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NETWATCH
S&D 7F tackles the climb from Williton on the WSR 06/03/16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoW5EKZX1K0
S160 steam locomotive 6046 Churnet Valley Winter Gala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW30F_vlQxE
Flying Scotsman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NBgwOKuOdU
Class 50s at Exeter 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FQzAOv_4L0
Stoke on Trent Roundhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFC8e7EJDNk
(Bob Gibbens)
Großkorbetha and Leipzig Hbf trains Germany August 2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDG46DobVQw
(Andrew Cook)
Stoke Shed 5D Remembered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTvVLWBXl_8
(Barry Knapper)
Decarbonising rail services, but not with much hydrogen
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/comment-hydrogen-trains-uk/
London's lonely underground during lockdown
https://tinyurl.com/yffxhgky
Arth Rigi Bahn electric snow blower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlBUlZa_pgo
The crash 70 years ago which led to foundation of the RAF Mountain
Rescue tem
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-56359623
Easyjet staying ready to fly again
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-56335125
Forest of Dean Freeminers
https://tinyurl.com/yjx2p7p6
Look at Life: Map-making in the early 1960s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoq4DoXKx_8
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
LNER 60019 The Blue Streak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKv_jPvhWs8
Trains at Clapham Junction South London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ByHPXwpRsc
GWR 2-8-0 3802
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypknLgRjp6U
Hauled by the NEW Class 69 in a shark brake van on the Severn Valley Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLHowuhDAp0
Hornby LSWR Class T9 - Unboxing & Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nrrui9w-sU
Interview: Fran Burke of Accurascale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09X6Yne_zg
Narrow Gauge Model Railway Exhibition - Virtual Model Train Show - Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjfq1Mo5Hss
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Nick Wheat has set up a YouTube channel for long-forgotten BTF titles
and post 1982 BR films
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCciV8sDUT4aW4Swiunuhzbg
All videos uploaded will be strictly unavailable commercially and are
shared for educational purposes only
New Doncaster Gallery Library and Museum
https://www.heritagedoncaster.org.uk/dglam/
The Online Preview offers a self-guided tour of each of the floors,
where there are links to mini tours, descriptive narrative of exhibits
and lots more information about the building in general
(Spotter: Nick Wheat
The Cumbrian Film Archive has four railway films available on their Lost
Railways page
https://www.cumbriafilmarchive.com/cumbria-s-lost-railways
Titles are "The Beginning of the End", "The Industrial Lines", "The
Rural Stationmaster" and "The Lost Waverley Line"
They also have a "Film of the Month" - the one for March is "Lost
Industries of West Cumbria", which contains some railway sequences
https://www.cumbriafilmarchive.com/film-of-the-month
(Spotter: Richard Maund)
End of Queen Mary Ship? Bankruptcy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj7To2LfsSc
Floating Paradise Lost: SS BRITANIS
Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLgJkkAHguE
Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x3dAxTj1rE
Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0swVMvX0rk
(Spotter: Alan Rushworth)
The Hovercraft Museum
https://www.hovercraft-museum.org/
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IN THE NEWS
Eversholt Rail developing parcels emu
https://eversholtrail.co.uk/news/eversholt-rail-to-develop-swift-express-freight-train/
Super-fast work to improve West Coast main line journeys
https://railuk.com/?p=106548
Repairs to Oxted viaduct
https://tinyurl.com/yg5hch5c
Testing class 484 unit at Ryde St Johns
https://tinyurl.com/ygz4lt8k
Plans to convert Woolston signalbox into a community space
https://tinyurl.com/yfjbq96u
Shawford station building to be community hub
https://tinyurl.com/yk6tj7ap
GWR home schooling resources
https://tinyurl.com/yfaxecu3
Merehead-Acton stone train powered by sustainable fuel
https://www.gwrr.co.uk/news/freightliner-jumbo-cl70-hvo-fuelled-train-trial-success/
'Vital' Okehampton to Exeter rail route to restart daily services after
49 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-56450227
Historic railway bridge in Reading set to be replaced
https://tinyurl.com/yf2w9bmp
https://tinyurl.com/yhc7aqrh
Structure examinations on Eastern Region return to in house Network Rail
staffing
https://tinyurl.com/yzbzvhwl
HS2 begins work on UK’s longest rail viaduct
https://tinyurl.com/yhxdsehr
https://tinyurl.com/yflesr65
New 360 trains on test runs in-between Luton Airport and Flitwick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRzjmWam9XI
Train cab video shows first run on new Stourbridge Shuttle tracks
https://tinyurl.com/ye637sh9
Pigeon proofing bridges in Shrewsbury
https://tinyurl.com/ydnpg86p
Sheffield: 120-year-old signal box to be demolished in rail upgrade
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-56385696
https://tinyurl.com/yewsnkp6
Derailment and buffer stop collision at West Kirby
https://tinyurl.com/ykyra3up
https://tinyurl.com/yzpljm92
New Hanson aggregates terminal in Liverpool to be served by GBRf
https://tinyurl.com/yggrk9yr
Hull trains to restart operations on 12th April
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/245448.aspx
Network Rail completes work to strengthen Sherburn in Elmet embankment
https://railuk.com/?p=106528
Possible conductors strike on ScotRail
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-56340438
Final batch of refurbished Inter7City trains handed over to ScotRail
https://tinyurl.com/yhld84d8
Scotland's train operator ScotRail to be nationalised
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-56432919
Stonehaven report sets out measures to boost rail resilience
https://tinyurl.com/yk2t426l
LSL special train to West Highland Line during lockdown
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/millionaire-brexit-donor-travels-train-23718761
Improvement work begins at Bridgend station
https://railuk.com/railway-stations/improvement-work-begins-at-bridgend-station/
Bridge to be lifted to reduce flooding near Machynlleth
https://tinyurl.com/yz6le7lt
Transport for Wales to upgrade Wrexham-Bidston line
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56345975
Post Office museum and Rail Mail to reopen from 20th May
https://tinyurl.com/yjlmy2zy
Bid to bring Bideford locomotive nameplates home is successful
https://tinyurl.com/yjowfrwv
North Norfolk Railway to reopen on 12th April
https://www.nnrailway.co.uk/
60007 overhaul update
https://sirnigelgresley.org.uk/overhaul-1522/overhaul-a.shtml
Llangollen railway: Plea to save heritage line
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56404751
No end in sight to Eurostar crisis
https://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2021/03/16-no-end-in-sight-to.html
Eurostar in talks with French and UK governments for financial survival
https://tinyurl.com/yk3zywph
Chenab Bridge – becomes highest railway bridge in the World
https://tinyurl.com/yh5blsp9
Kenya Railways to take over Chinese built line 5 years early
https://tinyurl.com/yfb3ynuy
Public meeting on Dumbarton Rail Corridor project (California) to be
held Monday
https://tinyurl.com/yfucoemv
Waterloo and City to reopen in May or June
https://tinyurl.com/yecasxxk
Model Railway News - March 2021 - LMR 0-4-2 Lion Announced!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhmc6PQYmE4
Government led scheme to improve bus services
https://tinyurl.com/yegtubmq
New bus station for Exeter
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/first-look-inside-exeter-bus-5195662
Transporter Bridge transformation boosted with Welsh Government grant
https://tinyurl.com/yjj3x722
Union Canal refilled after devastating breach sparked huge disruption
https://tinyurl.com/yfofyefx
Work on building of new Cumbrae ferry to 'begin within a year'
https://tinyurl.com/yerjqbg3
Concerns are growing over the possibility of fare increases by CalMac
https://tinyurl.com/yfeecm43
Cannons and Anchor from HMS Rose Believed Found in Savannah River
https://tinyurl.com/yfntul5p
Southampton Airport expansion recommended for approval
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-56430416
Airbus Wants To Run An A350 Only Using Biofuels
https://simpleflying.com/airbus-a350-biofuels/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56408603
End of production for the Bombardier Lear Jet
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56317270
United Flight Diverts As Unruly Passenger Reportedly Injures Others
https://simpleflying.com/united-passenger-injures-others/
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Brian Carter, Neil Kearns, Reg Nerps, Alan
Rushworth
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TV and RADIO
19/03/21 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Warbird Workshop" Spitfire MJ772
19/03/21 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Warbird Workshop" USAAF C47
20/03/21 More4 1900-2000
"Great Canal Journeys" Staffordshire
21/03/21 Channel 4 2000-2100
"Scotland's Scenic Railways"
21/03/21 BBC4 2100-2200
"Railway Nation: a Journey in Verse"
22/03/21 4Seven 1900-2000
"Scotland's Scenic Railways"
22/03/21 More4 2100-2200
"Great Canal Journeys" Stourport & Stourbridge
22/03/21 More4 2200-2300
"Coastal Railways with Julie Walters" Cardigan to Liverpool
23/03/21 Yesterday 2000-2100
"The Architecture the Railways Built" 10/10
23/03/21 4Seven 2000-2100
"Scotland's Scenic Railways"
23/03/21 BBC4 2100-2200
"Donald Campbell: Speed King"
23/03/21 5 Select 2100-2200
"The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys" Northern Explorer
26/03/21 Yesterday 2000-2100
"Warbird Workshop" Westland Wessex
26/03/21 Yesterday 2100-2200
"Warbird Workshop" Aeronca Defender
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EVENTS
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22/03/21 London Transport Museum Friends
"London Transport: Decline and Revival" by Dr James Fowler,
Lecturer in Management and Strategy at Essex University
An examination of the management, policies and political
influences on LT, 1970-1987
Starts 1815
You can access the presentation by clicking on this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgPCq_9sJCE
The talk will be available on YouTube to watch any time
afterwards
A full list of forthcoming RCTS virtual meetings
https://rcts.org.uk/branches/
Cheers, Howard.
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