The first TGV was named "Patrick" and for years I wondered why. The legend has it this was the name of one of the first driver's sons but this orange-skivvied little chap who pre-dates the first run by four years seems more plausible an explanation! www.leparisien.fr/video/video-....
I’ll have a Medium Clear with Sauce thanks
Shout out to the secondary teacher passionately explaining the Melbourne hook turn to 40 disinterested Year 11 students from an all-girls school on the corner of Collins/Exhibition just now (Calder’s ghost and I are both very proud of u)
A Melbourne E Class tram wearing a promotional livery for musician Harry Styles
Main problem with the Harry Styles tram: it doesn’t go in One Direction
Is that the Hamnis Greaser train
ドクターイエロー/yellow metro infrastructure evaluation train in North Melbourne (Melbourne Yard)
ドクターイエロー!!!!!!!!!
Set V21 in NSW TrainLink Yellow and Orange livery at Central station, 2024
After more than 55 years serving the people of New South Wales, tomorrow is the last ever run in public service of a V set interurban double deck electric train. So this is the perfect time for a photographic tribute to these venerable, hard working and much loved trains.
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A saloon type bogie tram in M&MTB green and cream livery runs away from us along a wide tree-lined boulevard in a metropolitan setting. A passenger is leaving the tram through an open door in the centra. A very cool dude on a pushbike is exhibiting the peak of 1980s cycling culture at left by sitting back on his bike, hands free, with no helmet and basically no crash protection nor sun protection at all it seems.
Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 37 years ago today, Y1 class #tram no 613 running a summer Sundays trip to St Kilda Beach, stops in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, January 15, 1989.
On Summer Sundays in the 1980s, extra trams were run to the tourist […]
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G class trams have begun network testing. Photo from Gabrielle Williams’ Facebook page.
Chernobyl promo poster, using an awkward, lumpy typeface.
Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union?
Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39.
One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl."
Happy Gunzelmas to all who observe! Looking forward to three holy days of Ausrail, Le Múnel opening on Sunday, and rounding it out with International Day of the Gunzel(le) on Thursday 4/12
it may look funny to you but this horse and rider can never move again now
Cheaper power for renewables neighbours has been much requested, but difficult to do. A startup says it can make work for both communities and developers.
I read they granted one of these to Jehan le Bond, Baron de Skeyfall (motto: Agitatus, Non Motus)
Melbourne's first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot https://bit.ly/46TYXKM
Good morning to everyone except those who choose to keep shilling for M*rcedes-B*nz Gr*up Akt*engesellsch*ft
We often call better city-building ideas bold and visionary when they’re really just common sense given the real-life crises that cities are facing. But true common sense isn’t particularly common these days, so it’s considered bold.
Correct map of the Hutt Archipelago, sometimes also known as Aotearoa or New Zealand
Personally, though, I observe the Hutt rite, 14 April (1874, first steam train from Lowerer Hutt to Lower Hutt). Those who live in the Hutt Archipelago and believe that a mythical South Island exists observe 1 December (1863, a fable about a steam train in “Christchurch”, wherever that is)
Let us not forget the Lancashire rite that recognises 15 September (1830, first steam-only modern intercity railway)
Victorian rite recognises 12 Sep (1854, first Melbourne-Sandridge train) whereas the British tradition (first steam train in the world) is 27 Sep (1825).
Ancient greek orthodox gunzels would recognise the Diolkos of Corinth (I presume this should be a ‘Kings Birthday’ style fixed date of 4/12)
Happy Orthodox Gunzelmas to all who observe!!!
UPDATE: they are back for another season!
I love 99% of this yarn from @australia.theguardian.com… except for the incorrect use of hyphens when referring to Melbourne tram classes. Per almost a century of longstanding style practice it is “E Class” not “E-class”; Wikipedia is wrong. I will not be taking further questions at this time
*Melbourne Tram Museum (in Hawthorn)
First G has been delivered to Maidstone.
World Tram Driver championships now LIVE from Vienna. Featuring a team from Melbourne.
www.youtube.com/live/smp0voL...
The Bernie Sanders request meme with caption text overlaid at the bottom reading “I am once again asking” and then in a different smaller font added later “…gunzels, nerds, and others to stop incorrectly and unnecessarily adding a hyphen when referring to Melbourne tram classes per longstanding house style”
eight decades of M&MTB annual reports can’t be wrong
Close view of a pull-up banner with a printed photo of a KMart K-hub store and staff standing in front of the entrance under the sign
in the khub, we all fham
Whilst texting over lunch, I somehow managed to elbow and spill leftover bún (Vietnamese noodle salad) dressing all over my work trousers. Unsure if sad or proud that my immediate thought was “nước mắm, no hands”
hello i am part of a group of extremely cool and smart public servants who have seemingly managed to achieve something even cooler and smarter 😎