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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Its a flying day! Off to Abu Dhabi today, but first to Doha on this Qatar Airways A380...upstairs in economy today 😎 It should take about 6h15m to fly down to Doha this pleasant autumn morning.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Hei hei from the Hvalross in Vardø, a fish port on a butterfly-shaped island in the Barents Sea, starting point for the #Schengen200 adventure. Schengen is 40 in 2025 and we’re attempting the longest point-to-point journey within it, by public transport, in about 200 hours. bsky.app/profile/poli...

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I recently took the Doğu Express - Turkey’s greatest train, from Ankara to Kars near the Armenian border. One of the world’s great journeys and I cannot wait to edit the video of this special trip!

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Azerbaijan at 3am, from 40,000 feet up.

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🐘 @Diningcar@rail.chat @diningcar.at · 25/08/2025

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🛤🍽 Good morning everyone👋 from the early-bird Premier Service by #TfW🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 from #Holyhead🇬🇧 to #Cardiff🇬🇧. 🍽 This service is known for its outstanding on-board service at 1st class including a freshly prepared "Full Welsh" breakfast 😍! It comes with an amazing view🌅! Absolutely fantastic 💚!

A heavy diesel Engine in red and yellow livery is working the train and waiting for departure at Holyhead station. It's still dark and headlights switched on.

View of the coast and sea through the picture window of the 1st class carriage. Two dark brown leather chairs facing wache other, brown table in-between.

Someone is pouring milk in the cup of tea. All white porcelain.

Picture of the full Welsh breakfast. It'@ 2 glamorgan sausages, half a grilled tomato, slice of black pudding one fried egg, two slices of ham, two hash browns accompanied by 4 slices of toast with butter on another plate. Two cups of tea in the background.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 25/08/2025

Apparently United considers its EWR-Greenland route to be a success this summer, as it has already announced the route will return in 2026. Cool.

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My first time on one of LNR's new Class 730/2 trains! These are pleasant units with a "secret" never-classified first class area complete with better seating and window blinds.

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My local station is so beautiful.

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

And we are back in London. Just one train to go!

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Third of four trains this afternoon. Eurostar back to London from Brussels! (Thank goodness for the lounge today)

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Train 2 of 4 - a vastly more pleasant ICE3neo heading to Brussels from Köln!

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Grateful for the dining car on board ICE200 this morning. Egg drop sandwich and a cappuccino to kick-start a long 12 hour travel day by rail. 🇩🇪🚄

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Adam Vanting @adamvg.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Dining cars from czech railways line Ex5 Berliner? Today they are making joy elsewhere - on line Ex1 Silesia/Ostravan. Thanks to it, this great rail catering service is available even where it was not available before, where you couldn't have this great breakfast in years gone by. :-)

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Train 1 of 4 today to get me home to Northamptonshire. First up, a natty ICE4 of Deutsche Bahn. These interiors are cheap, plasticky and uncomfortable- and not befitting a train making 3+ hour trips. I'm on today as far as Köln where I will change for something nicer!

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Time to head home. (first leg on public transport which is free for anyone staying in a hotel in Basel!)

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Pleased to see - again - a fully utilised restaurant car on SBB! This is not cheap, but I've had a long day and with a late arrival into Basel this evening I need some dinner. Switzerland really is a railway enthusiast's playground...if you can afford it (over 20 GBP for what's pictured here!!) 🇨🇭😎

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Just changed track gauge on the move 😎 the Goldenpass Express was a great trip!

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A real treat this sunny afternoon: Prestige Class on MOB's Goldenpass Express! This will do nicely for the trip down to Montreux. We also change gauge on the move...never done that before!

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Another pleasant Swiss train takes me to Interlaken.

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

These stunning BLS RABe 528 trains took me from Brig to Spiez through the Bernese Alps. Beautiful route, and the trains are superb. There is even a vending machine bistro and dining area on these small electric units! 👌 🇨🇭🏔

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

In Switzerland this week. Taking a couple of beautiful trains today...this is just the setup (and boy do the Swiss do railways well - perfectly silent loco hauled carriages even on regional services). 🇨🇭🏔

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Great to ride Turkey’s high speed train - the YHT. This Velaro train was a joy to ride…once it got up to speed (it takes nearly an hour to leave Istanbul??). Istanbul to Ankara in under 5 hours still beats flying. Solo occupancy of this club compartment with light meal included? About £100. 🤩

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Niche policy suggestion, but I think you should be able to have two allowances: wines you are allowed to to take with you when you get to your home country, and wines you are taking on the train home. Make interrailers drunk again!

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Superalbs @superalbs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

And to finish the day, a nice ride on the ferry at sunset. Great to be joined by my good friend @paullucas.bsky.social for the exciting adventures over the coming days. 😁

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Great to take a Boeing 737-700 of Romanian national airline TAROM - these aircraft still have their original “proper” business class seats and are some of the only aircraft left in Europe with this configuration! Also, props to them doing ore departure sparkling wine on short hops to Istanbul! ✈️

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 11/07/2025

On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised. He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair” I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Awesome day to take a vintage train! The London Transport Museum ran a special today with their classic 1938 Stock train out to Heathrow and back, on the Piccadilly Line. My dad learned to drive on these trains and it was great to get another ride on this classic traction 😍 ☀️

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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 09/07/2025

Actually in agreement with the Daily Telegraph here. Britain’s top 3 railway pubs are at Sheffield, York & Stalybridge. 🍻🍺 “Britain’s railway pubs are having a renaissance – here are 10 of the best” www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d5fc70e...

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Britain’s railway pubs are having a renaissance – here are 10 of the best

A train ride combined with a cold pint in a characterful establishment – there’s plenty to love about our great railway taverns and taprooms

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Does anyone else book a trip and then go back relentlessly to check, admire, tinker with, all of their bookings? 😱 up next… something rail-related in Turkey 👀

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Superalbs @superalbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This is the NSW Express Passenger Train (or XPT) in #Australia. Based on the British Rail HST, a number of these old classics are used on long-distance routes out of #Sydney. It's an 11 hour ride down to #Melbourne today, in the 2+2 First Class seating, featuring extra legroom. 🇦🇺

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Superalbs @superalbs.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

One of the last good trains on the UK railway network, the beautiful @LNER.co.uk #InterCity225 sets, for an enjoyable ride from #London to #Leeds. Let's go! 🇬🇧

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Nonstop Eurotrip 🇺🇦 @nonstopeurotrip.com · 09/05/2025

NEW VIDEO NOW LIVE! Today we embark on a 46 hour, 1600km journey from #China 🇨🇳 to #Mongolia 🇲🇳 by train 🚆 This is one of my most memorable trips to date, with one of the best sunsets I've ever seen 😎🌇 #NonstopEurotrip Link 👉🏻 youtu.be/u0c0LcHqwrM

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/04/2025

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Grim stuff from the Supreme Court today, which is many ways has defined trans women not just as “not women”, but also as “not people”.

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Wow I wonder what could have caused this (!)

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Really eerie not to see full skies over central London. Heathrow is still closed 😮 #heathrowclosure

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Mikael Leppä @mikke.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

As a SAS frequent flyer I can't deny or confirm any of the alleged perks that come with having SAS status, nor can I discuss the existence of such a status program nor the "missions" that go into attaining it

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Pretty sure that’s not the right SAS 😂 #heathrowclosure

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 13/03/2025

Maybe we can have *some* nice things on this continent after all. Hitting the tracks between #DC and #Boston this Spring: the NextGen Acela, which can top out at 160 mph. (Made by #France’s Alstom, but still…) www.amtrak.com/routes/acela...

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Welcome aboard BA 12! This British Airways A380 is my ride back to London Heathrow from Singapore this evening - I’m in a window seat on the upper deck. It’s completely full 😮 busy flight! 14 hours of overnight economy coming up 👀 ✈️ 🇸🇬 🇬🇧

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 07/03/2025

Here's a sneak-peek of the E10, the new bullet train that will be running on the Tohoku Shinkansen in 2027. The curves are meant to evoke the petals of a cherry blossom.... (Not a typo, by the way: "shinkansen" means "new mainline") soranews24.com/2025/03/04/n...

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

All aboard Korean Air’s incredible 747-8i! I’m off to Singapore - about six hours’ flying time ahead of us this afternoon. For 270 USD on top of the regular business class fare you can sit in the (otherwise unused) first class “Kosmo Suites”. Row 1 opened up at check in 🤩 Let’s goooo! ✈️ 🇰🇷 🇸🇬

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

About to do one of the most incredible and privileged things you can do in commercial aviation 🤩

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Good morning from Osaka-Kansai! 🇯🇵 I’m off on a brand new Korean A350 this morning to Seoul 🇰🇷 What a beautiful aircraft! 🤩

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Made it to Tokyo 15 minutes early! One of the most iconic sleeper trains in the world ✅ #SunriseExpress #SunriseIzumo

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Paul Lucas @paullucas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

All aboard Korean Airlines flight KE 724 from Osaka-Kansai over to Seoul-Incheon! About 1h30m flying time ahead of us this lunchtime over the Sea of Japan to the Korean capital ✈️ 🇯🇵 🇰🇷

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