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Plans for Oxford Metro
https://tinyurl.com/ykyfwrlw
Planned summer engineering works affecting Bristol Temple Meads
https://tinyurl.com/yf5fu6gt
Penthouse apartment in St Pancras hotel for sale
https://tinyurl.com/yhr26wu2
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)
The Train Now Departing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXqdWNsTEQw
An afternoon at Ropley - Watercress Line 27/03/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPrFJci8tug
Probefahrten der Chiemsee-Bahn Dampflok „Laura“ auf der Harzbahn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7JjA5Gbggo
Stunning New Hornby Merchant Navy Class - Unboxing & Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCLj04ET9dE
The most precise model railway layout in the world - Cab ride in the
Kaeserberg rail museum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJn8yom7ouA
(Spotter: Ted Millward)
Declassified Footage - An Atomic Bomb Too Big to Actually Use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXsdqqwfiaI
(Spotter: Nick Wheat)
Toy stories: 100 years of American toy adverts – in pictures
https://tinyurl.com/yht74gzp
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IN THE NEWS
Luxury trains look to serve British travel demand with Summer day-trips
and British seasides
https://tinyurl.com/ye5qytbu
Welcome hosts at Wimbledon and Richmond
https://richmond.nub.news/n/39welcome-hosts39-trial-at-richmond-railway-station
Langley to Heathrow terminal 5 link put on "hold"
https://tinyurl.com/ydldm7au
Emergency closure of footpath near Hildenborough
https://tinyurl.com/yhd3bpvg
Refurbished footbridge to reopen in Sandown
https://www.islandecho.co.uk/sandowns-foxes-bridge-to-reopen-after-refurbishment-works/
Scrap class 483 units being removed from Ryde St Johns
https://tinyurl.com/yguxqyvc
South Western Railway to withdraw refurbished class 442s
https://twitter.com/PaulCliftonBBC/status/1377283057732874251
https://twitter.com/PaulCliftonBBC/status/1377308813355847689
Track renewal at Brockenhurst LC during April
https://tinyurl.com/yhnttt6f
HS2 to begin work on UK’s longest rail bridge
https://tinyurl.com/ygzl78b3
Bridge renewal in Rutland begins with Network Rail preparing the site
https://tinyurl.com/yzyjmvxp
You could be visiting Rail Live 2021 by train
https://tinyurl.com/yfpp4pca
Another pacer coach donated to a school
https://tinyurl.com/yz7bbmtz
Grand Central services restarted
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-56548474
Disruption due to strike by conductors on Scotrail services
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56555328
More strike action on Scotrail under discussion by unions
https://tinyurl.com/yeskm67j
Track damage caused by Robeston to Theale oil train
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/track-damage-between-pencoed-and-llanharan
Bluebell reopening details
https://www.bluebell-railway.com/reopening-20-may-faqs/
Mid Hants spring gala
https://www.watercressline.co.uk/product.php/189/spring-steam-gala
Reconnect Leek Developments
https://www.churnetvalleyrailway.co.uk/news/mosaic-rail
Churnet Valley Railway to receive £283,000 from 2nd round of
Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
https://www.churnetvalleyrailway.co.uk/news/culture-recovery-fund
Epping Ongar Railway receives £62000 from 2nd round of Government's
Culture Recovery Fund
https://www.eorailway.co.uk/news/culture-recovery-fund-grant/
Also...
Didcot Railway Centre: £114,015
East Somerset Railway: unknown
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: £42,300
Kidderminster Railway Museum Trust Ltd: £19,025
Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway Museum: £31,490
Midland Railway Trust: £38,548
Nene Valley Railway: £479,765
North York Moors Railway: £578,000
Swanage Railway: £189,200
Plans to restore and extend Buckley Wells shed at Bury
https://tinyurl.com/yzbmlcjd
North-east railway restoration to move ahead after fundraising target met
https://tinyurl.com/ygbvrjzq
Tidenham Tunnel near Chepstow opens as footpath and cycleway
https://tinyurl.com/yj8l2rrc
Blaenavon's Heritage Railway plans to reopen from 1st May
https://www.bhrailway.co.uk/post/reopening-1st-may-2021
Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland services from May
https://tinyurl.com/yhlp7eww
Fatal collision in Egypt
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56540229
https://tinyurl.com/ydq9ydly
Taiwan: Dozens killed as train crashes and derails in tunnel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56612248
Amtrak expansion proposals
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amtrak-releases-map-expanded-us-102634534.html
Alstom to supply 200 coaches to METRA in Chicago
https://tinyurl.com/yeb887lf
Protest blocks Manchester Tramlink
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56552440
Seaton Tramway to reopen on 12th April
https://www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/19186930.seaton-tramway-reopen-april-12/
Irish Ferries to operate between Dover and Calais from June
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0326/1206241-irish-ferries-new-route/
Ever Given released from Suez Canal banks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56567985
Suez Canal: Egypt begins inquiry into cargo ship's grounding
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56588496
Air France funding deal close to completion
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2021/0329/1206709-air-france-funding-deal/
Dining on static aircraft in Japan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56598932
Return To The Falklands – Lufthansa Will Operate Its Longest Flight Again
https://tinyurl.com/yf88ytup
Laxey wheel could turn again by 2022
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-56523308
Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Barry Knapper, Reg Nerps, Andrew
Nummelin
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02/04/21 Yesterday 2000-2100
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02/04/21 Yesterday 2100-2200
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05/04/21 BBC4 1900-1930
"Canal Boat Diaries" 1/4 Series 2
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"Secrets of the Transport Museum"
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