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Category: transport
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Photographs, Video and Stuff
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Photographs, Video and Stuff
Join me on a transatlantic KLM flight heading towards Europe. Listen to what the pilot has to say.
Join me on the train travelling smoothly and comfortably between Amsterdam and Brussels
Join me on one of our British trains. Over the years I’ve learned that the food on our British trains generally is massively overpriced and doesn’t taste so good (French trains so much better in all respects). Please note that it is the train loudspeaker system that is delivering quite badly distorted sound (along with the badly distorted sandwiches!). Brexit = terrible food!
Join me at a British train station as the train makes ready to depart, and then departs.
Please join me for another ride on one of Amsterdam’s wonderful trams.
Join me along side the high-speed railway track in the Netherlands as an express train whooshes by us at tremendous speed…
Please join me at the vibrant Amsterdam Central Station. Listen to the announcements and people and trains coming and going.
Join me on a London underground train journey on the Circle Line between Bayswater and Nottinghill Gate (where you might find Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts!).
After this posting, there was some debate about where the front wheels for this crane truck were. This image solves the mystery. The front wheels are set back and, in front of the front wheel assembly, there are the extendable jacks which keep the truck from tipping over when the crane part of the truck is lifting heavy weights.
Until Dr Beeching came along, Banff was connected to the rest of the United Kingdom by a railway line. The railway line to Banff finally closed in 1968. A pity. Given the general state of the roads in the UK (overcrowded and often in disrepair) and the need for us to reach climate targets, perhaps greater use of modern railway trains might have helped us in the longer term. But then, UK governments (especially the so-called Government we have in place now), can’t seem to plan beyond the end of the next week, let alone a year or more’s time. Long term planning? Forget it!!!
Where there were once railway tracks, there are now walking/jogging paths. Every cloud has a silver lining…
We’ve now left Holland and we’re on the move…….but where to? A new house waits for us somewhere. All will be revealed…
A bit of fish-eye!
Amsterdam public transport – second to none! I just love riding on the trams.
Please click on the link below, close your eyes and join me in the main lobby in Central Station Amsterdam (a natural echo chamber). Towards the end you’ll here a station announcement but the natural echo in the main lobby makes it hard to hear what is being announced.
See all other soundscapes here.
You can’t beat a five minute sit-down…
The Sitting
From one aircraft to another at Schipol Airport
The Wave From the Pilot
Work this one out if you can!
I wonder if the Mövenpick Hotel is ready for this guest!?
I’m sure that the graffiti artist never realised his ‘artwork’ would be paraded through Amsterdam Central Station at rush hour…….oops…
What better way to spend a lazy afternoon in Amsterdam…
Eagle-eyed readers will spot something strange here…
The bus service in the Netherlands must be the most clean and efficient service anywhere.
Here’s a flashback to 2015 – Amsterdam Sail. The next Amsterdam Sail will be in 2020.
WARNING. Some brief (very brief) nudity!
Sail Amsterdam 2015 – by Richard Broom from Richard Broom on Vimeo.
