#Railnatter
By Gareth Dennis
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Episodes: 213
Description
Join railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis plus a wide range of guests on his semi-topical weekly talk show about all things rail...
This podcast is uploaded after the live (or live-ish) show has finished on YouTube at 7pm (UK time) on Wednesdays.
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#Railnatter Episode 212: How To Fix Buses In Wales (looking at the TfW plan)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 211: Britain's SUV problem
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 210: Joby Aviation Will* Save Us (and other nonsense)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 209: How To Become A Freight Train Driver
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 208: Everything You Wanted To Know About New Trains
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 207: What is to become of Great British Railways?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 206: California’s hydrogen train hell (and other news stories)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 205: When British Rail Ran Boats (a brief history of Sealink et al)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 204: Apprentice Question Time
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 203: The (long) history of the Transpennine Route Upgrade
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 202: Digging into the failure stats for the Great Western
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 201: Getting ready for the All Ireland Rail Review
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 200: Every episode of #Railnatter so far (episodes 100-199, summarised)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 199: Hyperloop One is gone but when will this nonsense die?
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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#Railnatter Episode 198: Should Britain stop closing the railway at Christmas?
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 197: The Tubular Tale Of Torksey Viaduct
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 196: A rage-turn of the UK’s ”Plan for Drivers”
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 195: How to draw transit maps in PowerPoint
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 194: Digging into Britain’s passenger rail usage data
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 193: An illustrated history of Jersey’s tram and railways
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 192: A page-turn through the Salisbury rail crash report
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 191: It’s forty years since the UK built its first high speed line
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 190: Thirty years of privatisation and what should happen next
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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#Railnatter Episode 189: What the heck else has been happening?! (it’s a news ep!)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 188: Why is UK infrastructure so slow and costly to build?
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 187: HS2 has been cancelled, so what happens next? (a Q&A)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 186: Putting geofencing to good use to improve track safety
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 185: Why the UK aviation industry is in steep decline
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 184: A Wander Around Wonderlab (the NRM’s new gallery)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 183: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Kolašin to Bar
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 182: Electric vehicle chargers should be kept off pavements
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 181: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Užice to Kolašin
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 180: Ban Private Jets, Make The World Better
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 179: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Belgrade to Užice
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 178: How do you build a modern train simulator game?
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 177: Are any of the ”new” HS2 eastern leg options good?
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 176: A Week In The Life Of A Railway Managing Director
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 175: Dave Grohl Takes The Train (and other news stories)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 174: How to make railway fandom a bit more inclusive
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 173: The Great British Ticket Office Closure
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 172: A Case Study In Being Wary Of The Hydrogen Hype
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 171: It’s The 120th Birthday Of The Windscreen Wiper
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 170: What went wrong at the National College for High Speed Rail?
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 169: Achieving zero emissions with more mobility and less mining
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 168: Driverless lies leave Tesla in a muddle
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May 31, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 167: Why do crossing noses crack?
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May 24, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 166: Two half-forgotten but important railway crashes from the 1980s
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May 17, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 165: What really happened when the Tesco tunnel collapsed?
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May 10, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 164: Should you go fast or slow over a collapsed rail bridge?
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May 03, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 163: Just how much more public transport does the UK need?
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 162: Using weird transport systems to break the #NotAMetro sorter
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 161: The Five Ways That High Speed 2 Should Have Been Better
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 160: Reshaping At 60, and Beeching’s Real Legacy
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 159: Why Britain’s railway headquarters WON’T be in Derby
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 158: There’s no such thing as the ”last mile problem”
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 157: Why does the UK find it so hard to integrate transport modes?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 156: What’s happening at the National Railway Museum?
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 155: Perfection and imperfection on the Underground
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 154: An Odyssey of Historical Curiosity
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 153: High Speed 2 - taking a look inside a tunnel boring machine
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 152: How Britain’s post-war intercity rail network should have looked
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 151: How does modal shift work?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 150: Things Are Going Just Great
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 149: Light Rail Does Not Exist (and other #NotAMetro fun)
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 148: Every* way that the Railways Act 1993 has resulted in today’s mess
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 147: European railways and the ”implementation gap”
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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#RailNatter Episode 146: An Advent of Oddities
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 145: A Mostly British History of Concrete Sleepers
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 144: Should We Abolish The Treasury?
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 143: Amtrak Joe Lets The Side Down (and other tales of woe)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 142: Where The North Needs Wires (a guide to Northern electrification)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 141: The Big Budget Meltdown (and what’s next for the UK)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 140: The permanence of the permanent way and why people prefer trams to buses
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 139: How to fix Britain’s broken railways
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 138: That time an HST derailed TWICE in Dalwhinnie (a page-turn)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 137: Taking the train from York to Mansfield (only to drive back again)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 136: A look at (probably) all of Britain’s moveable railway bridges
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 135: What happened when cracks grounded the Hitachi UK fleet?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 134: What might/should UK Labour’s ”nationalised” railway look like?
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 133: Skills gap? What skills gap? 3
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 132: US railroads can be Bad, Actually
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 131: New government, new ministers, but what’s next for UK rail?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 130: How engineers made the Great Western Britain’s first 125mph railway line
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 129: Not quite ten of mainland Europe’s missing high speed rail links
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 128: Have Stadler really built Britain’s best train fleet?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 127: Avanti and the ”unofficial strikes” (yes, it’s a News episode)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 126: The Transport Select Committee’s Integrated Rail Plan report
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 125: What if the InterCity 125 had never existed?
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 124: Railways and modernity in Scandinavia
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 123: A collection of railway watches and where to find them
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 122: Shapps’ terrible signalling tweet (and the VLR Q&A)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 121: What is Very Light Rail and is it any good?
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 120: Rail Live 2022!
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 119: A quick history of UK rail strike action
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 118: Goofy American Gadgetbahns from the 1970s
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 117: Doing a better job of categorising urban transport systems
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 116: A new north-south main line for Wales (without maps because this is a podcast)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 115: Crossrail isn’t a Tube line, the Tube map needs retiring, etc
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May 25, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 114: So Just What Branding Should Britain’s Railways Have Anyway?
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May 18, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 113: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 4
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May 11, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 112: Network Rail’s modular design for small and medium stations
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May 04, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 111: The end of ScotRail’s private life
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 110: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 3
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 109: Catching up on (more) current happenings
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 108: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 2
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 107: Getting involved - and STAYING involved - with transport policy
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 106: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 1
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 105: The UK must decentralise power to make public transport better
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 104: Why driverless Tube trains will never work
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 103: A page-turn through Network Rail’s 3rd Climate Adaptation Report
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 102: Catching up on current happenings
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 101: Will the government get away with the #RailBetrayal?
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 100: Every episode of #RailNatter (so far)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 99: The good and bad ways to stop errant trains
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 98: The collapse of Carillion
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 97: Does HS2 benefit Wales?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 96: What’s wrong with the Rhondda Line?
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 95: Xmas holidays by rail, Edwardian-style
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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#RailNatter Episode 94: Ten Of The World’s Most Edible-Looking Railway Stations
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 93: The Official #RailNatter Top Ten Classic Railway Films
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 92: The Werrington Diveunder
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 91: A page-turn through the Union Connectivity Review
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 90: Railways versus leaves
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 89: A page-turn through the Integrated Rail Plan
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 88: Why is the Eastern Leg of HS2 its most important section?
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 87: The Architecture The Railways Built 3 - 30th Episode Celebration!
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 86: Railways versus climate change (a wee Q&A session)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 85: A chaotic history of the early Crossrail proposals
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 84: Why isn‘t High Speed 1 Britain‘s first high speed line?
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 83: How do you fit bigger trains on the British railway network?
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 82: Skills gap? What skills gap? 2
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 81: The very long and very beautiful history of technical drawing
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 80: A meander through the new edition of the #OLEBook
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 79: Why is there no HS1-HS2 link, and how should it look if there was?
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 78: A page-turn through the (first) Beeching report
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 77: Can I natter for an hour in the Railway Museum North Shed?
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 76: High Speed 2 – building Britain’s longest railway tunnel
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 75: Bessie’s Ballast – raising money for Samaritans (in style)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 74: A page-turn through the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan (Part 2)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 73: Is electrifying motorways really a good idea?
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 72: A page-turn through the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 71: What happened to all the freight?
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 70: Reopening the Great Central is no alternative to HS2
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 69 (nice): How to make trains go faster
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 68: The three generations of signalling control and interlocking
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 67: Rail Live 2021!
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 66: Why isn’t Standard Track Gauge Four Foot Eight And A Half Inches?
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 65: What should the Scottish railway map look like?
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Episode 64: The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail (PART TWO)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Episode 63: The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail (PART ONE)
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May 26, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 62: Pacers were bad and saved nothing (with Dr Kevin Tennent)
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May 19, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 61: Let’s talk about buses
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May 13, 2021 |
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#Railnatter Episode 60: Why bother with electrification?
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May 06, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 59: The Carmont derailment (looking at the interim report)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 58: That time Gerrards Cross Tesco fell on the railway
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 57: What should the Welsh railway map look like?
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 56: How governments use evidence to make transport policy
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 55: Why Is Standard Track Gauge Four Foot Eight And A Half Inches?
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 54: The Engineer’s Guide to Being A Good Crayonista (Part 2)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 53: A page-turn through the Scottish Greens’ “Rail for All” report
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 52: The #RailNatter Anniversary Special
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 51: Railway staff safety through time (with Mike Esbester)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 50: Space Shuttle Rocket Boosters (with John Morgan Cristoph)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 49: West Yorkshire mass transit
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 48: Tunnels Under the US Capitol (with Ann Gavaghan)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 47: The Architecture the Railways Built 2 (with Tim Dunn)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 46: Coronavirus versus railways
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 45: A page-turn through the NIC’s strategic rail links report
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 44: What is the South Wales Metro? (with James Bennett)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 43: US railroads can be Good, Actually (with Justin Roczniak)
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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#RailNatter Episode 42: Snow versus railways (with Alex Priestley)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 41: What do the railways do at Christmas? (with Bonnie Price)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 40: Four fatal derailments that changed the permanent way for good
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 39: What is slab track and why is it good (with Ivana Avramović)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 38: Get an e-bike for Christmas (with Lindsay Broadwell)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 37: Why is it so important to tell people that Hyperloop is bad?
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 36: What exactly is sustainability? (with Simon Kendler)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 35: Scenic Rail Tours Of An Hour In Length – Inverurie to Elgin
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 34: A Correspondent’s Guide to Europe’s railways
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 33: Would a fixed link to Northern Ireland work?
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 32: The Island of Tube Trains
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 31: Is level boarding on trains really that hard to achieve?
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 30: Skills gap? What skills gap? (#RailWeek special with Harriet Glen)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 29: A hundred* ways for railway rails to fail
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 28: Quails on Rails (with Dr David Turner)
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 27: The Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy (phew)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 26: How do sleeper trains work? (with Edward Schofield)
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 25: The Engineer‘s Guide To Being A Good Crayonista
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 24: Is road pricing the future? (with Edward Leigh)
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 23: The Tube Mapper Project (with Luke Agbaimoni)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 22: Making Electrification Stick (with Garry Keenor)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 21: Light Rail Is Not A Metro (and other gripes)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 20: So Just What Structure Should Britain‘s Railways Have Anyway?
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 19: STEM or STEAM (with Lucy Prior MBE)
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 18: Morpeth Curve
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 17: The Woodhead Route
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 16: The upsides of closing railways (with Andrew White)
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 15: Art on the Underground (with Charlotte Monroe)
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 14: Building railways, but with less carbon...
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 13: Going Underground (with Geoff Marshall)
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 12: Beeching (with Dr David Turner)
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 11: Getting trains from A to B without crashing into stuff or each other
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May 27, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 10: Weather versus railways
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May 20, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 9: An official and objective ranking of London rail terminals
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May 15, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 8: The Forth Bridge
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May 06, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 7: The Architecture the Railways Built (with Tim Dunn)
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 6: What if APT had made it?
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 5: Beer! (with Dr David Turner)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 4: Hydrogen trains (with Mike Muldoon)
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 3: Rail over the Pennines
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 2: Are Class 158s good?
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 1: Britain‘s Rail Pinch Points
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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#RailNatter Episode 0: High Speed 2 Q&A
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Mar 11, 2020 |