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NETWATCH
Thames Tunnel: Rare access to 'eighth wonder of world'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27580863
Britain's 1940s propaganda films made available online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27619413
http://vimeo.com/album/2895588
Open Train Times available again with expanded coverage
http://www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Dorset Coast resignalling as shown on the train describer screen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/73306165@N07/14200548491/
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
DRS Vossloh Class 68 No 68002 'Intrepid' on Test Train (5Z69) at Carlisle, 5 Feb 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed4Ot2Fvccw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8F7haqHHGk
"The Railwaymen" - 1946 - Jobs in the railways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSL7uWazWHo
Steam locomotives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDw5rNbEFrE
Dampfloks - Volldampf vorraus - German steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26M0NLudcPk
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Truck Killer: The A-26A
http://www.airspacemag.com/videos/category/military-aviation/truck-killerthe-a-26a/
Chuck Yeager Flies the MiG-15
http://www.airspacemag.com/videos/category/history-of-flight/chuck-yeager-flies-the-mig-15/
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
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IN THE NEWS
Crossrail flyover launched over Great Western main line
http://tinyurl.com/l7u5e9s
Further talks on London Midland/RMT dispute
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27549985
Train delays due to trousers on overhead lines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-27624950
7,000 jobs predicted if rail freight depot is built in South Derbyshire
http://tinyurl.com/q68dwsy
Derbyshire villagers fear rail freight hub will bring crime and traffic headaches
http://tinyurl.com/ny4n26n
Hastings rail worker electrocuted in fall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-27590679
The Lollipop Express train crash remembered 50 years on
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-27594074
Two new rail stations for West Yorkshire
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/two-new-rail-stations-for-west-yorkshire
TfL appoints London Overground operator to run additional services
http://tinyurl.com/php67u4
Oxford researcher pleads guilty on tunnel charge
http://oxfordstudent.com/2014/05/29/oxford-researcher-pleads-guilty-on-tunnel-charge/
Edinburgh Waverley to close to vehicles
http://tinyurl.com/o2skyk3
Furious cab boss lashes Waverley taxi ban plan as 'unworkable'
http://tinyurl.com/nsnn5rh
Fatality at Whitecraigs station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-27599963
Berwick rail link takes work
http://tinyurl.com/ojcfdvx
Serco wins franchise for Caledonian sleeper train service
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-27599963
http://railnews.mobi/news/2014/05/28-step-into-scotland-at-euston.html
Remote Altnabreac cottage put on the market
http://tinyurl.com/odjrpbb
Station funding will bring big health boost
http://tinyurl.com/kpffzpc
Warning £30m rail plan to cut journey times could fail North Wales
http://tinyurl.com/kn2vdj6
Cumbrian Coast line Sunday service may be introduced
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-27586830
RAIB investigation into Collision at Loughborough Central, GCR, 12 May 2014
http://tinyurl.com/kenaxey
Great Central Railway museum £10m lottery bid fails
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-27610790
Britain’s oldest horse box returns to the rails
http://tinyurl.com/mzyol84
TRAXX multi engine loco unveiled
http://www.globalrailnews.com/2014/05/27/bombardier-presents-multi-engine-locomotive/
Abandoned railroad could become Philadelphia's High Line park
http://tinyurl.com/mxfkj42
Concrete sleeper factory opens in Iowa
http://tinyurl.com/lkhfgz7
New intermodal freight service between Chicago and Silao (Mexico)
http://tinyurl.com/m54r4vl
Deadly train crash in north India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-27583796
Lightning storm cripples trams for hours
http://tinyurl.com/mqnjtjo
Going off the rails: The Edinburgh trams saga
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-27159614
Guernsey bus company financial penalties revealed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-27589607
Jowett international rally
http://tinyurl.com/lq4ev3v
Google unveils its own self-driving cars
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27599278
Motorised suitcase could take you to the airport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27636476
Consultation on altered Gatwick flightpath
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27535594
Loan approved for new aircraft for Aurigny Air Services
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-27594909
Alderney airport runways to open
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/europe/guernsey/
Malaysia releases MH370 satellite data
http://tinyurl.com/p4eoqun
Malaysia missing MH370 plane: 'Ping area' ruled out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27615173
What the Dambusters did next: The missions that changed the course of WWII
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/477921/What-the-Dambusters-did-next
Royal Navy takes over Culdrose air base Hawk jets
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-27584899
SpaceX unveil 'no runway' Dragon V2 space capsule
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27632582
Star Trek-style 'tractor beam' created at university
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-27636019
Is Surrey really the mining capital of England and Wales?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-27538888
Campaign to save ancient gold mine in Georgia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27619108
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Mike Price, Alan Rushworth, Nick Wheat
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TV and RADIO
31/05/14 Channel 5 1745-1900
"What the Dambusters Did Next" Portrait of 617 Squadron
01/06/14 Channel 4 2000-2100
"For the Love of Cars" 7/7 The auction
01/06/14 BBC2 2100-2200
"Britain's Greatest Pilot: the Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown"
02/06/14 BBC1 South 1900-1930
"World War One at Home" The Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley
02/06/14 BBC1 South East 1900-1930
"World War One at Home" The spies of Folkestone
02/06/14 BBC1 South West 1900-1930
"World War One at Home" Industrial conflict in Devon
02/06/14 Channel 5 1900-2000
"Classic Car Rescue" 7/8 VW Beetle
02/06/14 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Conwy Valley
02/06/14 BBC4 2000-2030
"Great British Railway Journeys" The Snowden Mountain Railway
02/06/14 BBC2 2100-2200
"A Very British Airline" A look at British Airways 1/3
02/06/14 BBC Radio 4 2230-0000
"Lives in a Landscape" The stationmaster at Castle Cary, Paul Mitchell
03/06/14 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Newcastle and South Shields
03/06/14 BBC2 2320-0020
"Britain's Greatest Pilot: the Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown"
04/06/14 BBC4 2000-2030
"Great British Railway Journeys" Durham to Whitby
04/06/14 BBC2 2320-0020
"A Very British Airline" A look at British Airways 1/3
05/06/14 BBC4 2000-2100
"Clydebuilt: the Ships that Made the Commonwealth" 2/4 CS Mackay-Bennett
05/06/14 Channel 5 2000-2100
"Angry Britain" 1/6 Travel Rage
06/06/14 Channel 5 2000-2100
"Eddie Stobart's Excellent Adventures" 3/4
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EVENTS
All details are correct to the best of my knowledge, but no responsibility is accepted for
inaccuracies or changes.
Until Priest's House Museum, Wimborne, Dorset, UK
30/06/14 Lost Tracks - Remembering East Dorset's Railways
Exhibition to mark 50 years since East Dorset's last scheduled passenger trains
http://www.priest-house.co.uk/exhibitions.html
Until Mid-Hants Railway: Peppa Pig
01/06/14
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/
31/05/14- Mid-Norfolk Railway: West Coast Railways Gala
01/06/14
http://www.westcoast.mnr.com
01/06/14 Twyford Waterworks: Open Day and Railway Gala
http://www.twyfordwaterworks.co.uk/
01/06/14 East Midlands Bus and Commercial Vehicle Rally
Wollaton Park, Notts
http://nottinghamheritagevehicles728.weebly.com/
02/06/14 Hampshire Industrial Archaeology Society
Underhill Centre, St John's Road, Hedge End, SO30 4AF
“Royal Naval Cordite Factory”
by Bob Duke
1930 for a 1945 start
http://www.hias.org.uk
02/06/14 Peak Railway Association (Sheffield Branch)
The Harlequin Pub, 108 Nursery Street, Sheffield, S3 8GG
“Narrow Gauge Niceties” a slideshow by John Holroyd
Starts at 1930
For a requested £3 donation on the door, all welcome
http://www.peakrail.co.uk/SheffieldBranch
06/06/14- Epping Ongar Railway: Steam Gala
08/06/14
http://www.eorailway.co.uk/
06/06/14- West Somerset Railway: Mixed Traction Weekend
08/06/14
http://www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk/
06/06/14- Keighley & Worth Valley Railway: Diesel Gala
08/06/14
http://www.kwvr.co.uk/
07/06/14- Wingfield Railway Group Model Railway Exhibition
08/06/14 Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell, DE45 1AH
Raildater Derek Gillkerson will be attending with New Stanton Lees Mk3
1000-1700 (Sat), 1000-1600 (Sun)
http://www.wingfieldrailwaygroup.co.uk/
07/06/14- Friends of the Cromford Canal - Horseboat trips
08/06/14
http://www.cromfordcanal.info/
07/06/14- Leawood Pumping Engine Steaming Day, Cromford Canal
08/06/14 Engine in motion 1200-1700
http://www.middleton-leawood.org.uk/
07/06/14- Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum: Diesel Weekend & Trolleydays
08/06/14
http://www.sandtoft.org
07/06/13- Wigan Finescale Railway Modellers Show
08/06/13 Robin Park Arena & Sports Centre, Loire Road, Wigan, WN5 0UH
http://www.wiganfrm.org.uk
07/06/14- Middleton Railway: Summer Diesel Gala
08/06/14
http://www.middletonrailway.org.uk/
08/06/14 The Friends of St James' Park (Southampton)
Shirley Parish Hall, St James Road, Shirley, Southampton
"Southampton from Blitz to D-Day" by Jake Simpkin
1500-1700, admission free
http://fosjp.org.uk/hist_about.html
11/06/14 RCTS South Wales
Old Church Rooms, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, CF15 8DF
"Looking Back" by Hugh Gould (RCTS President)
Starts at 1930 (room open from 1900)
Non-members are very welcome
A donation of £1.00 (members) or £2.00 (non-members) is requested
http://www.rcts.org.uk/branches/south_wales/events.htm
13/06/14 Railway Club of Wales
Dyfatty Community Centre, Chapel Street, off High Street, Swansea, SA1 1NB
“Welsh Holocaust Continued" by Nigel Wassell
There is a donation box at all meetings (but no compulsion to put anything in it)
Starts at 1930 (meetings finish by 2130)
13/06/14- North Norfolk Railway: Diesel Gala
15/06/14
http://www.nnrailway.co.uk/
13/06/14- Great Central Railway: 1940s Wartime Weekend
15/06/14
http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/
14/06/14- Mid-Hants Railway: War On The Line
15/06/14
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/
14/06/14- Bodmin & Wenford Railway: Heritage Transport Weekend
15/06/14
http://www.bodminrailway.co.uk
15/06/14 Rushton, Higham & Wellingborough Railway: Fathers' Day
http://www.rhts.co.uk
15/06/14 Peak Rail: Peak Park Preserved Bus Gathering
http://www.peakrail.co.uk
15/06/14 Corris Railway: Fathers' Day
http://www.corris.co.uk
Cheers, Howard.
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