Gareth Dennis

So for that minister to immediately start trying to sort of scatter noise and chaff into the information space in a blatant attempt to sort of direct the narrative, the story and the blame at this individual.

Okay, so I'm here with Gareth Dennis, railway engineer, writer and owner of Railnetter.uk. I'd like to say it's a pleasure to meet you, but I did come across, unfortunately, your work due to what we're going to discuss today, which is the Toledo train crash where 69 people passed away.

at the time of writing in those 200 entries.

So not an easy introduction, but when I came across your work, I was impressed by how dispassionately you were able to look at the incident without anger in the moment and give a clearer breakdown of the situation where here in Spain, there was a lot of heat, but maybe not a lot of light.

What role did that play in this tragedy, essentially?

Yeah, so hello, everyone.

Yeah, my name is Gareth Dennis.

I'm a professional engineer for the railways in Britain for 15 years now or approaching and have done a lot of other policy stuff, a lot of work around accessibility and sustainability of railway systems.

And you can also just ask the open access operators not to use the double arrow, maybe.

So we have to ask the question, what will the interim train liveries look be? What will they look be? Thank you, Gareth, from a few weeks ago.

What will they look be? So here are the liveries as being proposed, right? Existing livery at the top.

So there's existing livery here, and then the new livery underneath.

That's not how trains work.

They're all different.

The Azumas or the IETs, Gareth's wonderful ribbon.

You can use that.

So one thing I can't help but think about is how much worse this could have been if the trains had GB levels overcrowding.

Gareth, absolutely.

Yes, that's true.

LZB is no longer being developed.

And one of the things I find interesting is one of the Bell's early pieces into public transport in Glasgow.

We had, I think it was Gareth Dennis, the real expert talking about how Glasgow actually has one of the best public transport networks in the entirety of the UK.

The problem is fragmentation.

I think there is nowhere where that is more clearly on display than with the bus companies.

Lesser.

I can't compete with Gareth Dennis.

He does real shit with trains and big engines and stuff.

I just send emails.

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Gareth Liam intimacy hour you know the one where you two kind of flirt for a bit I think the fans really enjoy it we're fucking we're

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