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NETWATCH
An industrial railway at Barrington Quarry filmed in 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPzF21sa09Q
News of services on the Dartmoor and Weardale railways
http://www.dartmoor-railway-sa.org/services
http://www.weardale-railway.org.uk/WRCIC_03-13.htm
(Spotter: Brian Billing)
Images of listed signal boxes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19464080
Southern Railway Films
http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthernRailwayFilms?feature=watch
Steam on the Met, 25th to 27th May
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/assets/downloads/pdfs/SteamontheMetTimetable.pdf
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
Gloucester Warwickshire Railway, Easter 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieQWrVLgMcw
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Barry Coward's video of the Saltburn funicular - going about its business unchanged since 1884
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJj1r_7DoEE
Photos at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/76169679@N04/sets/72157633182761788/
(Spotter: Nick Wheat)
Loading a steam loco the Eastern European way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YY4LUZubyE
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)
Titanic photos
http://tinyurl.com/c6bfy5t
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
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IN THE NEWS
Fatal level crossing accident at Great Coates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-22090686
Sentences for Moreton-on-Lugg level crossing accident
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-22090735
Stainforth slip repairs delayed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-22040595
Network Rail to open freight line for Hull passengers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-22076899
Birmingham to London by steam in just over 2 hours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-22047731
Abandoned bomb disrupts train service at Nafferton
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-22102552
Manchester Victoria station transformation gets underway
http://tinyurl.com/cl6j7d9
http://tinyurl.com/d3cgal4
Network Rail directors get £600k bonus
http://news.sky.com/story/1075862/network-rail-directors-get-600k-bonus
Train information now in real time for journey planners
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22013232
Rail passengers told 'eat breakfast' to avoid delays
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-22047011
Rise in railway station crowding
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/389425/Rise-in-railway-station-crowding
American investment in IEP project
http://www.rail.co/2013/04/04/us-firm-acquires-stake-in-iep-consortium/
ScotRail passenger numbers hit record high
http://tinyurl.com/bw4bw2j
Rebuilt Loughor viaduct
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-22037479
Power Supply Upgrade for LUL sub surface lines
http://tinyurl.com/bm926xt
Tube challenger pulls out all the stops in latest record attempt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22042127
Cycleway through Bath S&D tunnels opened
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-22051086
http://tinyurl.com/d3ozpvt
Fighting fund for Beverley to York railway revival plan
http://tinyurl.com/ckfw83t
Bolton Abbey heritage railway suffers theft of vital tower
http://tinyurl.com/cpefgqb
The trains are back at Wensleydale Railway
http://tinyurl.com/c7u2uxu
Locomotive donated to Abbey light Railway in Leeds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-22065715
Fire at R&ER workshops
http://tinyurl.com/c5yjx9y
Extension plans for Arbroath miniature railway run out of steam
http://tinyurl.com/cuw229x
Bombardier denies report it faces Swiss train delivery penalty
http://tinyurl.com/brx8zwf
KiwiRail winter closure of tourist service
http://www.rail.co/2013/04/04/kiwirail-plans-winter-closure-of-scenic-service/
New metro line in Dominican Republic
http://www.rail.co/2013/04/02/new-metro-line-opens-in-the-dominican-republic/
Commercial use for Gloucester canal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-22076233
"Passive" radar for air traffic control using TV transmissions
http://tinyurl.com/codhh22
THY to buy Boeing aircraft
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22080766
Skybus Twin Otter delivery flight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22058883
New terminal at Lands End Airport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22072131
Jet2 services diverted from Aldergrove and return
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22063816
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22086249
Bombardier Belfast benefit from order by Porter Airlines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22104881
Kermit Weeks acquires Howard Hughes Sikorsky S-43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Hj_KcE7_M
Bus only gates in Bath
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-22038055
HGV driven along Cambridge guided bus way
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22043728
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Mike Price, Alan Rushworth
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TV and RADIO
14/04/13 BBC2 1730-1830
"Driven: the Fastest Woman in the World" F1 hopeful Susie Wolff
14/04/13 BBC4 2300-2330
"That Petrol Emotion: Motor Racing at the BBC" 4/5
15/04/13 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" The Lake District
15/04/13 BBC4 2000-2030
"Britain on Film" Country living seen through Rank films
15/04/13 BBC4 2030-2100
"That Petrol Emotion: Motor Racing at the BBC" 5/5
15/04/13 BBC4 2100-2200
"The Golden Age of the Tram - a Streetcar Named Desire"
16/04/13 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" The Borders
17/04/13 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Carluke to Kirkaldy
17/04/13 BBC2 2000-2100
"Coast" 3/6 Joy of the Coast
18/04/13 BBC4 2030-2100
"Brushing Up on British... Tunnels" A comedy documentary...?
19/04/13 BBC2 2100-2200
"The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood" An early industrialist
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EVENTS
All details are correct to the best of my knowledge, but no responsibility is accepted for
inaccuracies or changes.
13/04/13 Railways Remembered - an archive film show presented by Rob Foxon
Diesel Power on British Railways
Central Library Theatre, Tudor Square, Sheffield, S1 1XZ
Starts 1930, tickets at the door: £6.50
14/04/13 Bursledon Brickworks Industrial Museum: Big Spring Steam Up
Coal Park Lane, Swanwick, Southampton, SO31 7GW
http://www.bursledonbrickworks.org.uk/
15/04/13 Newbury and District Transport Group
The Library, Kennet School, Stoney Lane, Thatcham, RG19 4LL
1915 for a prompt 1930 start, finish 2155
Trains, Ships, Aircraft and Balloons by Terry and Justin Foulger
Non-members welcome
Admission and car parking free, but donations towards expenses welcome
1930-2200 (approx) - doors open 1900
17/04/13 Dronfield Civic Society - an illustrated talk on the Midland Railway
By Glynn Waite of the Midland Railway Society
Lower ground floor room, The Peel Centre, Dronfield, Derbyshire
Starts 1930, £3 entry to non-members (includes refreshments)
19/04/13 The Butterley Gangroad Project
Mr Brunton’s Engine and the Butterley Company’s Crich Railway
A talk by Dieter Hopkin (NRM)
Glebe Field Centre, Crich, Derbyshire
Starts 1930, free admission
Prior booking essential: butterleygangroad(at)gmail.com
26/04/13- Keighley & Worth Valley Railway: Diesel Gala
28/04/13
http://www.kwvr.co.uk
27/04/13 Friends of King Alfred Buses
40th Anniversary of the end of King Alfred Motor Services
Display of vehicles in Winchester Cattle Market car park
1200-1700
Free services over ex-King Alfred routes in evening
http://www.fokab.org.uk
28/04/13 Pinnock Tunnel Trip: Par-Fowey-Par
Trips through the privately-owned tunnel on the Fowey Land Train
The tunnel is used as a road by Imerys to take their china clay lorries
to the docks at Fowey and access is usually impossible
First trip: 1400, barbecue from 1300
Adult: £5, Child: £2.50
http://www.parcommunity.org.uk/Pinnock%20Tunnel%20Trip.pdf
01/05/13 Belper Historical Society
St John’s Heritage Centre, The Butts, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 1HX
A talk: The Belper and Morley Park and other railways
Starts 1930
01/05/13 Institute of Railway Studies & Transport History Research Workshop
National Railway Museum/University of York
In the Edmondson Room, NRM - (Sub)urban Public Transport
Lynne Baxter, Carolyn Hunter and Abigail Schoneboom (York Management School):
Shifting space: memory and movement in commuting
Criag Horner (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Nick Richardson:
On the Buses: deregulation in the 1980s - dogma or inspiration?
1400-1715
All welcome, refreshments served
05/05/13- Leawood Pumping Engine Steaming Day, Cromford Canal
06/05/13 Engine in motion 1200-1700
http://www.middleton-leawood.org.uk/
04/05/13- Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: May Bank Holiday Steam Weekend
06/05/13
http://www.e-v-r.com
04/05/13- Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway: Branch Line Weekend
06/05/13
http://www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk
05/05/13 Romsey Signal Box Open Day
Admission free (donations welcome!)
1000-1600
ex-Romsey Infants School, Plaza Parade, Winchester Rd, Romsey, SO51 8JA
Car park in old school grounds
http://www.romseysignalbox.org.uk
05/05/13 Twyford Waterworks: Spring Rally Open Day
Hazeley Road, Twyford, Hampshire, SO21 1QA
http://www.twyfordwaterworks.co.uk/
Cheers, Howard.
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