Multimetro per misure elettriche
#elettrotecnica #elettronica #ferrovie #railways
The problem of virtue signalling on disability is the disabled are no longer going to quietly sit there and be used...
Avanti Trains have been called out on their misleading disability-focussed advertising... and rightly so!
The problem of virtue signalling on disability is the disabled are no longer going to quietly sit there and be used...
Avanti Trains have been called out on their misleading disability-focussed advertising... and rightly so!
Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure
https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/53917/britains-railway-privatization-was-an-abject-failure
#HackerNews #Railway #Privatization #Abject #Failure #Transport #Policy #Railways #UK
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This is the #SnowdonMountainRailway (SMR), a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion #mountain railway, that has been taking passengers from Llanberis to the summit since 1896 (!).
Here are some other facts you might enjoy:
- It's the only public rack-and-pinion #railway in the #UK.
- The average speed of the train is 5 mph (8 km/h).
- The total track length is 4.7 miles (7.5 km).
- It carries around 140,000 passengers each year.
- A round-trip to the summit takes approx. 2.5 hours, including a 30-minute stop at the summit visitor centre.
- From the #summit station, it's only 68 ft (21 m) to the summit cairn (though it's quite steep).
- Trains are scheduled at 30-minute intervals, subject to passenger demand.
- The SMR currently operates 3 coal-fired steam locomotives and 4 diesel locomotives. Last week, only diesel locomotives were in service, as the heritage steam locomotives typically run from June to September.
- On its official opening day in April 1896, one of the locomotives derailed and fell down the mountain, resulting in one fatality. Following this incident, the maximum allowed train weight was reduced, and a gripper system was installed on the rack railway. It's been full steam ahead ever since.
🚂🚋
(Sorry for the rabbit hole. I'm not usually into trains, but even I found it quite interesting)
#Wolken #clouds #Berggipfel #Gipfel #mountainTop #wandern #hiking #hike #Berge #mountains #mountainscape #MountainMonday #SMR #narrowGauge #narrowGaugeRailway #Zahnradbahn #rackAndPinion #trainTracks #railways #railwayTrack #railwayTracks #railroad #Schienen #Gleise #train #trains #Zug #Bahn #HeritageGreatBritain #FootpathFriday #Snowdonia #Wales
This is the #SnowdonMountainRailway (SMR), a narrow-gauge rack-and-pinion #mountain railway, that has been taking passengers from Llanberis to the summit since 1896 (!).
Here are some other facts you might enjoy:
- It's the only public rack-and-pinion #railway in the #UK.
- The average speed of the train is 5 mph (8 km/h).
- The total track length is 4.7 miles (7.5 km).
- It carries around 140,000 passengers each year.
- A round-trip to the summit takes approx. 2.5 hours, including a 30-minute stop at the summit visitor centre.
- From the #summit station, it's only 68 ft (21 m) to the summit cairn (though it's quite steep).
- Trains are scheduled at 30-minute intervals, subject to passenger demand.
- The SMR currently operates 3 coal-fired steam locomotives and 4 diesel locomotives. Last week, only diesel locomotives were in service, as the heritage steam locomotives typically run from June to September.
- On its official opening day in April 1896, one of the locomotives derailed and fell down the mountain, resulting in one fatality. Following this incident, the maximum allowed train weight was reduced, and a gripper system was installed on the rack railway. It's been full steam ahead ever since.
🚂🚋
(Sorry for the rabbit hole. I'm not usually into trains, but even I found it quite interesting)
#Wolken #clouds #Berggipfel #Gipfel #mountainTop #wandern #hiking #hike #Berge #mountains #mountainscape #MountainMonday #SMR #narrowGauge #narrowGaugeRailway #Zahnradbahn #rackAndPinion #trainTracks #railways #railwayTrack #railwayTracks #railroad #Schienen #Gleise #train #trains #Zug #Bahn #HeritageGreatBritain #FootpathFriday #Snowdonia #Wales
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Make #trains great again — for the sake of people and the planet
As #railways enter their third century of service, research must support their renaissance for more #sustainable travel that supports human development.
Per passenger kilometre, it produces one-fifth of the #emissions of #car transport, and less than one-quarter of those of #flying. Direct emissions can be cut to zero if trains are powered by fully renewable electricity.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02980-2
Make #trains great again — for the sake of people and the planet
As #railways enter their third century of service, research must support their renaissance for more #sustainable travel that supports human development.
Per passenger kilometre, it produces one-fifth of the #emissions of #car transport, and less than one-quarter of those of #flying. Direct emissions can be cut to zero if trains are powered by fully renewable electricity.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02980-2
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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
We’ve been talking about high speed rail in the obvious routes like Vancouver to Portland for decades
I honestly think the only possible way any of them will ever be built is after the ever expected 8.0+ regional earthquake, if there remains a significantly progressive government in power
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
It's been a while since I posted a #cabview picture, so enjoy this one made in a Stadler FLIRT near Echt, Limburg
#ns #nederlandsespoorwegen #dutchrailways #railways #traindriver #traindriverspov #netherlands #publictransport #train
It's been a while since I posted a #cabview picture, so enjoy this one made in a Stadler FLIRT near Echt, Limburg
#ns #nederlandsespoorwegen #dutchrailways #railways #traindriver #traindriverspov #netherlands #publictransport #train
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