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#RailNatter Episode 177: Are any of the ”new” HS2 eastern leg options good?
2 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
HS2 has, once again, been in the news, now that the Infrastructure Projects Authority (not beer related) has said the project may be unachievable, which won't be news to viewers of course. Anyway, government has responded to the Transport Select Committee's IRP report, and several Yorkshire councils have published their proposals for getting HS2 trains up to Leeds and the North East. Lees meer
Basically, a bit of an HS2 update is required, so join LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm to get involved!
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#RailNatter Episode 176: A Week In The Life Of A Railway Managing Director
26 juli 2023 · 1 uur 36 min
This week #RailNatter is joined by the managing director of ScotRail - or rather, of Scotland's Railway, the alliance of organisations that run rail services in Scotland. That's right - Alex Hynes is joining us to talk about the direction that Scotland's railways are going in, balancing the needs of policymakers and operations, and what exactly the current structure of Scottish railway operations is. Lees meer
Join LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm.
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#RailNatter Episode 175: Dave Grohl Takes The Train (and other news stories)
19 juli 2023 · 1 uur 19 min
It's a news episode, and there's so much to catch up on... more HS2 mess, bad on-demand buses, the continuing demise of Translohr, the dreadful Odisha train crash in India, diminishing pay across the GB rail industry, and so much more. Lees meer
Join LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm.
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#RailNatter Episode 174: How to make railway fandom a bit more inclusive
12 juli 2023 · 59 min
We've the delight this week of being joined by Emily Turner of @roundelroundwego to talk about railway and transport fandom, what it is, how some of its tropes can be off-putting, and how making it more inclusive is a bonus for everyone involved... Including industry itself. Lees meer
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#RailNatter Episode 173: The Great British Ticket Office Closure
5 juli 2023 · 58 min
In a very last minute change to the schedule, we are in fact going to do a good old fashioned #RailNatter Q&A on today's horrible news about ticket office closures. Lees meer
Get your ragey questions ready and join the show LIVE at 7pm to get stuck in!
Useful RMT campaign page with all the various consultation links: https://www.rmt.org.uk/campaigns/rail/save-ticket-offices/
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#RailNatter Episode 172: A Case Study In Being Wary Of The Hydrogen Hype
28 juni 2023 · 46 min
This week we are joined by Juliet Phillips from E3G to talk about how hydrogen has been disrupting the home heating market... and not for the better. It's a sorry tale that we in transportation should pay close attention to. Lees meer
Join LIVE at 7pm on Wednesday!
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#RailNatter Episode 171: It’s The 120th Birthday Of The Windscreen Wiper
21 juni 2023 · 32 min
It's a fun one, and some engineering history for you all... 120 years ago, give or take a few days, the patent was placed for what would become the modern windscreen wiper, a vital safety device that we all take for granted. Lees meer
But how many of them can I find in the @NatRailwayMuseum ? Why do we know of so few women inventors? Why do I always end up in the Warehouse?
All questions I'll attempt to tackle LIVE(ish) at 7pm on Wednesday - and there'll be challenges for you, the viewer!
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#RailNatter Episode 170: What went wrong at the National College for High Speed Rail?
14 juni 2023 · 59 min
In sad news, a vital facility for plugging the UK rail skills gap has been abandoned to rot... But why? Lees meer
We'll talk about how the college came about, its poor management from the off, the non-existent strategic planning that led to its demise, and will remind ourselves of what we've lost.
Join LIVE at 7pm on Wednesday!
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#RailNatter Episode 169: Achieving zero emissions with more mobility and less mining
7 juni 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
This week we are talking all things mobility and mining, and we've the absolute pleasure of being joined by Thea Riofrancos, Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College. Lees meer
With her research being focused on resource extraction, renewable energy, climate change, green technology and social movements, she's the perfect person to explain why building our transport future around resource-intensive technologies such as lithium batteries is a non-starter, and indeed that we should be pushing back against it as hard as we can.
Join us LIVE at 7pm UK time!
Link to the More Mobility, Less Mining project: https://www.climateandcommunity.org/more-mobility-less-mining
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#RailNatter Episode 168: Driverless lies leave Tesla in a muddle
31 mei 2023 · 48 min
Okay, so we won't just be talking about Elon Musk fumbling the bag... It's a news episode and there's plenty to catch up on! Lees meer
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#RailNatter Episode 167: Why do crossing noses crack?
24 mei 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Our very special pilgrimage site of Colton Junction suffered a catastrophic (but all too common) failure this week, and so it seems like a good chance to talk about crossing noses, what they are, why they fail and how we can stop them failing. Lees meer
May or may not include gratuitous imagery of Colton Junction's fabulous equal splits.
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#RailNatter Episode 166: Two half-forgotten but important railway crashes from the 1980s
17 mei 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
This week we are looking at two rail crashes, one at Pitlochry in Scotland and another at Pershore in Worcestershire, that took place in the 1980s. Lees meer
Thankfully, neither involved serious injuries, but both incidents can teach us a few things, despite having been mostly forgotten... Including the unforeseen side-effects of introducing new bits into dynamic engineering systems like railways.
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#RailNatter Episode 165: What really happened when the Tesco tunnel collapsed?
10 mei 2023 · 1 uur 29 min
This week's #RailNatter is a return to Gerrards Cross and all the shenanigans that led a tunnel with a Tesco on it to collapse onto a live railway... Lees meer
Why did the HSE not publish their original report? Well, thanks to an intrepid fan of the show, we've finally got hold of it! We'll be lawyering up as we flick through the pages of the draft report and stare in horror and the engineering negligence that nearly led to a multi-fatality rail disaster.
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#RailNatter Episode 164: Should you go fast or slow over a collapsed rail bridge?
3 mei 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
It's an age-old question... A rail bridge is out, only the rails are left, so do you take the train fast or slow over the bridge? Lees meer
There's a lot to think about: gravity, dynamics, waves, stiffness, materials, energy, vibrations... All combine to give us the answer. But what is it? It's slow - you obviously drive slowly over the dang bridge! Anyway, hopefully this will explain why!
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#RailNatter Episode 163: Just how much more public transport does the UK need?
26 april 2023 · 1 uur 6 min
Last week, the TUC published their report "Public transport fit for the climate emergency" and, in classic #RailNatter style, we are going to sift through it page by page! Lees meer
Having only really flicked through it up to this point, this report appears to dig deeper into my "rail capacity needs to double by 2050" figure and comes out showing this looks to actually be an underestimate. Union researchers are pretty rigorous, and so I'm keen to see what they've found...
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#RailNatter Episode 162: Using weird transport systems to break the #NotAMetro sorter
19 april 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
It's another #NotAMetro episode! This time, though, we are diving into the strangest transport systems to see if we can break the #NotAMetro sorter... Lees meer
Intensive bus services, monorails, airport doodads, all welcome! Throw your most bonkers urban transit solution at me, LIVE!
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#RailNatter Episode 161: The Five Ways That High Speed 2 Should Have Been Better
12 april 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
As one of the UK's most prominent pro-HS2 voices, you might be under the impression that I think the proposals (the pre-Integrated Rail Plan ones, anyway) are flawless and couldn't be improved upon... Well, that couldn't be further from the truth. Lees meer
But what are the five most significant design shortcomings of High Speed 2, as I see it? You'll have to join LIVE to find out!
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#RailNatter Episode 160: Reshaping At 60, and Beeching’s Real Legacy
5 april 2023 · 1 uur 20 min
Last week was the sixtieth anniversary of the release of The Reshaping of British Railways, and everyone was talking about it... I had to dig deeper into the legacy of this document, and of its author, for a piece in RAIL, and in doing so I had a chance to further re-evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Dr Beeching's proposals... Lees meer
Yes, it's our third Beeching episode! Join LIVE to get involved in the fun.
Read my full piece here: https://garethdennis.medium.com/the-r...
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#RailNatter Episode 159: Why Britain’s railway headquarters WON’T be in Derby
29 maart 2023 · 1 uur 5 min
It's a news episode! We're headlining with talking about the Great British Railways HQ announcement - apparently, they will be basing 100 roles (?) in Derby, probably (and rightly) in the old Railway Technical Centre. Lees meer
They can plonk a flag in Derby, but while the industry is in the shape it currently is, the headquarters will never actually be in Derby... Join LIVE to hash this one out!
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#RailNatter Episode 158: There’s no such thing as the ”last mile problem”
22 maart 2023 · 55 min
We're back! This week we return to the studio to attempt to demystify the supposedly intractable "last mile problem" that is oft repeated by policymakers, technoprats and car people. Lees meer
What is it? Why doesn't it really exist? Why do people keep saying it does? Let's take a look!
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#RailNatter Episode 157: Why does the UK find it so hard to integrate transport modes?
15 maart 2023 · 1 uur 20 min
We talk about it a lot, but what is "integrated transport" when it isn't just a meaningless buzzword? Why is the UK so bad at doing it? Lees meer
Transport researcher Martha Lauren joins us to talk about this history of truly integrated transport, including how the UK was actually ahead of its time until bus deregulation ruined everything...
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#RailNatter Episode 156: What’s happening at the National Railway Museum?
8 maart 2023 · 36 min
The @NatRailwayMuseum in York is hallowed ground for me and is loved by nearly a million visitors a year, but it has always struggled with being more of a collection than a museum. Lees meer
Vision 2025 will be a great leap forwards in the ability of the museum to tell the story of the railways rather than just telling the story of its objects... And it is happening now!
With the sound of saws and hammers ringing around us, I have a chat with the brilliant Charlotte Kingston (the NRM's head of design, exhibitions and communications) to understand what's happening and what's next.
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#RailNatter Episode 155: Perfection and imperfection on the Underground
1 maart 2023 · 1 uur 10 min
After nearly three years, Luke Agbaimoni returns to #RailNatter to talk about his second book, "London Underground Symmetry & Imperfections". Once again, he's given us a tease of some of the photographs we can find in the book, and we walk and talk our way through each, exploring the aesthetic sublime of London's public transport systems. Lees meer
Make sure to follow Luke on Instagram, and you can find links to buy Tube Mapper Book 2 here: https://tubemapper.com/tube-mapper-ph...
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#RailNatter Episode 154: An Odyssey of Historical Curiosity
22 februari 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
This week, I'm delighted to be joined by Bob Gwynne, the National Railway Museum's associate curator, on an odyssey of historical curiosity, picking out questions from our past historical #RailNatter episodes (which you can find in the relevant playlist by the way)... Lees meer
Watch Bob and the team on camera at @NatRailwayMuseum.
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#RailNatter Episode 153: High Speed 2 - taking a look inside a tunnel boring machine
15 februari 2023 · 42 min
Precisely one year ago, a few folks and I had the delight of a tour inside one of HS2's tunnel boring machines as it scoured its way underneath Long Itchington Wood in Warwickshire... And what a spectacular experience it was! Lees meer
Hopefully I'll capture some of that excitement and energy as I bring you along on the tour with me... And will I unlock the mystery of the pink helmet?
Watch @geofftech2's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wM6v...
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#RailNatter Episode 152: How Britain’s post-war intercity rail network should have looked
8 februari 2023 · 1 uur 20 min
After WW2 and nationalisation, Britain's railway operations essentially assumed their 1923 structure and shape, and this may not have led to the best outcomes... When it came to infrastructure, each company may have had their main line, but were these the best routes when you took a view of Britain as a whole? Lees meer
This episode we'll have a look, courtesy of some serious map explorations!
Download the Google Earth map file here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pg1yvt2zy0dcmc3/%23RailNatter_Ep152.kmz?dl=1
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#RailNatter Episode 151: How does modal shift work?
1 februari 2023 · 1 uur 17 min
I talk about it a lot, but what is modal shift, how does it work, and why is it both a critical tool and a critical outcome of enhancing and expanding public transport? Lees meer
We'll be page-turning Greengauge21's report on the subject, mostly covering HS2 but also considering high speed rail and its wider released capacity benefits.
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#RailNatter Episode 150: Things Are Going Just Great
25 januari 2023 · 1 uur 21 min
Returning champion Bonnie Price is joining us to go through The News, since quite a bit has been happening since the holidays. Government data obfuscation, strikes, European shenanigans... Bonnie and I will chew through it and see if there's some light at the end of the tunnel! Lees meer
It's not all bad, either... There'll be some fun stuff as well!
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#RailNatter Episode 149: Light Rail Does Not Exist (and other #NotAMetro fun)
18 januari 2023 · 1 uur 16 min
People are still talking about "light railways" as if those actually, meaningfully exist. In this episode, I'll explain why THEY DON'T! Lees meer
We'll look at why it is useful to avoid daft, meaningless names for types of transport, we'll talk about how unhelpful the Light Railways Act is, and in turn we'll shout at the Germanosphere for propagating the use of names such as "Stadtbahn" and so on... All via the still-working #NotAMetro sorter!
As ever, think up and send in your edge cases to try and break the sorter...
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#RailNatter Episode 148: Every* way that the Railways Act 1993 has resulted in today’s mess
11 januari 2023 · 1 uur 24 min
It's the 30th anniversary year of the Railways Act 1993 - the legal instrument that formally privatised Britain's railway system. In the first of probably quite a few episodes on the subject, we'll be looking at the history of Britain's railways from 1990 to today... Lees meer
We'll pick out why privatisation happened the way it did, who was responsible for it, how that lined everything up to fail, and how pretty much all of today's problems can be attributed to the mess that was the Railways Act 1993.
If you're an academic, you'll have free access to the paper I've just written on this subject for @IpprOrg here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
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#RailNatter Episode 147: European railways and the ”implementation gap”
4 januari 2023 · 1 uur 26 min
Happy New Year! #RailNatter is kicking off 2023 with a visit from Jon Worth, online communications and policy specialist, who has been blogging and vlogging about the EU and its railways for a long while now... Lees meer
Together, we'll discuss his experiences through 2022, where his #CrossBorderRail project explored the mess that mainland Europe's railway connections are in... There are problems at both the micro and macro levels, and we'll try to tackle both.
#CrossBorderRail website: https://crossborderrail.trainsforeuro...
Jon's blog: https://jonworth.eu/ Jon's #CrossBorderRail route map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/...
Jon's #CrossBorderRail crossings map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/...
Jon's #CrossBorderRail Top 20 map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/...
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#RailNatter Episode 146: An Advent of Oddities
28 december 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
Yuletide greetings all! This time, you lovely lot are getting a live show in the midst of the holidays, as we are joined by returning champion Emily Turner from @roundelroundwego for some more festive gluposti... Lees meer
This time we will be opening the doors of our #RailNatter Advent of Oddities to hear from past versions of ourselves as well as a few chums. Let's see if this works at all - join LIVE and bring your favourite tipple!
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#RailNatter Episode 145: A Mostly British History of Concrete Sleepers
21 december 2022 · 1 uur 39 min
This week, #RailNatter is diving back into the Deep Lore of Railways, with a proper techy session on the origin of concrete sleepers (starting international, ending British)... Lees meer
Want to know where they came from, and how they developed? Join us LIVE on Weds/7pm!
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#RailNatter Episode 144: Should We Abolish The Treasury?
14 december 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
This week's #RailNatter is finally tackling the big question: should we abolish the Treasury? Luckily, Stian Westlake is joining us to attempt to give an answer! Lees meer
Why should we do it? What would take its place? Is this a daft suggestion, or is there a meaningful, constitutional benefit to obliterating the department that arguably has caused the UK the most damage throughout its history?
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#RailNatter Episode 143: Amtrak Joe Lets The Side Down (and other tales of woe)
7 december 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
Well, he only went and did it. The USA's "most labor friendly president" has just used executive legislation to break a strike and ensure rail workers continue to be horrendously exploited until they just leave the industry. Lees meer
There's also a lot of other stuff going on, some good, some bad. We'll see what the new Secretary of State for Transport (Mark Harper) is all about. We'll also see how easily buses could be made free in the UK.
Watch the @BadFaithPodcast episode I refer to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyaCB...
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#RailNatter Episode 142: Where The North Needs Wires (a guide to Northern electrification)
30 november 2022 · 1 uur 27 min
This week, #RailNatter is joined by returning champion Simon Kendler to talk all things electrification... Where should wires go? When should they go up? Lees meer
Having put a lot of work behind the scenes into RIA North's new Greener Faster Better report, Simon will talk us through what the process was, and we'll talk wider rail policy given everything else that's going on. We'll try and keep this one optimistic!
Find Simon's thread here: https://twitter.com/SimonZev/status/1...
Download the report here: https://www.riagb.org.uk/RIA/Newsroom...
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#RailNatter Episode 141: The Big Budget Meltdown (and what’s next for the UK)
23 november 2022 · 57 min
The UK has had another budget - it may, on the face of it, have seemed like a return to the boring nothingness of pre-Boris times, but it actually means increased cuts, reductions in investment, and more overall malaise with zero vision for the future. Lees meer
What does it mean for transport specifically? This week's #RailNatter will pick through the Autumn Statement to see if there's anything to be optimistic about.
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#RailNatter Episode 140: The permanence of the permanent way and why people prefer trams to buses
16 november 2022 · 1 uur 49 min
This week's #RailNatter sees returning champion Dr Kevin Tennent help us tackle one of the big questions in the transport world... Why do people prefer trams (real ones) to buses? Why does fixed infrastructure drive greater modal shift than vehicles on roads only? Lees meer
We'll look at why a "permanent way" is important (and also what it is), but also why it isn't the only variable that gets people out of cars and onto public transport.
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#RailNatter Episode 139: How to fix Britain’s broken railways
9 november 2022 · 52 min
This week's #RailNatter sees the return of GUESTS (now the technology is mostly fixed)... Lees meer
We've the pleasure of Tom Haines-Doran's company, talking about his new book "Derailed: How to Fix Britain's Broken Railways" - given the state of the railways, somewhat relevant I'd say! We'll be touching on worker rights, the state of management, fares, money and what on earth the railways are actually for... Not to be missed!
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#RailNatter Episode 138: That time an HST derailed TWICE in Dalwhinnie (a page-turn)
2 november 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
RAIB recently published their report into the derailment of an High Speed Train at Dalwhinnie on the Highland Main Line... Thankfully this happened at low speed, but only by luck. Lees meer
This week's #RailNatter digs into the report and sees what we can learn, and whether industry is likely to repeat this calamity again.
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#RailNatter Episode 137: Taking the train from York to Mansfield (only to drive back again)
26 oktober 2022 · 38 min
I'm off on US shenanigans right now, so here's a very strange #RailNatter where I meander from York to Mansfield on the train, then drive back again. Lees meer
Why on earth did I do this? You'll have to watch (if you care)... But we'll be covering HS2's eastern leg (again), suburban services, electric cars, Rail Alphabet 2, the Jacobean Style and Robin Hood. A feast, or chaos. Probably both.
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#RailNatter Episode 136: A look at (probably) all of Britain’s moveable railway bridges
19 oktober 2022 · 52 min
This week's #RailNatter is talking swing bridges, bascule bridges, sliding bridges... Because we're attempting to provide an exhaustive list of Britain's moveable railway bridges that are (a) still in use and (b) largely in the same form as it was when it functioned, even if it has been welded shut. Lees meer
How many are there? Will I miss any? It's anyone's guess... Join LIVE to find out!
Watch @Network Rail 's terrific little video on the Goole (Skelton) Swing Bridge here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzeTidU0INA
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#RailNatter Episode 135: What happened when cracks grounded the Hitachi UK fleet?
12 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 24 min
This week, #RailNatter is dipping into what already feels like ancient history... The Hitachi UK train fleet was grounded by cracking over a year ago, resulting in widespread disruption and the withdrawal of large numbers of trains across the country. Lees meer
The @Office of Rail and Road undertook an investigation into the causes and the required actions - and the report they subsequently published is what we are going to dig into together...
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#RailNatter Episode 134: What might/should UK Labour’s ”nationalised” railway look like?
5 oktober 2022 · 1 uur
We're back in the studio for this week's episode, and not a moment too soon... The UK @Labour Party has formally announced that it is retaining its policy of railway nationalisation, which begs a number of questions, first of which has to be "what does this mean?" - so #RailNatter is going to see what Labour might mean, and what they should mean, by rail nationalisation. Lees meer
There'll be a bit of other news to catch up on as well.
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#RailNatter Episode 133: Skills gap? What skills gap? 3
28 september 2022 · 56 min
This week's #RailNatter comes to you from the @London Transport Museum - and I'm very pleased to say I'm joined by not one, not two but THREE @Young Rail Professionals head honchos... Why? Well, it's #RailWeek once again, and this time we are getting in ahead of kick-off to talk all things railway industry employment. Lees meer
We'll remind ourselves what Rail Week is all about, we'll look at all of the events happening this year, we'll tackle the enormous "the industry is in turmoil" elephant in the room, and we'll even have a self-guided tour of the LTM at running speed!
Head to the events section of the YRP website here: https://www.youngrailpro.com/page/events
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#RailNatter Episode 132: US railroads can be Bad, Actually
21 september 2022 · 3 uur 16 min
This week we are joined by none other than Justin Roczniak (a.k.a. @donoteat01 from @Well There's Your Problem Podcast), who will guide us through everything wrong with US railroads and why things have reached breaking point for railroad workers, to the point where the whole US teeters on the brink of a national rail strike. Lees meer
Last time out we looked at what is actually pretty good about US railroads. This time: we'll be doing the opposite. Join #RailNatter LIVE to ask Justin your questions!
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#RailNatter Episode 131: New government, new ministers, but what’s next for UK rail?
14 september 2022 · 1 uur 18 min
Well, a lot has happened in the last month. A new Prime Minister. A new Secretary of State for Transport. New ministers. And given that our special boy, Grant Shapps, made Great British Railways his own personal mission, is anybody else going to want to deliver it? Lees meer
The current state of the UK also has wider implications on railways, too... The cost of living crisis is genuinely unprecedented, and the impact is going to be crippling, even with Liz Truss's announced bolstering of the energy industry.
In any case - #RailNatter will be picking through as much of this as we can!
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#RailNatter Episode 130: How engineers made the Great Western Britain’s first 125mph railway line
7 september 2022 · 1 uur 31 min
Britain's first modern high speed line may have been the Selby Diversion. Its first 300km/h line may have been High Speed 1. But the first inter-city railway that embodied the design elements we see of high speed lines today was - arguably - the Great Western Railway. 130 years after its opening it also became Britain's first 200km/h railway. Lees meer
It may have been over-engineered by Brunel, but this was very much in the favour of the engineers of the 1970s when they upgraded much of the GWR for 125mph running... This week's #RailNatter looks at what these upgrades involved - and we'll think on what we can learn from these works today.
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#RailNatter Episode 129: Not quite ten of mainland Europe’s missing high speed rail links
31 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 11 min
Jon Stone and I are joining the dots in this week's #RailNatter... Where on our side of Europe would really benefit from a new high speed link? Lees meer
We trip our way across from Sweden to Spain, from Swindon to Serbia in search of the answers. This is most certainly an incomplete list. But the real challenges aren't perhaps the physical infrastructure, but the political unimaginativeness of our leaders.
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#RailNatter Episode 128: Have Stadler really built Britain’s best train fleet?
24 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 32 min
This week's #RailNatter is answering the ultimate (?) question - are Stadler's FLIRTs Britain's best train? Lees meer
Joining me on this quest shall be friend of the show Simon Kendler, who shall guide you and me on an odyssey into the east...
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