Yesterday, the Green Signals podcast with Richard Bowker featured a special on the Settle and Carlisle Railway. This episode covered a wide range of aspects of its recent history, particularly the story of it being saved from closure and now thriving as a tourism hotspot due to the amazing views available from the line, asContinue reading “S&CR 150: Could a new Scotby Curve create a Newcastle to Settle via Hexham Line?”
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Tom Scott: Mines Rescue Exercise
Interesting video by Tom Scott on an exercise in the MRS Training and Rescue facility in Nottinghamshire. An interesting link to me personally as my dad was part of the Mines Rescue in Northumberland during his mining career.
Americas ‘Big’ Problem
A very interesting video on the size of USA transportation by YouTube channel BusinessExplainsTheWorld
How an early 20th Century Steamship works
An interesting find on YouTube was this animation of an early 20th Century steamship by the Animagraffs channel.
Whatever happened to British shipbuilding?
This online lecture from Newcastle University in 2020, currently with only 666 views and presented by Dr Paul Stott, Senior Lecturer in Marine Production and Shipping Market Analysis, Marine, Offshore and Subsea Technology, School of Engineering, Newcastle University. Is a fascinating watch with lots of interesting snippets, such as to build a typical wooden RoyalContinue reading “Whatever happened to British shipbuilding?”
Harmathanatophobia: Part 1
Another amazing episode from Not Just Bikes, where Harmathanatophobia is outlined; the rational fear of being killed by cars, and outlines the nonsense of ‘vehicular cycling’ and made me aware of the legendary ‘Big Jim’s Booze Bike Ride to Braemar‘ video from the BBC back in the 1970’s. Further info will be put here; butContinue reading “Harmathanatophobia: Part 1”
The World Tram Driver Championships
A very interesting discovery was the ‘Vienna 2025: The First Ever WORLD Tram Driver Championships‘ from The Tim Traveller YouTube channel. This is something that could be a great UK wide event, and could help to raise the profile of tram systems more broadly; I mean, who DOESN’T was to watch Tram Bowling?!? Perhaps evenContinue reading “The World Tram Driver Championships”
‘Railboating’ as a fix for railway retention, reopening lines, and building railside paths?
Could a revival of railway camping holidays in a modern ‘railboat’ be a way of solving a number of issues on the rail network by using resources more effectively? A recent discovery on YouTube was a shipping container conversion into an easily transportable ‘Glamtainer‘, which in the video was loaded aboard a sideloader HGV (examplesContinue reading “‘Railboating’ as a fix for railway retention, reopening lines, and building railside paths?”
Ashville: An Advocate for Railfreight and the End of Ashville Weekly.
Today, Sunday 3rd August 2025, marks the final episode of the Ashville Weekly series by the Ashville channel on YouTube with episode 250 ‘The Last Dance’. I can’t remember the first time that YouTube suggested an Ashville video to me, but ever since then, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the weekly episodes, as well asContinue reading “Ashville: An Advocate for Railfreight and the End of Ashville Weekly.”
Snippets of info from ‘The Tyne Coal Keel’ by Adrian Osler
A recent loan from my local library has been ‘The Tyne Coal Keel’ (2022) by Adrian Osler, which whilst only partially read so far, is a fascinating book with some initial facts that, in my view, are clearly worth sharing more widely as part of the knowledge of these interesting small vessels that have long-sinceContinue reading “Snippets of info from ‘The Tyne Coal Keel’ by Adrian Osler”
Ryan Hogg 