All Episodes

Labour’s rail promises versus reality | #Railnatter 311

The post-election reality for Britain’s transport system | #Railnatter 308

Britain's Suburbs Are Broken, Here's The Solution | #Railnatter 306

The Secret to Fixing Britain's Railways | #Railnatter 305

This cheap fix will SOLVE rural travel | #Railnatter 304

The BILLION POUND flaw on the Elizabeth Line | #Railnatter 303

This train TRANSFORMED Britain’s railways | #Railnatter 302

Talking GBR, cost of living and Iran with TSSA’s Maryam Eslamdoust | #Railnatter 301

Transport in Leeds isn't working | #Railnatter 300

Can we end Britain's boom and bust problem? | #Railnatter 299

What links Speed, Warriors and Roger Rabbit? | #Railnatter 298

Justin Roczniak fixes Britain's railways | #Railnatter 297

Can the Greens win the Gorton & Denton by-election? | #Railnatter 296

Why the British rail industry is SO complicated | #Railnatter 295

Here's how HS2 gives Birmingham a metro system | #Railnatter 294

The trans woman who gave us model railways | #Railnatter 293

Here's how the Spanish rail crash unfolded | #Railnatter 292

What is the actual Northern Powerhouse Rail plan? | #Railnatter 291

The Audenshaw rail crash | #Railnatter 290

Structural collapse, and what to do about it | #Railnatter 289

What bits of railway are being built over Christmas? | #Railnatter 288

Why diversity and inclusion policies aren't enough | #Railnatter 287

The definitive verdict on Great British Railways’ new look - with JenOnTheMove | #Railnatter 286

The Secret To Fixing York's Traffic Problems | #Railnatter 285

Melbourne’s trains - with Chris Brownbill | #Railnatter 284

The PWI has to change its name | #Railnatter 283

The man who destroyed Britain's buses | #Railnatter 282

Everything you need to know about the Railways Bill | #Railnatter 281

The real reason HS2 died | #Railnatter 280

British airports that have got to go | #Railnatter 279

The city that’s choking itself to death | #Railnatter 278

How British Rail gave us the USA’s newest high speed train | #Railnatter 277

The five reasons UK transport fails disabled people | #Railnatter 276

This campaign made railways better for everyone | #Railnatter 275

10 new railways to fix Devon and Cornwall | #Railnatter 274

How to build your own train simulator | #Railnatter 273

An engineer's tour of the Railway Museum's New Hall | #Railnatter 272

Australia's surprising rail transformation story - with Chris Brownbill | #Railnatter 271

This Scottish town is a nightmare | #Railnatter 270

Railways we desperately need, cancelled in favour of roads | #Railnatter 269

How North Wales will demolish car dependency | #Railnatter 268

Why the UK economy will continue to fail | #Railnatter 267

Russia's railways WERE the best in the world - with Milo Edwards | #Railnatter 266

A history of Australia’s railways - with Chris Brownbill | #Railnatter 265

Burnham is key to northern high speed rail network | #Railnatter 264

The cases for and against open access rail operators | #Railnatter 263

Driverless Cars Are Pointless - with Victoria Scott | #Railnatter 262

How not to do feasibility studies | #Railnatter 261

Starline's high speed rail "plans" for Europe | #Railnatter 260

Labour are out of ideas already | #Railnatter 259

Data, maps and how to use them (with Will Deakin) | #Railnatter 258

Designing Glasgow a metro system | #Railnatter 257

Clyde Metro? Glasgow must think bigger | #Railnatter 256

#Railnatter Episode 255: Goodbye USAID, hello China (and much more railway geopolitics)

#Railnatter Episode 254: Urban transport in Dubai (and what’s stupid about a lot of it)

#Railnatter Episode 253: The (draft) Mid Wales Regional Transport Plan

#Railnatter Episode 252: What we must learn from the Grenfell Tower disaster (2)

#Railnatter Episode 251: The Future of Cities (keeping an eye on urban trends)

#Railnatter Episode 250: The little station that defeated Westminster

#Railnatter Episode 249: Heathrow's Third Runway and other economic disasters

#Railnatter Episode 248: What should the Scottish railway map look like? 2

#Railnatter Episode 247: A look at Scotland's draft Islands Connectivity Review

#Railnatter Episode 246: A page-turn through the English devolution white paper

#Railnatter Episode 245: Is there any reason to be cheerful about the future?

#Railnatter Episode 244: Ten Of The Most Pointless US Regional Flights That Should Be Trains

#Railnatter Episode 243: What a year 2024 was! (an on-location live AMA)

#Railnatter Episode 242: Contrast on the London Underground

#Railnatter Episode 241: An Integrated National Transport Strategy?

#Railnatter Episode 240: What we must learn from the Grenfell Tower disaster

#Railnatter Episode 239: Vancouver's SkyTrain and what we can learn from it

#Railnatter Episode 238: How a Sheffield Crossrail would boost South Yorkshire

#Railnatter Episode 237: Bad budget, worse election (it's a news ep/struggle sesh)

#Railnatter Episode 236: Are cars really the future of green transport? (NO!)

#Railnatter Episode 235: Ireland's railways 3. What about the future?

#Railnatter Episode 234: Britain's dismal rail tickets

#Railnatter Episode 233: Changing the UK's useless fiscal rules

#Railnatter Episode 232: The crash of Independent Air Flight 1851

#Railnatter Episode 231: Fares unfair (it's a news ep)

#Railnatter Episode 230: How to change minds and ingratiate people

#Railnatter Episode 229: Euston, safety, and Hendy's legacy

#Railnatter Episode 228: Ireland's railways 2. Thoughts on the present

#Railnatter Episode 227: Labour's pre-election rail and urban transit review

#Railnatter Episode 226: Ireland's railways 1. A potted history

#Railnatter Episode 225: How The Railways Will Fix The Future

#Railnatter Episode 224: What's left of HS2? (a flick through the latest NAO report)

#Railnatter Episode 223: West Yorkshire mass transit (reviewing the consultation plans)

#Railnatter Episode 222: A high speed rail network for the UK and Ireland

#Railnatter Episode 221: The 2024 General Election Special Edition No. 2

#Railnatter Episode 220: The 2024 General Election Special Edition No. 1

#Railnatter Episode 219: A short word or two on early railways

#Railnatter Episode 218: What four years of rail reform has delivered

#Railnatter Episode 217: Everything we can say about Haxby station

#Railnatter Episode 216: What to do about rail in the West Midlands

#Railnatter Episode 215: How to tip trains over on purpose (with equations)

#Railnatter Episode 214: Finishing The Borders Railway (with maps and routes)

#Railnatter Episode 213: Labour Will* Nationalise Rail (a Getting Britain Moving page-turn)

#Railnatter Episode 212: How To Fix Buses In Wales (looking at the TfW plan)

#Railnatter Episode 211: Britain's SUV problem

#Railnatter Episode 210: Joby Aviation Will* Save Us (and other nonsense)

#Railnatter Episode 209: How To Become A Freight Train Driver

#Railnatter Episode 208: Everything You Wanted To Know About New Trains

#Railnatter Episode 207: What is to become of Great British Railways?

#Railnatter Episode 206: California’s hydrogen train hell (and other news stories)

#Railnatter Episode 205: When British Rail Ran Boats (a brief history of Sealink et al)

#Railnatter Episode 204: Apprentice Question Time

#Railnatter Episode 203: The (long) history of the Transpennine Route Upgrade

#Railnatter Episode 202: Digging into the failure stats for the Great Western

#Railnatter Episode 201: Getting ready for the All Ireland Rail Review

#Railnatter Episode 200: Every episode of #Railnatter so far (episodes 100-199, summarised)

#Railnatter Episode 199: Hyperloop One is gone but when will this nonsense die?

#Railnatter Episode 198: Should Britain stop closing the railway at Christmas?

#Railnatter Episode 197: The Tubular Tale Of Torksey Viaduct

#Railnatter Episode 196: A rage-turn of the UK’s ”Plan for Drivers”

#Railnatter Episode 195: How to draw transit maps in PowerPoint

#Railnatter Episode 194: Digging into Britain’s passenger rail usage data

#Railnatter Episode 193: An illustrated history of Jersey’s tram and railways

#Railnatter Episode 192: A page-turn through the Salisbury rail crash report

#Railnatter Episode 191: It’s forty years since the UK built its first high speed line

#Railnatter Episode 190: Thirty years of privatisation and what should happen next

#Railnatter Episode 189: What the heck else has been happening?! (it’s a news ep!)

#RailNatter Episode 188: Why is UK infrastructure so slow and costly to build?

#RailNatter Episode 187: HS2 has been cancelled, so what happens next? (a Q&A)

#RailNatter Episode 186: Putting geofencing to good use to improve track safety

#RailNatter Episode 185: Why the UK aviation industry is in steep decline

#RailNatter Episode 184: A Wander Around Wonderlab (the NRM’s new gallery)

#RailNatter Episode 183: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Kolašin to Bar

#RailNatter Episode 182: Electric vehicle chargers should be kept off pavements

#RailNatter Episode 181: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Užice to Kolašin

#RailNatter Episode 180: Ban Private Jets, Make The World Better

#RailNatter Episode 179: The Belgrade-Bar railway, Belgrade to Užice

#RailNatter Episode 178: How do you build a modern train simulator game?

#RailNatter Episode 177: Are any of the ”new” HS2 eastern leg options good?

#RailNatter Episode 176: A Week In The Life Of A Railway Managing Director

#RailNatter Episode 175: Dave Grohl Takes The Train (and other news stories)

#RailNatter Episode 174: How to make railway fandom a bit more inclusive

#RailNatter Episode 173: The Great British Ticket Office Closure

#RailNatter Episode 172: A Case Study In Being Wary Of The Hydrogen Hype

#RailNatter Episode 171: It’s The 120th Birthday Of The Windscreen Wiper

#RailNatter Episode 170: What went wrong at the National College for High Speed Rail?

#RailNatter Episode 169: Achieving zero emissions with more mobility and less mining

#RailNatter Episode 168: Driverless lies leave Tesla in a muddle

#RailNatter Episode 167: Why do crossing noses crack?

#RailNatter Episode 166: Two half-forgotten but important railway crashes from the 1980s

#RailNatter Episode 165: What really happened when the Tesco tunnel collapsed?

#RailNatter Episode 164: Should you go fast or slow over a collapsed rail bridge?

#RailNatter Episode 163: Just how much more public transport does the UK need?

#RailNatter Episode 162: Using weird transport systems to break the #NotAMetro sorter

#RailNatter Episode 161: The Five Ways That High Speed 2 Should Have Been Better

#RailNatter Episode 160: Reshaping At 60, and Beeching’s Real Legacy

#RailNatter Episode 159: Why Britain’s railway headquarters WON’T be in Derby

#RailNatter Episode 158: There’s no such thing as the ”last mile problem”

#RailNatter Episode 157: Why does the UK find it so hard to integrate transport modes?

#RailNatter Episode 156: What’s happening at the National Railway Museum?

#RailNatter Episode 155: Perfection and imperfection on the Underground

#RailNatter Episode 154: An Odyssey of Historical Curiosity

#RailNatter Episode 153: High Speed 2 - taking a look inside a tunnel boring machine

#RailNatter Episode 152: How Britain’s post-war intercity rail network should have looked

#RailNatter Episode 151: How does modal shift work?

#RailNatter Episode 150: Things Are Going Just Great

#RailNatter Episode 149: Light Rail Does Not Exist (and other #NotAMetro fun)

#RailNatter Episode 148: Every* way that the Railways Act 1993 has resulted in today’s mess

#RailNatter Episode 147: European railways and the ”implementation gap”

#RailNatter Episode 146: An Advent of Oddities

#RailNatter Episode 145: A Mostly British History of Concrete Sleepers

#RailNatter Episode 144: Should We Abolish The Treasury?

#RailNatter Episode 143: Amtrak Joe Lets The Side Down (and other tales of woe)

#RailNatter Episode 142: Where The North Needs Wires (a guide to Northern electrification)

#RailNatter Episode 141: The Big Budget Meltdown (and what’s next for the UK)

#RailNatter Episode 140: The permanence of the permanent way and why people prefer trams to buses

#RailNatter Episode 139: How to fix Britain’s broken railways

#RailNatter Episode 138: That time an HST derailed TWICE in Dalwhinnie (a page-turn)

#RailNatter Episode 137: Taking the train from York to Mansfield (only to drive back again)

#RailNatter Episode 136: A look at (probably) all of Britain’s moveable railway bridges

#RailNatter Episode 135: What happened when cracks grounded the Hitachi UK fleet?

#RailNatter Episode 134: What might/should UK Labour’s ”nationalised” railway look like?

#RailNatter Episode 133: Skills gap? What skills gap? 3

#RailNatter Episode 132: US railroads can be Bad, Actually

#RailNatter Episode 131: New government, new ministers, but what’s next for UK rail?

#RailNatter Episode 130: How engineers made the Great Western Britain’s first 125mph railway line

#RailNatter Episode 129: Not quite ten of mainland Europe’s missing high speed rail links

#RailNatter Episode 128: Have Stadler really built Britain’s best train fleet?

#RailNatter Episode 127: Avanti and the ”unofficial strikes” (yes, it’s a News episode)

#RailNatter Episode 126: The Transport Select Committee’s Integrated Rail Plan report

#RailNatter Episode 125: What if the InterCity 125 had never existed?

#RailNatter Episode 124: Railways and modernity in Scandinavia

#RailNatter Episode 123: A collection of railway watches and where to find them

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

#RailNatter Episode 121: What is Very Light Rail and is it any good?

#RailNatter Episode 120: Rail Live 2022!

#RailNatter Episode 119: A quick history of UK rail strike action

#RailNatter Episode 118: Goofy American Gadgetbahns from the 1970s

#RailNatter Episode 117: Doing a better job of categorising urban transport systems

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

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

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

#RailNatter Episode 113: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 4

#RailNatter Episode 112: Network Rail’s modular design for small and medium stations

#RailNatter Episode 111: The end of ScotRail’s private life

#RailNatter Episode 110: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 3

#RailNatter Episode 109: Catching up on (more) current happenings

#RailNatter Episode 108: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 2

#RailNatter Episode 107: Getting involved - and STAYING involved - with transport policy

#RailNatter Episode 106: The Carmont derailment (a deep dive into the final report) 1

#RailNatter Episode 105: The UK must decentralise power to make public transport better

#RailNatter Episode 104: Why driverless Tube trains will never work

#RailNatter Episode 103: A page-turn through Network Rail’s 3rd Climate Adaptation Report

#RailNatter Episode 102: Catching up on current happenings

#RailNatter Episode 101: Will the government get away with the #RailBetrayal?

#RailNatter Episode 100: Every episode of #RailNatter (so far)

#RailNatter Episode 99: The good and bad ways to stop errant trains

#RailNatter Episode 98: The collapse of Carillion

#RailNatter Episode 97: Does HS2 benefit Wales?

#RailNatter Episode 96: What’s wrong with the Rhondda Line?

#RailNatter Episode 95: Xmas holidays by rail, Edwardian-style

#RailNatter Episode 94: Ten Of The World’s Most Edible-Looking Railway Stations

#RailNatter Episode 93: The Official #RailNatter Top Ten Classic Railway Films

#RailNatter Episode 92: The Werrington Diveunder

#RailNatter Episode 91: A page-turn through the Union Connectivity Review

#RailNatter Episode 90: Railways versus leaves

#RailNatter Episode 89: A page-turn through the Integrated Rail Plan

#RailNatter Episode 88: Why is the Eastern Leg of HS2 its most important section?

#RailNatter Episode 87: The Architecture The Railways Built 3 - 30th Episode Celebration!

#RailNatter Episode 86: Railways versus climate change (a wee Q&A session)

#RailNatter Episode 85: A chaotic history of the early Crossrail proposals

#RailNatter Episode 84: Why isn‘t High Speed 1 Britain‘s first high speed line?

#RailNatter Episode 83: How do you fit bigger trains on the British railway network?

#RailNatter Episode 82: Skills gap? What skills gap? 2

#RailNatter Episode 81: The very long and very beautiful history of technical drawing

#RailNatter Episode 80: A meander through the new edition of the #OLEBook

#RailNatter Episode 79: Why is there no HS1-HS2 link, and how should it look if there was?

#RailNatter Episode 78: A page-turn through the (first) Beeching report

#RailNatter Episode 77: Can I natter for an hour in the Railway Museum North Shed?

#RailNatter Episode 76: High Speed 2 – building Britain’s longest railway tunnel

#RailNatter Episode 75: Bessie’s Ballast – raising money for Samaritans (in style)

#RailNatter Episode 74: A page-turn through the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan (Part 2)

#RailNatter Episode 73: Is electrifying motorways really a good idea?

#RailNatter Episode 72: A page-turn through the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan

#RailNatter Episode 71: What happened to all the freight?

#RailNatter Episode 70: Reopening the Great Central is no alternative to HS2

#RailNatter Episode 69 (nice): How to make trains go faster

#RailNatter Episode 68: The three generations of signalling control and interlocking

#RailNatter Episode 67: Rail Live 2021!

#RailNatter Episode 66: Why isn’t Standard Track Gauge Four Foot Eight And A Half Inches?

#RailNatter Episode 65: What should the Scottish railway map look like?

Episode 64: The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail (PART TWO)

Episode 63: The Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail (PART ONE)

#RailNatter Episode 62: Pacers were bad and saved nothing (with Dr Kevin Tennent)

#RailNatter Episode 61: Let’s talk about buses

#Railnatter Episode 60: Why bother with electrification?

#RailNatter Episode 59: The Carmont derailment (looking at the interim report)

#RailNatter Episode 58: That time Gerrards Cross Tesco fell on the railway

#RailNatter Episode 57: What should the Welsh railway map look like?

#RailNatter Episode 56: How governments use evidence to make transport policy

#RailNatter Episode 55: Why Is Standard Track Gauge Four Foot Eight And A Half Inches?

#RailNatter Episode 54: The Engineer’s Guide to Being A Good Crayonista (Part 2)

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

#RailNatter Episode 52: The #RailNatter Anniversary Special

#RailNatter Episode 51: Railway staff safety through time (with Mike Esbester)

#RailNatter Episode 50: Space Shuttle Rocket Boosters (with John Morgan Cristoph)

#RailNatter Episode 49: West Yorkshire mass transit

#RailNatter Episode 48: Tunnels Under the US Capitol (with Ann Gavaghan)

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

#RailNatter Episode 46: Coronavirus versus railways

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

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

#RailNatter​ Episode 43: US railroads can be Good, Actually (with Justin Roczniak)

#RailNatter Episode 42: Snow versus railways (with Alex Priestley)

#RailNatter Episode 41: What do the railways do at Christmas? (with Bonnie Price)

#RailNatter Episode 40: Four fatal derailments that changed the permanent way for good

#RailNatter Episode 39: What is slab track and why is it good (with Ivana Avramović)

#RailNatter Episode 38: Get an e-bike for Christmas (with Lindsay Broadwell)

#RailNatter Episode 37: Why is it so important to tell people that Hyperloop is bad?

#RailNatter Episode 36: What exactly is sustainability? (with Simon Kendler)

#RailNatter Episode 35: Scenic Rail Tours Of An Hour In Length – Inverurie to Elgin

#RailNatter Episode 34: A Correspondent’s Guide to Europe’s railways

#RailNatter Episode 33: Would a fixed link to Northern Ireland work?

#RailNatter Episode 32: The Island of Tube Trains

#RailNatter Episode 31: Is level boarding on trains really that hard to achieve?

#RailNatter Episode 30: Skills gap? What skills gap? (#RailWeek special with Harriet Glen)

#RailNatter Episode 29: A hundred* ways for railway rails to fail

#RailNatter Episode 28: Quails on Rails (with Dr David Turner)

#RailNatter Episode 27: The Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy (phew)

#RailNatter Episode 26: How do sleeper trains work? (with Edward Schofield)

#RailNatter Episode 25: The Engineer‘s Guide To Being A Good Crayonista

#RailNatter Episode 24: Is road pricing the future? (with Edward Leigh)

#RailNatter Episode 23: The Tube Mapper Project (with Luke Agbaimoni)

#RailNatter Episode 22: Making Electrification Stick (with Garry Keenor)

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

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

#RailNatter Episode 19: STEM or STEAM (with Lucy Prior MBE)

#RailNatter Episode 18: Morpeth Curve

#RailNatter Episode 17: The Woodhead Route

#RailNatter Episode 16: The upsides of closing railways (with Andrew White)

#RailNatter Episode 15: Art on the Underground (with Charlotte Monroe)

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

#RailNatter Episode 13: Going Underground (with Geoff Marshall)

#RailNatter Episode 12: Beeching (with Dr David Turner)

#RailNatter Episode 11: Getting trains from A to B without crashing into stuff or each other

#RailNatter Episode 10: Weather versus railways

#RailNatter Episode 9: An official and objective ranking of London rail terminals

#RailNatter Episode 8: The Forth Bridge

#RailNatter Episode 7: The Architecture the Railways Built (with Tim Dunn)

#RailNatter Episode 6: What if APT had made it?

#RailNatter Episode 5: Beer! (with Dr David Turner)

#RailNatter Episode 4: Hydrogen trains (with Mike Muldoon)

#RailNatter Episode 3: Rail over the Pennines

#RailNatter Episode 2: Are Class 158s good?

#RailNatter Episode 1: Britain‘s Rail Pinch Points

#RailNatter Episode 0: High Speed 2 Q&A