This thread is for talking about railways, and things related to railways, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Trips, tracks, tickets, trains and stations, they're all good - making up rules is boring so let's just be normal. Questions are, of course, most welcome.If you feel like travelling, head over to National Rail Enquiries (nationalrail.co.uk/); tell it where you're leaving from and where you're going to, and it'll tell you how you're going to get there; then it'll hand you over to a train operator to buy a ticket. The golden rule is that it doesn't matter which train operator you buy a ticket from, as they'll all sell you a ticket from anywhere to anywhere, for the same price. If you're a visitor from overseas, your best option is probably Trainline (thetrainline.com/) - they charge a booking fee on top of the ticket price, but they'll accept just about any payment card. There's also trip.com/, who are apparently a 'thing' with overseas students: I've not used these myself, so please speak up with any thoughts.Here's a few links:~The Man in Seat 61 (seat61.com/) - easily the best rail travel resource out there.~Geoff Marshall (youtube.com/@geofftech2) - Likes trains. Mostly harmless.~A Visual History of Railway Rolling Stock in Great Britain (gaelan.me/br-stock/)~Realtimetrains (realtimetrains.co.uk/) - live train timetables: ideal for keeping on top of ETAs and platforms.~TIGER (tiger.worldline.global/home/) - live station departure boards.~Traksy (traksy.uk/live/) - live signalling information.~Openrailwaymap (openrailwaymap.org/) - railway infrastructure, mapped.What's happening?~Phase One of High Speed 2 (Birmingham-London): hs2.org.uk/Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1991915why do I only learn about the pissed-up posh totty AFTER these things happen. why do you keep things from me, anon
https://www.railmagazine.com/news/2024/04/25/labour-launch-plan-for-rail>Labour launches plan for rail>Shadow Transport Secretary, Louise Haigh will outline plans to pursue the creation of the Great British Railways (GBR) body which it intends to be led by “rail experts” rather than Whitehall. However, the plan also includes the creation of a new passenger watchdog, the Passenger Standards Authority.>But the creation of GBR is one part of Labour’s plan, as Haigh will also announce a clear move towards public ownership of the nation’s railways, by aiming to bring government passenger contracts once they expire into the public sector within its first term of office, reversing privatisation by the end of 2029 at the latest. This it believes will prove better value for money for the taxpayer than buying operators out of their contracts early.Announced at Trainline HQ, and made a point of saying 'yes we're keeping the name'. Mixed feelings.
>Liverpool Street>doesn't take you to Liverpooltypical
>>1993641>Leicester Square Station>doesn't take you to LeicesterFucking TfL
>Waterloobit smaller than i thought it'd be
Is there anything more based than 90s mountain bikes?
>>1993606I meant mostly thicker on the ends where it needs to be stronger, and still reasonably thin in the center.This makes a stiffer frame that can cope with more.At least this is what I have heard from the miyata posters on other forums.Remember, the bigger the rider and frame the stiffer you want the frame to be, up to a point for mild trail riding/road.
>>1993029Nope
>>1993575wuti have never ridden a more stable/comfortable bike than a lwb rigid mtb with drop bars
>>1993351Kek ok poorlet.Have fun with your short toptube, 26inch kids wheels made from fucking steel or aluminium. Also old groupsets suck mayor balls. Any modern beginner gravel bike mogs all, even roadbikes from the 80s-90s-00s.
>>1993619Looks cool but how fucking smol are you? Looks like youre under 150cm
Ah, what a lovely evening to ride my bike.
/nrt/ nightly ride thread
>see red light>stop>don't dieit's that simple
>>1993334Wasn't this the train that some whitu piggu rode next to while a bunch of jap railfans were autistically waiting to get footage of the train and then seethed about the cyclist ruining their shot and made him into a 2chan meme?
>>1993334that's a train
qrd?
I’m no airbus fanboy but has the A350 pretty much totally dethroned Boeing’s long haul offerings at this point? It’s reputation is so good that it has had a total hull loss and people are saying they’d fly on one again in a heartbeat
>What bags do you use>What do you carry>Why are all saddle bags shit
Inujirushi kaban handlebar bag. Love it. Pain to import, Nippon really don’t care about selling to filthy roundeyes
>>1993482why this over something like the acorn rando bag?
>>1993483Found them through Jitensha Studios. Imported from JP was way cheaper than Acorn, Berthoud, Swift. Ultimately it for my bike better too.
>>1992661shit what a nice bikergirl ass
>>1993487ah, ok. the one listing i found it was around the same price range so i was curious. seems like they aren't stocking any bags now, though.
Why are they so (apparently) hated? People seem to dislike the fact that they have to wait for the lights to cycle before they can cross the road. But isn't this literally how they work in other normal parts of the world??Also why are they called this? Because you have to "beg" cars to be able to cross the road? Do Americans really?
This is a much more pragmatic solution that speaks to the mindless cage creature in the only language that it understands - violence.>https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8kP6R0clBGY
>>1993266>But isn't this literally how they work in other normal parts of the world??https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQheHhUUs6sIn most of the world you make eye contact with the coming driver and give her.
>>1993623I am a fan of this method desu
>>1993623Thanks, but I already carry a gun.
>>1993636Do you brandish it at vehicles while crossing the street?
Thoughts on Comac's C919? Would you fly on a made in China plane?
>>1993108>I don't know why you keep referring to shipbuilding as an analogue for airplane manufacturing.Safety for one. LNG carriers can wipe out a small city if they go boom, their engineering and safety standards are comparable to that of passenger aircraft for that reason. >because there is no reason to invest in a domestically-produced Chinese airliner if airlines can purchase or lease western jets at a lower costYou're saying that in the middle of a cold/trade war between America and China. China will force their airlines to do so just due to the sanction risk. They have learnt their lessons from Huawei and the semiconductor sanctions. If you purely go by market forces, China wouldn't even be trying to build their own aircraft, they would just buy Airbus/Boeing like the rest of the planet. >The difference between the military and civilian sector is that in the latter all 3 are required.The military sector will provide the initial engineering expertise and support to start the ball rolling. It's much harder to start from scratch after alll. Once they have all critical competents like the engines, they will innovate after they have a stable product to dodge sanctions. >The military cares only about performance, which can come at a significant operating costs (far in advance of the operating margin an airline has to work with).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1993091>large portion are transportstransport aircraft are vastly more powerful than combat aircraft. logistics win wars, and in terms of logistics the USAF has four times as many C-17's as the rest of the world combined, and vastly C-17's more than any countries fleet of woefully inferior stratetigc airlifters, and a fleet of C-130H's and C-130J's that dwarf any rival. the USAF has more ski equipped boutique C-130's than most countires have tactical airlifters overall.really the whole>the two most powerful air forces in the world are the USAF and the USNquip hardly captures the disparity in power projection between the US and the rest of the world.
>>1993145That amount of transport aircraft are only necessary if you're fighting wars all over the globe. If you're comparing fighting power in a vacuum by teleporting in all aircraft into a neutral battlefield and having them duke it out, they're aren't so much of an factor. Or if the US navy has to fight China right in it's backyard where China doesn't have to worry about logistics nearly as much.
>>1993061They are also the biggest producer of medicine.
>>1993102You have the freedom to travel. Many do not, maybe appreciate what you have hmm?
>a>fucking>screwEurosistas, they'll make fun of us...
>>1993580Just stop moving the goalposts
>>1993582see >>1993562 and >>1993565
>>1993585Again, welcome to the 20th century
>>1991867Buffers and screw coupling work well only if you couple the train correctly: when coupling, the buffers should touch and the screw coupling should be tightened. By this you ensure - as you correctly state - that slack and compression are mitigated. Now guess who does it by the book today. I'll help you there: nobody. Even in OPs pic the screw coupling is hanging a bit and the buffers aren't compressed meaning that as soon as this train starts to move, the buffers get a slight gap between them.The new DAC should mitigate this problem as the Schaffensberg type heads connect without gaps thus no slack between cars will occur.
>>1990903gee whiz i love another boondoggle from "totally-not-a-monopoly" voithand current (lv.4 or some shit) doesn't support data transfer (which is on lv.5 of spec, and is still as elusive as ETCS lv. 3)FFS euroniggers can screw literally fucking everything
Not polished yet: https://close.city/https://vxtwitter.com/NatMakesMaps/status/1776259750310912335It's an interactive map to show the best places for transportation and walkability. The default is Grocery + Library which makes the map really really narrowly defined and there's no real way to weight the options, so I recommend disabling Library and/or using just one at a time. But it does an incredible job of highlighting walkability and would make a great tool for deciding where to develop or move
>>1990209>lives in a place where school playgrounds aren't open to the public on evenings and weekends
>>1990039>nearby shoe boutique is labeled as supermarket but drugstore with full grocery is nowhere to be seendefinitely needs tuned up. at first glance the map look about right though>libraries
>>1992730When I was young. My school's playground would be opened and closed at random. So it wasn't something I could relay on.
>>1990039Needs to be global not just muricuck only
>>1990405My local library rebranded as coworking with latte and smoothies, and also hosts a lot of courses, though mostly for kids. It's a good public space.
Post trains that are just a bit weird or different from the norm. All trains welcome, passenger, freight, locomotive, rolling stock, etc.Saw this one in the Netherlands and it's a bit odd.>EMU>Only one motor car>Which has three bogies and one level>Every other coach is a normal bilevel
Houston airport subway, it's the only example of a WEDway people mover built by Disney outside of the parks.
>>1992917The DDZ is still looking good... Quite aesthetic solution hiding the loco under the upper passenger deck.I (mildly autistic) am to this day bothered by the design of Stadler GTWs due to that fucking engine/electrics compartment. It's like putting a small freight wagon into a passenger consist just because.Inb4: they need to put the engine or electrical components somewhereSo does Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier, yet they don't need a fucking freight car for it.
Performance enhancing drugs editionOld >>1972124
donated like 60lbs of books. going a bit neurotic selling/donating a ton of possessions. it's for the better.
>>1993613does it spark joy?
Didn't want to spook the Canadian geese.Seen tons of these over the last month or so.
>>1993614more relief than anything
Night rides are the comfiest. Especially if they start at 14:00.
Show me the jury rigged shit you've cobbled together yourself instead of buying from a store. 5gal bucket panniers, homemade bags, diy anti-theft solutions, etc.p.s., picrel was absolute useless 3d printing and raspberry pi bullshit
>>1991372surfacing the carbon for paint
>>1987279I have seen this exact picture on reddit.
>>1991411probably in a thread where the solution to a seized cassette was to wedge the wheel against a wall.
>>1983022if I ever go there I am 100% gonna get their plans and then just open source them. knowledge should be free
>>1991690You can already download the plans from their website here:https://www.xyzcargo.com/about/
I’m a pilot doing aerial work and approaching 1000 hours and I’m about to apply to a company, I have all my licenses and rating’s however since I graduated, I’ve only been flying VFR since there’s no ifr operations (even if I consider myself to be very good, If not better in IFR) but still tho, it’s been a year. Anyway, I feel like my knowledge in aviation has gone so low, like I feel like idk what I am doing but when I open the aviation books, I instantly know the answer. Like do you get it? If someone or an exam asks me, I’ll know the answer but otherwise I’ll be lost. Also are there any airline pilots that can tell me if the airlines train you well in terms of their operations and their IFR procedures and is it normal that 70% of the stuff I’ve studied in aviation, it doesn’t apply in real life. (For example I used to know the entire FAR AND CAR AIM by heart, now I know like 30-60% )
>>1992799Well I appreciate it. I try to apply the same logic I use in my day to day to planes, and I also try to remember how many flights I’ve been on before this new anxiety. Might just start swigging a shot before flights though. Either way thanks a bunch
>>1992977Don’t overthink it brotha you got it
>>1992857Calm down seat 27B
>>1992645Look up vagus nerve anti-anxiety techniques on youtube. You will find a lot of lilac clack hippy chicks humming and breathing, and all of it works. Daily 4-7-8 breathing exercise for 8 reps helps to build immunity from overactrive panic response. t. ex-panic disorder fag
>>1992605>>1992611I'm in the same boat but takeoffs and landings are the only part in ok with. The rest of the time I'm paranoid about turbulence. Used to fly all the time with no issues, it's a new development since flying with my kids. I'm going to get a valium prescription for my next long haul flight.
Here is mine:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lT4oE4DxEJust do it:https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8VLC9nnTo
>>1987413Who asked bitch ass
>>1980316How da fuck is hurt by johnny cash cycling music breh lol https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLpR6Fsc6Q&pp=ygUKYmlydGggNDAwMA%3D%3D
>>1977726https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfFVLdySxzA
>>1989705>>1990880The Dictatorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72aSGvXeOTshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXyQIbd67ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FamXYEaFF7wBang Brave Bang Bravern OP Ba-Bang to Suisan! Bang Bravern Instrumental by Pan Pianohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-J-u539wMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6bxNEgiWO8Ru's Piano of Rogue Encampment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ObyUGoeJ8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-vG8oPhhM
Themeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIBuWLd9nKkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSiC8sMcxashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJrPrh2kFchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVi8XUXSxuwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdV_b9t--A
What's the most retarded bad faith argument against improving transit and walkability you've come across?I'll start with "But but but, AMERICA'S TOO BIG"
>>1993571>you have to build a complete bike network to my extremely high standards or it doesn't count>wtf why is no one wanting to build bike lanes
>>1993571No, the bad faith one is "you need my permission to ride a bicycle, in the form of this magical green paint, and if you don't use my green paint and go EXACTLY where I tell you you're allowed to go with your children's toy, I now have your permission to run you down and kill you and then go 'was he wearing a helmet doe?' while gesturing to the pair of mangled femurs and various hair and gristle and shredded organ meat jutting out of my crumpled, gore-soaked hoodForester was right. Urbanists need to be launched into the sun
>>1993310Not my fault they brigade the website with their shilling every day like this guy >>1993540
>>1993593Yes. Every urban and suburban city should have a bollard/concrete separated bike lane wide enough for two bikes side by side, on both sides of the road, on all roads. Randomly ending a bike lane in 45mph car traffic is the equivalent of ramping cars off an unfinished overpass.
>>1993593>extremely high standardsAll a nigga need are concrete slabs and bike lanes that don't randomly end/turn into sharrows.
