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NETWATCH

Belper Station Locked Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qVWeg1KbAc
(Martin Miller)

Steam on the Tyne Valley Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbGPDC5vPZY
Grosmont to Pickering Route Learning on the NYMR (North Yorkshire Moors Railway)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYNd8IzGZlM
The Best of The Great Central Railway Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrljLiIL1vA
GWR 0-4-2T 1400 Auto tank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBgn8D9rA84
"Bulleid Brilliance" - Bulleid Pacifics in action 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxxZmRC234s
Welshpool & Llanfair Railway
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnu9vwHHZxM
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d182D0md4_8
Swiss Trains: Rhaetian Railway / Rhätische Bahn, Le Prese - Brusio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okE6a5JHaJ8
Lössnitzbahn nach den Corrona Lockdown zu Himmelfahrt 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJYyJC3F4lE
Austrian Narrow Gauge Steam on the Waldviertelbahn - Alt Nagelberg to Litschau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQeUKjelDkc
Building A OO Gauge Model Railway: The Scratch Build Series 2.7 - Building The Stairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOvTeqESopY
(Spotter: Ted Millward)

Planned earthworks at Harbury Cutting
https://is.gd/IJqIF0
Plans to rebuild East Croydon station and provide extra platforms
https://is.gd/UJPo5a
https://is.gd/QscIRl
The background to the government bail out of TfL
https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2020/06/01-monday-essay-the-price-tfl.html
Memories of a Royal Train in Shropshire
https://is.gd/rFdTRO
Fifty years since collapse of Cleddau Bridge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52878053
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)

The Class 40 Preservation Society Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBWtz8kXCs4Q9KcipXBfZ2Q
(Spotter: Nick Wheat)

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IN THE NEWS

Plans for Network Rails security upgrades
https://www.cbronline.com/news/network-rail-cryptographic-key

Freightliner purchase DB Cargo and Mendip Rail class 59s
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=54280

Siemens wins contract to fit ECTS to part of DB C loco fleet
https://is.gd/cgFpFF

Crossrail class 345 units cleared to Heathrow
https://is.gd/v1DR2H

30 day virus killer being used by GTR
https://is.gd/s9xe1m

GTR and Siemens use train weight to monitor passenger numbers
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=39615

New Trains Class 484 delayed to September
https://onthewight.com/new-island-line-trains-will-be-delayed/

Upgraded point levers in Ryde Depot
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/rail-safety-improvements-at-ryde-to-protect-depot-staff/

Free Wi-Fi to be provided on Island Line
https://is.gd/pQUjED

"PRIDE" liveried class 444 unit
https://onthewight.com/london-to-portsmouths-new-trainbow-celebrates-pride-month/

West of England Line engineering works
https://is.gd/fd02n0

Nude sunbather mistaken for dead body
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-52904213

GBRf investments at March and Peterborough
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=55605

£130,000 steam locomotive lorry trailer stolen in Somerset
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=55138

New Kidderminster station building opened
https://is.gd/ynW6a2

West Yorkshire Authority suggests fewer but longer trains
https://is.gd/nqmHEo

Safety measures planned to prevent repeat of train derailment in tunnel near Ribblehead Viaduct
https://is.gd/Kkoi5U

Plan to reinstate Penrith-Keswick railway takes step forward
https://is.gd/iyU4oC

Cumbrian Coast Engineering works
https://is.gd/xEm4g2

Wemyss Bay Station clock tower could be turned into romantic bolthole
https://is.gd/FEKmvn

Track renewals on Tay Bridge
https://is.gd/zdL2nM

Levenmouth branch track to be laid by 2023
https://is.gd/a5OkrC

Four new railway stations for Wales proposed to be built by 2024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52919091

Proposals for opening GWS Didcot
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=55034

Vandalism at MRC Butterley
https://is.gd/qrKFlO

WSR financial problems
https://is.gd/ZBWUiX

First Stadler emus for Caltrain on test
https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/caltrains-first-stadler-emus-on-test/56632.article

Railway to Murmansk blocked by collapsed bridge
https://is.gd/uuLHKx

Vosloh sells loco business to Zhuzhou Locomotive company
https://www.railway-technology.com/?p=75611

Bulgaria to upgrade narrow gauge locos
https://is.gd/5uUEZt

Turkish intercity services restart
https://is.gd/vhMg4M

Essential Kilcreggan ferry timetable extended by CalMac
https://is.gd/gF1ZUY

New train ferries ordered by KiwiRail
https://is.gd/cmFHzE

Experimental express bus service into Bath
https://is.gd/eRxsPP

P&O extend break in sailings
https://is.gd/7PXKU9

London City Airport To Be Operational By The End Of June
https://simpleflying.com/london-city-airport-reopening/

Templehof Airport where people rollerblade on the runways
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151218-where-people-rollerblade-on-runways

Light aircraft ditches at Calshot Spit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-52876929

Further consultation on extension to Southampton Airport runway
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-52905717

Air Canada Operates Its Final Boeing 767 Flight
https://simpleflying.com/air-canada-final-boeing-767-flight/

British Airways Boeing 787 Pushed Off Of The Taxiway In Edmonton
https://simpleflying.com/?p=95037

Spotters: Richard Buckby, Brian Carter, Neil Kearns, John McCorriston, Reg Nerps, Mike Price

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TV and RADIO - schedules are subject to change at short notice... or none...

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

06/05/20  BBC2 2015-2115
          "Great Asian Railway Journeys"  Singapore

08/06/20  Channel 5 1835-1900
          "Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"

08/06/20  Channel 5 1900-2000
          "The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys"  5/10 New Zealand

09/06/20  Channel 5 1835-1900
          "Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson"

09/06/20  Yesterday 2000-2100
          "The Architecture the Railways Built"

09/06/20  BBC2 2100-2200
          "A House Through Time"  Bristol 3/4

10/06/20  Channel 5 1900-2000
          "Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys"  Azerbaijan

10/06/20  BBC4 2000-2100
          "Shock & Awe: The Story of Electricity"  2/3

10/06/20  Channel 5 1900-2000
          "The Railway 24/7"  1/6

11/06/20  Channel 5 1900-2000
          "Inside the Steam Train Museum"  Bressingham 3/5

11/06/20  Channel 5 2000-2100
          "Paddington: a Year on the Tracks"  1/4

12/06/20  Channel 5 2000-2100
          "The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys"  6/10 Finland

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EVENTS - this section is temporarily suspended

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https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=46874


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