My morning thought - the Department for Transport is a shit show.

Working on a project looking at the maintenance train strategies around Europe. What strikes me is that almost every country is moving towards electric/battery maintenance vehicles. I think we will be stuck with diesel for a long time (1/2).

It was sunny yesterday in Cardiff, so though I would walk around and enjoy the bus station.

A little excerpt from last week's @freewheeling.info podcast - full link here: www.freewheeling.info/the-freewhee...

OK, my last video of the week - promise. I've been at the GCRE test track this week, a quick explainer video on what we have been testing and why - also why GCRE is a great place to test it (1/2)

Why do I have a weather station at GCRE - the short answer is that it's sodding windy.

At GCRE this week, doing some more testing, and after last week's workshop on composites in rail - looking at my own composites in rail and how they held up after storms that shut half the Welsh rail network.

Without colour filter - but still with sound. Sped-up 10x

WAKE-UP (needs sound) - taken yesterday at GCRE in Wales.

Into Swansea earlier this evening. Transport Minister Heidi Alexander comments today, cancelling any further electrification works - reminds me why I find the route into Swansea depressing.

Ok, OK - hear me out: