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Network SouthEast spotted in local woods

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you only like brutalism because you're made entirely of concrete

My roommate is unattractive and boring. Like non-brutalist architecture

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the reason this didn't go on the main blog is because network rail does not operate passenger services so we wouldn't be ordering a bunch of passenger trains

due to a typo we have accidentally ordered our new trains from staedler instead of stadler. we encourage passengers to draw their own conclusions about how exactly this happened. which they'll be able to do with our new "trains."

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nicknaming the class 99s 'flakes' is cute. unrelated i have a suggestion for what to call the class 69s

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wheels don’t have tongues

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no and we’ve already been over this, DON’T LICK YHE RAILS

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Did you know that High Speed 1 takes you through Kent to much more interesting places? Sure you could stop there but why would you when you could visit Paris, or St Pancras, or Stratford

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why don't you try and find out

the train infrastructure fandom is dying reblog if u wanna be railed

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if you so much as look at us funny we'll close down all of your lines indefinitely

the train infrastructure fandom is dying reblog if u wanna be railed

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THAT'S OUR JOB!!!! WE AREN'T DEAD!!!

the train infrastructure fandom is dying reblog if u wanna be railed

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Please don’t put coins on the tracks, unless it’s the £1000 you’ll need to pay for trespassing. Also, due to budget restrictions the only dinosaur we can afford is this one:

It may take longer than expected for you to be consumed, so please move off the tracks in the meantime

This is a consequence that really never gets brought up, and it really should be because of how damaging it can be.

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Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

[Image Transcript:

And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

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throwback to the time people kept licking the rails and getting stuck there

We apologize for the service disruption, as it seems someone (not naming names here) decided to see what rails taste like and has now gotten their tongue stuck to the track. We can’t run trains until we’ve unstuck them, so let this be a reminder to everyone: Don’t lick the railway!

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I'm afraid they don't fit british loading gauge so you wouldn't have been able to use them anyway

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A train about to take off

in an airport . excited to see how they get the trains to fly? if we'd known that was possible we'd be raking it in rather than trying to invent UFOs