Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden)

Red squirrel standing on hind legs looking to camera. Fluffy ears stick up and little paws by his chest.

Squidge the #RedSquirrel is back after a long absence. We thought he’d disappeared but spotted again this morning hopping around the garden. Very happy to see him again with a new friend (last pic).

LOVE this!

Yep I agree
Litre of petrol in uk (locally) is currently about £1.37. About 4 litres in a US gallon so about £5.40 for a US gallon. Currency conversion: just over $7. Bit of a difference to US prices. More than double in fact. Get more #transit built and used!

Just look at his two graphs here - the only place to have literally flatlined is the UK :-(

Great to read this on @yonahfreemark.com TransportPolitic site about the worldwide growth of #transit. Just wish we had more happening in the #UK :-(

How to display huge #maps online and scan #transit timetables without breaking them! Matthew Shaw runs the hugely helpful timetableworld.com website and explains how it all started and what comes next. www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...

Most beautiful #pheasant just landed and had a good snoop around the garden. What a stunning #bird.

Eruption - One Way Ticket HQ (1979) YouTube video by •Kent Marco Paelma•

Great tune
And I especially loved the 1970s version by Eruption :-) youtu.be/gNjpdJ8nvn8?...
Although please do not try to wear these costumes on a train! You’ll clash with the moquette!

Passing through the eye of « the smoke » an #atmospheric anomaly caused #StPauls to be temporarily timeshifted back to pre-1970s tower block era! And #BigBen looking almost as shrouded in mist as it was in #Victorian times when it was built. #London being Beautiful.

Love the YT videos of #MapMen? Then this book should be right up your neatly drawn alley! The brilliant Jay and Mark…in print!

For the culmination of #LGBT History Month, #NationalRailwayMuseum Curator Ashlynn Hudson-Welburn introduces People Pride Progress, an oral history project rail workers can join in with! www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/research-and... Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...

The reporter told me on LinkedIn that although the Southampton one does generate electricity it comes from a Combined Heat and Power system that’s driven by gas. So looks like I may have been wrong. Either way: it was perhaps a misleading headline. Ah well! It’s all good news for the environment!

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

#BBCverify this is great news but you report the #Truro site being the UK’s “first geothermal power plant”: surely the Southampton District one has been doing this for years? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southam...
Please check your facts and adjust the reporting, thanks.

Yeah I agree with @stephenkb.bsky.social here. #WashingtonDC #Metro stations some of my favourites in world. #TransitSky

A bee emerges from a #crocus in our garden today. Can it be that the first signs of a long awaited #Spring in #UK are finally beginning? Praise the great power of #nature I say! 17 degrees on the weather station too (about twice the average for this of year here). Very nice!

@bettertransport.bsky.social doing superb and essential work on campaigning for one of most underrated and poorly supported but vital services: the humble bus. The workhorse of public transport.

Making #mapping more meaningful! A good campaign here to improve information at bus stops. If you’re near #Manchester in early March, go check this out:

Loving the slogan: “the future rides on public transit”!
#TransitSky

What would you do with half a million train photos? That was the task facing Robin Fell who set up the UK's largest privately owned archive of transport images. Find out how he made www.transporttreasury.com on today's CATCH-cast. www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...

Great to hear #Egypt and other African states are advancing #urbanrail expansion.

#BBCWorldService is a thoroughly underrated asset.

At last some good news on #transport! New #rail stations for #Wales and some long needed improvements. More of this please!

Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicles ( #SUV ‘s) are killing and maiming many more people in accidents than less high-fronted ones. Phase them out, tax the off the roads, stop this lunacy now. They are not needed status symbols causing death and damage. More investment in #public #transport needed!

From #secret Soviet military #maps of Britain to #bus maps, John Davies has been collecting and writing about them. He joins me on the CATCH-cast to discuss his books including 'The Rise of Demise of the Bus Map'. Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...

Time has passed to try and gently discourage the phase out of Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicles (#SUV’s). There needs to be an absolute ban on sales of these dangerous, greedy, space-hungry, road-destroying, death tractors.
#waroncars, back to #publictransport, #safercycling etc

#high-speed #rail link between #Ireland and #UK proposed: Totally wonderful vision in many ways. Brilliant it has stations in all 4 nations and Ireland. Ireland even has the coffers to support some of this but does anyone in Britain have the nous to back it?

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Spotted this bright #fungus or #mushroom t’other day (in a rare moment of sunshine). No idea what it is. Any suggestions oh wise ones?

Judge orders Trump administration to unfreeze more than $16 billion for NY tunnel project | CNN Politics A federal judge in New York ruled Friday that the Trump administration must unfreeze more than $16 billion earmarked for a major New York infrastructure project and allow construction to continue, say...

Good to see the unfreezing of funding for the #Hudson #rail #tunnel. This is the extra cost: #POTUS will “drop his freeze on the funding under the condition that Schumer agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles International Airport after Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...

125 years ago, Marconi sent the first radio signal over the horizon from The Needles to The Lizard (Cornwall). Isle of Wight Radio Society chair Steve Cownley explains why it was a pivotal moment and the joys of being a radio ham. www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...

70 YEARS AGO TODAY THE NEWPORT TO SANDOWN RAILWAY CLOSED Trains on the Newport to Sandown railway made their final runs on 6th February 1956, bringing to an end a

We keep hitting these anniversaries of #rail line closures. Most depressing that so few have been reversed. A huge programme of re-opening and investment would stimulate the “growth” the economy “needs”, cut pollution and help communities recover. Get it done!
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