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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#Railnatter Episode 211: Britain's SUV problem

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#Railnatter Episode 204: Apprentice Question Time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#Railnatter Episode 197: The Tubular Tale Of Torksey Viaduct

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#RailNatter Episode 173: The Great British Ticket Office Closure

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

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

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

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

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

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#RailNatter Episode 167: Why do crossing noses crack?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#RailNatter Episode 155: Perfection and imperfection on the Underground

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#RailNatter Episode 154: An Odyssey of Historical Curiosity

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

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

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#RailNatter Episode 151: How does modal shift work?

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#RailNatter Episode 150: Things Are Going Just Great

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

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

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

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#RailNatter Episode 146: An Advent of Oddities

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

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#RailNatter Episode 144: Should We Abolish The Treasury?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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