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#trains

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If you live in Sydney/nsw go tell the powers that be what you think about their plan to ban ebikes on the train: haveyoursay.nsw.gov.au/changes

Personal stories tend to resonate more imho. I wrote about food delivery riders who depend on trains to get from places where housing is affordable to where there is demand for their labour and how banning ebikes will criminalise their work or push food delivery onto less sustainable modes (hello, double parked camrys).

Have Your SayChanges to using e-micromobility on public transportTranspor

Today's historic photo of the day: 1488 after arrival at Rockhampton, Qld with 'The 'Midlander', July 17 1986.

The Midlander was one of Queensland Railways' 'Lander' #trains introduced in the 1950s. Twice weekly it ran west from Rockhampton to Emerald, Barcaldine, Longreach and Winton. It was a quite luxurious train that ran along an 870km route into a quite remote area. It offered first and economy class seats, and first and economy class sleeping berths as well as a dining or 'griddle' car.

#TheGuardian: "Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with #European #crossborderRail #travel" (citing extensively @jon)

"For a whole raft of reasons – inadequate #infrastructure, unwilling operators, incompatible systems, incomprehensible timetabling and (last but not least) impossibly complicated #ticketing – long #rail journeys across #Europe are all too often a pastime rather than a practical travel alternative."

#train #trains #EU

theguardian.com/world/2025/aug

The Guardian · Timetables, tricky tickets and high prices: the problems with European cross-border rail travelBy Jon Henley

For anyone who also reads #Trains magazine, there is a nice article this month about Black Pullman employees' fight for equality in the 20th century.

I especially appreciate this line: "None of this is 'woke' or political correctness. It is basic American history."

Nicely written article, John P. Hankey

#railroad
#journalism