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NETWATCH
All the Stations - daily videos
Day 70:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCllJ1YuYv8
Day 72:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxh6FHpmksc
Day 73:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr5MCow_aLA
Day 74:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtPlxG7AUow
Historic England report on early railways in England
http://research.historicengland.org.uk/Report.aspx?i=15588
Friends of the Far North Line
http://www.fofnl.org.uk/
Friends of the Kyle Line
http://www.kylerailway.co.uk/
Friends of the West Highland Lines
http://www.westhighlandline.org.uk/
Invergarry Station Preservation Society
http://www.invergarrystation.org.uk/
Detailed map of London Tube, Underground, Overground, DLR, Tramlink & National Rail
http://carto.metro.free.fr/metro-london/
Subterranean Sydney: Eerie underground world right beneath the CBD
http://tinyurl.com/y7aroz54
Leicester Station Interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izc793GPwd8
Syston Station Interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HactnNTD2-g
Loughborough Station Interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnq7uPj9TvM
Derby Station July Interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e20hykEUS0M
Bulwell Railway Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOFrA7aPpc
Hucknall Railway Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATnNe1EqvI8
Chinley Station Interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3qMMV0hOfc
Bulwell Tram Stop - Nottingham Express Transit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IolkLso8P7g
Hucknall Tram Terminus - Nottingham Express Transit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S-IVFYBNUQ
Metrolink Rochdale Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9brK4jSSaRo
(Martin Miller)
More videos have been added to the FARSAP series on the Signalling Record Society website.
Follow the links to the newly added locations of Dunragit and Norton-on-Tees. There is also a
link to the first of a new series of explanatory videos dealing with the basics of railway
signalling. Although aimed at novices, more experienced people and instructors may find them
useful as well. The first videos deal with absolute block signalling and tappet locking.
http://www.s-r-s.org.uk/archivevideo.php
(John Lacy)
12 photos of the tragic Sutton Coldfield railway crash in 1955
http://tinyurl.com/y9dcgwrz
(Spotter: Mike Price)
A song to help you memorise all 270 stations on the London Underground
https://youtu.be/8jPyg2pK11M
(Spotter: Nico Spilt)
A4 60009 "Union of South Africa"
Weybridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRoserbIgjU
Woking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcUoioiG9Yc
West Coast Rail Steam Morning, 25th July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_g8PP7whM
A Weekend With 45690 Leander Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5jpHhmnGw
68004 Rapid & 46233 Duchess of Sutherland at Carlisle, 22nd July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZqvw-7fI6I
46233 Volcanic display over the S&C on the CME, 22nd July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzDNr-Xdto
Llangollen Railway, 1960s Weekend, 22nd July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8fqEqKtwg
Volldampf voraus - Rekolok 52 8080-5 mit Güterzügen in der Lausitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8lXTQ5WVTw
Güterzüge auf der Frankenwaldbahn - EGP 151, OHE Blue Tiger, TXL, RHC uvm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVb-zTwX2wg
90 Jahre Hafenbahn Neustrelitz, 22nd July
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNfh_BLsJM
Ochsenlok, Wanne und Bergkönigin klangvoll im schweren Güterzugdienst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sRpYU24x0
BR 101 in the new varnish at the Hbf Munich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJX_FJjQoM4
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Background to Network Rail changeover to aluminium cabling
http://tinyurl.com/yaxulctp
Ruislip Lido Railway
https://www.ruisliplidorailway.org/
LT Museum vehicle workings
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events-calendar/heritage-vehicles-outings
Biomass trains to Drax power station
https://www.drax.com/technology/this-train-isnt-like-any-other/
“Lovely” Bridlington station
http://tinyurl.com/y7ydg87b
Children's Railway in Budapest
http://www.gyermekvasut.hu/english_eng/
Visits to new Albula tunnel in Switzerland
http://tinyurl.com/y8o6y8mq
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum
http://tinyurl.com/ya4lc745
The city that makes the most expensive boats in the world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40681345
30 years ago Derby's commuters were thrown into chaos by a crippling strike
http://tinyurl.com/yc35admu
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IN THE NEWS
Rail electrification plans scrapped by government
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40669869
Transport secretary's backing for Crossrail 2 sparks anger outside London
http://tinyurl.com/y6ukpmny
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40708531
Rail passengers 'happier with train firms'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40714458
Beacon Rail purchase Voyager fleet from banks
http://tinyurl.com/y7zvdlne
August rail upgrade programme will be biggest yet
https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2017/07/11-august-rail-upgrade-programme-will.html
Transport investment must be ‘fairly weighted towards small stations’
http://tinyurl.com/y9w9c5yr
Vivarail secures further funding
http://tinyurl.com/y7ts95op
Crossrail worker death: Firms fined £1m for safety breaches
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-40752953
Gospel Oak – Barking 25kv to be switched on January 2018
http://www.railmagazine.com/news/network/january-switch-on-for-goblin-wires
Southern strike union RMT in 'full and frank' government talks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40687365
Southern rail tops list of most overcrowded trains
http://tinyurl.com/y9ttl9s2
RAIB investigation into exploding traction equipment on SWT suburban unit
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/explosion-inside-an-equipment-case-guildford
Competition and Markets Authority query First group monopoly on London-Exeter Services
http://tinyurl.com/y6ue3jtq
Delivery of 'Wadebridge' to Eastleigh to celebrate 50 years since the end of steam loco
production
https://vimeo.com/227320293
Portishead rail line is ‘not dead in the water’ promises Transport Secretary Chris Grayling
http://tinyurl.com/yc4wyc2w
Oxford station blunder sees commuters locked out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-40697125
Man sentenced to ten months in prison for endangering safety on the railway - Cambridgeshire
http://tinyurl.com/y9vrubqp
Matlock Bath station reopens as wildlife discovery hub
http://tinyurl.com/y8g6uc9e
TransPennine electrification and Piccadilly upgrade now also in doubt
http://tinyurl.com/ydcrlbdu
Anger over Hamilton station 'mosquito' device
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-40715995
Rail electrification between Cardiff and Swansea scrapped
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-40665659
http://tinyurl.com/ya7vhbul
http://tinyurl.com/y9gcesgw
New £25m rail station for South Wales with 10,000 new job business park
http://tinyurl.com/ycxlt8vq
300 train building jobs created at £30m Newport centre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40585636
Twenty new train coaches coming to Wales for most crowded services
http://tinyurl.com/yc6anhtu
Boy, 10, adopts Clarbeston Road railway station
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-40717406
New £7m station for Bow Street gets the go-ahead
http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=115571
Rhondda railway tunnel survey work gets under way
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40654763
NRM director steps down
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15409334.NRM_director_steps_down/
Two arrested in connection with North York Moors Railway investigation
http://tinyurl.com/ybnomv3d
Vandalism on ELR
http://tinyurl.com/y8x78y52
Investigation launched after steam trains crash in Swanage
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15431297.Steam_locomotives_collide_in_Swanage/
RAIB investigation into dangerous occurrence on the South Devon Railway
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dangerous-occurrence-on-the-south-devon-railway
Railway returns to Slaggyford
http://tinyurl.com/ycbe7c6y
L&BR replica of “Lyn” steamed
http://tinyurl.com/y9xjvy8r
Rail Mail museum opens end of July
http://tinyurl.com/y8v5fr72
Vale of Rheidol's wheels for Aberystwyth Cliff Railway
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-40497169
Visit of Brienz Rothorn Bahn loco to Snowdon postponed to 2018
http://tinyurl.com/y9tz2p2a
India rolls out trains with solar-powered coaches
http://tinyurl.com/yd9z23sm
CALTRAIN electrification work started
http://tinyurl.com/yd2mkuy7
Bristol could get an underground train system - with plans for a line to the airport
http://tinyurl.com/ya5oru6p
Alston to build metro coaches for Iran
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iran-transportation-alstom-idUKKBN1A91NV
Contract awarded for Baltimore metro rolling stock
http://tinyurl.com/ya74b4z9
Over 100 buses to go on display at the Buses Festival
http://tinyurl.com/y8d4mfzf
New diesel and petrol vehicles to be banned from 2040
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40723581
Electric Mini to be built in Oxford
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40718892
Ferrari driver writes off new car on M1 in Barnsley
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40748897
Trust plans to transform old waterway
http://tinyurl.com/y8g9dhck
Montgomery Canal restoration moves ahead
http://tinyurl.com/y8epav34
Cowes 'floating bridge' breaches noise guidelines
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-40714707
Luton Airport arrest as 'man tried to open aircraft door'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-40697160
Emergency landing at Shannon
http://www.rte.ie/news/2017/0720/891823-shannon-emergency-landing/
Hidden Victorian reservoir revealed in Nottingham
http://tinyurl.com/yb4u6fl8
Spotters: Howard Benson, Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Mike Price, Roger Smith
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TV and RADIO
31/07/17 BBC4 1930-2000
"The Boats that Built Britain" 1/6 The Matthew
31/07/17 BBC4 2000-2100
"Horizon: Dawn of the Driverless Car"
31/07/17 ITV 2240-2310
"Britain's Busiest Motorway" A look at the M25 - 1/6
01/08/17 BBC4 1930-2000
"The Boats that Built Britain" 2/6 The Pickle
02/08/17 BBC Radio 4 1100-1130
"Clocking On" How the Industrial Revolution changed work patterns
02/08/17 BBC4 1930-2000
"The Boats that Built Britain" 2/6 The Phoenix
03/08/17 BBC4 2000-2100
"Shipwrecks: Britain's Sunken History" 3/3
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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
28/07/17- Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway: Diesel Gala and Open Weekend
30/07/17
http://www.gwsr.com
28/07/17- Isle of Man Railways: Manx Heritage Transport Festival
30/07/17
http://www.rail.im
29/07/17- St John's Model Railway Exhibtion
30/07/17 St John's School, Wheatly Avenue, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6SB
Opens 1030 each day, raising money for the Midlands Air Ambulance
29/07/17- Tanfield Railway: Boris the Bear's Picnic
30/07/17
http://www.tanfield-railway.co.uk
29/07/17- Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway: Young Members & Vintage Weekend
30/07/17
http://www.wllr.org.uk
30/07/17 Aln Valley Railway: Summer Fair
http://www.alnvalleyrailway.co.uk
30/07/17- Isle of Wight Steam Railway: The Railway Folk
01/08/17
http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk
02/08/17 Swindon & Cricklade Railway: School Holiday Specials
http://www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org
03/08/17 Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway: Steam to the Hills
http://www.ravenglass-railway.co.uk
05/08/17- Isle of Wight Steam Railway: Victorian Weekend
06/08/17
http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk
05/08/17- Great Central Railway: Vintage Vehicle Summer Festival
06/08/17
http://www.gcrailway.co.uk
05/08/17- Peak Rail: 1940s Weekend
06/08/17
http://www.peakrail.co.uk
05/08/17- Mid-Hants Watercress Line: Day out with Thomas
13/08/17
http://www.watercressline.co.uk/
06/08/17 Foxfield Railway: Knotty Heritage Train
http://www.knottycoachtrust.org
07/08/17 Peak Railway Association
The Harlequin Pub, 108 Nursery Street, Sheffield, S3 8GG
"The Jubilees at Millhouses Shed" by Ted Hancock
£3 donation requested on the door, non-members welcome
Starts 1930
http://www.peakrail.co.uk/sheffieldbranch
09/08/17 Swindon & Cricklade Railway: School Holiday Specials
http://www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org
11/08/17- Foxfield Railway: Real Ale Festival
13/08/17
http://www.foxfieldrailway.co.uk/
12/08/17 Winchester Chesil Railway & Tunnel Tours: 1115 and 1415
£7.50 adult, £3 child - best to book
http://tinyurl.com/z2a3q7y
12/08/17 Strathspey Railway: Abernethy Highland Games
http://www.stratspeyrailway.co.uk
12/08/17- Swindon & Cricklade Railway: Steam & Vintage Weekend
13/08/17
http://www.swindon-cricklade-railway.org
12/08/17- Epping Ongar Railway: Vintage Steam Rally
13/08/17
http://www.eorailway.co.uk
12/08/17- Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: Diesel Locomotive Weekend
13/08/17
http://www.e-v-r.com
12/08/17- Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway: Ham Radio & Vintage Weekend
13/08/17
http://www.wllr.org.uk
12/08/17- Aln Valley Railway: Teddy Bears' Picnic
13/08/17
http://www.alnvalleyrailway.co.uk
13/08/17 Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway: Day Out with Teddy
http://www.steamtrain.co.uk
Cheers, Howard.
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