RAILDATE - your free weekly guide to what's happening, what's new and
what's on
NETWATCH
BR Standard tank 80079 31/9/93
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEb1nruvucM
Denby Dawdler 22/04/89
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMJH9iwFOg
Naming a class 47 Midland Counties Railway at Derby station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzgBtaWp3k
Derby, Stoke, Stafford and Crewe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdq3pFGoNvE
Parallel running on Berlin to Warsaw main line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33bn7O8WPxY
Wolsztyn Parade 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkJp3SH_Hg
(Bob Gibbens)
Ryde Esplanade web cam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-44KECp-xQ
Southampton Docks 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMnvA357ds
Southampton Docks 1964
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-southampton-docks-1964-online
Ffestiniog Railway Moving Pictures 47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnNvm2Afk6
Memorandum over accident investigation in the Channel Tunnel
https://tinyurl.com/y8334x7r
Bernina Line cab ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsVJ8PCV-0M
Current problems for the bus industry
https://tinyurl.com/ybyowep9
The end of gas holders
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30405066
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
Class 90 Electric Locomotives Compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCloeFIt1S0
Steam Trains At Speed In The Mainline - Volume 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1DH4AtBZpw
Great Western Railway 813
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5QFfkwas4c
Double-headed Deltics (55002 & 55019) & a Teddy Bear (D9516) at Wensleydale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c18kt2wLXiI
Hornby's Purple A4 - Love or Hate It? - Unboxing & Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LIJYwpzSBs
Great British Tank Engines - Yorkshire Dales Model Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gxduQeux0I
First Look: Hornby A2/2 sample
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMS8bkunaas
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Transport for Wales: Teithiau Rithiol/Virtual Journeys
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_GPLL75pH1grqsbVwQ09gXr6f8tMrZzz
(Spotter: Andrew Nummelin)
Our Beloved Lockheed Super Constellation Fires Up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nbBZiyLpXs
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
How Canadians Derailed a Train and Drove It to City Hall for Power After
a Brutal Ice Storm
https://tinyurl.com/y9lsbmeb
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)
Ghost Train: Barnstaple to Ilfracombe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F0fXZw_paY
44871 & 45407 - The West Highlander - 26.10.13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl0EspIEW9k
Tunstead Cement Works at Peak Forest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI1pAu15cPA
Timetable World - online collection of historical timetables and maps
from around the world
https://timetableworld.com
Enoshima Electric Railway, Japan
https://www.japanvisitor.com/japan-transport/enoden
============
IN THE NEWS
Cat avoids train surfing hitch hike from London Euston to Manchester
https://railuk.com/?p=106141
Report into Freightliner derailment at Eastleigh January 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-56278515
Shawford station building to be used as community space
https://tinyurl.com/ycdasn9l
Castle Cary-Dorchester engineering works
https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/heart-of-wessex-line-undergoes-vital-maintenance-02-03-2021/
Bi-mode future for freight operators
https://tinyurl.com/yaluvyvo
Okehampton railway return 'clear reality' after £40m commitment in Budget
http://www.okehampton-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=439864
Millions invested into Chiltern main line railway improvements
https://railuk.com/?p=106102
Railway track repairs divert trains on West Coast main line
https://railuk.com/?p=106108
West Midlands Railway to run additional trains as schools return
https://railuk.com/?p=106052
Network Rail teams replace Wakefield railway bridge in major upgrade
https://railuk.com/?p=106065
Skipton-Appleby "Staycation express" to be operated by HST stock
https://tinyurl.com/y7gswatq
https://tinyurl.com/yawktsvu
Trains services reinstated between York and Scarborough as pupils head
back to school
https://railuk.com/?p=106124
Calls for Borders Railway extension to stop at Langholm
https://tinyurl.com/y9fu8vwn
Famous Glasgow hotel poised to reopen following major revamp
https://tinyurl.com/y9rxmfvc
Largs line will be closed 'well into March' after landslide
https://tinyurl.com/yczpkf8z
Online public meeting on future of Clacks rail services
https://tinyurl.com/y9ad7urk
Londonderry-to-Strabane railway line should be reinstated
https://tinyurl.com/yb2re9sp
Wensleydale Railway to move away from steam as line's future looks to diesel
https://tinyurl.com/yat6hms4
Spa Valley reopening date and gala dates
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/spa-valley-railway-tunbridge-wells-5055633
40145 to be repainted and spend another year with LSL at Crewe
https://tinyurl.com/yaq6omza
Llangollen Railway PLC asks bank to appoint receiver
https://www.llangollen-railway.co.uk/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56241552
https://llanblogger.blogspot.com/2021/03/llangollen-railway-plc-asks-bank-to.html
£167k heritage fund support for pandemic-hit Whitehead attraction
https://tinyurl.com/y72s8zh4
Aschenseebahn to reopen in May 2022
https://tinyurl.com/y9dmvzcb
TfL network upgrades
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/03/02/londons-railway-upgrades-a-progress-report-3/
TfL unveils new Piccadilly Line tube train design
https://tinyurl.com/yb5et67c
Design unveiled for new Piccadilly line stock
https://tinyurl.com/ybuzn95k
Mock up of new Tyne & Wear metro cab for staff training
https://tinyurl.com/y98h8qfy
Automated metro proposed for Graz
https://tinyurl.com/yajqrak4
Increase in ferry traffic between France and Ireland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56201463
Ship-breaking in Indian subcontinent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56196069
Toymaker Hornby chief executive buys Hawker Hunter aircraft which once
stood outside Airfix factory
https://tinyurl.com/ya5vv74s
Time-lapse video shows RAF bomber being dismantled
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-56104311
Boeing 727 journey by road
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-56222067
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Nick Wheat
============
TV and RADIO
08/02/21 BBC4 1900-1930
"Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel & Stone" 8/12
08/03/21 More4 2100-2200
"Great Canal Journeys" The Potteries
08/03/21 Yesterday 2200-2300
"Steam Train Britain"
08/03/21 More4 2200-2300
"Coastal Railways with Julie Walters" Wales
09/02/21 BBC4 1900-1930
"Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel & Stone" 9/12
09/03/21 Yesterday 2000-2100
"The Architecture the Railways Built" 8/10
09/03/21 5 Select 2100-2200
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" Mexico
10/02/21 BBC4 1900-1930
"Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel & Stone" 10/12
10/03/21 Channel 5 1900-2000
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" Canada
11/02/21 BBC4 1910-1940
"Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel & Stone" 11/12
11/02/21 BBC4 1910-1940
"Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel & Stone" 12/12
============
EVENTS
While most events have been cancelled due to Covid-19, a limited number
of events will be included - if you would like to publicise an event
here, please contact the editor
A full list of forthcoming RCTS virtual meetings
https://rcts.org.uk/branches/
Cheers, Howard.
editor(at)raildate.co.uk replace (at) with @
Raildate may be freely distributed without permission as long as no
changes whatsoever are made to the original document distributed by the
Editor
Raildate on Groups.io:
https://groups.io/g/raildate
Raildate Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/1464457607123111/
You must be a member of Facebook to join
The Railtube Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/railtube2/
Thanks to Peter Lewis for posting Raildate to his Facebook page, which
should be available to view even if you are not a member of Facebook
Issues of Raildate up to 18th December 2009 are archived at:
http://www.raildate.co.uk
This page includes a master catalogue of items that have appeared in
previous editions
(C) Howard Sprenger 2021