Daniel Wright

Ex-transport planner, librarian and community rail-er. Currently writer of @BeautyOfTranspt and other things. Views my own, not employer/clients’.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

At Other Places…

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@DavidHorne @RailwayHeritage Thank you, that is good to know.

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@FWHLines Thank you! It’s not for long but I am delighted to be back doing some #CommunityRail in the best bit of the country.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

If you are thinking “I would quite like doing that job” then you would absolutely love it and you should apply for it without delay (take it from one who knows). Also your colleagues/manager etc will be very nice. And did I mention helping non-profits make people’s lives better?

[Community Rail Network @CommunityRail]

WORK WITH US! 📢

Could you motivate and support local communities to engage with their local railways and sustainable travel?

We’re looking for a community rail support officer to support our members in the Midlands and East of England.

Apply here ➡️ https://t.co/kqKrMCYUSw

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

@RailwayHeritage @NetworkRailGLC You are most welcome! It was a privilege and a pleasure.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

@creatingdesire That is a terrible pun. Well done.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

In Hoy, #Orkney today, and treated to the sight of some spectacular precision flying in the hills and corries by this @HMCoastguard helicopter. Not sure if it was an exercise or they were looking for someone/something but it was very impressive stuff.

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@watfordgap @CommunityRail @CommRailWales Ah, I see. Well they’re very nice, so maybe next time… this is what they look like.

[Mark Youngman @YoungmanMj]

Little bit of London on a platform of Chester Station. The Imperial Stone Company of East Greenwich.

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This is Kirkwall telephone exchange.

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Having been to a recent talk by @tele_exchange I have become very aware that many telephone exchange buildings might not be with us for too much longer. So here is Petersfield exchanged, just in case it vanishes.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

Here is Stromness telephone exchange, which occupies half a building shared with the Royal Mail delivery office (I assume because of their shared history in the GPO).

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@MarinaHyde That was brilliantly written. Last line left me winded. Thank you.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

@RailwayHeritage There is a real issue with Network Rail’s speed at agreeing leases/disposals of buildings it doesn’t need. I lost a couple of community projects to reuse redundant railway buildings for just that reason. The people at NR ‘get it’ but the processes don’t support them, I think.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

@Psythor Operators/NR have quite a lot of freedom to make changes to e.g. stations under general permitted development, but frequently apply for planning permission anyway “to be good neighbours” as it was put to me once. So a great idea but no use if the railway doesn’t take advantage.

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

@RailwayHeritage @WestMidRailway Love that entrance gate. Surprising and impressive survivor.

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@GarethDennis A long time ago I was at a rail industry journalists dinner at which a TOC MD was pondering a letter of support for beleaguered transport sec Stephen Byers. I told them not to touch the idea with a bargepole (he got the boot a week later). I would have suggested the same here!

[Daniel Wright @danielhwright]

This is helpfully filtering the otherwise confusing number of operators I could choose for my next trip south on the ECML by removing two of them.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

The first Conservative Party leadership hustings has been announced for the 17th of August

[doublearrow.co.uk @_doublearrow]

ICYMI last week, I’ve written a book about the British Rail symbol; there’s really something in it for everyone; students and practitioners of graphic design, art and design historians, lovers of twentieth century modernism, transport aficionados, and, of course, anoraks like me!

[doublearrow.co.uk @_doublearrow]

And, since ‘Arrows of desire’ is really all about transport and design, who better to set the scene at the start of the book than Daniel Wright, @BeautyOfTranspt, whose introductory essay is a masterpiece…
https://t.co/r7BcYhHpVg

[doublearrow.co.uk @_doublearrow]

Delighted that @LordPeterHendy, Minister of State for Rail, has written the foreword for my new book ‘Arrows of desire’
https://t.co/LhBR9aWQ8b