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I'd rip up the car park and integrate with the current P1 to create a new Metro concourse at high level, there'd be a lot of extra footfall.

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I think I'd be looking very closely at how to add two tracks "along" the ECML to see where you'd leave the existing right of way to add useful stations northwards.

Or extra platforms at Morpeth.

Yeah exactly, so you get the coverage of the link between the two lines without needing a third service pattern.

Or rather, I think I'd run Newc-Cram-Morp-Bedlington and reverse from there, given there's more capacity for turnback off the ECML

Actually I'd not thought of that and I was running two services into Morpeth from both directions - but that's actually quite a lot neater!

Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 02/10/2026

my only defence, I better get it bushier

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See the start of episode 322, I go into that!

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 01/10/2026

hey don't build on my paranoia that I'm always the syril karn

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thumbnail making us look like a Scandi crime drama

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yes, @postoctobrist.bsky.social and I are unpacking the HISTORY OF PFI for tonight's @railnatter.uk... it's a story of THE SAME GUY relentlessly wrecking everything

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but also @railfocus.bsky.social has done a great video on it already!

it's pre-record, about an hour 20?

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 28/09/2026

I actually went into it a couple of years back! Yes is the short answer but I do need to dive into the details of the latest proposals.

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thanks so much for saying hello!! lovely to meet you

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just saw this @garethdennis.uk post on twitter dot com, and think it’s valuable to remember the vastly different contexts that exist today compared to when Donald Heath was put in charge of the ECML electrification project

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Richard @rtruscott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why This Beautiful Main Line Is A Mess - @garethdennis.uk #Railnatter 322 youtu.be/R2SJRtjQidc?... Very convincing in analysing capacity & need across whole line, Newcastle to Edinburgh, for commuter services at either end, & a vision of integrated local busses on Heritage Coast…

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Why This Beautiful Main Line Is A Mess | #Railnatter 322

YouTube video by Gareth Dennis

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Well this has been in the works for a long time. Might have happened a decade ago if a clause hadn't been added to the 2017 buses act to preserve the legacy of Thatcher. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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Sadiq Khan puts London buses back into public ownership for first time in 30 years

Buses for London will first run services on Route 6 between Victoria Station and Willesden and may be rolled out across the capital

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Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk · 25/09/2026

this is absolutely vile and should be lobbied against at the highest level

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David Turner @railwayhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is @ukri.org effectively abandoning what it means to be part of academia. There, humans read things, critique things, and provide feedback, even if it is not the feedback we want. It is symptomatic of the developing horror that is the UK research funding landscape. It's horrendous.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The BBC has long given up even pretending to be interested in who these people are, why they are coming or how they might feel, in favour of acting as a kind of shop window for the parties to display their wares of violence and cruelty

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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026

A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.

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oh yeah that's the one. why is it?

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Jon @jontafkasi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

separate companies running various bits of BKB!

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Careful if you use whatthreewords for important stuff, they could be going under.

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honestly, I thought your baseline was banger after banger, but this series has just escalated

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