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NETWATCH
Ebbw Vale Steelworks 1999. Rare footage inside + Cab ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxumFue3hXY
37416 Thrash through Heart of Wales. Open window view
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DiUASriIPY
Railtour at Tondu 1994 with 31/56, and quiz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2m78JAlPnk
37s and 60s in the Valleys. October 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7dASZD2uuk
(Mike Wilcock)
Tailte Rours - class 201 liveries
https://tinyurl.com/24f9u3u3
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
45596 Bahamas - The Surmount Of Sapperton - The Cotswold Venturer + Bonus !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uQEfzCMnzM
34046 "Braunton" takes on the 'English Riviera Express' 18/06/2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3TQnfFxrzQ
LYR/LNWR Merger Centenary Gala - East Lancs Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoR1DBlsxKs
Signalman puts Western Queen in wrong Platform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc3FqADbeN0
Mere Model Railway Exhibition - Mere & District Railway Modellers -
18/06/2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWndTafIPhM
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
'Springburn has lost so much' - former railwayman's 90 years of Glasgow
memories
https://tinyurl.com/26pbtxh6
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)
B-29 FIFI Arrival Flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlgOAk7x7SE
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
New Forest Tour is back! - Starting 25th June
https://www.bluestarbus.co.uk/new-forest-tour-back-starting-25th-june
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IN THE NEWS
Rail strike: Law change would allow agency staff to cover industrial action
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61905103
Rail strike: commuters stay home on day two of action as talks resume
https://tinyurl.com/294nhfec
More rail strikes extremely likely, says union boss
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61906531
Mick Lynch: rail union bruiser who’s more than a match for the media
https://tinyurl.com/2dogd7ab
TSSA attacks Shapps over ‘categorically untrue’ railway Controllers comments
https://tinyurl.com/2b5xo8zs
UK grants £15m for nine railway restoration projects
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/uk-nine-railway-restoration-projects/
London Overground’s Barking Riverside station to open this summer
https://tinyurl.com/2c8u2sew
Elizabeth line trains hitting 98% reliability
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/elizabeth-line-trains-hitting-98-reliability-55462
Rail strike: Isle of Wight services runs as normal despite walkout
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-61906877
Cornwall mainline blocked by shed blown onto line near Bodmin Parkway
https://tinyurl.com/275t9wzq
Cornish station staff view of the rail strike
https://tinyurl.com/27csdkxe
New station south of Bedford approved
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61908016
Reopening of Stratford on Avon to Honeybourne given up permanently
https://tinyurl.com/27gexaxf
Maid Marian Line: Plans to reopen disused railway 'still on track'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-61888885
Monsal Trail: Plans to reinstate railway line rejected
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-61872425
Poulton to Fleetwood reopening approved
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-61866769
Cost of unblocking Great Musgrave Bridge
https://cwherald.com/news/450000-bill-to-unblock-eden-railway-bridge/
Trains disrupted after lorry crashes onto tracks in East Lothian
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-61908969
New rail lines and journey times put in the spotlight (north-east Scotland)
https://tinyurl.com/26nwj932
21st birthday celebrations for Exbury Gardens Steam Railway
https://tinyurl.com/23kunk9l
Signs at Ueno Station allow hearing impaired to ‘see’ for safety
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14646331
CSX plans on demolishing 95-year-old roundhouse on Far South Side
https://tinyurl.com/2be6me7k
Tram and bus service reliability problems in Ottawa
https://tinyurl.com/2cjapams
Largest container ship, Ever Ace, arrives at Felixstowe
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/ever-ace-worlds-largest-arrives-felixstowe-port-9046134
Steam Tug Cervia may be dismantled
https://tinyurl.com/24scox9h
Uig pier closure petition now at 5,000…. and growing
https://tinyurl.com/23p42wvt
Unfinished cruise ship to be scrapped
https://tinyurl.com/284kj9ao
British Airways Heathrow staff back summer strikes over pay
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61906236
EU court dismisses Ryanair challenge against Finnair
http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2022/0622/1306255-ryanair-court-appeal-against-finnair
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Andrew Nummelin, Mike
Price
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TV and RADIO
24/06/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways" Alaska
24/06/22 Channel 5 2000-2100
"World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" Africa
24/06/22 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Secrets of the London Underground"
25/06/22 Yesterday 0800-0900
"Secrets of the London Underground"
25/06/22 Yesterday 1600-2100
"Secrets of the London Underground"
26/06/22 Yesterday 1200-1400
"Scouting for Toys"
26/06/22 Yesterday 2300-0000
"Secrets of the London Underground"
27/06/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Railway Journeys with Chris Tarrant" Argentina
27/06/22 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Scouting for Toys"
28/06/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Railway Journeys with Chris Tarrant" South Africa
28/06/22 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Great Continental Railway Journeys" Germany
29/06/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Railway Journeys with Chris Tarrant" Eastern Europe
29/06/22 BBC4 1900-2000
"The Golden Age of the Train" Narrow gauge railways
30/06/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways" Scandinavia
30/06/22 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Secrets of the London Underground" New
30/06/22 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Train Truckers"
31/06/22 Yesterday 1800-1900
"Chris Tarrant's Extreme Railways" North Africa
31/06/22 Channel 5 2000-2100
"World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" The Rocky Mountaineer
31/06/22 Yesterday 2000-2100
"The Architecture the Railways Built"
31/06/22 Channel 5 2100-2200
"British Planes that Won the War" The Lancaster
31/06/22 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Secrets of the London Underground"
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EVENTS
If you would like to publicise an event here, please contact the editor
25/06/22- Amerton Railway: Steam Gala
26/06/22
https://amertonrailway.co.uk/
25/06/22- Apedale Valley Light Railway: Diesel Gala
26/06/22
https://avlr.org.uk/
30/06/22- East Lancashire Railway: Summer Diesel Spectacular
02/07/22
https://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk
02/07/22- Bluebell Railway: Model Railway Weekend
03/07/22
https://www.bluebell-railway.com
02/07/22- Spa Valley Railway: Paw Patrol
03/07/22
https://www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk
03/07/22 Romsey Signal Box Working Museum Open Day
Brick Lane, Romsey, Hants, SO51 8LG
Opens 1100, last entry 1530
https://romseysignalbox.org.uk/
04/07/22 Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society
The Underhill Centre, St. John's Road, Hedge End, SO30 4AF
7:30 for 7:45pm
"Bursledon Brickworks" by Carolyne Haynes
Non-members welcome
https://www.hias.org.uk/meetings.htm
04/07/22 Peak Railway Association - Sheffield Branch
"Eastern Seaboard in 1975" by Bernard Mills
Farm Road Sports & Social Club, Farm Road, Sheffield S2 2TP
£4 donation requested on the door, non-members welcome
Starts 1930
http://www.peakrail.co.uk/sheffieldbranch
09/07/22- Spa Valley Railway: Bing and Flop
10/07/22
https://www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk
09/07/22- Leek & Rudyard Railway: Mull Gala
10/07/22
http://www.rlsr.org/index.html
09/07/22- Apedale Valley Light Railway: Military Trains Weekend
10/07/22
https://avlr.org.uk/
10/07/22 East Anglian Railway Museum: Diesel Gala
https://www.earm.co.uk/
15/07/22- Epping Ongar Railway: Real Ale Weekend
17/07/22
https://www.eorailway.co.uk/
15/07/22- Mid-Hants Watercress Line: Diesel Gala
17/07/22
https://watercressline.co.uk/
16/07/22 Romsey Signal Box Working Museum Open Day
Brick Lane, Romsey, Hants, SO51 8LG
Opens 1100, last entry 1530
https://romseysignalbox.org.uk/
18/07/22 Newbury and District Transport Group
The Community Space, The Kennet School, Stoney Lane,
Thatcham, RG19 4LL
1915 for a prompt 1930 start
CR Butterfield from the Oxford Bus Museum
Non-members welcome
Admission and car parking free, but donations towards
expenses welcome
23/07/22- Spa Valley Railway: Buffalo Jill's Wild West Train Ride
24/07/22
https://www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk
23/07/22- Churnet Valley Railway: Staffordshire Beer Train
25/07/22
https://www.churnetvalleyrailway.co.uk/
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