Gareth Dennis

@GarethDennis · York, UK · joined 21 Aug 2009

Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @Railnatter and @_Trainsatlantic. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE available everywhere. He/him.

35 367Followers

3 582Following

181 893Posts total

147KViews on collected posts

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Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis2 Sep

now imagine if I was just half way through recording a two part @Railnatter history of PFI... that might be, let's say, informative here 2.5K views · 16 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis2 Sep

It's a good job the Conservatives and then Labour cancelled all of those electrification projects. 4.2K views · 138 likes · 14 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis2 Sep

People claiming Burnham is going to renationalise water & other key services are lying Here's a govt minister explaining that he's actually going to work alongside the private sector in a public private partnership. Does that sound like rolling back the last 40 years? https://t 18.1K views · 367 likes · 173 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis1 Sep

I suspect this is as much to do with him being very likely to lose his seat to the Greens at the next election as it is about him being a self-serving liar. 2.3K views · 27 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis1 Sep

without The Bridge, any book like this is incomplete 3.4K views · 22 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis1 Sep

I very much approve of books like this in school libraries. However, not a single Brunel structure and the Forth Rail Bridge doesn't get a look in 👎 https://t.co/BYITPpjOFa 8.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis28 Aug

In 2025, John Edgley (@NetworkRail’s chief engineer of infrastructure and asset strategy) stood up and showed that graph to a conference of engineers. He said the following words, and they should be seen as a stark warning: https://t.co/k2fI9GXmvB 23.3K views · 122 likes · 24 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis28 Aug

@GarethDennis I do believe a renewal was completed on that same part of the track not long before the accident. The importance of a should is key. Maybe the need for another 20- 30t on ballast was too costly........ 757 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis28 Aug

So that's two for two on track buckles, albeit the one at Lewes is a more complex failure. This is directly attributable to track renewals volumes, which are... tanking. https://t.co/JBjkmvzrLy 4.4K views · 54 likes · 5 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis28 Aug

Even in the picture they have included, there are NO ballast shoulders. If I was inspecting this section of track, I'd have stopped trains long before this point. Which really begs the question what pressure was being applied to local teams to convince them this was okay. 3.9K views · 59 likes · 7 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis28 Aug

"The driver reported seeing a kink in the track which rocked the driving cab as the train passed over it." 22.4K views · 198 likes · 11 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis28 Aug

We’re investigating https://t.co/4QT37eDe51 after the rearmost vehicle of a passenger train derailed near Wickford, Essex, 14 August 2026. The train remained upright throughout with no reported injuries to the 62 people estimated to be on board. #Derailment #Wickford #Essex 53.5K views · 125 likes · 21 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

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12 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views4 314this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %12.20%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.87%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 314	924	4.67×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	12.20%	3.62%	3.37×
Engagement rate	0.87%	1.52%	0.57×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

53.5K28 Aug

22.4K

3.9K

4.4K

757

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8.2K1 Sep

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18.1K2 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

0.29%28 Aug

0.95%

1.89%

1.47%

0.13%

0.67%

0.12%1 Sep

0.67%

1.21%

3.22%2 Sep

3.73%

0.80%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes72.9%1 135 in total

Reposts16.6%259 in total

Replies3.6%56 in total

Quotes2.1%33 in total

Bookmarks4.7%73 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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