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#Railnatter Episode 227: Labour's pre-election rail and urban transit review
21 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 19 min
Before the election, the UK Labour Party commissioned Juergen Maier to head a review into railways and urban transport strategy... And it was published literally today. So the hell with the original schedule, let's take a look and see if it proposes anything useful - and more importantly consider if it will be ignored by Rachel Reeves. Lees meer
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#Railnatter Episode 226: Ireland's railways 1. A potted history
14 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
In the first of (I think!) a two-part miniseries on Ireland, we are joined by Iain (anoniaino on Twitter!) to talk about the history of Ireland's railways and how we got to the system we have today. Lees meer
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#Railnatter Episode 225: How The Railways Will Fix The Future
7 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
I DID IT. I WROTE A BOOK. And as an exclusive for all you lovely viewers, you can Q&A me about it and anything else you can think of in this week's #Railnatter... Plus we'll cover a bit of news off. Lees meer
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#Railnatter Episode 224: What's left of HS2? (a flick through the latest NAO report)
31 juli 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
Post election, it's worth taking a look at the National Audit Office's latest report into High Speed 2 and the mess the previous government made of it. Lees meer
With a new Labour government picking up the divine right to rule from Murdochs, Platts and Gerkos of the world, we've been launched headlong into 2010 austerity again - but what does this mean for HS2? Might they pick any of it back up again?
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#Railnatter Episode 223: West Yorkshire mass transit (reviewing the consultation plans)
24 juli 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Back in Episode 49, we looked at the broad plans for mass transit across West Yorkshire, centred on Leeds. Now, mayor Tracy Brabin has launched the consultation for the first two proposed routes, between Leeds and Bradford and from central Leeds southwards. Lees meer
Are these proposals any good? Are they ambitious enough? Will they achieve sufficient modal shift? Let's take a look together.
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#Railnatter Episode 222: A high speed rail network for the UK and Ireland
17 juli 2024 · 1 uur 29 min
Okay, so I've been teasing this for a while now, and at last it is here... We are going to spend this week's episode talking about what a FINISHED high speed rail network for the UK and Ireland would look like. Not shared lines, but dedicated high speed lines built from new. Lees meer
How does HS2 fit in? How might it link with HS1? What about Greengauge 21s "X" network? Scotland? You better believe that there will be much in the way of maps and CAD! All comments welcome... This won't be the last of these episodes, I would guess.
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#Railnatter Episode 221: The 2024 General Election Special Edition No. 2
10 juli 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
Everyone voted! The Conservative Party are toast! Labour got fewer votes than in 2019 and the era of two party politics in the UK is over... Lees meer
But what does this mean for transport and railways? What do we think of the government appointments that are pertinent to transport? This one will mostly be a Q&A!
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#Railnatter Episode 220: The 2024 General Election Special Edition No. 1
26 juni 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
Well, with only a week left to go before the UK 2024 general election, which of the relevant* parties' manifestos is best for transport? We'll get them up side by side and have a close look at what is promised, how it compares to previous years and what it all might mean for the future. Lees meer
Transport is only one part of the picture, though - the most important stance of any party is its position on social issues, in particular on issues for the most vulnerable groups in society. Why? Because these tell us what is in the heart of the party and the lens through which it will see all other issues. So we'll end by looking at the stance of the parties on one of the most important issues of the day: trans rights. And the result will tell us all we need to know about which party will be best for the country's future.
*The Scottish Greens, SNP and Plaid are relevant, sadly there's no time to include them. Meanwhile, if it's blue, it sucks.
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#Railnatter Episode 219: A short word or two on early railways
19 juni 2024 · 29 min
It's a short one, and I'm off on wanderings for the first time in a while... I'm sharing some thoughts on early railways and the need to push back on the oversimplified narratives associated with the Stockton and Darlington Railway and 1825 as a false date of the "start" of railways. Lees meer
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#Railnatter Episode 218: What four years of rail reform has delivered
12 juni 2024 · 1 uur
With the election approaching, we do a page-turn of the Public Accounts Committee's report into rail reform in Britain, as published back in May. Lees meer
Six years have passed since the DfT said the railway needed reform, and four years have passed since initiating that reform programme, via its white paper (we've been through the ill-fated Williams-Shapps Plan For Rail already) in 2021. We were supposed to have Great British Railways by March 2024. No such organisation has appeared.
The reason it didn't tells us a lot about the challenges that the next government will face in changing the rail industry for the better - whether radically or incrementally.
You can download the report here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/201745/rail-reform-noone-in-government-putting-needs-of-passengers-and-taxpayers-first-pac-reports/
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#Railnatter Episode 217: Everything we can say about Haxby station
5 juni 2024 · 1 uur
Okay, a cheeky local one this week, amongst some news... Haxby station is looking increasingly likely to appear in the next few years, so let's talk about if it is in the right place, what the wider railway network around York ought to look like, some of the timetable challenges of achieving that, and why it is being designed to look so awful again when the HUB station designs are now formally part of Network Rail's design guidelines. Lees meer
Also: THE NEWS.
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#Railnatter Episode 216: What to do about rail in the West Midlands
29 mei 2024 · 1 uur 23 min
We're jumping back in time to October 2022, and flicking through Network Rail's strategic advice for the West Midlands and the urban area around Birmingham. Lots to learn from this one - there will be diagrams and pictures and thoughts galore! Lees meer
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#Railnatter Episode 215: How to tip trains over on purpose (with equations)
15 mei 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
It's a proper techy one this week, and we're talking all things CANT or SUPERELEVATION. What is it? Why do we need it? Why don't we need it? All your questions, answered. Oh, and dust off your GCSE mechanics because we will be doing some MATHS with EQUATIONS. Lees meer
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#Railnatter Episode 214: Finishing The Borders Railway (with maps and routes)
8 mei 2024 · 1 uur 26 min
This one has been in the pipeline a while... Should we reopen the full Waverley Route from Tweedbank south to Carlisle? No! We shouldn't! Lees meer
I'll explain precisely how we shouldn't, using maps, showing the route that any new Borders Main Line should take, and explaining how and why you'd choose between the two available options. I might even tell you how much it would cost!
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#Railnatter Episode 213: Labour Will* Nationalise Rail (a Getting Britain Moving page-turn)
1 mei 2024 · 1 uur 22 min
Well, our original plans are out the window as Labour decided to publish their plans for Britain's railways. We have no choice but to go through them. And it might not take us a full episode. Lees meer
Let's see if they are worth the pixels... And whether nationalisation will mean that, and if it will deliver.
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#Railnatter Episode 212: How To Fix Buses In Wales (looking at the TfW plan)
24 april 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
It's a Wales episode! AND it's a bus episode! When I talk about Wales being way out ahead of the rest of the UK when it comes to integrating its transport system, hopefully this report will make the case... We're doing a classic page turn of the Welsh Government's Roadmap to Bus Reform report, covering network, timetable, and ticket integration. Lees meer
Let's see how good these plans are!
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#Railnatter Episode 211: Britain's SUV problem
17 april 2024 · 1 uur 19 min
I often rant and rail about SUVs - you know, the cars designed to maximise the harm they cause to other road users - but what is the data behind the proliferation of these hugely damaging vehicles. Why are so many being sold? What are some of the consequences? Lees meer
Thankfully, an actual expert is joining us this week to dive into the numbers - Ralph Palmer is the UK electric vehicles and fleet lead officer for Europe's leading sustainable transport NGO, Transport & Environment. I'm excited to chat to him!
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#Railnatter Episode 210: Joby Aviation Will* Save Us (and other nonsense)
10 april 2024 · 1 uur 35 min
As ever, quite a lot has happened since we last caught up with the news... Not least that vapourware VTOL grifters Joby Aviation have convinced the British government that flying taxis are the future at the expense of anything else. It's another news episode! Lees meer
*I lied, they won't.
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#Railnatter Episode 209: How To Become A Freight Train Driver
3 april 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
This week we've the pleasure of welcoming back Bessie Matthews, train driver, author, illustrator, columnist and all-round railway industry treasure. Lees meer
In her career so far, she's navigated a good slice of the rail industry, and so we'll take the chance to explore her story so far and see what she's learned...
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#Railnatter Episode 208: Everything You Wanted To Know About New Trains
27 maart 2024 · 1 uur 48 min
After our first pause in four years, 200+ episodes, 280 hours and countless guests, we're back again (we only skipped three weeks!)... And I'm very pleased to welcome Robin Davis onto the show to talk all things Designing New Trains. Lees meer
Robin has presided over the introduction of several new intercity train fleets over successive generations of rolling stock design, and there's not a lot about designing trains that he doesn't know - so who better to quiz with all of your questions?
See you all LIVE on the 27th!
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#Railnatter Episode 207: What is to become of Great British Railways?
28 februari 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
The UK government have finally published their plans for Great British Railways, or rather, the hollow shell of the original proposals, now called the Integrated Rail Body. If it's anything like the Integrated Rail Plan, we are in for trouble. Lees meer
Much as these plans are intended not to be enacted, the likelihood is that Labour will pick them up and deliver them largely intact, so it actually is worth us digging into them. We can also learn what a better structure might look like by picking through everything that is broken with these proposals, too.
So all in all this should be a really useful episode... Probably not one to miss! And it will be LIVE!
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#Railnatter Episode 206: California’s hydrogen train hell (and other news stories)
21 februari 2024 · 1 uur 27 min
CalTrain are pressing ahead with their completely bizarre obsession with hydrogen as a means of powering commuter and intercity trains. It is completely baffling. And it isn't the only nonsense that's been going down over the last few weeks! Lees meer
Join us as we chat about ROSCO profits, devolved mayors talking big, Euston station's big horrible LED billboard, London Overground's new line names, corruption on Greece's railways, progress on Levenmouth's rail link and a quick mention of the demise of Great British Railways (more next week)...
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#Railnatter Episode 205: When British Rail Ran Boats (a brief history of Sealink et al)
14 februari 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
A much requested topic - we are going to dive into the waters of when British Rail ran boats (ships) in the form of British Rail Shipping and International Services, then Sealink UK, then Sealink British Ferries, then Stena Sealink Line, then Stena Line, then... Well, you get the picture. We'll try to demystify things. Lees meer
If you like boats (ships), arguably the trains of the sea, then this is the episode for you!
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#Railnatter Episode 204: Apprentice Question Time
7 februari 2024 · 1 uur 4 min
It's @Youngrailpro Rail Week! In the fourth (we missed one last year) of our YRP Rail Week specials, we are joined by the most guests we've ever squeezed into the format. Five mid-career panelists (most of whom are also former apprentices) are quizzed about building a career in the railway by an audience of current apprentices - because YES, it is also National Apprenticeship Week. And the questions are BRILLIANT. Lees meer
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#Railnatter Episode 203: The (long) history of the Transpennine Route Upgrade
31 januari 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Why is the railway network in the North so abysmal? Well, a lot of it comes down to a rather dismal series of bad policy decisions made through the 1990s and 2000s inflicted by - you guessed it - the over-centralised UK government. Constant cancellations of previous projects has led us to the point where the current "TRU" is only going to finish delivering its outputs in the 2030s, over 50 years after the project was originally mooted. Lees meer
This week, we'll look at that history and working out where things could have been done differently...
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#Railnatter Episode 202: Digging into the failure stats for the Great Western
24 januari 2024 · 1 uur 14 min
There's plenty of news to catch up on, but the big question we'll be answering this episode is "are track defects a particular problem on the Great Western?" - and we'll answer this by looking at data freely available on the @office-of-rail-and-road's online data portal, accessible here: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/ Lees meer
Join LIVE to find out the answer and to pitch in!
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#Railnatter Episode 201: Getting ready for the All Ireland Rail Review
17 januari 2024 · 1 uur 17 min
This has been much requested given the number of viewers from Ireland - to warm us up in advance of the release of the All Ireland Strategic Rail Review at some point in Spring, I thought we'd flick through the consultation paper (which is really good!) as well as getting our heads around the geography of the island of Ireland. Lees meer
We'll use our patented* population network method to work out what the ideal railway system should look like, as well as considering the suburban needs of the big cities. There will be maps!
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#Railnatter Episode 200: Every episode of #Railnatter so far (episodes 100-199, summarised)
10 januari 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
It's our official 200th episode! How have we got here?! Lees meer
To celebrate, I'm running back through the previous episodes since the Episode 100 round-up - but this time not in running order. We'll group episodes with common themes to see if we can remember what we learnt - and if we've learnt anything new since...
Watch the Episode 100 round-up: • #RailNatter | Episode 100: Every epis...
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#Railnatter Episode 199: Hyperloop One is gone but when will this nonsense die?
3 januari 2024 · 1 uur 18 min
Now I've been going at Hyperloop's jugular for years now, and suffice to say it remains total and utter nonsense unworthy of any technological debate and only marginally worth one at all. We all know it is guff intended to both delay real railway solutions and to allow car and plane people a seat at governmental and regulatory "mass transit" tables. Lees meer
Yet Hyperloop refuses to die. Even when probably its most well-known company has now bitten the dust, entirely as predicted. Well, we'll dig into why this might be, and will take a look at the current status of all of the Hyperloop players.
Join LIVE at 8pm UK time to get stuck in, ask questions, and hope collectively that 2024 is the year Hyperloop finally snuffs it. Also to toast what is technically our 200th episode!
See all of the stuff Gareth has written about Hyperloop: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Agarethdennis%20%23loopyhype&src=recent_search_click&f=live
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#Railnatter Episode 198: Should Britain stop closing the railway at Christmas?
27 december 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Now this one really is festive - and it will be live, so you are very much encouraged to bring along your favourite festive tipple... We're asking the big Christmas questions: should the railway shut down around Christmas, and should we concentrate the vast majority of our engineering works over a period when so many people make the sorts of trips the railway is perfectly placed to cater for, and at a time when weather and blood-alcohol levels are at their most dangerous? Lees meer
Join LIVE to share your thoughts, ask your questions and generally try to hash out an answer... See you at 8pm!
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#Railnatter Episode 197: The Tubular Tale Of Torksey Viaduct
20 december 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
Gather round the hearth for the first of our (still live!) festive episodes... This time we are exploring the story of the Torksey Viaduct, a tale which navigates the intertwining histories of railway companies, engineers, bridge design, competency, Megawatt Valley and more besides. Lees meer
Grab a mince pie, pour a port, and listen in!
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#Railnatter Episode 196: A rage-turn of the UK’s ”Plan for Drivers”
13 december 2023 · 1 uur 17 min
The UK government's "Plan For Drivers" didn't end up being as popular as they thought it might be... For a festive treat, this week's episode is doing a traditional page turn of what we at Natter Towers are sure is a well thought-through piece of long-term transport policy* - join us at the usual time to take a look for yourselves! Lees meer
*we do not think this
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#Railnatter Episode 195: How to draw transit maps in PowerPoint
6 december 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
Lots of people have been asking for this one! You may notice I use a lot of maps and diagrams on here, on Twitter, and elsewhere too... People act surprised when I tell them I do them all in PowerPoint, because it is the best tool for the job in most cases! Lees meer
To get a free, interactive tutorial via the medium of me making up a few maps on the hoof, join LIVE on Wednesday at 8pm... Suggestions are coming in via the Discord server (link below) for where those maps are, by the way, and the Bristol Metro is one of the favourites!
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#Railnatter Episode 194: Digging into Britain’s passenger rail usage data
29 november 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
The Department for Transport have stopped up the datafeed that gives us the UK's full rail passenger ridership, so instead we're going to take a whizz through the ORR's latest passenger rail usage report to give us a feel for what's going on, how demand is looking across rail operators, and what this means when we think about the future. Lees meer
Join LIVE at 8pm on Wednesday!
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#Railnatter Episode 193: An illustrated history of Jersey’s tram and railways
22 november 2023 · 1 uur 15 min
This week, friend of the show Zach joins us to talk about the tramways and railways of Jersey, what they looked like at their zenith and what became of them... We'll even have a stab at reckoning if there's a good case for bringing them back! Lees meer
Join LIVE at 8pm on Wednesday!
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#Railnatter Episode 192: A page-turn through the Salisbury rail crash report
15 november 2023 · 1 uur 34 min
Two years ago, two Class 158 trains crashed into each other at Salisbury Tunnel Junction following an extreme storm. Lees meer
This week, we'll read through the recently published RAIB report to understand what happened and why - vegetation management and low adhesion will be big themes...
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#Railnatter Episode 191: It’s forty years since the UK built its first high speed line
8 november 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
On the 3rd October 1983, the UK's first modern high speed line was fully opened between Doncaster and York... Lees meer
Chris Valkoinen from the @NatRailwayMuseum contacted us to say he'd found a pile of technical drawings relating to the Selby Diversion and suggested we take a look - so that's precisely what this #Railnatter shall do in celebration of this momentous occasion!
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#Railnatter Episode 190: Thirty years of privatisation and what should happen next
1 november 2023 · 1 uur 28 min
On the 5th November 1993 (remember, remember, etc) the Railways Act 1993 received royal assent, and the wheels were truly set in motion for the atomisation of British Rail... An event that would lead us right into the mess we have today. Lees meer
To "celebrate" its 30th anniversary, I thought we'd have split tonight's show into two parts. The first will be a page-turn of the dismal white paper (New Opportunities For The Railways) co-authored by the @adamsmithinstitute and @hmtreasuryuk that gave us the industry structure we have today. The second will be a discussion of how we unpick the mess and how the next government should prioritise its fixing of Britain's railways.
Join LIVE on Weds at the new slot of 8pm!
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#Railnatter Episode 189: What the heck else has been happening?! (it’s a news ep!)
25 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 53 min
It's been ages since we've properly caught up with the news, so here's a massive run through of everything that has caught my eye since before I disappeared off on parental leave... Lees meer
We'll be talking HS2 (again), Headbolt Lane, the Plan For Drivers, digging up the M8 in Glasgow, electric Class 08 shunters, Superloop, HS2, Station Hall, Harper's Tin Foil Hat and the imminent doom currently hanging over all of us.
Join the fun, LIVE on Weds at the new (possibly temporary) slot of 8pm - that's EIGHT O'CLOCK UK TIME!
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#RailNatter Episode 188: Why is UK infrastructure so slow and costly to build?
18 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 27 min
In what will certainly not be the only episode we do on the title subject, I wanted to chew through the research done by Sam Dumitriu and Ben Hopkinson not too long ago... They looked at project costs, trying (and failing, in my view) to get to the bottom of why things cost so much more to deliver in the UK. Lees meer
I'll pick through their report and explain why their suggestion that cost is why nothing gets done in the UK is pretty far off the mark, and is at minimum a case of the tail wagging the dog, hypothesis-wise.
Sam and Ben's blog on the subject: https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/britains-infrastructure-is-too-expensive
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#RailNatter Episode 187: HS2 has been cancelled, so what happens next? (a Q&A)
11 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 11 min
Well, as predicted by me in 2018, and then essentially confirmed as inevitable two years ago on release of the Integrated Rail Plan, this Conservative government of Hunt, Sunak and Harper have cancelled HS2, leaving the most expensive section between London and Birmingham as a rump to be picked at by Treasury vampires until it is impossible to deliver the full scheme. Lees meer
There's so much to talk about, so rather than going though anything in a structured way, let's make this an open Q&A like our first episode many moons ago... It's the first PROPER LIVE one in a long while, so tune in and let's go!
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#RailNatter Episode 186: Putting geofencing to good use to improve track safety
4 oktober 2023 · 59 min
We are joined by the founder and CEO of Tended, Leo Scott Smith, to talk about how you turn an idea into a solution that can save lives... And we'll talk a bit about how the railway forms the perfect filter to sort pointless from purposeful tech. Lees meer
Geofencing is used pretty widely these days, but protecting staff on track is a particularly tricky and critical application - and this is where Tended come in. Join LIVE at 7pm on Wednesday!
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#RailNatter Episode 185: Why the UK aviation industry is in steep decline
27 september 2023 · 1 uur 28 min
In what might prove to be another cornerstone episode of #RailNatter, Dr Alex Chapman from @theneweconomics discusses his research into the economic benefits of the aviation industry to the UK... Or rather the fact that there aren't any. Lees meer
Seriously - this is fascinating stuff and lays bare the ideology behind the disproportionate subsidy of the airline industry in the UK and further afield... All while rail continues to have funding cut in real terms. Not to be missed!
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#RailNatter Episode 184: A Wander Around Wonderlab (the NRM’s new gallery)
22 september 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
Join @MrTimDunn and me as we dash around the @NatRailwayMuseum's new gallery - Wonderlab - in the only way we both know how... Chaotically! We have the most tremendous fun whizzing around what I think is likely to be my second favourite space in the NRM after the warehouse/North Shed, BECAUSE THIS SPACE IS SO GOOD (particularly for me as an infrastructure person)! Lees meer
Want to know what it is all about? Well, we show you almost everything we can in the space of an hour, with an interview with Wonerlab's brilliant lead interactive curator Rose Mockford and genius Leeds-based artist Pippa Hale thrown in for some nice context. If ever there was a way to physically explore the inside of my head, this is it.
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#RailNatter Episode 183: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Kolašin to Bar
13 september 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
It's the finale of our three-part odyssey through the former Yugoslavia, following one of the world's most scenic railways from Belgrade in present-day Serbia to Bar in present-day Montenegro. Lees meer
We've reached the highest point of the line, and only have a limited length of line to get back down to sea level... And there are a few feats of spectacular engineering required to get us there!
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#RailNatter Episode 182: Electric vehicle chargers should be kept off pavements
6 september 2023 · 1 uur 40 min
Leo Murray has finally joined us to talk about the latest invasion of car infrastructure onto our pavements - that's right, electric vehicle charging points are the latest menace we are having to negotiate. Lees meer
But given we do actually need these things to be installed, how do we go about it? What's the scale of the problem? And what does "good" look like?
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#RailNatter Episode 181: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Užice to Kolašin
30 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 17 min
It's the second of a three-part odyssey through the former Yugoslavia, following one of the world's most scenic railways from Belgrade in present-day Serbia to Bar in present-day Montenegro. Lees meer
We're truly nestled in the heart of the mountains in western Serbia at this point, and indeed we take a wee trip into Bosnia before eventually ending up in Montenegro... This time we journey from Užice to Kolašin.
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#RailNatter Episode 180: Ban Private Jets, Make The World Better
23 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
I'm very pleased this week to have been joined by Hannah Lawrence from Stay Grounded, talking about the legitimacy of flying, the inequality of flying, and campaigning against the worst excesses of aviation. Lees meer
There will be infographics galore! It's a great episode!
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#RailNatter Episode 179: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Belgrade to Užice
16 augustus 2023 · 55 min
It's the first of a three-part odyssey through the former Yugoslavia, following one of the world's most scenic railways from Belgrade in present-day Serbia to Bar in present-day Montenegro. Lees meer
This is the first three hours of the trip, distilled down by an enormous factor into a... one hour episode. We get from Belgrade to Užice.
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#RailNatter Episode 178: How do you build a modern train simulator game?
9 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 31 min
This week, we're joined by two of the Dovetail Games team to talk all things train simulation... Matt Peddlesden (executive producer) and Joseph Rogers (brand manager for Train Sim World, WSR volunteer) will take us on an odyssey of discovery on how you research, develop and expand train simulation games! Lees meer
Join me and the Dovetail Games crew LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm to ask your questions!
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