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MYSTERY PICTURES
Kestrel Railway Books has refreshed its Mystery Pictures pages - follow the link from the home
page
http://www.kestrelrailwaybooks.co.uk/
NETWATCH
All the Stations - daily videos
Day 44:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL2PQ0zteps
Day 45:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_tFXGZeXms
Day 46:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajeljug8rZk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40418506/couple-visiting-all-british-railway-stations
Tyneside's 'lost' electric trains - unseen images of the system that came before Metro
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/old-photos-newcastle-electric-trains-13228580
10 of the best narrow-gauge railway journeys in Britain
http://tinyurl.com/yd9knwr3
In pictures: The empty railways of America
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40341771
(Spotter: Roger Smith)
Everything you need to know about taking the train in France
http://tinyurl.com/y8ehzhps
This could be the best guide to taking the Paris Metro you'll ever read
http://tinyurl.com/yb5d44ag
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)
Bodmin & Wenford Railway, 19th June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzxOZoXfV4
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, 21st June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH2oD2VKTdY
East Somerset Railway - 41313 Launch, 24th June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXjWO_2K210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggdELTwIzA0
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-40392121
GCR's Jinty visit to The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, 25th June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNymbgjm6CU
Güterzüge auf der Frankenwaldbahn - 193 640, Rheincargo, EGP, TXL uvm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbKrlDNWBs
"Bahnland Bayern" and "Azubiyo" advertising train of the S-Bahn Munich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OtqkLcy5Z4
Classic Trainspotter film station in the middle of Munich !! The Heimeranplatz
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN-AB78CEwY
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAF92u3E05E
The "Jagsttalexpress" track construction in Holzkirchen Oberbayern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btavGjF66SY
Hattons - Warwell Bogie Wagon - BR Engineering Yellow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMCD_HUDvWQ
Showing problem points and wiring electrofrog points, 18th June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4JcS5gKg40
Weathering with washes (tutorial)
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Woodlesford - The Story of a Station
http://www.woodlesfordstation.co.uk/Pages/TrainControl.aspx
Made in Leeds, Seen in East Sussex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJNQqmEFRsg
The runaway tram crash which shocked Leeds
http://tinyurl.com/ybe2k5et
(Spotter: Howard Benson)
MIle Long Steam Train Official Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q672YB7Hxbc
Big Tank Engines - Starting Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQNd4iEFTkk
London's Last Gas Lamps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOZMAvzRjaM
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
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IN THE NEWS
Elizabeth Line trains first to run without yellow front ends since steam era
http://tinyurl.com/y7tdjvsw
Royal train costs
http://tinyurl.com/y9smfwrq(Neil Kearns)
Thameslink timetable revealed
http://tinyurl.com/ya7mg5jg
Amended Southern timetable for ASLEF overtime ban
http://tinyurl.com/ycc4f5pm
Proposed footbridge for Wareham station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-40431440
Plaque placed on Bradford Upon Avon station
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/15376622.Green_Plaque_for_historic_railway_station/
Boy, 11, found dead with electrical burns at rail depot
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-40425696
Rugeley-Walsall line to close for electrification work
http://tinyurl.com/ycdb86cy
Stagecoach group hit by East Coast financial problems
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40427369
Alstom opens UK’s largest train modernisation facility in Widnes
http://tinyurl.com/y75zmcvx
MSPs pass Scottish railway policing merger bill
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-40404532
http://www.holyrood.com/articles/news/railway-policing-merger-bill-passed
Staff at 'Scotland's worst station' to get body cams in blitz on yobs after protests and
emergency summit
http://tinyurl.com/ya584jtk
Plan to bring back rail link to Ashburton as masterplan for the area scrapped
http://tinyurl.com/y9ccrrqe
Reopening Teign Valley Railway is 'possible', but significant investment would be needed
http://tinyurl.com/yd6qtymu
GWR 5539 rewheeled at Barry
http://www.barry-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=114350
R&ER museum to reopen
http://tinyurl.com/ydfqfgll
More double-deck stock ordered for Ile de France region
http://tinyurl.com/y9qzh8wh
DSB sells some unreliable IC2 diesel units
http://tinyurl.com/y83r2o3s
500th Seimens Vectron loco ordered
http://tinyurl.com/y98xby4u
Murray Basin gauge conversion approved
http://tinyurl.com/ycb8cv3z
New ammonia tanks for Russia
http://tinyurl.com/y7kc6aw8
London Underground steps up cleaning regime to tackle superbugs
http://tinyurl.com/y7b2rfo9
http://tinyurl.com/yao3wl23
TfL reveals next Underground stations to be given step-free access
http://tinyurl.com/y95k6jdn
Plans for Midland Metro expansion presented
http://tinyurl.com/ydcjonv5
Man walks away after being hit by bus
http://tinyurl.com/y7wung4f
Paris unveils new bus network map for first time in 70 years
http://tinyurl.com/y8es5mb7
Lottery funding to back £27.5 million scheme to promote Hull's maritime past
http://tinyurl.com/y9j8w79b
HMS Queen Elizabeth sets sail from Rosyth for sea trials
http://tinyurl.com/y6wagl64
Balmoral cruises from Llandudno
http://tinyurl.com/y7er5esw
Rolls-Royce to expand UK engine-test facility
http://tinyurl.com/ycmlo9v8
Alderney residents to fall silent to protest air links
http://tinyurl.com/y9thbf2c
In pictures: Swiss seaplane pilots gather
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40393388
Coins thrown into plane engine by elderly passenger for 'luck'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40421811
Qantas 747 flew with landing gear door down after birdstrike
http://tinyurl.com/ya2vbdfd
Luftwaffe ace flies in Spitfire
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40426747/luftwaffe-ace-flies-in-spitfire
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Mike Price, Alan Rushworth
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TV and RADIO
02/07/17 BBC2 1800-1900
"The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway: the Final Countdown" 1/2
03/07/17 BBC1 1930-2000
"Bus Wars" Competing for customers in Belfast
03/07/17 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Heart of Wales line
04/07/17 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Blaenavon to Oxfordshire
04/07/17 BBC4 2100-2200
"The Queen Mary: Greatest Ocean Liner
04/07/17 BBC2 2315-0015
"Horizon: Dawn of the Driverless Car"
04/07/17 BBC1 2325-2355
"Bus Wars" Competing for customers in Belfast
05/07/17 BBC4 1930-2000
"Great British Railway Journeys" Oxford
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EVENTS
All details are correct to the best of my knowledge, but no responsibility can be accepted for
inaccuracies or changes
01/07/17 Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway: Canada Day
http://www.wllr.org.uk
01/07/17- Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway: Day Out with Thomas
02/07/17
http://www.steamtrain.co.uk
01/07/17- Mid-Hants Watercress Line: Summer Steam Gala (1)
02/07/17
http://www.watercressline.co.uk
01/07/17- Isle of Wight Steam Railway: The 1940s Experience
02/07/17
http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk
01/07/17- Exe Model Railway Society Exhibition
02/07/17 Matford Centre, Matford Road, Marsh Barton, Exeter, EX2 8FD
1000-1700 (Sat), 1000-1600 (Sun)
http://www.exemrs.co.uk
01/07/17- Duncombe Park Steam Rally
02/07/17
http://www.gytec.weebly.com
01/07/17- Llangollen Railway: Classic Transport Weekend
02/07/17
http://www.llangollen-railway.co.uk
02/07/17 Foxfield Railway: Knotty Heritage Train
http://www.knottycoachtrust.org
02/07/17 Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: Classic Bus & Coach Rally
http://www.e-v-r.com
03/07/17 Peak Railway Association
The Harlequin Pub, 108 Nursery Street, Sheffield, S3 8GG
"Sigh for a Deltic" by David Thomas
£3 donation requested on the door, non-members welcome
Starts 1930
http://www.peakrail.co.uk/sheffieldbranch
06/07/17 RCTS South Wales Branch
Behind the Scenes at Isle of Wight Steam Railway
Leave Cardiff 0730 to Portsmouth Harbour
Buy a Freedom of Severn & Solent Rover ticket plus single to Westbury
(as the Rover is only valid from 0900) and ticket from Portsmouth Harbour
to Smallbrook Junction Isle of Wight charge = £10
https://www.radyr.org.uk/clubs/5984-2/
07/07/17- Mid-Hants Watercress Line: Summer Steam Gala (2)
09/07/17
http://www.watercressline.co.uk
07/07/17- Keighley & Worth Valley Railway: Little Engines Gala
09/07/17
http://www.kwvr.co.uk
07/07/17- East Lancashire Railway: Summer Diesel Spectacular
09/07/17
http://www.eastlancrailway.org.uk
09/07/17 Foxfield Railway: Iron Curtain Rally
http://www.foxfieldrailway.co.uk/
10/07/17 Newbury and District Transport Group
The Community Space, Kennet Academy, Stoney Lane, Thatcham, RG19 4LL
1915 for a prompt 1930 start
"Footplate tales - Fasten your seat belts" by Dennis Flood
Non-members welcome
Admission and car parking free, but donations towards expenses welcome
12/07/17 RCTS South Wales
Pentyrch Rugby Club, Penuel Road, CF15 9QJ
Social evening
Starts at 1930 (room open from 1900)
Non-members are very welcome
https://www.radyr.org.uk/clubs/5984-2/
14/07/17 Swindon & Cricklade Railway: Murder Mystery
http://www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org
14/07/17- Foxfield Railway: Summer Gala
16/07/17
http://www.foxfieldrailway.co.uk/
15/07/17 Severn Valley Railway: Peep Behind the Scenes
http://www.svr.co.uk
15/07/17- Swindon & Cricklade Railway: Steam, Cider & Sausages
16/07/17
http://www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org
15/07/17- Epping Ongar Railway: London Transport Weekend
16/07/17
http://www.eorailway.co.uk
15/07/17- Rushden, Higham & Wellingborough Railway: Teddy Bears Picnic
16/07/17
http://rhts.co.uk/
15/07/17- Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: Classic Transport Weekend
16/07/17
http://www.e-v-r.com
15/07/17- Masham Steam Rally, Yorkshire
16/07/17
15/07/17- Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway: Vintage Weekend
16/07/17
http://www.wllr.org.uk
16/07/17 Mid-Hants Watercress Line: Alton Bus Rally
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/
16/07/17 Gwili Railway: Classic Transport Day
http://www.gwili-railway.co.uk
Cheers, Howard.
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