12 days of Christmas rail learning
Merry Christmas if you are celebrating - Seasons greetings if you aren't.
Hopefully you will be getting some down-time to relax around the Christmas period (whether that is before, during or after it). So I thought I'd deliver this little digest of my 12 days of Christmas railway learning #rail101 posts straight to your feed to consume at your leisure.
Remember to follow #rail101 for more posts like it. (I created the hashtag to help make our industry more accessible to both those in it, and those who are thinking of joining it). I also created a Rail101 group too for ease of finding content like it in future - Join it here.
Want all these videos on a Youtube playlist? Here you are
Day 1 - Why trains don't use rubber tyres
Day 2 - How Trains are (Electrically) Powered on the Railway
Day 3 - The people who make the railway work
Bonus fact - Did you know that Indian Railways employs over 1.1 million people!
Day 4 - Discover 4 Key Parts of the Railway
Day 5 - Railway Gauge Did NOT Evolve From the Width of a Horses Arse
BONUS Fact - Did you know that the railway gauge isn't the gap between rails, nor the gap between the rail centres - it is the gap between the rail heads measured a specified distance below the top of the rail!
Day 6 - How the Channel Tunnel Works
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Day 7 - The Underground Clocks of Paris
Day 8 - How to make railway timetables (with graphs)
Bonus fact - Whilst those graphs may seem a little abstract, our Sensonic team see these daily as they monitor track activities - see image here - https://bit.ly/3OAQEt9 The green lines are trains travelling just like in the timetable graphs above. (The green block is a cable theft event - but that is a post for another day!).
Day 9 - How railroad crossings / level crossings work
Day 10 - Top 7 Horizontal railway track geometry concepts
Day 11 - Weird Railway Ideas - The Self Balancing Monorail
Day 12 - No learning just snowy rail fun
Bonus content - If you want to learn more about the challenges cold weather brings to railways then I've tried to summarise some here - https://bit.ly/3VpSO2T
BONUS BONUS CONTENT - Day 13 - Building Lego trains
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Inventor / Founder at FuseRing.com
1wThank you for the education Daniel. Love them. Especially about money from Nigeria. Got me. Merry Christmas.
Founder & CEO | Moving Tomorrow with Rail Systems, Tunneling, MEP Integration & T&C | Sustainable Infrastructure Innovator | Marathon Runner – Always Going the Extra Mile
1wExcellent initiative, dear Daniel Marry Christmas 🎄 to you and your beloved
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1wA big - no HUGE thanks to the brilliant creators that worked hard on all these videos. Grady Hillhouse, The Pway Engineer, Railways Explained, Paul Whitewick, Primal Space, Brady H. , Hannah Fry, Brandon Clement, and Chris Burton. Thanks to all these interesting creators who have brought you 12 days of Christmas rail stuff which I collated under the #rail101 tag.
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1wThank you for the post Daniel Pyke
Associate Technical Director-Rail at Arcadis, MIEAust, NER, CPEng, RPEQ, RPEV.
1wGreat learning experience as usual, this time videos, which is more attractive. Thanks Dan, wish you a merry Christmas and happy new year.