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Cwmbargoed Collier Railtour. 5 venues. 60040/66013. Feb.5th 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLdieCSbxjc
Cab Ride in a Class 121. Abergavenny-Newport May 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXDRrXfHfi0
Railfreight 1993. Very busy day/night at Cardiff Central
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDmmuBFQSJM
Ebbw Junction. May 2001.Over 20 passes for Cup Final Specials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmZfsPk853k
Rail freight 1993.Busy times at Lime Kiln, Aberbeeg, Ebbw Junction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vC9wIcfyC4
Rail-freight 2011.Cardiff, East Usk, Bird Port & 70012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li5TnjC7bE0
Class 37s on coal trains in Wales 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFB7Wo4ycKA
Rail location in the Welsh Valleys 1990?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YADSsW4UY0
Coal movements 1990. 37801 Tower-Aberdare-Abercynon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTaG8K7WbyU
(Mike Wilcock)
Whatstandwell Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJN2bvP8dE
Derby Midland Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrztZq9tltc
Nottingham Express Transit at Nottingham Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfc58j0LSPI
Nottingham Express Transit at Beeston Centre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UgrToFYTK8
(Martin Miller)
70000 Britannia - Test Runs With The Ex Caledonian Sleepers! Severn
Valley Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcFchdz53Jo
NYMR - Track replacement at Farwath (Bridge 11 and 12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmGFrDl3wNI
The Class 55 Deltics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouXbAVonT4w
Whatever Happened To The Hampstead Tube?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJHlpPsWgg
South African Railways NG G16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gxLW8fdYKA
Nottingham Heritage Vehicles Charity Open day 2022 inc Model Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NupqGHqPWM
Hornby's New Rebuilt W1 Hush Hush - Unboxing & Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP8MskCcd_U
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Have a play with TfL’s property assets map
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/have-a-play-with-tfls-property-asset-register-51376
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)
Leek to Waterhouses + Leek & Manifold Railway. North Staffordshire’s
Lost Railways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcr0BTdTP9Y
(Spotter: Barry Knapper)
The B-24 Bomber that Vanished Without a Trace - The Story of "Lady Be Good"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWjTBRLU70s
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
Alexei Sayle's "Strangers on a Train" (BBC Radio 4 programme)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0013zmn
The Railway Dog - Yoshi's Adventures - South Wales
https://therailwaydog.co.uk/?p=383
(Andrew & Yoshi)
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IN THE NEWS
Selection of GBR HQ location
https://tinyurl.com/yarktgjt
UK’s first fully electric crawler cranes start work on HS2
https://tinyurl.com/yc3qaqtc
All Crossrail Tier 1 firms to finish by Easter as project’s to-do list
dwindles
https://tinyurl.com/ydg7eaus
‘It has to be flawless’: long wait for London’s Elizabeth line is nearly
over
https://tinyurl.com/ya24bgwb
Lineside fire near Paddington
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/london/paddington-station-fire-major-travel-disruption/
New escalators installed at Gatwick Airport
https://tinyurl.com/y8bfbnd5
New traffic worked by GBRf from Newhaven
https://www.gbrailfreight.com/gb-railfreight-launch-new-service-for-brett-aggregates/
Train fire between Brighton and Lewes
https://tinyurl.com/ybkvsnpc
Plans for Romsey Railway Station's Master's House to go up for public
consultation
(see also in "Events" section)
https://tinyurl.com/y7c6u55l
New station suggested on the site of Knowle Asylum Halt for new housing
https://tinyurl.com/ycmhmsa7
Chiltern Railways battery hybrid train enters service
https://tinyurl.com/yab4yr3u
Abbey train line is set to reopen in February
https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/19884899.abbey-train-line-set-reopen-february/
Key line between Fleetwood and Poulton must 'pay for itself' in growth
https://tinyurl.com/y86eneg5
Northumberland set to feature on TV's Great Coastal Railway Journeys
https://tinyurl.com/y9q85n2d
Hopes to reopen Leamside Line
https://tinyurl.com/yd7mcatp
https://tinyurl.com/y7mamjmg
Scotland's train services nationalised from 1 April
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-60319922
Scottish Government urged to ditch ‘gas guzzling’ high speed trains
https://theferret.scot/scottish-government-gas-guzzling-high-speed-trains/
People are ‘scared’ to use trains due to pandemic says minister
https://tinyurl.com/y7bwqvgr
Rail services disrupted for nine hours by communications failure
https://tinyurl.com/ya53zakk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-60287531
Work starts on construction of East Linton station
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/construction-starts-on-east-linton-station
Electrification of Fife Circle proposed
https://tinyurl.com/yagpgpce
Railway line between Edinburgh and Dundee to close over two weekends
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/2999529/trains-dundee-edinburgh-disruption/
Engineering work planned at famous Glenfinnan Viaduct
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-60318698
Drainage work on West Highland extension
https://tinyurl.com/y7m2gnyf
Bath Green Park market
https://tinyurl.com/y9kvozrl
34027 to be repainted for Platinum jubilee celebrations
https://www.svr.co.uk/2022/02/10/a-purple-patch-for-the-severn-valley-railway
Yorkshire Wolds Railway's first train movement on Driffield to Malton
line since 1958
https://tinyurl.com/y8relcoc
Replica lamp posts stolen from Blaevavon High Level station
https://tinyurl.com/ybsx2lyn
Political questions over reinstatement of Douglas Horse trams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-60310362
Derailment on Col du Bretaye branch in Switzerland (in French)
https://tinyurl.com/ybfl6rlh
Fifty one years since the fire at Luzern Hbf (in German)
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/2021/02/der-brand-im-bahnhof-luzern/
Alstom to deliver 40 trams to Gothenburg
https://tinyurl.com/ycgkd48d
40th Alstom loco shipped to Azerbaijan
https://tinyurl.com/ybmsuv5n
Extra double deck coaches ordered by New Jersey Transit
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/nj-transit-additional-cars-purchase/
Emergency exercise at Paddington underground/Crossrail stations
https://tinyurl.com/y7yp9l7g
Ever seen RNLI Lifeboat crew on the London Underground?
https://tinyurl.com/y92ajjgb
Hitachi supply new trams for Genoa
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/hitachi-trains-genoa-metro/
A trip in a London bus through military lands – Imberbus returns for 2022
https://tinyurl.com/y94no2l3
Bus converted to a mobile home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hereford-worcester-60318428
First Group hydrogen buses taken off the road in Aberdeen due to
technical issue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60266199
Further delays to new CAL-MAC ferries
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-60338132
RMS Queen Mary funding
https://youtu.be/IEHLhdubpgE
Mumbai Maersk grounded and refloated on approach to Bremerhaven
https://www.ship-technology.com/news/mumbai-maersk-refloated/
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Nick Wheat
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TV and RADIO
12/02/22 Yesterday 0800-0900
"Trains That Changed the World"
12/02/22 Yesterday 0900-1200
"Hornby: A Model World"
12/02/22 Yesterday 1200-1500
"The Architecture the Railways Built"
12/02/22 Yesterday 1500-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys"
13/02/22 Yesterday 1200-1400
"Train Truckers"
14/02/22 Yesterday 1800-1830
"Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways" The Konkan Line
14/02/22 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great Coastal Railway Journeys" Fairlie to Port Glasgow
14/02/22 Yesterday 1830-1900
"The Fred Dibnah Story"
14/02/22 BBC4 1930-2000
"Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam" Steam on the Water
14/02/22 5 Select 2200-0000
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson" 2 episodes
15/02/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways" Bangkok to Mandalay
15/02/22 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great Coastal Railway Journeys" Helensburgh to Connel
15/02/22 5 Select 1900-2000
"Britain's Greatest Bridges" Tower Bridge
15/02/22 BBC4 1930-2000
"Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam" Steam and the Modern Age
15/02/22 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Secrets of the Transport Museum" New series
15/02/22 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Secrets of the Transport Museum" Old series
15/02/22 BBC4 2300-0000
"Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways" 1/3
16/02/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways" Across the Andes
16/02/22 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great Coastal Railway Journeys" Oban to Staffa
16/02/22 BBC4 1930-2000
"Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain" The Source of Iron
16/02/22 Yesterday 2000-2100
"The Architecture the Railways Built"
16/02/22 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Steam Train Britain"
16/02/22 Yesterday 2200-2300
"Full Steam Ahead"
16/02/22 BBC4 2320-0020
"Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways" 2/3
17/02/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways" Moscow to Siberia
17/02/22 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great Coastal Railway Journeys" Fort William to Glenfinnan
17/02/22 ITV 1930-2000
"The True Cost of Train Travel?"
17/02/22 BBC4 1930-2000
"Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain" Castings
17/02/22 Yesterday 2200-2300
"Secrets of the London Underground"
18/02/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways" Cuba
18/02/22 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great Coastal Railway Journeys" Mallaig to Lewis & Harris
18/02/22 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Great British Railway Journeys" Canterbury & Lincolnshire
18/02/22 Yesterday 2200-2300
"Secrets of the Transport Museum"
18/02/22 Yesterday 2325-0125
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson" 2 episodes
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EVENTS
If you would like to publicise an event here, please contact the editor
11/02/22- Romsey Station Master's House - public exhibition of proposals
12/02/22 0930-1700 (Friday), 0930-1300 (Saturday)
https://tinyurl.com/y7c6u55l
12/02/22 East Lancashire Railway: Winter Diesel Gala
https://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk
19/02/22 Romsey Signal Box Working Museum Open Day
Brick Lane, Romsey, Hants, SO51 8LG
Opens 1100, last entry 1530
https://romseysignalbox.org.uk/
21/02/22 Newbury and District Transport Group
The Community Space, The Kennet School, Stoney Lane,
Thatcham, RG19 4LL
1915 for a prompt 1930 start
"My Life on The Railway Part 1" by Dennis Flood
Non-members welcome
Admission and car parking free, but donations towards
expenses welcome
Cheers, Howard.
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