This came up several times recently on social media, so I thought I'd work my answers into a blog post. Who decides how often ...

Here’s my regular post of old photos from ten years ago. This time, it’s November 2014, plus a few from October 2014 that I missed last month. Another day, another train disruption. Plenty of unhappy ...

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Toxic Custard Workshop Files was an email list featuring Daniel Bowen's writing during his university days, starting in 1990. It ran until 2019.

If you’re on the trains regularly, you’d have seen there’s a lot more advertising for the Metro tunnel recently. There are posters and banners on stations, and even ads on tram stops, with the ...

As the video notes, this makes sense because each type of has Train Maintenance Facilities (TMF) at particular spots on the network. So it’s now easier to get Siemens trains to their TMF at Newport, ...

ABC America’s World News Tonight leaves me exhausted just watching it ...

I’ve long been fascinated by TV news, and sometimes when I’m at home at lunchtime, I switch on SBS – from midday they show BBC News At Ten followed by ABC America’s World News Tonight. These are both ...

There are plenty of real issues the government should be quizzed on ...