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#HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture
vanmanyo.bsky.social Vanmanyo @vanmanyo.bsky.social · Jul 2
Finally caved in to get @garethdennis.uk's book!
July 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
garethdennis.uk
Today is a busy day of announcements! I'm very pleased that #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture also releases today on audiobook! Here's a wee taster:
November 12, 2024 at 1:47 PM
garethdennis.uk
#RateMyBuffers returns?
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The return of #RateMyBuffers? #railnatter #howtherailwayswillfixthefuture #travel #antwerp
YouTube video by Gareth Dennis
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April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Well this is very cool - here's a copy of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture in the @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social shop! In the MTA HQ!

Any others out there already? All transport museum call outs welcome!
it's a copy of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture, the little red and white book about trains and politics, sat on a nondescript white display table itself sat on brown floor tiles
November 28, 2024 at 8:44 AM
garethdennis.uk
Audiobook? What audiobook? Well in a week's time, I'll have finished recording #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture and it'll be available to be pumped into your ears via all good audiobook platforms!
it's a weird moustache man in a recording studio looking surprised
October 29, 2024 at 1:27 PM
garethdennis.uk
Ah yes, just another jaunty shot of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture in a railway setting... No, of course not! I finally had a chance to give @mrtimdunn.bsky.social his copy.
it's the little red and white book, held aloft by a slightly out of focus Tim Dunn off of the television, within the vast cathedral of Farringdon Crossrail station
December 3, 2024 at 7:22 PM
garethdennis.uk
I always love the Parasocial Corner episodes of KJB, not least as they always give me tears... This time Devon didn't help by saying they were reading #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture and loving it. Hell of an endorsement 😭
open.spotify.com/episode/3gud...
S4E14: KJB Q&A #11
Kill James Bond! · Episode
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May 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
garethdennis.uk
I'm off on adventures... And it isn't just my increasingly tattered copy of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture that I'm taking with me.
a golden pandrol clip, a sort of twisted metal bar, sits on top of a copy of a red and white book, sat on a train table
November 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
garethdennis.uk
Radicalising one state at a time.

Next up: get Waterstones to buy the old IMechE building and then fill all the windows facing One Horseguards Parade with a thousand copies of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture. We'll get 'em one way or another.
smolponydaz.bsky.social Daz Clyde @smolponydaz.bsky.social · May 25
I meant to tell you, last time i was in my LBS i asked after your book and they said every time they stock it it sells out. The shop is 1 block from the California state capitol bldg~
May 25, 2026 at 3:57 PM
garethdennis.uk
not this time, it seems
a red and white little book titled #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture, held up in front of Louise Haigh's constituency office, a non-descript street level shop with her name in white on a red sign
November 29, 2024 at 3:12 PM
garethdennis.uk
Starting the day right by using up some rewards points with LNER... #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture
an empty teacup, a plate of frittata and fancy beans, and a copy of How The Railways Will Fix The Future on a train table in first class
November 12, 2024 at 9:46 AM
garethdennis.uk
Very pleased to say that tonight's #Railnatter guest has received her copy of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture and is brandishing it at a SkyTrain station in Vancouver... Which is useful, as that's the episode subject matter!
it's the red and white book I wrote, held up in front of a Vancouver SkyTrain
November 20, 2024 at 5:33 PM
crisortunity.bsky.social
Such a privilege to be at Gareth’s book launch this evening at the wonderful Brunel Museum. Absolutely cannot wait to read it! #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture
November 12, 2024 at 10:02 PM
garethdennis.uk
Given that #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture is on shelves FROM TODAY do send in your photos of (a) the book getting in the way of your transit photos and (b) photos of it on shelves in bookshops!
it's a jaunty picture of The Book being held aloft in Waterloo station with views across a large concourse with a big station clock visible in the background, taken about five minutes ago
November 12, 2024 at 11:48 AM
garethdennis.uk
Something that's been really great to keep hearing isn't just that @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social always have a few copies of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture on the go, but that they've been stocking it consistently since the book launched! ❤️
a street level subway entrance with steps dropping into the deep, painted nicely and looking smart a copy of Gareth's book with another on the shelf behind it, surrounded by other rail and urban history books
June 7, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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okay @rmtransit.bsky.social - gauntlet well and truly thrown down... what's your #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture photo going to be?
November 20, 2024 at 5:47 PM
garethdennis.uk
Thanks so much to Kevin Crane at Counterfire who has published the first official review of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture...

Apparently the book is pretty good! A genuine and tremendous reassurance to its author and future readers.
October 25, 2024 at 9:32 AM
garethdennis.uk
That's right - #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture is Hive's NUMBER 4 bestselling book! Of all its books! I'm (mostly) speechless - thanks so much for supporting independent bookshops across the UK ✊
https://buff.ly/2ExDyLi
a screenshot of the Hive website backing up what I'm saying!
November 5, 2024 at 3:57 PM
garethdennis.uk
Did I mention I've got a book out? #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture is all about how we get the best out of what we've got today and how to know what to build for tomorrow (among many other things)... And it looks like this:
it's a red and white book, held aloft in sharp focus with an out of focus green and grey train interior behind
December 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM
i-liketrains.bsky.social
An absolutely fantastic read, 280 characters isn’t enough to provide a fair review. 9.8/10 “Take the train. And if you can’t take the train, bother someone who has the power to change that.” #howtherailwayswillfixthefuture @garethdennis.bsky.social
Cover of the book “How Railways Will Fix The Future”
November 26, 2024 at 5:50 AM
garethdennis.uk
(it's also covered with wider context in the book, for which a chunky extract is included here: repeaterzer0.substack.com/p/how-silico...) #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture
How Silicon Valley Broke the Railways
and How the Railways Will Fix the Future
repeaterzer0.substack.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
garethdennis.uk
Anyway, if you're interested, I've been doing some plodding about nearby and had some thoughts...
youtu.be/FEltPKclg5k?...
20 million tonnes a year! #howtherailwayswillfixthefuture #railnatter
YouTube video by Gareth Dennis
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April 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
simonzev.bsky.social
I have started reading #TheBook on this rammed #LNER service to London. Not a seat available on this service so thought it was as good a place as any to start…

#HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture #TrainTravel #TrainLife @garethdennis.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 3:06 PM
arundle.bsky.social
Reading my copy of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture in the most appropriate way (on a train)
November 24, 2024 at 4:37 PM
garethdennis.uk
Very pleased to see a wee interview with me and a review of #HowTheRailwaysWillFixTheFuture in the latest issue of the @rmtunion.bsky.social magazine...
the red and white book, sat upon a copy of the RMT magazine and a review of the book, with a cup of tea in the other corner
November 22, 2024 at 3:09 PM