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Labour have CANCELLED Bradford's new station | #Railnatter 326

2

This Is How Leeds Gets A Metro | #Railnatter 325

3

The GB Rolling Stock Strategy Misses The Mark | #Railnatter 324

4

How Treasury Broke Britain: The History of PFI (Part 1) | #Railnatter 323

5

Why This Beautiful Main Line Is A Mess | #Railnatter 322

6

Are We Headed For Another Railtrack Crisis? | #Railnatter 321

7

Can California's long term rail plan fix HSR? | #Railnatter 320

8

Will the Washington Metro extension work? | #Railnatter 319

9

CrossCountry Trains Cannot Be Saved | #Railnatter 318

10

York to Hull: Yorkshire's crucial missing rail link? | #Railnatter 317

11

Why GBR's AI plan is a SHAMBLES | #Railnatter 316

12

How Britain lost THOUSANDS of train services in 2026 | #Railnatter 315

13

What Great British Railways should ACTUALLY be | #Railnatter 314

14

Rebuilding Yorkshire's Broken Railway Network | #Railnatter 313

15

The Titfield Thunderbolt Predicted Today's Transport Crisis | #Railnatter 312

16

Labour’s rail promises versus reality | #Railnatter 311

17

Why Safety Systems Failed At Talerddig | #Railnatter 310

18

The hidden history of Adelaide's weird transport | #Railnatter 309

19

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

20

The truth about local elections and public transport | #Railnatter 307

21

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

22

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

23

This cheap fix will SOLVE rural travel | #Railnatter 304

24

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

25

This train TRANSFORMED Britain’s railways | #Railnatter 302

26

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

27

Transport in Leeds isn't working | #Railnatter 300

28

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

29

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

30

Justin Roczniak fixes Britain's railways | #Railnatter 297

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

The Audenshaw rail crash | #Railnatter 290

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

The PWI has to change its name | #Railnatter 283

45

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

46

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

47

The real reason HS2 died | #Railnatter 280

48

British airports that have got to go | #Railnatter 279

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

This campaign made railways better for everyone | #Railnatter 275

53

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

54

How to build your own train simulator | #Railnatter 273

55

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

56

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

57

This Scottish town is a nightmare | #Railnatter 270

58

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

59

How North Wales will demolish car dependency | #Railnatter 268

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

How not to do feasibility studies | #Railnatter 261

67

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

68

Labour are out of ideas already | #Railnatter 259

69

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

70

Designing Glasgow a metro system | #Railnatter 257

71

Clyde Metro? Glasgow must think bigger | #Railnatter 256

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

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

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

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

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

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#Railnatter Episode 250: The little station that defeated Westminster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#Railnatter Episode 242: Contrast on the London Underground

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#Railnatter Episode 241: An Integrated National Transport Strategy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#Railnatter Episode 234: Britain's dismal rail tickets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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