#Railways

HI TWITTER. If you're thinking of cracking out the Monopoly this Christmas, please consider something (anything) else. The best 'party' game I've played recently is called Just One. Everyone writes
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Mumbai Metro 1 carries 4 lakh passengers everyday & reduce their travel time from 70 mnts to 17 mnts. Had these passengers travlled by road, what would hv happened? Only
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Okay so since no one likes them, some tips on how to appreciate and use the super sneakers on subway surfers!! - a thread When you jump, be aware
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1/15 Hi I'm Chloe and my @CDPConnect PhD project is 'Eating on the Go': Cultures of Consumption on the Railways in Britain,1880-1948 partnered with @railwaymuseum and @UniStrathclyde. My thread for
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1. I read the Buck Report last night, which he's framing as a "third way". I'm glad he hasn't endorsed the Cicilline report, but what he's proposing would lead to
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Early this morning, daylight saving concluded in New Zealand. This is, I think, a good opportunity to highlight two Kiwi innovations: it was the first country in the world to
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Holy shitballs. This is *not* a good way to start the day.What are we DOING, people?! Do we really want the NHS carved up and sold to the US? Do
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If we had a functional federal gov’t, it’d be great for e.g. GSA to procure commonly needed SaaS services (e.g., form OCR, address geolocation, bank account verification, etc.), put a
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“We’re going to work with all of our students who are drowning in debt to take the pressure off these young people.” — Donald Trump in a speech on July
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Why exams need to be postponed by few days?------------------------Apart from Corona and flood situation,due to lack of proper transportation, it will become an exam in which 'Elite' and privileged sections
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The reason we can't build cheap rail anymore is because we always want to start with the perfect, latest, cleverest and shiniest technology. Far more complex and far more expensive
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Our much loved statue of Robert Stephenson, normally on the Euston piazza, has gone into storage. This means the grade II listed statue will be safeguarded while HS2 work continues
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Okay, here’s something I’d like to share with the folks here. Please spare a minute or two and be very careful.Around June, I received a call from an unknown number
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1/ British railways continued to build non-corridor stock into the interwar years, this coming to dominate suburban routes, whilst corridor and saloon coaches were found on main line services. Non-corridor
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I’ve been feeling a bit sorry for myself recently. I know, I’m so much luckier than so many & I feel ashamed of even feeling hard done by. But you
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#NTiHoR 1/15 Before the railways was the carrying trade—an intermodal network of waggons, boats and coastal ships operated by independent carriers. Historians have written about these transport modes, but the
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