Chris Ogilvie

🇮🇹🚈 🇦🇹The railway between Italy and Austria via Bolzano has been disrupted today. Police believe anarchists set fire to lineside cabinets at Peri, Italy. It coincides with demonstrations against high volume of motor vehicles on the route tomorrow.

☀️ European rail social media as temperatures rise… 🇮🇹 A power cut to a high speed Italo and 4 hour rescue makes a nice ‘Reel’ for an instagrammer . . .

Save the date! France’s Train Jaune in the Pyrenees has an open carriages- are there any more in Europe or around the world?

Please do not use the toilet in a station. Or while the brakes are on.

🛗 Floor 40. First time at one of the many rooftop restaurants in the City of London. 110 Bishopsgate. 📍Duck & Waffle. maps.app.goo.gl/PjNzGYuppbd7...

🛂 Lille Europe Eurostar. Arrived 1435 for 1635 train expecting queues. I was right. At head of Q told I can’t board before 1535 has left. Back to the back of the Q!

OMG. Another 2 heritage trams just appeared. It's like being on Blackpool prom.

🇳🇱 Den Haag / The Hague. Visiting the beautiful city I've only passed by on the train. Worth getting off - there's a huge tramway, with an American PCC heritage tram. €18 for a day ticket on a 1hr circuit from station to seaside. ℹ️: denhaag.com/en/tourist-t...

🔄 Gridlock. When normal ‘give way’ rules of motoring don’t apply. And ‘push in’ is the norm…. But in Naples it’s just another day. A shrug of the shoulders is all that can be done when horns do nothing!

GBR/Network Rail’s new Arrow clock tries to bring a national rail identity like the SNCF chime & Swiss Rail Clock. A developer created a free webapp, so anyone can run the clock on their desktop. But a ‘Cease and Desist’ from NR has ended the fun. It’s all about the IP ££££. railclock.davwheat.dev

🐶 🚇 So you can get Amélie, your spoilt Labradoodle dog on Eurostar! Today Italian Instagrammer posted a Eurostar trip Paris-London with dog, claiming it's an 'assistance dog'. Wonder what paperwork they had? Will UK E* staff will be keener than Parigi on return? ℹ️: www.instagram.com/reel/DWWpkMV...

🌅 Another sunset video, ship to shore. I’d not realised how much the ship is drifting while at anchor. Unclear when we leave Almería, I’ll have an early start tomorrow and try and visit the town.

🌅 Beautiful sunset as ‘Andrea’ loads in the port of Cartagena. Sailing 23:00 to Almería, arrival 08:00. So hopefully another full day in the city…

Video of the single car, metre gauge, DMU arriving at Los Nietos. Can’t be many stations where you can see the previous stop from your station! It’s a well used line. Great to see it surviving & making this little corner of Spain more accessible.

🚢 14:00. Adiós Alicante. After 12hrs loading - and a port visit for the stowaway - 'Andrea' departs. In 6hrs we'll be in Cartagena. 20:00h arrival, time for another port visit?! 📍Live route: www.polarsteps.com/ChristopherO...

Here's the proposed route. Leave Algeciras early tomorrow nonstop to Alicante. A day in port to visit the city. Return via Cartagena & Almeria with a day in each port. The trip to Ceuta is an anchorage to wait a berth in Algeciras. Last year's trip 🇳🇱 🇳🇴 www.polarsteps.com/ChristopherO...