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Garrett Speed
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Data Steward at Utrecht University, GIS admin, occasional map maker

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This is an intermediate station where train kissing and separating doesnt take place, what does this sign mean?

....just as I asked Carin came on the loudspeaker and said to board the front trainset.
#trains #nederland
Photo of a middle of the platform 1 departure sign for Rotterdam Alexander indicating the 11:43 to Utrecht Centraal is 10 minutes late. At the bottom is the train consist indicator slashing out the rear trainset and the front trainset is indicated as clear. Usually the slashing indicates the trainset will be disconnected, also with an animation, I have never seen it as currently indicated.
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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De NS upcycle winkel is terug bij utrecht centraal. Ik heb een dienstblaad gekocht, maar ik wil ook de eindbestemming scherm van een koploper

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The NS upcycle shop is back at Utrecht centraal. I bought a timetable serving tray, but I would also like to buy […]

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Serving tray upcycled from an old timetable sheet. Based on the stations in the list this would be from Abcoude, but not certain. Lights, toilet handles, and a matrix display from an ICMm Koploper
November 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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What projection is this?

Found in Madrid metro station Sol.

@mappery
Photo of a large bronze 3D map depicting Madrid. Photo of a large bronze 3D map depicting Madrid.
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Deze peren wacht niet op het perron.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2588524-trein-botst-met-vrachtwagen-op-overweg-in-gelderland-vijf-gewonden
Foto van treinongeluk tussen Geldermalsen en 's-Hertogenbosch. In deze beeld zit heel veel peren op het spoort, twee VIRMs staat stil in de achtergrond. Puntenwolk gemaakt van drone beelden vanuit de NOS artikel.
October 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Microsoft, why is someone allowed to do this?
McWherter Mason <mason.McWherter@khaskhoborbd.com> on behalf of Microsoft 365 Admin Center<notifications@cloud.microsoft.com>
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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For the first time in almost 20 years I am less then 100kg 🥳
Photo of a scale reading 99.3kg, and my grey socks representing my self.
October 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Any #rails experts know why these Eurasia coots, which are normally very territorial, are fine in this large flock?

#birds
Photo of a lake with a large number of black dots. These dots are actually Eurasian coots. Shout out to all the train and ruby on rails enthousiasts that were alerted to my use of the family of this bird, the rail family
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Rocking my new Rotterdam map shirt while talking about my photo lab.

#maps #photography #photogrammetry #rti
Photo of myself standing in front my poster Geosciences Photo Lab: Art and Science
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Who needs a real film scanner when you can just cut a hole in a sturdy box?

#photography #film #120film
Photo of a color negative film being held over a box with a hole that aspires to be a rectangle in it. Beneath the holed box is a plastic organization box with a piece of baking paper taped to it. Beneath all that is a light to illuminate the film negative Sample image of the cube houses in Rotterdam taken with the film scanner from the previous photo. The results are inconsistent, but good enough for a first look at these photos
October 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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@jon white space and wildly different font sizes?
A6 index card mock up of a cross border rail article. Title reads "Cross border rail" and includes a drawing of train tracks and the French and German flags. Below that in large green letters are "the good", followed by in light green "there are tracks!" At the bottom there is in small red text "the bad" with simulated squiggly text in red below that.
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Sometimes videos games create too much fantasy, such as Train Sim World letting me drive a German train just not on time, but early.

#trains
Screenshot of Train Sim World from the drivers seat of an ICE 3. On screen is the time table, where I arrived more than 2 minutes early to Fulda, and 3 minutes early to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe. Screenshot of the game Train Sim World of the ICE3-RBW, the rainbow ICE, with a dual level red DB train in the background.
October 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Sometimes I get silly ideas, and bring them half to life in Blender

For context, the name of the roman borders (at least in the Netherlands) are Limes.

#blender
3D render of a Pepsi can reading "BIGGUS DICKUS" reference to a good friend of Caesar, the Pepsi logo I didnt make big enough compared to the source material, below that "ZERO BARBARIANS" and "LIMES FLAVOR". Copy pasta simple ice cubes surround the can. Real photo of a Lime flavored Zero Sugar Pepsi can, reading "MAXIMUM TASTE" at the top. There are green lime drawings.
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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@mappery
Station Roosendal in Noord Brabant has shields and maps on the side. New Zealand is included
Switzerland and Italy shields World map showing North America, most of south America, Africa, and continental Asia Greece and Turkije shields. World map showing Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania (NZ not here due to projection) Russia and Austria eagles Map depicting north and south America, and New Zealand
September 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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@ns_online
Ik wist je houd van scharfenberg, maar wat vind je van die met de kauw?
Jack sitting on a train coupler that is not scharfenberg
September 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The blades of the windmill in Nispen (NL) are made from the ICE 3 trains that failed in their cross border service between Germany and the Netherlands.

#badrailwayhistory #trains
Lovely Dutch windmill made of brick, the windows and doors frames are painted green. The windmill blades are mostly white with a red stripe running from the outer end to the center axis
September 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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There was a rainbow outside station Rotterdam Alexander the other day, went nicely with the sculpture
Rainbow seen behind a black and white cubic sculpture.
September 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Does @geomob accept "shitposty" talks? Because I have an idea for a talk that builds on this gif that I could finish before the next NL meetup on 18 September.

It would involve FastAPI, PIL, maybe ImageMagick, and ffmpeg.
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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@smveerman
Anakin and Padme meme with Anakin labelled as NS International. Anakin claims "Our service has four 9s" Padme says "of reliability right?" Anakin stares Padme asks again, more disappointedly "of reliability, right?" Below is a push notification from the NS International app reading (translated to english) "Noorderkempen > Rotterdam Centraal, Eurocity from 21:01 has a delay of 9,999 minutes. See your options" This meme references an IT concept of uptime reliability, usually 99.999% as 5 nines, where the five 9s correlate to 5 minutes of downtime during a year. More 9s added correlates with less and less downtime.
September 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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My gym has some very light reading material, a book on tax law or just a translation dictionary with Dutch and French.
On the left , a book on tax collection law by Loyens & Loeff On the right a Dutch French-Dutch dictionary
September 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Anyone have information on this SNG 3002 and the digital tech testing they're doing?
#trains #ns
Nederlandse Spoorwegen Sprinter Next Generation (SNG) train with a nose cutout with a security camera and some sort of sensor above the camera. Nederlandse Spoorwegen SNG train with a sign saying "hier testen wij niuewe digital technologie", in English meaning "we are testing new digital technology here". In the windows is a giant checkerboard poster.
August 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I know some people like to watch bicycle videos, this one is pretty basic.

Today while biking I ended up in Pernis, a small town in the Rotterdam port area, and wanted to get to Schiedam. This can usually be done with the dedicated bike tunnel that is part […]

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Thumbnail for my video. The title reads "Detour in the Beneluxtunnel" using the sign that exists at the tunnel with "Beneluxtunnel" and the A and B denoting lanes in the tunnel. I added a sign for no cars and for bicycles around the B. The actual lane is neither A or B, I also debated adding ICYCLE after the B.
August 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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My camera can do 240fps slow motion, and while plane spotting today I decided to capture the tires just as the planes landed. Here is a video of four landings with the smoky micro-rubbers

https://youtu.be/Wl5-QRu-Syo

#planespotting
Photo of a Qatari Cargo plane landing with smoke around the tires, not actually in the video just used here for demonstrative purposes.
August 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Cycling and plane spotting

#cycling #Netherlands #planespotting
Photo of a Dutch public transport bicycle in the foreground and a KLM plane in the background. Grass in the middleground
August 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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I spotted a photogrammetry target on the railway bridge between Dordrecht and Zwijndrecht

#mapping #photogrammetry #trains
Circular photogrammetry target attached to a beam of a truss bridge. Photo taken from the cycle path of the adjacent car and cycle bridge.
August 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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One thing I love about film, you might have a surprise photo, like some cookies overlaid over the markt in Den Bosch

Shot on Fujifilm 200 with a Canon A1, May or June 2025

#film #photography #doubleexposure #denbosch
An accidental double exposure with cookies from the Den Bosch markt overlaid on the Den Bosch markt. The cookies are not on the left 20% of the image. This was created by a film advancement failure
July 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM