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NETWATCH
Tamworth High Level Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzKfXHR53bM
Tamworth Low Level Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoHSs5P7BfU
(Martin Miller)
York station Web Cam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTl7MUeMDMk
Sudbury Town station
https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/london-underground-little-known-tube-21177517
Mapping the Lynton and Barnstable
https://bit.ly/3ydeXn3
Memories of the Londonderry and Lough Swilly
https://www.derryjournal.com/lifestyle/travel/remembering-the-swilly-train-3330773
Seaton Tramway depot web cam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qezuygfqM_o
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
45596 Bahamas, High Drama Over The Devon Banks! The Royal Duchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TriqBgKmhh8
Road Trip to find a suitable Signal Box for Chadwick Model Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KnGwFV_YgY
Final use of the York NRM wheel drop for7 'Sir Nigel Gresley' as
Cartazzi wheelset refitted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AKiP3SufVQ
Didcot Railway Centre - Diamond Jubilee Gala - 31/07/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HouVORQlK0k
Great Western 57XX Pannier Tanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP2gTUAk_XI
'4 in STEAM'!! Summer Saturday at the Severn Valley Railway, 31st July 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-sIynsawxQ
Slate Train Journey! UNESCO World Heritage Celebration - Talyllyn Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT4UgwgR0xs
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
175 years making Britain’s railways safer
https://www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/175-years-making-britains-railways-safer
(Spotter: Nick Wheat)
The Many, MANY Failed Mini Reboots!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WE766QO-Hg
The 747 That Flew Through A Forest And Survived! - British Airways 888
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2i-sBiWJM
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
British Rail: History of a Design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha3jd7Fq2LY
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IN THE NEWS
3D printing in concrete for HS2 construction work
https://tinyurl.com/yjqqc2cy
Isle of Wight rail work falls further behind after flooding
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58097095
http://wig.ht/2oBr
South Western Railway train derails in Portsmouth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-58100484
https://tinyurl.com/yhqlwyhg
GBRf investment at Eastleigh and Bescot
https://tinyurl.com/yhd3ztd5
Not possible to take surfboards to Newquay by train for surfing competition
https://gwr-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/boardmasters-2021-can-i-go-to-newquay-by-train
GWR vacancies for drivers
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/cornwall-needs-train-drivers-salary-5739376
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/great-western-railway-looking-train-21224163
GWR grant towards Steam museum
https://tinyurl.com/yhukk4x7
Heritage diesel locomotives pull into Thanet stations on railtour
https://tinyurl.com/yehmftv2
Direct Cleethorpes to London rail link ‘close’ to getting go ahead
https://tinyurl.com/yew2avfq
Council backs plan for £150m rail centre of excellence in Dulais Valley
https://tinyurl.com/yz2zmhlw
https://tinyurl.com/yfebylnd
34092 City of Wells to visit Mid Hants Autumn gala
https://watercressline.co.uk/autumn-steam-gala/
Lowdham signalbox reopened as a museum
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-58012230
Mini transport festival on the Isle of Man
https://www.facebook.com/hrviom/
Irish Rail engineering works
https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/news/iarnrod-eireann-night-time-track-works
Fatal collision in Czech Republic
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58083778
Auckland Electrification plans approved
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/kiwirails-electrification-project/
Santa Fe 2926 steamed after 22-year restoration
https://tinyurl.com/ye39m7hq
Battery buses approved for First Bus in Hampshire
https://www.hampshirelive.news/news/hampshire-news/hampshire-bus-routes-set-go-5740534
Derelict lock on Grantham Canal reopens after three-year restoration
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-58073905
Ever Given arrives at Felixstowe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-58078100
MV Asphalt Princess: Ship hijacked off UAE ordered to sail to Iran
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58078506
EU grant for Foynes Port, County Limerick
https://tinyurl.com/yhkxqgns
Emerald Airlines to operate Aer Lingus regional services
https://tinyurl.com/yg47ubge
Disused Galway airport converted to film studio
https://tinyurl.com/yj8p6gvp
Amazon buy secondhand turbo prop aircraft
https://simpleflying.com/amazon-atr-cargo-planes/
DHL order 12 electric aircraft
https://www.electrive.com/2021/08/04/dhl-orders-twelve-electric-aircraft-from-eviation/
Demolition of Eggborough power station cooling towers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-58047126
Weapons dump explosion in 1947 in Kander Valley
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57996485
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Andrew Nummelin, Alan
Rushworth
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TV and RADIO
06/08/21 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Secrets of the London Underground"
07/08/21 Yesterday 1000-1400
"Full Steam Ahead" Four episodes
07/08/21 Yesterday 1400-1500
"Inside Central Station" Glasgow
07/08/21 Yesterday 1500-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Several episodes
09/08/21 BBC2 1900-2000
"Great Australian Railway Journeys" 6/6 Newcastle to Brisbane
09/08/21 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Secrets of the London Underground"
09/08/21 Channel 4 2100-2200
"Guy Martin: The World's Fastest Electric Car?"
10/08/21 5 Select 1900-2100
"How the Victorians Built Britain" Public Transport
11/08/21 BBC4 2250-2350
"How Britain Won the Space Race: the Story of Bernard Lovell
& Jodrell Bank
13/08/21 5 Select 2000-2100
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"
13/08/21 Channel 5 2100-2200
"Ian Hislop: the Trains that Changed the World"
13/08/21 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Secrets of the London Underground"
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EVENTS
As things gradually return to normal, I expect this section will begin
to expand again - if you would like to publicise an event here, please
contact the editor
07/08/21- Apedale Valley Light Railway: Military Train Weekend
08/08/21
https://avlr.org.uk/
21/08/21 Romsey Signal Box Open Day
https://romseysignalbox.org.uk
21/08/21 Imberbus - London buses to Imber across Salisbury Plain
https://imberbus.org/
A full list of forthcoming RCTS virtual meetings
https://rcts.org.uk/branches
Cheers, Howard.
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