Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden)
@markonthemaps
🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
Spotted this huge cloud emanating from the #NewForest last night but zero mention of fires on local news so assumed must be a weird natural formation. How wrong! Very noticeable aroma in air this morning. Were local news outlets asleep last night (approx 8pm)? www.islandecho.co.uk/islanders-ur...
Rare chance to see inside a #railway #signalbox. Disconnected in 1988 but now a #Grade2Listed historic landmark. Fine views down the line to #Shanklin from where a #Ryde bound ex-London #Underground renovated D-Stock (now 484) is seen entering #Brading station under electronic control. #TransitSky
Can #Trams, #Railways, #Sport and #Music mix? Dr Kevin Tennent of the #UniversityOfYork says YES! Hear how he studied the #LondonOlympics, and #Independent #RecordLabels between the business systems behind our transport systems. www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...
Today: a Welsh-born professor who lived in China as a child and studied in Leeds and Taiwan! Dafydd Fell also presented a radio show in Taiwan, writes about party politics there and his book on the islands Sugar Railways is an absolute delight. Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...
Bowled over to be included in #Waterstones list of Summer26 pre-orders! If you know anyone who loves #transport and #cartography: maybe point them in this direction! www.waterstones.com/book/mapping... #TransitSky #UKRailways
When #hovercraft first flew they looked like #science-fiction. Historian and model-maker Ashley Hollebone has built unfeasible machines for #Hollywood from #JamesBond to #HarryPotter. Ashley explains his love of hovercraft and how they were developed. www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese... #TransitSky
If we want better #publictransport: we have to fight for it. Direct from Oakland @carterlavin.bsky.social explains his great book and why we have to battle to get improvements. Listen: www.vectisradio.com/podcasts/cat... Get the book: www.islandpress.org/fight #TransitSky
This is the calmest I’ve ever seen the #EnglishChannel. There’s hundreds of miles of #ocean out there and was not a breath of wind and literally no waves. It felt like a sci-fi movie scene. Most disturbing! Videoed this morning at #Brook beach (where the #dinosaur footprints are).
Help save and protect Britain’s #RedSquirrels: c.org/hKSqtKzrR4 We are lucky to have them here here at home but more can be done: please read and sign this petition if you care about the subject?
The stellar career of charming Phil Marsh: he tried to sell the Royal Train, send Eurostar's north & help filming for Harry Potter train scenes. He went from selling a Senior Railcard to Bette Davies to managing the railways - but says he's "just a rail worker". www.vectisradio.com/podcasts/cat...
Interesting ideas coming out about devolution. What do people think of a "Number10North" concept?
#Rail history #YouTube guru Jack is the #WightWanderer, he's an expert on the many closed lines on the #IsleOfWight youtube.com/@WightWanderer and he explains how they were built, reveals a secret railway & why old #Tube trains run here. Listen now: vectisradio.com/on-air/presenters/mark-ovenden/
We had similar here too Leo. But “oddly” BBC unquestioning the 36 degrees that MetOffice reported. At least the local media here reported some truths.
Beautiful #sunset this evening looking across the #Solent into #NewForest. Thank that beautiful ball of energy for our lives!
#SummerSolstice eve #sunset. Gorgeous finale to a fine birthday. Praise the #sun for our lives :-)
Passing through #Birmingham New Street recently had enough time between changing trains to take a swift peek at the #tram extension to the station. Very impressive, right outside the entrance, smart vehicles and decent #map on their TVM. All power to the future #MidlandMetro extensions! Bravo Brum!
No not a sign about upcoming YMCA dancers, something much scarier! Spotted on a beach at #Bembridge, #IsleofWight.
Richard Bowker of the rail industry's most respected YouTube channel, #GreenSignals, speaks about how the channel grew. Plus #HS2, #NorthernPowerhouseRail and the #TransPennineUpgrade. Plus how he ended up running the #FootballLeague! Listen here now: www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese... #UKRailways
Spotted via the PANDA Facebook page: how certain nuances of language emphasis can have different meanings. PANDA is about Promoting #Autism #Neurodiversity Awareness
Lucky you Jen. We also see them flying above the field behind us but they’ve never plonked down into our garden. We did have one of these beauties recently though!
Spotted some of the huge #HS2 construction going on around #Birmingham on this trip. Great to see, just wish it could have been done faster and been less costly (and be well en route to #Leeds & #Manchester too!) #UKRailways #TransitSky
One of Britain's most prolific travel writers and host of Seat61.com, Mark Smith, explains how and why he set up this most helpful travel blog. Something was missing in the panoply of travel advice: how to travel across Europe by train with ease. Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...
Last century saw some of the most iconic pictorial posters for travel, propaganda & events. Today's guest has a lifetime in curating & preserving old posters. Delve into 20th Century Posters with website curator David Bownes in his tenth anniversary year running www.twentiethcenturyposters.com
And in hundreds of peoples gardens across UK, domestic weather stations showed it was decidedly hotter! Most recorded temps above 35 - they cannot all be wrong! Sure they dont have Stevenson Screens but the lived experience was: it was hotter than 34.8!
Is it time for official meteorologists like @metoffice.gov.uk to report the more deeply granular spread of domestic garden weather stations? Our nearest Stevenson Screen (#Ventnor) is usually many degrees lower than inland as it’s on a windy coastal cliff. www.islandecho.co.uk/sunday-scorc...
Clever campaign tag by #trainline: « Stay grounded: see Europe by train » #UKRailways #TransitSky
Every year Brits make 4 BILLION bus trips. We're celebrating this most important form of public transport in a CATCH-cast from Ryde Bus & Coach museum. Volunteers explain why buses are so crucial, how they're preserved & what this May's 'Rydabus' is. Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/on-air/prese...