I recently had the opportunity to ride the Great Western Railway and it was brilliant. Took a sleeper coach, a local branch train, and another day train. Brilliant. So comfortable and easy.

Then I took Te Huia to get home. It’s great, but not as great as the trains we had 30 years ago.

Sign Green's petition to tell the Minister for Rail, Winston Peters, that you want passenger rail services reinstated!

https://action.greens.org.nz/restore_rail

#trains#NZpol

"However, this requires powerful quantum computers,” she added. “Optimal route planning in real time for all possible connections is not feasible with conventional computers, today’s computing power, and at high speed.”

https://www.railtech.com/digitalisation/2025/09/03/powerful-quantum-computers-the-future-of-disruption-free-rail-says-db-digital-chief/

Ahaha. "Not even AI can enable us to do the basic functions of our job. We need an even stronger Buzzword! We need Quantum!"

#quantumquamtumquantum
#DB#Trains #compsci101

"However, this requires powerful quantum computers,” she added. “Optimal route planning in real time for all possible connections is not feasible with conventional computers, today’s computing power, and at high speed.”

https://www.railtech.com/digitalisation/2025/09/03/powerful-quantum-computers-the-future-of-disruption-free-rail-says-db-digital-chief/

Ahaha. "Not even AI can enable us to do the basic functions of our job. We need an even stronger Buzzword! We need Quantum!"

#quantumquamtumquantum
#DB#Trains #compsci101

🚄 🚀 Jet Powered Trains: Brilliant Idea, Flawed Reality

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fak3fL0rHSI

#trains #highspeedtrains

I want some kind of Mile Long Club logo to give out to members

#MileLongClub #train #trains

🛤️Basic info
🚆421 Texas Eagle (Chicago to Los Angeles)
🚆Departed Chicago at 2pm on Tuesday
🚆Arrives in Tucson at 7pm on Thursday
🚆Two nights
🚆Meals provided
🚆Snacks and drinks extra

🛤️My "Bedroom"
🚆Private shower/toilet
🚆Sleeps 2 (bunk bed)
#乗り鉄 #列車 #trains #鉄道

The cacophony of Italian #trains especially in summer is close to unbearable. People who have a telephone conversation, especially senior ones , leave the loud speaker on so you can also hear what the person at the other side is saying. Younger people listen to any sort of short or video or music just with the full volume on. On top of that, the train itself keep producing messages and music. What the heck 😭
#travelling

It's embarrassing to live in a country where people can honestly say 'if I was rich I'd take the train'.

In the 1980s we had a passenger rail system that could get your from one end of the country to the other, on an ordinary worker's wage. But after more than 4 decades of corporatisation and underinvestment, intercity trains are marketed as a scenic tourist attraction, and only the well-heeled can afford a ticket to ride them.

(1/?)

#PublicTransport#MassTransit #trains#KiwiRail#TransRail

@AccordionBruce @mekkaokereke @rst @jbqueru Honestly, there are aspects of *Australian* train networks that Americans can't believe.

And given how far behind Asia and Europe Australia generally is when it comes to trains, that's saying something.

For example, all of Australia's mainland capital cities are sprawled out metropolitan areas, yet have multiple electrified train lines to the edge of suburbia.

As in, the trains are generally electrified multiple units that run all day. As in, the worst lines run every 40 minutes on weekends.

That's considered *bad* by the rest of the world.

Yet there's a lot of Americans who can't even conceive of the idea that thry would catch a train to work from an outer suburb.

Seriously, most Americans have no idea how far behind the rest of their world their country is.

I had an argument on here a while ago who couldn't believe that Sydney had a metro line to its outer suburbs that was faster than driving.

And compared to Europe? Lithuania has a better train system than most of the US. And that's with a starting point of a run-down Soviet infrastructure under Russian occupation 35 years ago.

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856457201973574768

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856461225800185109

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856464287985458121

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856455170524563586

#train #trains #rail #rails #railway #railways #fuck_cars

@AccordionBruce @mekkaokereke @rst @jbqueru Honestly, there are aspects of *Australian* train networks that Americans can't believe.

And given how far behind Asia and Europe Australia generally is when it comes to trains, that's saying something.

For example, all of Australia's mainland capital cities are sprawled out metropolitan areas, yet have multiple electrified train lines to the edge of suburbia.

As in, the trains are generally electrified multiple units that run all day. As in, the worst lines run every 40 minutes on weekends.

That's considered *bad* by the rest of the world.

Yet there's a lot of Americans who can't even conceive of the idea that thry would catch a train to work from an outer suburb.

Seriously, most Americans have no idea how far behind the rest of their world their country is.

I had an argument on here a while ago who couldn't believe that Sydney had a metro line to its outer suburbs that was faster than driving.

And compared to Europe? Lithuania has a better train system than most of the US. And that's with a starting point of a run-down Soviet infrastructure under Russian occupation 35 years ago.

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856457201973574768

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856461225800185109

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856464287985458121

https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/856455170524563586

#train #trains #rail #rails #railway #railways #fuck_cars

Je ne retrouve pas le site de calcul d'itinéraires de #trains en #europe cool qui avait été annoncé sur mastodon y'a quelques mois.... y'a des mastonautes qui l'ont mis dans leurs signets ? Merci d'avance.

An idea I come back to over and over again is: a disabled train carriage.

It's like the first class carriage (and policed as such), but you can only use it if you have a disabled adult railcard or you're travelling with someone who does, or you're using a mobility aid.

All the seats are big and have lots of leg room and it's like 33% wheelchair spaces.

#disability #trains

Amtrak's next-Gen Accela service to begin on August 28! 🚄 🎉

https://media.amtrak.com/2025/08/amtrak-nextgen-acela-debuts-on-august-28/

#amtrak #trains #acela #avelia #aveliaLiverty#highSpeedRail #hsr

Amtrak's next-Gen Accela service to begin on August 28! 🚄 🎉

https://media.amtrak.com/2025/08/amtrak-nextgen-acela-debuts-on-august-28/

#amtrak #trains #acela #avelia #aveliaLiverty#highSpeedRail #hsr

An idea I come back to over and over again is: a disabled train carriage.

It's like the first class carriage (and policed as such), but you can only use it if you have a disabled adult railcard or you're travelling with someone who does, or you're using a mobility aid.

All the seats are big and have lots of leg room and it's like 33% wheelchair spaces.

#disability #trains

@urixturing @pluralistic @notjustbikes but those “ #hackers” were contracted by the #railwayserviceprovider, who owned the #trains, to alter the trains' #programming. They did not hack the trains, in the legal meaning of the word, 'cause they HAD PERMISSION OF THE OWNERS!

Here's some train photos I took today (with a Mavica FD200)

#photography #trains

#trains #publictransit

#trains #publictransit

Amtrak in Jack London Square.

#train #trains #amtrak #oakland #sfba