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#RailNatter Episode 53: A page-turn through the Scottish Greens’ “Rail for All” report Mar 24, 2021

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We’re flicking through another PDF on screen today, and this time it is the rather exciting Rail for All report created for the Scottish Greens.

No other UK party has created a document like this in modern history – and the country is all the worse off for it. But does it hold up to scrutiny?

Join LIVE to find out.

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#RailNatter Episode 52: The #RailNatter Anniversary Special Mar 24, 2021

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We’ve done it – #RailNatter is a year old!

To celebrate, we’re getting all of the Patreon supporters on to talk about their favourite moments and episodes, and more importantly to hand out the GOLDEN PANDROL CLIP to the award winning episodes…

Join the chaos LIVE at the usual time!

#RailNatter Episode 51: Railway staff safety through time (with Mike Esbester) Mar 24, 2021

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Much as the situation appears to be improving year on year, the railways still aren’t safe enough, as we were tragically reminded of earlier this year with the death of Tyler Byrne at Surbiton station.

But how has railway staff safety changed over the years? Is there anything we can learn from accidents from decades and even centuries gone by? There are few better people to ask than Dr Mike Esbester, who leads the Railway Work, Life & Death project out of the University of Porstmouth. We’ll talk about both contemporary and historic safety incidents, and see what we can learn from both.

Join us LIVE as we chat about the project and what Mike has learned…

#RailNatter Episode 50: Space Shuttle Rocket Boosters (with John Morgan Cristoph) Feb 25, 2021

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This week’s #RailNatter is harking back to the days of AOL and email chains (oh, and more recently, THAT daft Twitter thread about track gauge, horses bottoms and rocket boosters)…

Yes, friend of the show John Morgan Christoph is joining us to bring his space and geology skills to bear and guide us through the more interesting spacey side-stories associated with this silly set of myths! Why did the Shuttle use solid rocket boosters? Why did they travel by rail? How did the railways help build the Kennedy Space Centre in the first place?

Join us LIVE at the usual time to find out this and more!

The Hyperloop paper is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/…
The Native Land map can be found here: https://native-land.ca/

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#RailNatter Episode 49: West Yorkshire mass transit Feb 25, 2021

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It’s another solo #RailNatter, and this week we are also doing another page turn…

This time we are picking through the West Yorkshire mass transit proposals. Are they any good? Is there anything that needs to change? What is the likelihood they will actually happen? Is there anything we can learn from them?

All this and more, LIVE and with you lot asking the questions!

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#RailNatter Episode 48: Tunnels Under the US Capitol (with Ann Gavaghan) Feb 16, 2021

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We’re back for another #RailNatter, and this one is somewhat topical…

A month after everyone got a really good look at the inside of the US Capitol buildings, we are joined by the brilliant Ann Gavaghan (@anngav on Twitter) to talk about the tunnels underneath this complex of buildings.

Join us LIVE as the secrets are revealed to ask all your questions!

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#RailNatter Episode 47: The Architecture the Railways Built 2 (with Tim Dunn) Feb 04, 2021

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#TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt has returned to our tellies, which means that Britain’s most effervescent ferroequinologist is coming back on #RailNatter!

One of the loveliest and most pleasingly knowledgeable railway folks out there, replete with his array of books, miniatures and scarves, joins us again to talk about his new series, with more behind the scenes goodies and hints as to what lies in store for us in future episodes.

Join us LIVE to ask all of your questions and to see the two of us quaff wine like it is out of fashion…

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#RailNatter Episode 46: Coronavirus versus railways Feb 04, 2021

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#RailNatter started with the first of the coronavirus lockdowns… With the virus having been around in the UK for around a year, and with passenger levels still at less than 20% of pre-COVID levels, what does the future look like for Britain’s railways?

For Episode 46, we’ll look at a lot of the myths, forgotten realities and plans elsewhere in the world to get an idea of whether the doom and gloom currently being peddled is in fact misplaced…

Join LIVE to ask all of your questions, make your suggestions as to what happens next, and generally get involved in the discussion!

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#RailNatter Episode 45: A page-turn through the NIC’s strategic rail links report Jan 25, 2021

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For Episode 45 of #RailNatter, we’re grabbing a copy of the National Infrastructure Commission’s “Rail Needs Assessment for the Midlands and the North”.

This was supposed to be the stepping off point for a revolution in railway transport for the regions outside of London and the south, and yet it appears to have signified the start of a major abandonment of by the current government. But why?

Join me LIVE to ask your questions as I flick through the report and explore its contents in detail…

Read my piece on why the report was a failure here: https://garethdennis.medium.com/the-n…

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#RailNatter Episode 44: What is the South Wales Metro? (with James Bennett) Jan 20, 2021

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We’re back for our first LIVE #RailNatter of 2021… For episode 44 we are heading to South Wales, where James Bennett will update us on the progress of the South Wales Metro, and indeed explain a bit more about what it is.

Will I have to hammer the #NotAMetro buzzer? What type of traction is being used where? How much of the system will be electrified?

Join us LIVE for the answers to these and any other questions you might have!

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