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LNER Workhorses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3fB77LDS_M
47712 'Lady Diana Spencer' delivers DVTs and Mk3s to Crewe Heritage Centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx7plsBC9Yg
GNR 0-6-2T N2 1744
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhVAs1GFEz4
Narrow Gauge Railways of Great Britain The Hythe Pier Railway October 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLmZCINSkjU
Unterwegs auf schmaler Spur in 4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26f6ki7vDyM
Mit dem Dampfzug durch das Berounka-Tal / Parním vlakem k Berounce,
13.06.2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUSa8sv65S8
Steam on the Waldviertelbahn, Litschau to Alt Nagelberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-Rtdl5Vs7s
Napier Noise! Our Deltic DCC Loco Sounds Revealed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUKbYi7fVN0
Narrow Gauge (Part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMwrzCMz34
Model Railway Workbench - Update 5 - Locomotive Renumbering &
Weathering, plus more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsp2Ndg1nVg
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Sixty years working for S&T maintenance
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18515032.rod-marks-60-years-working-job-railways/
Canadian Pacific Railway across Canada in the 1920s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T4HqFho_40
DB 01 202 in the Black Forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZACLOBOEJc
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
Gibraltar Airport – The Runway With A Road Crossing
https://simpleflying.com/gibraltar-airport-road-crossing/
50 Years Of History – The Qantas Boeing 747
https://simpleflying.com/qantas-boeing-747-history/
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)
Transport Video Publishing is currently offering some of its videos as
free downloads
https://transportvideo.com/
The North Staffordshire Railway Study Group website has been updated
http://www.nsrsg.org.uk/
2021 - European Year of Rail
http://industrialheritage.eu/2021/European-Year-Rail
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IN THE NEWS
Rail bailout has cost £3.5bn so far – but there’s no end in sight
https://is.gd/rXn6G1
Rail subsidies costing UK taxpayer £100 per journey in lockdown
https://is.gd/r3K8sS
Vivarail confirms expansion after borrowing £1.5m
https://is.gd/Kn41Bb
£9.4m awarded to 25 innovative British railway projects
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=40080
Dawlish footbridge closed during sea-wall rebuilding work
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/footbridge-close-over-month-work-4219077
Templecombe earthworks possession
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/?p=212913
Anglia rail route to see major improvement work
https://is.gd/h5aZHY
New Greater Anglia units on test
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/aventras-on-test-in-suffolk-1-6707345
Hitachi starts production of East Coast Trains EMUs
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=40066
Courts reject Virgin and Stagecoach claim over WCML franchise
https://dailybusinessgroup.co.uk/?p=93862
Landslip between Stafford and Crewe
https://is.gd/J0YAru
Porterbrook wins funding for trail environmental improvements to East
Midlands class 170s
https://is.gd/KN5XWv
New service for CEMEX operated by GBRf from Doves Holes quarry to
Crawley New Yard
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2020/06/gb-railfreight-and-cemex-unveil-new-freight-route.html
Restoration work on Garsdale SB proposed
https://is.gd/sRpwk2
Unipart Rail stores at York to close
https://is.gd/cV6z7G
The Victorian tunnel uncovered in the Lake District after 50 years
https://is.gd/pfv9jX
Station Hotel is a ‘magical place’ - and tales from 1950s prove it
https://is.gd/xBWHTE
Active travel carriage designed for Highland line
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53041045
Jacobite workings should start on 17th July
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=56642
GWSR to reopen in August
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=57091
Torbay and Dartmouth railway and ferries could reopen in early July
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=56961
Bodmin and Wenford will not open until autumn
https://is.gd/gel78X
North-east steam railway hails victory after reaching funding goal
https://tinyurl.com/y84oumw8
Cost of Cairngorm funicular repairs could run to £15m
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53078212
Removal of sleepers on Waterford to New Ross railway line to commence
next week
https://is.gd/ESRcYa
Waterford to Limerick Junction rail service to be restored “in time”
https://is.gd/uQAWgP
Rhatische Bahn orders 20 additional Capricorn units
https://is.gd/Gr9wxW
DHL to expand rail parcel transport
https://wp.me/p9WGoT-3yZ
A better class of lost property, 3kg of gold left on a Swiss train
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-53041884
Facial recognition ticket and security system announced by Eurostar
https://is.gd/LkW0Sx
Breakthrough of Koralm tunnel in Austria
https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/koralm-tunnel-breakthrough/56768.article
Electrically heated molten sulphur wagons delivered
https://is.gd/mBn0MC
Proposal for Calgary-Banff passenger service
https://is.gd/Ukf8x2
Huge cruise ship anchors off the coast of Devon
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/huge-cruise-ship-anchors-coast-4223523
QUEEN VICTORIA departure from Southampton to Weymouth Bay
https://youtu.be/QmArz9t6anU
Bombardier to cut 600 jobs in Northern Ireland
http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0611/1146804-bombardier/
Planes wedged together after collision at Aberdeen Airport -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53076806
Fatal crash of Lakenheath based USAF F15 in the North Sea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-53051055
A321 hit windshear before short landing and tail-strike
https://is.gd/Rad24t
American Airlines Unloads Irate Passenger For Refusing To Wear A Mask
https://simpleflying.com/american-offloads-passenger-no-mask
Qantas axes most overseas flights until October
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53088432
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Richard Maund, Reg Nerps, Nick Wheat
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TV and RADIO - schedules are subject to change at short notice... or none...
19/05/20 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great British Railway Journeys" North Wales
19/06/20 Channel 5 2000-2100
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" 7/10 Sri Lanka
22/06/20 Yesterday 1900-1930
"Great British Railway Journeys" Killarney to Cobh
22/06/20 Yesterday 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Charleville to Waterford
22/06/20 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways" Australia's Outback Railway
23/06/20 Yesterday 1900-1930
"Great British Railway Journeys" Kilkenny to Athy
23/06/20 Yesterday 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Newbridge to Roscrea
23/06/20 Yesterday 2000-2100
"The Architecture the Railways Built"
24/06/20 Yesterday 1900-1930
"Great British Railway Journeys" Athlone to Galway
24/06/20 Yesterday 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Manchester to Birkenhead
24/06/20 Channel 5 2100-2200
"The Railway 24/7" 3/6
25/06/20 Yesterday 1900-1930
"Great British Railway Journeys" Southport to Leyland
25/06/20 Yesterday 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Preston to Rochdale
25/06/20 Channel 5 2100-2230
"Building Britain's Canals" 2/3 Leeds & Liverpool
26/06/20 Yesterday 1900-1930
"Great British Railway Journeys" Haworth to Huddersfield
26/06/20 Yesterday 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Honley to Chesterfield
26/06/20 Channel 5 2000-2100
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys"
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