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NETWATCH
60009 Blackburn 1992, 34072/7828 ELR Gala & 40445
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yocVi4DP2zo
87101 Stephenson at Crewe Open Day 1994, Hastings Unit in station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4KBRcRMNE
Railways in Wales a decade ago, May 2010. Lost liveries etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d22gAU0pMVc
Railfest York 2012. 91110 naming/flypast/dedication/exhibits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWOxWG2Ef-E
Electric Open Day at Crewe. October 1994 Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTm4iJ2vJfI
Royal Train, with HM the Queen, arrives at Cardiff. June 7th 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wANzkd8uCI
(Mike Wilcock)
Jubilee Renaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J4p85aWvLY
LMS 2-6-0 Flying Pig 43106
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZ5GhjbIoM
Cotswold Festival of Steam, Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway,
Highlights, 2015-2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayJ-oBRR98Q
Memories of Swanage Branch 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdwAIGdFLPw
F&WHR Loco Round Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXGYtEKH0z4
Austrian Narrow Gauge Steam on the Waldviertelbahn, Litschau to Gmünd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eP2t1zE0A8
The Amazing Steam Pumping Stations of Great Britain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrPma3MHqo
British Railways (Midland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhngfGdxXEs
Dapol LSWR Class B4 0-4-0T 176 "Guernsey" in LSWR Southampton docks
lined green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8jwS80eFHI
Continental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an_HaHVlaYM
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Drivers eye view of Camp Hill Line
https://is.gd/3y7iDs
York Carriage Works in pictures
https://is.gd/1nxtGB
Memories of the Britannia Bridge fire in 1970
https://is.gd/qtDjTr
Jacobite workings October 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGihaZoDac
The end of the Canadian via Canadian Pacific route
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNKiUR4kPZI
Bamboo sleepers aimed at Middle Eastern railways
https://is.gd/z5L4el
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
Very large tankers sailing on wind and bubbles of air
http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2020/05/very-large-tankers-sailing-on-wind-and-bubbles-of-air/
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
Trentham Gardens trains, Whitsun Bank Holiday, 1955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cmguZocNww
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IN THE NEWS
Beacon Rail orders 15 Clayton Equipment hybrid locomotives
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=39321
New Transport commissioner for London appointed
https://is.gd/DqoNML
https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/rmt-responds-to-appointment-of-new-tfl-commissioner/
HCC announcement about Fawley branch reopening
https://www.hants.gov.uk/News/27052020Waterside
Isle of Wight railway plans move closer - government funds awarded
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/?p=154678
https://tinyurl.com/ybl3bpz7
https://is.gd/50KDRu
Tree planting to screen OHLE on Great Western Main Line
https://is.gd/4Em8Dx
ECTS testing on GW Main Line
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=54285
Proposal to reopen St Annes station in Bristol
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/new-bid-to-reopen-st-annes-park-station/
Funding agreed for reopening Cullompton and Wellington stations
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/cullompton-railway-station-reopening-step-4160414
Proposal to reopen Clitheroe-Hellifield to scheduled passenger traffic
https://is.gd/UQi6Ar
Details of second stage of reinforcing Dawlish Sea Wall
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/network-rail-unveils-second-phase-4164225
Embankment maintenance near Manningtree
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=54267
Class 88 works supermarket train via ECML
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=54406
Warwickshire Hunt fined for trespass on New Years Day
https://is.gd/PWrOxW
Refurbished Wolverhampton station reopened
https://is.gd/Gt4yoq
Massive warehouse fire another episode in Derby eyesore's chequered history
https://is.gd/fu7mww
Derby's Great Northern Railway warehouse fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbbV761Cn6M
Owner speaks out about historic Friar Gate building torched by arsonists
https://is.gd/6hB9hM
HS2: Plans for East Midlands transport hub link unveiled
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52819901
Four closed Derbyshire railway stations could be set to reopen
https://is.gd/fUX9RP
Trains could soon be running to Meir station, 54 years after it shut
https://is.gd/3caOKL
RAIB report into Caledonian Sleeper brake problems
https://is.gd/6cZNBV
MP and MSP muster show of support for Borders Railway extension bid
after doubts aired
https://is.gd/SiInm8
End of the line for locomotive-hauled Fife Circle trains
https://is.gd/VgfSRY
Llanbradach rail line shut after lorry crashes into bridge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52834009
Bus interchange planned at Machynlleth station
https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/18473114.station-get-600k-upgrade/
Spray painter sentenced and told to pay £4216 for damage to trains at
Rhymney
https://media.btp.police.uk/r/17226/serial_spray_painter_sentenced_after_causing__4_0
Blaenau Ffestiniog branch should reopen 15th June
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/245324.aspx
Barmouth Viaduct to get £25m revamp
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52807338
Two pacer units delivered to Cambrian Railways Centre, Gobowen
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=54557
Corris Railway extension work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5d_jQQJI4U
https://www.corris.co.uk/news/photographs/photographs-taken-between-11th-16th-may-2020/
Bulgaria orders 10 Siemens locos
https://www.railway-technology.com/?p=75474
Deutsche Bahn government bail out
https://is.gd/ygBKfy
Automatic train operation to be tested in Niedersachsen
https://is.gd/8Bhi6m
Solar powered train introduced in India
https://www.constructionmanagermagazine.com/india-launches-worlds-first-solar-train/
Ecuador railways placed in liquidation
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=39399
Eerie 'ghost platforms' under Sydney's Central Station are uncovered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy665TsWV2c
Northern City line refurbished for class 717 units
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=54263
Proposed light rail system proposed in Helsinki
https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/new-light-rail-system-planned-for-helsinki-5304
Skoda delivers first tram for Tampere network
https://www.railway-technology.com/?p=75477
Social distancing on York City buses
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/18470262.social-distancing-looks-like-york-buses/
New driver-free freight ferry terminal now OPEN for business in Tilbury
https://www.forthports.co.uk/?p=9041
Severe CalMac travel restrictions to remain after lockdown ends
https://is.gd/y5TWrO
Talk of the towns: Virtual cruise
https://www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk/news/18473068.talk-towns-virtual-cruise/
British Airways Mortgages 48 Aircraft For $750 Million
https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-mortgages-aircraft/
British Airways Now Has 2 Boeing 777s Converted For Freight
https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-boeing-777-freight/
Some Easyjet flights to resume in June
https://is.gd/XQGGiG
Eurowings Operates Flight To Nowhere After Olbia Airport Closed Down
https://simpleflying.com/eurowings-olbia-flight-nowhere/
Anchorage Is Becoming One Of The World’s Busiest Airports
https://simpleflying.com/anchorage-busy-airport/
LATAM 777 Collides With A Boeing 767 In São Paulo
https://simpleflying.com/latam-777-collides-with-a-boeing-767-in-sao-paulo/
Boeing Resumes 737 MAX Production
https://simpleflying.com/boeing-resumes-737-max-production/
Call to prevent mass unemployment of airline pilots
http://www.rte.ie/news/2020/0526/1142664-pilots-supports-covid-19/
Drone trials to supply remote Scottish hospitals
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/26/drone_deliveries_bvlos_isle_mull/
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Mike Price
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TV and RADIO - schedules are subject to change at short notice... or none...
29/05/20 Channel 5 1835-1900
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"
29/05/20 Channel 5 1900-2000
"World's Biggest Battleship: Draining the Ocean"
29/05/20 Channel 5 2000-2100
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" 4/10 France
30/05/20 BBC2 2030-2130
"Great Asian Railway Journeys" Kuala Lumpur to Jonor Bahru
30/05/20 BBC4 2300-0000
"Own the Sky: Jet Pack Dreamers"
31/05/20 Channel 4 1915-2015
"The Secret World of Lego"
31/05/20 BBC4 2100-2200
"The Golden Age of Canals"
01/06/20 BBC4 2100-2200
"Monkman & Seagull's Genius Adventures" Includes some IA
01/06/20 Channel 5 1835-1900
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"
01/06/20 Channel 5 1900-2000
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" 4/10 France
02/06/20 Channel 5 1835-1900
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"
02/06/20 Yesterday 2000-2100
"The Architecture the Railways Built"
02/06/20 BBC2 2100-2200
"A House Through Time" Bristol 2/4
03/06/20 Channel 5 1835-1900
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"
03/06/20 Channel 5 1900-2000
"Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys" Vietnam
03/06/20 BBC4 2000-2100
"Shock & Awe: The Story of Electricity" 1/3
03/06/20 BBC4 2300-0000
"Timeshift: Dial 'B' for Britain - the Story of the Landline"
04/06/20 Channel 5 1835-1900
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"
04/06/20 Channel 5 1900-2000
"Inside the Steam Train Museum" Bressingham
04/06/20 Channel 5 2000-2100
"Fare Dodgers: at War with the Law" 4/4
04/06/20 BBC4 2330-0030
"Monkman & Seagull's Genius Adventures" Includes some IA
05/06/20 Channel 5 1835-1900
"Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"
05/06/20 Channel 5 2000-2100
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" 5/10 New Zealand
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EVENTS - this section is temporarily suspended
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exhibitions, etc is here:
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=46874
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