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NETWATCH
Steam Trains Return To The Severn Valley Railway!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QvCpJPF8GY
Back in steam Great Central Railway 26072020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFnvOC-zJ6Q
Summer Steam on the North Norfolk Railway with 76084 21st July 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMfkQzHL7c
Heritage Diesel Gala - Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway - Virtual
Diesel Gala 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MerOy43LEb8
Southern Railway V Schools class
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8BOcoS2KYQ
46100 "Royal Scot" takes on the 'English Riviera Express' 26/07/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt8kDpItiPk
Maybach Pioneer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D64t4Cyxq6k
Miniature Railways of Great Britain Another Compilation, Part 7 July 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cV0jO4fdCQ
Flying Failures - Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 "Barling Bomber"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKxZ4zmfoVo
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
NYMR ballast regulator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43qBuhPRpk
Queen Victoria's saloon
https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/queen-victorias-saloon-146381/
The Flam Railway
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-29379678
Trams in Katowice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sGs9JoxadI
Redesigning economy class
https://simpleflying.com/economy-class-zones/
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
How Hawaiian Airlines Flies Short Range Boeing 717s Across the Pacific
https://simpleflying.com/hawaiian-airlines-boeing-717-pacific-flights/
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)
Is that the Japanese bullet train in your underwear, or are you just
happy to see me?
https://wp.me/pbXBSE-28MZ
Japan’s craziest train station has a giant with light-up eyes growing
out of its wall
https://wp.me/pbXBSE-28KS
(Spotter: Andrew Nummelin)
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IN THE NEWS
DfT launches open consultation on plan to decarbonise transport
https://is.gd/J2ZdAS
Participate in the survey here
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/wf1i3c
Blue Pullman takes to the rails in November
http://railwayherald.com/uknews/blue-pullman-takes-to-the-rails-in-november
£81m signalling scheme hits halfway marker in South London
https://is.gd/6Q0H2G
https://is.gd/gWIXWF
Disused North Woolwich railway station is up for sale
https://is.gd/cHrV1B
New Stansted Express units enter service
https://is.gd/yyKdjQ
Marchwood station welcomes first passengers for 54 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-53571725
https://is.gd/b6W3rN
Timelapse video of trip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-53592492
Rehome a SWR Island Line train
http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/rehome-a-swr-island-line-train-
Plan to redevelop Birmingham University station
https://is.gd/YeEcuT
New Merseyrail unit vandalised at Tonbridge while being delivered to
Kirkdale
https://is.gd/PzfHR0
Grand Central restart services
https://is.gd/4ld6rf
Scotland's rail services to be increased as Covid restrictions ease
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-53567449
Ambitious plans to transform Scottish rail network unveiled
https://news.gov.scot/news/ambitious-plans-to-transform-scottish-rail-network-unveiled
Press release regarding 53808 going to the Mid-Hants Watercress Line
http://www.sdrt.org/images/files/news/joint_press_release_240720_final.pdf
Derailment on Moors Valley miniature Railway
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18604225.moors-valley-railway-derails/
Talgo "Avril" moves on broad gauge skates for testing
https://is.gd/JTxXHO
SNCF losses
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=41432
HARSCO to deliver rail grinder to Hungarian Railways
https://www.railway-technology.com/?p=76916
Rocky Mountaineer cancels remainder of 2020 operations
https://is.gd/ZgTT0Z
Derailment and fire of Union Pacific manifest freight on Tempe Lake
bridge, Arizona
https://is.gd/PFjxjy
Progress Rail development of battery shunting loco
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=41350
First Stadler emu completed for Caltrain
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=41412
Bangladesh Railways order 1590 coaches from South Korea
https://is.gd/97ZxTv
China starting work on Tibet to Nepal railway
https://www.railway-technology.com/?p=76989
Housing development planned for London Transport Museum’s Acton depot
https://is.gd/ZfFf6A
This Secondhand Bookshop Is Inside A Ghost Station
https://is.gd/wLq6t8
Luas extension would see 'grass track' through 3 parks
http://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2020/0728/1155945-luas-extension-plans/
Contracts awarded for Porto metro extensions
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=41408
New trams in Bytom
https://youtu.be/vTgljfdO9mw
First group trial of seat bookings on Bristol Park and Ride services
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53530770
UK busmaker Alexander Dennis to cut 650 jobs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-53558309
https://is.gd/1rW7p0
New road race to run over 12.4 mile-course in Isle of Wight in October 2021
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/53579682
Man completes HMS Victory replica after 50 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-53579079
British Airways Is Being Paid £125k Per Month To Fly To Newquay
https://simpleflying.com/british-airways-newquay-pso/
Boeing Confirms End of the 747 Program
https://simpleflying.com/death-of-the-queen-boeing-confirms-end-of-the-747-program/
Boeing 747s still in service
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/how-to-track-the-87-remaining-passenger-747s
CL-415 Clips Barge, Continues Takeoff
https://www.avweb.com/?p=3878
International Boeing 757 & 767 Airline Set to Be Based in Brisbane
https://simpleflying.com/brisbane-start-up-airline/
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Nigel Davies, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Alan
Rushworth, Nick Wheat
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TV and RADIO - schedules are subject to change at short notice... or none...
31/07/20 Channel 5 2100-2200
"QE2: the World's Most Luxurious Hotel" 2/3
01/08/20 BBC2 1900-2000
"Great Continental Railway Journeys" Spain 1/6
01/08/20 Channel 4 1900-2000
"Great Canal Journeys" Manchester to Ellesmere
02/08/20 BBC4 2000-2030
"Canal Boat Diaries" 5/5
03/08/20 BBC4 2200-2300
"Great Asian Railway Journeys" Thailand
04/08/20 Channel 5 1900-2000
"Walking Britain's Lost Railways" Bangor
04/08/20 BBC2 2000-2100
"Great Continental Railway Journeys" 2/6 Orleans to Rheims
04/08/20 Quest 2100-2200
"Mighty Trains
05/08/20 Channel 5 1900-2000
"Railway Journeys with Chris Tarrant" Alaska
06/08/20 Channel 5 2100-2200
"QE2: the World's Most Luxurious Hotel" 3/3
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EVENTS - this section is temporarily suspended
There is a regularly-updated list of when heritage railways are
reopening here...
https://www.railadvent.co.uk/?p=58124
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