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NETWATCH

My Guinness Book of Records run 1387 miles in <24 hours - 1000th YouTube video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjJKK_s6_H4
(Mike Wilcock)

No 45627 'Galatea' at Chinley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHIdJt4Ltv8
6233 Duchess of Sutherland at Stableford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNhiXpNHTTQ
(Barry Knapper)

Cross Country trains contract (only 736 pages!)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/xc-trains-limited-2020-rail-contract
Terrier 150
https://terrier150.co.uk/
(Spotter: Neil Kearns)

GWR 7029 Thunders Up All Stretton & Hatton Bank + Flying Scotsman!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svNfJ9caDP0
Somerset & Dorset Remembered, Watercress Line - 56 years on from the last trains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaRAkRQJAm8
A1 60163 Tornado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnJlhrWMSA
'Ann', the little but very big star off the East Lancs Spring Steam gala 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOvhjtfha4k
46100 Royal Scot - KWVR - 30742 Charters - 7th March 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dG_0z3DsM
Tim Dunn & Paul 'Piglet' Middleton Shunting with Lucie at the NYMR Annual Steam Gala 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9VdkcvXtgY
We Need To Talk About Coal - Talyllyn Railway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VraSUVfGyq8
(Spotter: Ted Millward)

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway - Extension to London
https://tinyurl.com/y9jp7y2n
(Spotter: Nick Wheat)

Two steam engines in action - visit Kempton Steam Museum - 19/20 March - £16
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2022/03/19/two-steam-engines-in-action-288138
Photos from Crossrail’s trial train evacuations
https://tinyurl.com/y94rs3a5
(Spotter: Richard Buckby)

Suspended over a wildlife river, South African hotel train defies lockdown odds
https://tinyurl.com/ycz6yjyt
(Spotter: Andrew Nummelin)

First episode of the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway's documentary series - Beyond the Tracks
https://www.facebook.com/wyvernrail/videos/356111099713863/ (Facebook membership not needed)

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IN THE NEWS

Euston to be closed at Easter
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/no-trains-out-of-euston-station-over-easter-52506/

First look at new designs for HS2 London Euston station
https://tinyurl.com/y8wnwzy4

A sneak preview of Crossrail
https://tinyurl.com/ya3hwpgf

Bond Street station will open after other Crossrail stations
https://tinyurl.com/y72ngtnz

Southern link to Heathrow airport
https://tinyurl.com/yb39u2vx

Penge Tunnel to be relaid in July
https://tinyurl.com/y9ona42e

Bridge replacement at Leamington Spa planned for Easter weekend
https://tinyurl.com/ybxo52tf

All female control office for Avanti Trains on International Women's Day
https://tinyurl.com/yc2ahx67

Laser and drone technology recreates Victorian viaduct like never before
https://tinyurl.com/y7lo76lw

Merseyrail named as best performing operator again
https://tinyurl.com/y8ohpoaa

Work starts on new station at Headbolt Lane
https://tinyurl.com/y9mna84a

Driver using WhatsApp before crash at Kirby
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-60663152

Doubts over extension of Border Railway
https://tinyurl.com/y82rn23l
Consultation seeking feedback on plans for Tweedbank to Eyemouth active travel route
https://tinyurl.com/yau32uhq

Increasing costs for reopening Levenmouth Line
https://tinyurl.com/y9ge9tub

Collision protection beam to be installed on Edinburgh railway bridge
https://tinyurl.com/y9t2toj6
https://tinyurl.com/y8ez2uht

Historic Glasgow rail works could become listed building
https://tinyurl.com/y9mf77fb

Faulty drainage work blamed for fatal Stonehaven derailment
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-60654251
RAIB report on Carmont derailment August 2020
https://tinyurl.com/y72rr4or
Call to withdraw HSTs after Carmont accident
https://tinyurl.com/y7xbjzvx

Mid Hants "War on the Line" event cancelled
https://tinyurl.com/42hvzu8s

Flying Scotsman to visit Bluebell Railway in August...
https://www.bluebell-railway.com/news/flyings-scotsman-returns-bluebell-railway-2022/

...and to visit to Worcester
https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/19971702.happened-flying-scotsman-live-blog/

NYMR to cancel 1940s event
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-60692821

UIC membership suspended for Russia and Belarus
https://tinyurl.com/ycpc9wws

The new Silk Road railway link severed by Russia
https://tinyurl.com/ycfyb5gq

WABTEC and BNSF to test bio fuels with locos based in California
https://www.railway-technology.com/news/wabtec-bnsf-railway-biofuel-testing/

Should the tube go driverless
https://tinyurl.com/yb58gub5

Tours of the Kingsway tram tunnel announced
https://tinyurl.com/yal8n9ey

A New Roundel For Westminster Tube Station
https://tinyurl.com/yae7nlsf

New York subway cars on street running en-route to scrap yard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxZTPW7y_Ak

Commodore Clipper sailings to be halted as maintenance brought forward
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-60678454

Near miss with container ship in Southampton Water
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-60638458

Southampton Spitfire Flight Shed demolition under way
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-60676021

Problems reclaiming leased aircraft from Russia
https://simpleflying.com/foreign-lessors-repossess-russian-jets

How many aircraft won't be delivered due to Russian sanction?
https://tinyurl.com/y8omjcwy

Spotters: Richard Buckby, Neil Kearns, Ted Millward, Reg Nerps

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TV and RADIO

11/03/22  5 Select 1900-2000
          "Secret Life of Lighthouses"

11/03/22  5 Select 2000-2100
          "Building Victorian Britain"  Public Transport

11/03/22  Yesterday 2200-2300
          "Secrets of the Transport Museum"

12/03/22  Yesterday 0800-0900
          "Trains That Changed the World"

12/03/22  Yesterday 0900-1200
          "Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways"

12/03/22  Yesterday 1200-1500
          "The Architecture the Railways Built"

12/03/22  Yesterday 1500-2000
          "Great British Railway Journeys"

12/03/22  5 Select 2200-2300
          "The Chernobyl Railway with Chris Tarrant"

12/03/22  5 Select 2300-0105
          "Walking Britain's Lost Railways"  2 episodes

13/03/22  5 Select 2000-2300
          "The Dambusters"  Dan Snow 3-parter

14/03/22  BBC Radio 4 1345-1400
          "The Museums That Make Us"  The Museum of Making, Derby

14/03/22  BBC4 1900-1930
          "Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone"  4/12

14/03/22  BBC4 1930-2000
          "Canal Boat Diaries"  New series 1/4

14/03/22  Yesterday 2100-2200
          "Smoke and Steel"  Cornwall and France

14/03/22  5 Select 2200-0000
          "Walking Britain's Lost Railways"  2 episodes

15/03/22  BBC4 1900-1930
          "Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone"  5/12

15/03/22  5 Select 1900-2000
          "Britain's Greatest Bridges"  The Humber Bridge

15/03/22  BBC4 1930-2000
          "Canal Boat Diaries"  New series 2/4

15/03/22  Yesterday 2000-2100
          "Secrets of the Transport Museum"  New series

15/03/22  Yesterday 2100-2200
          "Train Truckers"

16/03/22  BBC4 1900-1930
          "Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone"  6/12

16/03/22  BBC4 1930-2000
          "Canal Boat Diaries"  New series 3/4

16/03/22  Yesterday 2000-2100
          "The Architecture the Railways Built"

16/03/22  Yesterday 2100-2200
          "Hornby: a Model World"

16/03/22  Yesterday 2200-2300
          "Full Steam Ahead"

17/03/22  BBC4 1900-1930
          "Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone"  7/12

17/03/22  BBC4 1930-2000
          "Canal Boat Diaries"  New series 4/4

17/03/22  Yesterday 2200-2300
          "Secrets of the London Underground"

18/03/22  5 Select 1900-2000
          "Lighthouses: Building the Impossible"

18/03/22  Yesterday 2200-2300
          "Secrets of the Transport Museum"

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EVENTS
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11/03/22- Keighley & Worth Valley Railway: Steam Gala Extravaganza
13/03/22  http://www.kwvr.co.uk

12/03/22  Apedale Valley Light Railway: New members day
          https://avlr.org.uk/
          https://tinyurl.com/y83tj3pv

12/03/22- Midlands Garden Rail Show
13/03/22  Warwickshire Event Centre
          http://www.midlandsgardenrailshow.co.uk

18/03/22  Dronfield Civic Society - Zoom talk
          "Bradshaw's and an Early Railway Tour" by Robert Mee
          Starts 1930
          https://www.dronfieldcivicsociety.org.uk/events/

19/03/22  Romsey Signal Box Working Museum Open Day
          Brick Lane, Romsey, Hants, SO51 8LG
          Opens 1100, last entry 1530
          https://romseysignalbox.org.uk/

19/03/22- The London Festival of Railway Modelling
20/03/22  Alexandra Palace, N22 7AY
          http://www.model-railway-shows.co.uk

19/03/22- Kempton Steam Museum Open Days
20/03/22  Joint event with the London Museum of Water & Steam
          https://kemptonsteam.org/whats-on/march/
          https://tinyurl.com/ycbjzogz

21/03/22  Newbury and District Transport Group
          The Community Space, The Kennet School, Stoney Lane, Thatcham, RG19 4LL
          1915 for a prompt 1930 start
          "The GWR West of Exeter" by Howard Sprenger
          Non-members welcome
          Admission and car parking free, but donations towards expenses welcome

26/03/22- Ribble Steam Railway and Museum: Steam Gala
27/03/22  https://www.ribblesteam.org.uk


Cheers, Howard.
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