Tachibana Kanade

While I’ve been watching coverage of the upcoming Clacton by-election, some of which includes archive images of Count Binface, I’ve noticed that the Count’s appearance hasn’t remained consistent over time.

As I write this, we are approaching a by-election in the UK constituency of Clacton, called as a result of right-wing politician and alleged grifter Nigel Farage resigning his seat in a seemingly misguided attempt to outrun a corruption investigation.

When the Shinkansen was in development in the 1960s, it was originally proposed to be a mixed-use railway line, including passenger trains, freight trains, and sleeper trains.

Lately, it seems that every interesting megaproject is getting delayed.

When the Channel Tunnel was under construction, there were plans for “Regional Eurostar” services to run “North of London”.

This was originally presented as a Mastodon thread in November 2025 Earlier this year, the Canadian government announced that the Alto high-speed rail line would be built from Québec City to Toronto.

Since reading recipes that start with ten screens of story are incredibly frustrating, I’ll cut to the chase and put the commentary at the bottom.

This was originally presented as a Mastodon thread in November 2025 On 3 April 2007, Operation V150 successfully ran a steel-wheeled train at 574.8 km/h on an unopened stretch of the LGV Est in France.

Today, the European Commission released its plan to accelerate high-speed rail across Europe.

In my last post, I talked about a possible journey around Japan, sticking as close to the coast as possible.