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#RailNatter Episode 23: The Tube Mapper Project (with Luke Agbaimoni) Aug 19, 2020

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In this week's #RailNatter we're being joined by Luke Agbaimoni (@TubeMapper on Twitter) to talk about his mission to expose the ostensibly mundane as the aesthetically beautiful!

Here are Luke's social media links: tubemapper.com (website) @tubemapper (instagram and twitter)

Buy a first edition signed copy of the book (!): https://unbound.com/books/tubemapper/

Buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/075099437...

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#RailNatter Episode 22: Making Electrification Stick (with Garry Keenor) Aug 12, 2020

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In this week's #RailNatter I'm very pleased to say we will be joined by the electrifying Garry Keenor (@25kV on Twitter)!

In Episode 22, we'll be talking about all things OLE (OCS if you're elsewhere in the world)... Given that national electrification was suggested seriously back in the 1910s, how on earth can we finally get Britain to #ElectrifyAllTheThings, over a century later?

Join us LIVE to ask all of your electrification questions!

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#RailNatter Episode 21: Light Rail Is Not A Metro (and other gripes) Aug 05, 2020

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Episode 21 of #RailNatter is being hijacked as a #NotAMetro soapbox!

This is one of my all-time bug-bears: what is and is not a “metro”, and why the UK in particular is fixated on calling tram systems “metros” despite them being a long way short of that. But where does the line sit?

Is the DLR a metro? Is the Tyne and Wear Metro a metro? Is Thameslink a metro? Watch to see as I try to create the definitive categorisation system for railways!

#RailNatter Episode 20: So Just What Structure Should Britain‘s Railways Have Anyway? Jul 29, 2020

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Episode 20 of #RailNatter is going to be an hour of me making a rod for my own back, no doubt... Why? Because I am going to make my proposal for what the organisational structure of Britain's railways should look like!

Do I want a return to Grouping? Sectorised BR? The Japanese model? Tune in to find out!

(Here's Alasdair Rae's CityMetric piece explaining his Federal England map: https://www.citymetric.com/politics/w...)

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#RailNatter Episode 19: STEM or STEAM (with Lucy Prior MBE) Jul 22, 2020

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We're LIVE again for Episode 19 of #RailNatter, and I am very pleased to say we'll have the brilliant Lucy Prior MBE joining us to talk about STEM... or is that STEAM?

Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS and Mathematics: Are we broadening the description too much, or are we just acknowledging that engineering is as creative as it is technical?

This is the subject that got the two of us together in person for the first time, though in true me style we never ended up actually talking about it. Now's the chance for us to put that right... Join in on the action!

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#RailNatter Episode 18: Morpeth Curve Jul 15, 2020

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Morpeth Curve - a ridiculous kink in Britain's 125mph East Coast Main Line that has tipped more than one train into the adjacent housing estate...

In this week's #RailNatter, I'll be postulating on why it exists, looking at what we might do about it, and thinking on the tragedy and comedy of successive derailments in this small Northumbrian town.

I'm away for this one... But through the wonders of modern technology, you can still join this episode at 7pm and chat away LIVE (ish)!

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#RailNatter Episode 17: The Woodhead Route Jul 08, 2020

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Seeing as trans-Pennine infrastructure was in the news recently, this week's #RailNatter is going to cover THE WOODHEAD ROUTE and why "reopening" it is an idea beloved by nostalgists that isn't rooted in reality.

Join me to tell me why I'm wrong - and it's just me this week, so we'll be doing a lot of nattering, no doubt!

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#RailNatter Episode 16: The upsides of closing railways (with Andrew White) Jul 01, 2020

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In this week's #RailNatter, Andrew White is joining us to talk about a topic close to our hearts, but perhaps from an unusual angle... What are the BENEFITS of closing railway lines?

Are there any? Are we doing the work of the devil in even talking about closing railways? Join us LIVE to get involved and tell us what you think!

Check out Walks Around Britain at their website: walksaroundbritain.co.uk

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#RailNatter Episode 15: Art on the Underground (with Charlotte Monroe) Jun 24, 2020

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In this week's #RailNatter, we're diving underneath London again and looking at one of my favourite transportation art projects... Art on the Underground.

And we are being joined by signaller and all-round urban transit buff Charlotte Monroe (@BeingCharley on Twitter) who is going to tell us all about it!

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#RailNatter Episode 14: Building railways, but with less carbon... Jun 17, 2020

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This week, I'm delighted to welcome Prab onto #RailNatter! In Episode 14, we'll be talking about carbon emissions in construction... How do you calculate them? How do you reduce them? Are we doing enough? Is concrete evil?

We'll also touch on the experiences of entering and thriving in the rail industry as someone who doesn't fit within the "prevailing engineering demographic".

Circular Ecology Website (the Inventory of Carbon and Energy can be downloaded from here): https://circularecology.com/

Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator: https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse... Harvard University Implicit Association Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit...

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