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#RailNatter Episode 123: A collection of railway watches and where to find them Jul 20, 2022

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Well I am very pleased to say that this week, we are joined in #RailNatter towers by podcaster extraordinaire Alice Caldwell-Kelly (famed for @Trashfuture Podcast, @Well There's Your Problem Podcast and Kill James Bond)!

Alice and I will be going on a ferroequinohorological odyssey through time (quite literally) to see how small clocks and the operation of the railways are interlinked - and we'll also be gawking at some very fetching hand-held rail timepieces... Pocket watches and wristwatches galore!

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#RailNatter Episode 122: Shapps’ terrible signalling tweet (and the VLR Q&A) Jul 13, 2022

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Well a lot has happened in the world since we last did a news segment, so it's another general news catch-up for this week's #RailNatter...

We'll focus in on Shapps' signalling tweet from a couple of weeks back, where he made a hash of just about every sentence he was fed - as well as looking at the horror show of the Tory leadership contest if our special boy Grant Shapps is the one who has the best stance on human rights.

Also, as promised last week, we'll do the Very Light Rail (both rural and urban) Q&A session!

#RailNatter Episode 121: What is Very Light Rail and is it any good? Jul 06, 2022

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It's a question you've all been asking for a while - what is VLR, and is it any good? Well, tonight's #RailNatter will hopefully answer that question!

I was at the first (?) VLR "conference" a few weeks ago, plus you might have noticed that I omitted the Revolution VLR tour that I did at Rail Live for last week's episode... Well, all of this is to be combined into this week's episode, so there should be a bit of a feast for you all!

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#RailNatter Episode 120: Rail Live 2022! Jun 29, 2022

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It's Rail Live 2022 - and so I'm sending you another pre-recorded #RailNatter from the past!

Rather than running about like a headless chicken as I did last year, this time I'm running about like a headless chicken *with a plan* - we'll split the episode into four segments - exhibits, plant, trains and people - and have an explore accordingly!

There'll also be a couple of shorter videos to follow this one, including some nice timelapses of setup day...

Trashfuture rail strikes episode here for your listening pleasure: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.co...

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#RailNatter Episode 119: A quick history of UK rail strike action Jun 22, 2022

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STRIKES! Solidarity to all RMT rail workers out on strike right now... I'm at Rail Live today, so I've pre-recorded this week's #RailNatter as a sort of Baby's First Strike History. Join in the chat in any case to add your thoughts and perhaps pick up anything I've missed... Live(ish) at 7pm on Wednesday!

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#RailNatter Episode 118: Goofy American Gadgetbahns from the 1970s Jun 15, 2022

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This week we have the honour and pleasure of being joined by Alexandra Rose (@bigmoodenergy) to talk about a long list of rather goody gadgetbahns from the not-so-distant US past... We may see all shapes, we may see all sizes, but will we find any that are actually useful?

Tune in LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm to find out!

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#RailNatter Episode 117: Doing a better job of categorising urban transport systems Jun 08, 2022

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This week's #RailNatter is diving back into the messy world of categorising urban transport systems... And I think I've cracked it!

Gone shall be "light rail", "rapid transit", "personal rapid transit", "bus rapid transit", "stadtbahn" and all the rest... In shall arrive a newer, simpler series of names that make more sense and will have actual, consistent meanings.

Join LIVE at 7pm on Wednesday to send me a pile of transport systems to see if the categoriser breaks immediately!

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#RailNatter Episode 116: A new north-south main line for Wales (without maps because this is a podcast) Jun 01, 2022

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For some reason, our old #RailNatter on the Welsh railway network went viral earlier this year, so I thought I'd take the chance to dig into the culmination of that episode and dive into what a north-south main line for Wales might look like...

If you like maps, alignment design, deciding where to put a railway, and understanding the bigger picture on railway proposals, then this is the episode for you! Also, there will be: maps galore, costings, timings, politics, opportunities and challenges. It's all here!

Join LIVE at 7pm on Wednesday!

The original episode that sparked all this off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyJBN...

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#RailNatter Episode 115: Crossrail isn’t a Tube line, the Tube map needs retiring, etc May 25, 2022

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In a change to the published schedule, #RailNatter is heading to London because Crossrail (known by some as the Elizabeth line line) has just opened and we all need to talk about it... Not least that it (a) is not a Tube line and (b) has made a right mess of an already over-stressed Tube map.

We'll be talking about how to properly classify London's transport networks, why it may or may not be important to do so, and how fixing the Tube map is important and also almost impossible.

Join LIVE at 7pm on Wednesday!

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#RailNatter Episode 114: So Just What Branding Should Britain’s Railways Have Anyway? May 18, 2022

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This week's #RailNatter should be a fun one... We are looking at what branding Britain's railways should have in a post-GBR world.

Should everything be uniform, devolution be damned? Or do we know better...

Join LIVE to have your say!

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