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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 20/02/2026

Hello and welcome to yet another travel thread!! People on here with an interest in European rail travel will undoubtedly be aware of Germany's Deutschlandticket, which allows unlimited travel on any local public transport and regional rail services across the country within a month.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 10/02/2026

found this in my bag I don't need these anymore taking auction bids

A white badge with he/him pronouns on it.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 22/01/2026

Anyone interested in how the UK splits into smaller regions should check IKEA's website for one of the takes of all time

Drake meme with three panels. The first panel is a refusal which reads "Sheffield is like Manchester". The second panel is a refusal which reads "Sheffield is like Nottingham". The third panel is an acceptance which reads "Sheffield is like Aberdeen".

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 28/12/2025

O Holy Night the pipes, the pipes are calling from glen to glen, and down the mountainside your daddy's rich, and your momma's good looking so hush little baby, don't you cry

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 02/10/2025

reminded that this bus operator exists *clicks About T4T*

A screenshot from the website of Scottish bus company Transport for Tongue. The menu on their website reads:
- Home
- About T4T
- T4T Services
- T4T Routes
- Vehicle Hire
- Contact Us

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 03/08/2025

And hello from Day Three of this trip!! Today I will be heading home, but first... first I need to finish the challenge. If you've not seen this trip thread yet, feel free to pick up Day One here: #SevenEightMine

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 02/08/2025

Welcome back on Day Two of this trip, and the real meat of the journey!! After, umm, some sleep at the admittedly quite nice hotel, I guess it's time to get on with it and explain just why this trip is called: #SevenEightMine If you'd like to see Day One, please find it below.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 01/08/2025

I had a beautifully hilarious opening to this trip thread, but you're never going to see it because in the end I didn't have the time! After a stunt which frankly I can't even post about online, that's how much you shouldn't try it, I'm doing something different this weekend. #SevenEightMine

A photo down carriage 13 of a Eurostar E320 train. It is a Standard carriage - not Plus - and according to the destination boards the service is heading to Brussels via a stop in Lille Europe. The seats are not quite visible, because almost all seats on this train are full.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 27/04/2025

Innocent question: what is the largest roundel on the TfL network? Normal transport people: it's the big one on Brixton station Me, an intellectual:

A copy of the Tube map, with a roundel drawn on it; the Overground loop is the circle of the roundel and the Elizabeth line is the bar through the middle.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 07/04/2025

Challenge: Redistrict England to makes the maximum number of people in England unhappy.

A map of Great Britain, showing England at county level, with the counties grouped.

Tyne and Wear and County Durham are grouped as Greater Durham.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Lancashire, West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire are grouped with Scotland into Greater Scotland.

Merseyside, Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, the West Midlands, Rutland and the western part of Lincolnshire, including Lincoln, are grouped as Greater Derbyshire.

The remainder of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk are grouped as Greater Lincolnshire.

Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, northern Wiltshire and Bristol are grouped with Wales into Greater Wales.

Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex are grouped as Expanded Milton Keynes.

Northern Somerset, central Wiltshire, Berkshire, Greater London, northern Surrey and north and central Kent are grouped as Long Berkshire.

Dorset, southern Wiltshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, southern Surrey, west Sussex, east Sussex and southern Kent are grouped as the Republic of Wightisland, pronounced like Barkisland.

Southern Somerset, Devon and Cornwall are grouped as The True North.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 08/01/2025

Yes, I am okay :) this is a spiritual successor to my old everyday superpowers thread, every so often I fancy writing something really bad transport stuff will hopefully resume soon?

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 08/01/2025

Let's talk about magic, shall we? About magic, language, contracts, and society in general. (Yes, this is one of those forays into an alternate universe; while there are certainly forces in this world which I would happily class as magic, they're not what I'm talking about today.)

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 22/12/2024

There are Pacers and Sprinters, Meridians, Turbos Voyagers, Pendos, Azumas, Everos But do you recall The most famous Train Faults Of All... (to be completed in the morning)

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 14/12/2024

These signs can't stop me because I'm not in a vehicle. And if this is the first time you've seen me doing this kind of thing, you're in for a treat...

An empty road with two No Entry signs by it. They say "Except for Authorised Vehicles" alongside the No Entry red circle with white bar.

A photo of two signs. One is a No Entry signs - red circle with white bar - with a green border to reflect that this is a Welcome Break service area. The other is a blue sign which reads "RANDOM CHECKS MADE REGULARLY. UNAUTHORISED VEHICLES WILL BE TURNED BACK"

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 10/12/2024

caveat: don't get Classic Tea from a fancy restaurant, get a fancy one (this food and drink opinion has been sponsored by Always Get The Thing The Restaurant/Café Is Good At)

A graph putting quality of tea against class of establishment. The curve is a U-shape. On the left is the workers café, which is high quality tea, in the middle is the middle class coffee shop, with the tea being low quality, and on the right is the upper class fancy restaurant, with the tea being high quality again.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 07/12/2024

Apparently the only station adjacent to Hatton which gets standard service pattern trains to/ from Hatton is Claverdon; both the adjacent main line stations don't get direct trains to/from Hatton other than a small number of weird ones...

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/11/2024

I must be on bluesly today because I'm seeing sleet everywhere

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 13/11/2024

- riding loads of London buses in a day - running polls about London boroughs - more bus related stuff - being the friend of greater transport people who occasionally permit me airtime - yeah that's why most of my followers haven't refollowed me because I don't have original thoughts, isn't it

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 13/11/2024

I found these in stock today! And you can find them in... actually you can't, they're no longer in stock, because I bought the entire stock. Sorry.

A copy of the last edition of 2000s era publication The Way Out Tube Map, a tube map with information on which carriage to be in on the Tube to be closest to the exit.

The description reads: "Being told where to get off can sometimes be a pain, but not with the Way Out map. Its clever, easy to use system, shows you which carriage to board to arrive right opposite the platform exit at your destination. This ingenious Way Out map will put you a lot more than one step ahead."

A photo of the inside of the Way Out Tube Map. Coloured underground lines cross the page. On the lines, by each station, is an entry with an arrow and a number, clarifying which carriage to be in on a train going in that direction for the exit.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 10/11/2024

If you see this, I invite you to post an image from your device with no explanation

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 05/11/2024

Did... did TfL try and sneak this one past me? If anyone would like to protest the withdrawal of the direct bus connecting Paddington with Euston, Kings Cross and Liverpool Street, the consultation is here: haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/30-205-bus-p...

haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk

Proposed changes to bus routes 30 and 205

We are proposing changes to bus routes 30, 205 and 27. By clicking on each of the buttons below, you can read more about what is proposed and how this may impact you. You can also view maps, ask quest...

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 31/10/2024

This has been an interesting station to tick - no DMIs, just vibes

$A photo of a brick building with a hole in it. The hole is the entrance to Pontefract Baghill station, and is labelled Pontefract Baghill with a West Yorkshire Metro style M on the sign. There is nothing else here.$

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 24/10/2024

Realised I'd never seen this sign, always gone the other way through here

A sign in Rail Alphabet 2 pointing towards Waterloo Station, with BR double arrows on it. There are escalators up in the background.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 22/10/2024

If you have a spare moment, please take some time to fill out this short survey for my friend @mindtheflap.bsky.social and share this too - Autistica do excellent work on improving these things :)

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

So change of plan, I'm in Hathersage for half an hour - any ideas what to do?

A photo of the main street in Hathersage

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

And hello from Blue John Cavern! This is as far as you can get on the old A625 road, which was closed in the 1970s as the UK road agencies finally conceded defeat in their fight against the unyielding forces of nature (the road ran across an active landslide).

A photo across the valley from the side of Mam Tor, a hill with an active landslide down the side. Taken from the top deck of a double decker bus.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

We're back on the open sightseeing tour - but this time we're heading west from Castleton Anyone who knows the local geography knows this is something special...

A photo taken from the top deck of a double decker bus heading west into the hills/mountains from Castleton.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

this is your mandatory scheduled pub break please log off and interact with the world for 15 minutes then come back

A photo of the inside of a small pub. The chairs and tables are made of unvarnished wood, and there is a small cushion on the chair. There is a fireplace burning merrily on the side. Many spirits are visible behind the bar.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

Yes, I'm just wandering around the Peak District on buses at the moment, it's genuinely just a really lovely day

A photo of fields in the Peak District, with characteristic stone walls separating them. The sky is a brilliant blue and the sun is shining.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

The sightseer bus comes to Chatsworth House, which is gorgeous, especially today!

A photo of Chatsworth House, a large stately home on a grassy mound. The sun is shining.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

Hello from the Peak Sightseer BLUE route!! It's really lovely up here.

A photo from the back of a Peak Sightseer bus looking back across the hills

A photo off the side of the Peak Sightseer bus route looking out across the hills

A photo from the front of the Peak Sightseer bus looking forward through the hills

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

Onwards to Edale, where I'm in the cafe outside the station The vibe here's great, as are both the food and the cafe staff - strongly recommend to anyone who happens to be down here!

A photo of the inside of the Penny Pot Cafe, by Edale station. There's a train departure board on the wall, and the inside has a lot of wooden chairs and furniture.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

And hello from Whaley Bridge - not to be confused with Stalybridge. (@nickbadley.com when?) This one does look rather lovely, I do approve!

A photo of the entrance to Whaley Bridge station. Two dark green doors flank an open doorway, with a flight to stairs heading up to the platforms visible through the doors. A heritage rail sign sits above the doorway reading "Whaley Bridge". All of this is within an elegant stone building with a green roof.

A photo of the station sign for Whaley Bridge station, featuring the iconic British Rail double arrows on a red background. There is also a repurposed red telephone box next to the sign, bearing the name "ART BOX". Inside the Art Box is a statue of an owl, with the top half in a light blue and the bottom half in yellow.

A photo of the ticket office at Whaley Bridge station. This is a stone room, with a ticket office window framed by wood panelling on the right. On the left is a green bench on which people may wait for their train. In the centre is an open doorway, with the doors made of brown varnished wood. There is a mural above the doorway with children's drawings of trains on it.

A photo of the ticket office from the platforms. The open doorway is framed in dark green, leading into a stone building. Beyond the ticket office, the stairs down to the exit are visible.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

This is rather nice!! (Yes, I'm no longer on the rails...)

A photo of a misty valley, taken from a bus in the Peak District.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

Hello from Birmingham and despite delays leaving London, I made my onward train!! But you know I'm gonna be vague about which way I'm going...

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

It's a little late out, but hello from the 0230 M66 to Birmingham! But why would anyone ever take such a coach? Well, that requires a bit of explanation about how our rail timetables are set up, and this mini-explainer is gonna be a thread so it's easier for you to track, so buckle in.

A photo of a white coach - a Mercedes Benz Tourismo - with a bright electronic blind reading "Birmingham via Coventry M66". The coach has text on the front saying "Superior Class". It's in a grimy floodlit bus station.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

Not a lot leaves Victoria Coach Station in the dark hours prior to 6am. Various airport services, the Gatwick service getting an irregular Brighton/Worthing extension, and an 0500 M42 Megabus via various destinations along the M4 to Cardiff. Oh, but what's that other service on the board...?

A photo of the departure boards at Victoria Coach Station. Regular departures on the A30 to Heathrow, A1/A2 to Luton, A7 to Stansted and 025 to Gatwick, Brighton and Worthing are present.

There is also an 0500 M42 Megabus to Cardiff, via Swindon, Bristol and Newport.

There is also an 0230 M66 Megabus to Birmingham via Coventry.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 19/10/2024

hands up anyone who guessed Victoria Coach Station! And yes, I'm not strictly threading this Twitter style as I don't think you get notified if I do that.

A photo of the 1930s Art Deco Victoria Coach Station in the rain and the dark, with the coach station sign illuminated.

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Hugo. (if it's transport, it's mine, and cursed) @theorangeone.insanity.tube · 17/10/2024

so the one and only downside to Jack Dorsey no longer being part of the Bluesky board is I can't make this joke anymore, but hello to anyone here who reads @badambulist.bsky.social's "basement story"

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