turn back). Claire's been made out to be a bookworm again, …
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Off To Malawi!
I'm off to Malawi!
I've found my bus ticket (stupid train strikes), my passport (stupid immigration laws), my juggling balls (stupid... no, wait... juggling is good)... I guess I'm ready to go.
Contrary to my assumption that my bus would be leaving from the bus station, it's apparently leaving from Plascrug... which is... somewhere... hmm...
Anyway, y'all, take … -
Is This Paul?
[this post was damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has not been possible to recover it]
[this post was recovered on 12 October 2018]
Take a look at this article from the BBC, about Aberystwyth train station, and tell me - is that Paul in the frame? -
Train Girl Fantasy
Take a look at the thread on Train Girl Fantasies that Andy has accidentally started. Participate! Tell us all about your Train Girl Fantasies. We all know you've had them.
Last night I fixed eight or so of the bugs that Paul and Kit found in my software project the night before. They've promised not to … -
More Balloons
Dan decides that it would be a good idea to fill a train carriage with balloons and then stick them to the ceiling of the carriage using static.
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #52:
Ride a train through water several feet deep, at 5mph, after the station at Dovey Junction becomes flooded, and, using traditional Welsh logic, it is decided that it makes far more sense to plough through it (making waves, for God's … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #46:
Go for two days on minimal sleep (a catnap on the train) and maximum alcohol (the secret joy of the London nightlife)... Well? It's two of my friends birthdays!
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at …