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NETWATCH
Resignalling of Clapham Jn (Brighton Lines) and Balham
https://is.gd/OMeIX6
https://is.gd/xFGzTw
Clacton resignalling overview
https://neocad.wistia.com/medias/1939v85wea
How to recreate a joined up railway
https://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2021/01/rail-922-how-to-recreate-a-joined-up-railway
Manx Electric Railway 2013
http://www.britishtramsonline.co.uk/news/?p=37526
141R1244 at Brugg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l4sH8F2g9s
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
60163 Tornado on the Mainline 2009 and 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuIjiiNoqoQ
BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyLuJQ3tlrY
Brand New Hornby Thompson Class A2/2 - Unboxing & Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHdZ-gg47IQ
Glyn Valley Tramway Layout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3KukHwPXc
Sodbury Vale Model Railway Exhibition - Virtual Model Train Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYgBbCAuVvY
PIKO model railway layout - Modellvasút HO scale by Csaba Kovács from
Hungary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdT0JSs6mXY
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Railway Vehicle Preservations - Home of the Beavertails
http://www.beavertail.org.uk/
Nine talks have been uploaded from Derbyshire Archaeology Day including
Industrial Archaeology
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlVOiab9ndt67qNwb-6h7_qROOHZ5sCW-
(Spotter: Nick Wheat)
A compilation of a number of films shot over 120 years ago (in Dutch,
but easy to navigate)
https://player.eyefilm.nl/nl/films/the-brilliant-biograph
The first includes the Irish Mail of the LNWR, filmed at full speed in
1898 - the locomotive looks like a Webb compound of the Teutonic class,
No. 1304 "Jeanie Deans", taking up water
(Spotter: Kees Wielemaker)
A Youtube channel with some interesting railway and waterway items
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2LVhJH_9cT2XKp0VAfsKOQ
(Spotter: Tim Oosterlee)
Military Base Old Trains, Abandoned Buildings, Jefferson Proving Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66dpFcCe_M
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
Devon and Cornwall's lost and abandoned railways - and how some will
return to life
https://is.gd/GPna3e
Let's Review! Hornby's not so generic 4-wheelers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrN3i1T6iC8
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IN THE NEWS
King’s Uncrossed- Crucial stage of £1.2billion East Coast Upgrade fast
approaching
https://is.gd/gvTR33
Opening the third Kings Cross Tunnel
https://www.globalrailwayreview.com/news/117675/network-rail-kings-cross-work/
South London’s 1980s railway track and signalling to be modernised
https://is.gd/sw60xt
GTR’s first train in £55m fleet modernisation programme back in service
https://is.gd/wAFgLc
Kent line closures due to snow
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-55972932
Railway worker killed by passenger train near Surbiton
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-56000610
Rail lines west of Southampton to shut for freight terminal work
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-56030083
https://is.gd/BPuA9p
IoW trains won't run again until mid-May
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-56030086
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/?p=176004
St Ives branch relaying completed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-55978398
One of the country’s most hit railway bridges is repaired and strengthened
https://railuk.com/?p=105609
https://is.gd/GjKhR8
Key track works planned between Ely and Kings Lynn
https://is.gd/l5uq2j
New adopters for Wymondham rail station aim to return it to former glory
https://railuk.com/?p=105623
East Anglian local services delayed by snow
https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/london-to-norwich-service-cancelled-by-snow-7312840
Network Rail teams tackle ice across West Yorkshire to keep vital
services moving
https://railuk.com/?p=105638
Northern seeking operating and engineering apprentices
https://is.gd/NVmx0X
Removing icicles from Standedge Tunnel
https://is.gd/QcGntP
Contracts awarded for new Siemens factory in Goole
https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/40m-siemens-train-factory-build-19807180
Giant chunks of ice form under ScotRail trains after temperatures plummet
https://is.gd/6BsrR6
Train driver uses hot water to clear horn blocked by snow
https://is.gd/06FeNb
ScotRail shares alarming video of train travelling across Forth Bridge
in thick fog
https://is.gd/rVrY3e
East Linton Railway Station proposals submitted to council
https://is.gd/VgBymU
Major clear up at Fairlie railway landslide
https://is.gd/RIdfvp
Calls for action after years of complaints about access at Perthshire
railway station
https://tinyurl.com/5du4qpzl
Welsh railways return to public ownership
https://is.gd/99SOMg
https://www.railjournal.com/?p=47719
Open access between Paddington and South Wales rejected by ORR
https://is.gd/kGLR0A
NYMR apprentice scheme
https://yorkmix.com/the-apprentice-nymr-offers-a-new-scheme-for-the-next-generation/
SVR diesel gala in May
https://is.gd/ueyH6V
Travel problems after snow in Germany
https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/9907390d2f87450ca2383ee7643fad9a/
Rail traffic in Netherlands stopped by snow
https://is.gd/x5UToS
Glasgow subway in Lego
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/glasgow-subway-fan-builds-entire-19815705
Enabling work started for extension to Vancouver Skytrain system
https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/vancouvers-broadway-subway-prepped-for-main-works-08-02-2021/
Network Rail staff branch out into clearing roads
https://is.gd/OXswy3
Flood defences for the port of Tilbury
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-55919819
NYK orders two LPG dual fuel container carriers
https://www.ship-technology.com/news/nyk-lpg-dual-fuelled-vlgcs/
Key West residents vote to limits size and number or cruise ships
https://www.ship-technology.com/features/must-be-this-size-travel-key-west-votes-limit-big-cruise-ships/
Plans for new terminal at Charles De Gaulle airport scrapped
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56021908
Emergency loan for Birmingham Airport
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-56013921
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps
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TV and RADIO
13/02/21 BBC4 1900-2000
"Full Steam Ahead" 4/6
14/02/21 Yesterday 2200-2300
"Train Truckers" Moving "Britannia"
14/02/21 Yesterday 2300-0000
"Train Truckers" Moving a Deltic
15/02/21 Yesterday 0000-0100
"Train Truckers" Moving two steam locos
15/02/21 BBC4 2000-2100
"Secrets of the Museum" A classic car exhibition
15/02/21 Yesterday 2100-2200
"David Jason: Trains, Planes and Automobiles"
15/02/21 Yesterday 2200-2300
"Steam Train Britain"
16/02/21 BBC4 2000-2100
"The Golden Age of Canals"
16/02/21 Yesterday 2000-2100
"The Architecture the Railways Built" 5/10
17/02/21 BBC4 2325-0155
"All Aboard! New Zealand by Rail, Sea and Land" Slow TV
18/02/21 ITV 1930-2000
"Cars: The End of Petrol and Diesel?"
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EVENTS
While most events have been cancelled due to Covid-19, a limited number
of events will be included - if you would like to publicise an event
here, please contact the editor
12/02/21 Paddle Steamer Preservation Society Virtual Presentation
"Waverley - Achieving 2020 and Beyond" by General Manager,
Paul Semple
Starts 1930
To watch, visit the PSPS Scottish Branch YouTube channel
https://youtu.be/J0nj_QN2GY8
No sign in, or password required
13/02/21 Kidderminster Railway Museum: "Zoom" Film Show
"Railways on the 13th" by David Postle
1930 - join Zoom meeting (on mute):
https://zoom.us/j/94258856911?pwd=d2V6MkVMRmNZQWhERjF0VUVxY2xwdz09
Meeting ID: 942 5885 6911
Passcode: 910006
20/02/21 North Eastern Railway Association: Zoom Presentation
"Teesdale Tracks and Derailing Dukes" by Northern Echo Chief
Feature Writer, Chris Lloyd
1000 am for 1030 start
All welcome - you will need to register on the NERA website
www.ner.org.uk/whats-on/
A full list of forthcoming RCTS virtual meetings (January-April)
https://rcts.org.uk/branches/
Cheers, Howard.
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