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London Underground 150th anniversary links...
Steam train on the Underground
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20968919
Stamps celebrate London Underground 150th anniversary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20948900
Brand 'worth its weight in gold'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20916568
In praise of the silver stairway
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20952447
How navvies paved way for Crossrail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20854680
Families with the Underground in their blood
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20837356
Exploiting the 'suburban dream'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20814930
Your stories
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20961906
‘Sulphurous’ fumes and class division on Victorian Tube
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20901856
Pictures track some of the stops on London Underground's 150 year journey
http://tinyurl.com/ax5q7cn
The London underground at 150 - a birthday journey
http://tinyurl.com/a5uv2pc
150 Underground facts
http://tinyurl.com/aeow4dz
Trade union view of LUL150 events
http://tinyurl.com/9wpsuvo
http://tinyurl.com/ahkvtzm
A nice collection of photographs on the ex-Midland lines of BR by Paul Bartlett
http://paulbartlett.zenfolio.com/midlandrailway
New brewery at Sheffield Midland station
http://www.tappedbrewco.com
(Spotter: Nick Wheat)
Severn Valley Railway 5th January
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvQrwm5o6Jo
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
50 years ago this week - looks like snow was stopping play
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/archive/from-the-archives-car-news-1-7-january/
Railtalk appears to be a (currently) free monthly magazine along the lines of Railway Herald,
but more pictorially based
http://www.railtalk.org/
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
RAF airfields in Lincolnshire
http://www.raf-lincolnshire.info/
And an airfield that has its own website - RAF Fiskerton
http://www.fiskertonairfield.org.uk/
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
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IN THE NEWS
Network Rail unveils £37.5bn investment plan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20938280
Network Rail to spend £500m electrifying Midland Mainline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20938620
Network Rail's Wessex route to get £1bn investment work
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20934815
HS2 route: Manchester and Liverpool win while Sheffield loses out
http://tinyurl.com/akpdqab
Toy company's West Coast rail bid turned down by DfT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20959906
West Coast Railways profits increase
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/3071570
Timelapse of Crossrail demolition of bridges
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20909403
In pictures: Crossrail's impact on London and South East
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20933396
Overcrowded Surrey rail services review announced
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20911257
Kings Cross transformation
http://tinyurl.com/a2m32jp
New East Grinstead building opened
http://tinyurl.com/a6pe4rt
TfL Olympic legacy presentation
http://www.rail.co/2013/01/03/video-tfls-olympic-legacy/
Rail minister Simon Burns denies £80k chauffeur car bill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-20966234
Platform work to delay Paddington to Cheltenham trains
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20910387
Low bridge in Ambergate hit five times in six months
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-20937659
Barrow-upon-Soar rail service 'normal' by Monday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-20920426
British Rail staff abused by disgruntled passenger at Redruth
http://tinyurl.com/az6yqh5
Member of rail staff allegedly assaulted in Lostwithiel
http://tinyurl.com/abo657k
Water tank stolen near Stratford railway station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-20908770
Network Rail vows £4bn for Scotland over next five years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-20936994
Electrification of Swansea to London trains 'by 2018'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20941072
Electrification of North Wales' rail network moves a step closer
http://tinyurl.com/b2j7rwh
Cardiff-London trains return to normal after signal problems
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20959373
Vauxhall tube station on track for £45million revamp
http://tinyurl.com/azt2zx6
Lydney level crossing improvements begin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-20920012
Retailers on board for Railway Museum puzzles
http://tinyurl.com/bhc99g9
Outram’s tunnel could be the oldest in the world
http://tinyurl.com/a5d6kwt
Treffy viaduct over Luxulyan valley to be cleaned
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-20952648
Fares are frozen on Shipley Glen Tramway
http://tinyurl.com/awtjym2
Collision at Neuhausen-am-Rheinfall near Winterthur
http://tinyurl.com/bxnn33k
Portland-Milwaukee light rail bridge
http://tinyurl.com/bby3mq9
Carbon Neutral shunter
http://tinyurl.com/bby3mq9
A recreated ViaRail car in the basement
http://tinyurl.com/a5a9mxr
Trains return to Cambodia's Southern Line
http://tinyurl.com/bgouejh
Bus fire in Milton Keynes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-20940985
New school bus fleet for Isle of Wight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-20908181
Stagecoach group order for 432 vehicles.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-20958418
http://www.stagecoach.com/media/news-releases/2013/2013-01-09.aspx
Excavating buried Spitfires in Burma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20957162
East Midlands Airport shut by Spitfire undercarriage collapse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20939051
http://tinyurl.com/ahhhrwr
East Midlands Airport-closure Spitfire 'recently restored'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-20949389
Firms land £150m Bristol Airport revamp framework
http://tinyurl.com/a3djsnj
Dreamliner plane review ordered by US regulators
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20988117
Leicestershire canal landslide work due to start
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-20926953
Hovertravel considers reductions on Southsea and Ryde crossings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-20943132
QE2 in London 2013?
http://maritimematters.com/2013/01/qe2-in-london-2013/
Ferry hits pier in New York
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20962553
Salvaging the Costa Concordia - one year on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19962191
Gwenda Thomas AM raises concerns about East Pit resort plan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-20976692
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Ted Millward, Reg Nerps, Mike Price, Alan Rushworth
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TV and RADIO
13/01/13 BBC2 2200-2300
"Speed Dreams: the Fastest Place on Earth" Bonneville, Utah 2/2
14/01/13 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great British Railway Journeys" 1/5 Portsmouth to Woking
14/01/13 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Cornwall
14/01/13 BBC4 2000-2030
"Art Deco Icons" London Transport HQ
14/01/13 BBC2 2130-2230
"Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here"
15/01/13 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great British Railway Journeys" 2/5 Woking to Clapham Junction
15/01/13 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Buxton to Matlock
15/01/13 BBC2 2100-2200
"Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways" 1/3
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pz9m7
16/01/13 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great British Railway Journeys" 3/5 Victoria to Abbey Wood
16/01/13 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Matlock to Burton-on-Trent
17/01/13 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great British Railway Journeys" 4/5 Kings Cross to Peterborough
17/01/13 Channel 4 2100-2200
"The Restoration Man" Converting a water mill into a home
18/01/13 BBC2 1830-1900
"Great British Railway Journeys" 5/5 Spalding to Grimsby
18/01/13 BBC1 South 1930-2000
"Sea City" Documentary about the port of Southampton 2/3
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EVENTS
All details are correct to the best of my knowledge, but no responsibility is accepted for
inaccuracies or changes.
16/01/13 Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History Research Workshop
National Railway Museum/University of York
In the Edmondson Room, NRM - Railway Towns
Mark Haydock (University of Central Lancashire):
The influence of railways on rapid town formation in East Lancs after 1848
Nitin Sinha (IRS&TH):
Skill formation and work culture in an Indian railway town of Jamalpur, 1860s-1940s
1400-1715
All welcome, refreshments served
17/01/13 Aln Valley Railway Society
The Old Waiting Room, Alnwick Station (Barter Books), Alnwick
“An Evening with Atholl Swanston”
Atholl will reminisce about his work at Alnwick and Alnmouth
1900 for 1930pm
18/01/13- London Model Engineering Exhibition
20/01/12 Alexandra Palace, London
1000-1700 each day
http://www.londonmodelengineering.co.uk
21/01/13 Friends of Cromford Canal - Talk
Ironville Church Hall, Casson St, Ironville, NG16 5NN
The A1 Steam Locomotive by Alexa Scott
Starts: 1930, admission: £2.00
http://www.cromfordcanal.info
21/01/13 Newbury and District Transport Group
The Library, Kennet School, Stoney Lane, Thatcham, RG19 4LL
1915 for a prompt 1930 start, finish 2155
"The LMS Patriot New-build Project" by John Barrowdale
Non-members welcome
Admission and car parking free, but donations towards expenses welcome
1930-2200 (approx) - doors open 1900
25/01/13- Great Central Railway: Winter Steam Gala
27/01/13
http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/
26/01/13- Southampton Model Railway Club: Model Railway Exhibition
27/01/13 Barton Peveril College, Chestnut Avenue, Eastleigh, SO50 5ZA
Raildater Derek Gillkerson will be attending with Zwiesboden
http://southamptonmodelrailwaysociety.wordpress.com/
Cheers, Howard.
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