All Episodes

#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)