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GND MediaRail nationalisation was never enough w/ Gareth DennisOne thing you can say about the Labour Party, is that they stuck by their promise to renationalise the rail system. Or did they?To discuss everything that's right and wrong about Britain's railways Andrew is joined by Gareth Dennis. Gareth is a rail engineer and author of HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE., and Hosts @Railnatter on Youtube. They discuss Zack Polanski's landmark win for the Green Party leadership, why the rail network is bad for people with access needs and what we can do about it. And does Manchester really need a unde...
2025-09-1059 min
ZOOKEEPING 101Episode 116: Gareth Davies: Hidden Gems from Africa in our zoo's: Gelada "Baboon".The One Hundred and Sixteenth episode incoming!!! I am very excited to welcome you to Gareth Davies from The Bristol Zoo Project.
ZOOKEEPING 101 is taking you into the world of the unsung heroes and awe inspiring species from Africa who maybe sometimes don't get as large a voice as they should. This week we look into the world of the Gelada "Baboon" and all that make it truly amazing. Alongside this we retrace the journey and stories along the way of Gareth Davies and how this species has left a mark on his career.
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2025-07-2146 minZOOKEEPING 101Episode 116: Gareth Davies: Hidden Gems from Africa in our zoo's: Gelada "Baboon".The One Hundred and Sixteenth episode incoming!!! I am very excited to welcome you to Gareth Davies from The Bristol Zoo Project.
ZOOKEEPING 101 is taking you into the world of the unsung heroes and awe inspiring species from Africa who maybe sometimes don't get as large a voice as they should. This week we look into the world of the Gelada "Baboon" and all that make it truly amazing. Alongside this we retrace the journey and stories along the way of Gareth Davies and how this species has left a mark on his career.
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2025-07-2146 min
TRASHFUTURE*PREVIEW* The Honourables feat. Gareth Dennis
NOTE: There's a slight issue with some echoes in this recording. We're trying to get it all fixed and will update if we can, but we don't want to delay the episode! Thank you for your patience, as ever..
Gareth Dennis returns to discuss infrastructure, growth, and the new airport runways that are about to festoon this island with promises of imaginary growth. But first, we present to you one of the Guys Of All Time.
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2025-03-0109 min
Country LifeGareth Dennis: The truth about HS2 that you never knew until it was too lateHS2: blot on the landscape? Or the greatest missed opportunity in a generation?What if the future of transport in Britain wasn't about electric cars and extra runways at Heathrow, but a 200-year-old technology of the past?That's the argument made by Gareth Dennis, the engineer, writer, policy adviser and podcaster who has made a name for himself in recent years with his clear-headed analysis of how people move around. We were delighted, then, when Gareth joined James Fisher on the Country Life Podcast to talk about the future of the railways.
2025-02-1737 min
How To Date MenDennis Shinners - Barrio BoyIn this episode of How To Date Men we’re joined by Dennis Shinners.Dennis is the writer and director of the new film, Barrio Boy.We talk filmmaking, storytelling, and navigating the restrictions of masculinity.Host: Gareth JohnsonTwitter: @gtvlondonHow To Date Men is presented by Gaydar.net - the online dating specialists that have been helping men come together for over 25 years.
2025-02-1217 min
On the RackEthics, Engineering and Star Wars with Gareth DennisIt's the first Chat S**t Get Banged of 2025 and I was delighted to invite Gareth Dennis on the show!Gareth is the author of How Railways Will Fix the Future, published by Repeater Books.In a review of the book, Steve Dawe writing for West England Bylines said,Gareth Dennis uses current, historical, and global contexts to chart how the railways can assist in the climate emergency and social justice.Despite 29 global conferences on the climate, and thousands of illustrative academic papers, climate policy failures remain. As Gareth Dennis observes...
2025-02-071h 30
We're Not So DifferentMedieval Railways (feat Gareth Dennis)folks, we all love trains. they're great for moving people and cargo and famously not as bad as cars but did you know that the first railways and trackways were built in the Classical and Medieval eras. that's right, despite what Victorian era propaganda would have you believe, the train didn't simply appear fully formed in the English mind in the 18th century where it was then bestowed upon the rest of humanity. it does in fact have a very long and often sordid history and that's why we've brought on Rail engineer and writer Gareth Dennis to talk with...
2025-01-151h 11
Unlock: This Thrilling Full Audiobook For Busy Professionals.How the Railways Will Fix the Future by Gareth DennisPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/79714to listen full audiobooks.
Title: How the Railways Will Fix the Future
Author: Gareth Dennis
Narrator: Gareth Dennis
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
Release date: 11-11-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Politics & Government
Publisher's Summary:
Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all. The world's railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway...
2024-11-117h 28
Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaHow the Railways Will Fix the Future with Gareth DennisGet the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/how-the-railways-will-fix-the-future-rediscovering-the-essential-brilliance-of-the-iron-road/Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all.The world’s railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what right do they have to exist and how can they be harnessed for good? Railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis builds a case not simply for railways as a common good, but argues that railways are a critical tool for humanity to survive and thrive.
2024-10-061h 06TRASHFUTURE*PREVIEW* Legal Tip: Always Incriminate Yourself by Email feat. Gareth Dennis New
For this week's bonus, we speak with friend of the show Gareth Dennis about his ordeal at the hands of British railway consultants who definitely understand the legal system, but also about the ongoing safety concerns at Euston Station, and in the UK more generally. Have you ever taken a train from Euston? Did you also fear for your life? Then perhaps this episode will explain some things.
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2024-09-0710 min
Podcasting is PraxisE260 - The N in Beeching Cuts ft. Gareth DennisRIP to HS2, we hardly knew ye! But fear not, uneconomical peasants of the North; you will now receive Network North which is real and don't ask any more questions. We're joined by Train Correspondent Gareth Dennis to talk rail, bankruptcies, and the continuing saga of BritishVolt!
Find Gareth Dennis online and also there's Railnatter if you're a trainperson!
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2024-04-191h 42
#Railnatter#Railnatter Episode 199: Hyperloop One is gone but when will this nonsense die?Now I've been going at Hyperloop's jugular for years now, and suffice to say it remains total and utter nonsense unworthy of any technological debate and only marginally worth one at all. We all know it is guff intended to both delay real railway solutions and to allow car and plane people a seat at governmental and regulatory "mass transit" tables.
Yet Hyperloop refuses to die. Even when probably its most well-known company has now bitten the dust, entirely as predicted. Well, we'll dig into why this might be, and will take a look at the current...
2024-01-031h 18Podcasting is PraxisE201 - Railcraic ft. Gareth DennisWe're joined by Gareth Dennis of Railnatter and ask HS2, what's up with that? Also, we do more nonsense "work", check in with the completely legal, above-board going on at the Teesside Freeport, and find out 200k a year makes you poor.
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2023-05-181h 28
The road.cc PodcastEpisode 51: “Vertical bike storage is discriminatory and should be outright banned”: Rail engineer Gareth Dennis explains why taking your bike on the train is such a faffSend a textOn episode 51 of the road.cc Podcast, we’re joined by rail expert Gareth Dennis to get to the bottom of why taking a bike on a train in the UK continues to be such an emotive issue for so many cyclists, and what needs to be done to make our rail network more accessible for everyone.A railway design engineer, writer, podcaster, and lecturer at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, Gareth is also a cyclist, so knows all too well the difficulties people with bikes can face on th...
2023-05-1156 min
Building Men185. Gareth Shanthikumar - "The Courage to be Vulnerable"This episode is as raw and as real as it gets on the Building Men Podcast. Gareth Shanthikumar shares his story of his upbringing in Australia, family dynamics, his battle with depression and how one of his closest relatives decision to commit suicide shook his foundation and changed his life. Gareth cofounded MAN UP in 2019 on the back of his own mental health loved experience. He aims to change the phrase ‘man up’ to mean something positive; to live authentically from one’s heart, embrace vulnerability and hold one another accountable to stand up for what’s right. Gar...
2023-05-0458 min
Ten Thousand LossesPeeking Under the Kilt ft. Gareth DennisGet a look under the kilt! 10kL features everyone's favorite Scot, member of the Union of Temporary Replacement Liams, and host of Rail Natter, Gareth Dennis! He was fortunate enough to visit Philadelphia during the Phils' history postseason run. We talk Philadelphia in general, the difference between UK and American sports fans, the Phillies, and answer a few listener messages.
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2022-11-1358 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 130: How engineers made the Great Western Britain’s first 125mph railway lineBritain's first modern high speed line may have been the Selby Diversion. Its first 300km/h line may have been High Speed 1. But the first inter-city railway that embodied the design elements we see of high speed lines today was - arguably - the Great Western Railway. 130 years after its opening it also became Britain's first 200km/h railway.
It may have been over-engineered by Brunel, but this was very much in the favour of the engineers of the 1970s when they upgraded much of the GWR for 125mph running... This week's #RailNatter looks at what these...
2022-09-071h 30#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 129: Not quite ten of mainland Europe’s missing high speed rail linksJon Stone and I are joining the dots in this week's #RailNatter... Where on our side of Europe would really benefit from a new high speed link?
We trip our way across from Sweden to Spain, from Swindon to Serbia in search of the answers. This is most certainly an incomplete list. But the real challenges aren't perhaps the physical infrastructure, but the political unimaginativeness of our leaders.
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2022-08-311h 10#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 128: Have Stadler really built Britain’s best train fleet?This week's #RailNatter is answering the ultimate (?) question - are Stadler's FLIRTs Britain's best train?
Joining me on this quest shall be friend of the show Simon Kendler, who shall guide you and me on an odyssey into the east...
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2022-08-241h 32#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 127: Avanti and the ”unofficial strikes” (yes, it’s a News episode)Much has been happening in the world of transport, so it's time to pause, take stock and catch up with current happenings again...
We'll be talking about strikes quite a bit, but there's plenty else to flick through, including the UK's broader economic outlook, the energy crisis and the impacts of the ongoing heatwave. Join #RailNatter live to get involved!
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2022-08-171h 36#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 126: The Transport Select Committee’s Integrated Rail Plan reportIt's a #RailNatter page-turn again - and we're sinking our metaphorical teeth into the Transport Select Committee's Integrated Rail Plan (a.k.a. #RailBetrayal) report... It's the one I appeared in Parliament for!
We'll dig into the detail, but it summarised by saying that there was little evidence of valid assessment in IRP, that government should prepare for their cuts to be reversed, that journey time benefits were not achievable and that there was not enough focus on capacity. In other words, they leave government's plans in tatters!
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2022-08-101h 25#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 125: What if the InterCity 125 had never existed?It's been over two years since we've done a proper alternative history episode (Episode 7 was on what might have happened if the APT had made it) so for Episode 125 it's only right that we look to the InterCity 125 (a.k.a. the High Speed Diesel Train) and have a think about what might have happened if it had simply never come into existence...
What might have changed? Would the railway renaissance that came about in the 1980s never have come to being without them? Might we see a very different-looking railway network today had they not appeared...
2022-08-031h 02TRASHFUTUREThe Taking of Britain 123 ft. Gareth DennisRail Natter's Gareth Dennis joins the gang to discuss the RMT's strike action. We look at what made striking necessary, what striking does for everyone (not just the strikers!), and - of course - we run down the Mick Lynch daytime TV hit list.
Gareth mentions a strike fund in the episode, which you can access here: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/national-dispute-fund/
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2022-06-281h 15TRASHFUTUREMurder on the Barking and Dagenham Express feat. Gareth DennisGareth Dennis (@GarethDennis) of Rail Natter returns to our hallowed halls to talk about, among other things, the decision to put the capital’s transport network into “managed decline,” so we can enjoy the standards of infrastructure currently only available to exotic places like “Italy” or “Quebec.” Also, a Foxtons for the Metaverse.
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2022-02-151h 03TRASHFUTURE*PREVIEW* The Great Train Robbery feat Gareth DennisThe gang talks all things rail with with railway engineer and the host of Rail Natter, Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis). We go back into the history of how Britain's railways "got like that," and how government plans to centralise and revitalise Great British Rail is just a coat of red white and blue paint over (you guessed it!) giving money to scammy start ups.
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2021-10-2211 min
Tangible Computing#12 Dennis Ramondt: Role of AI in Eliminating Industrial Energy WasteDennis Ramondt shares his views on how his company Sensorfact uses AI to help reduce energy bills for large factories. He talks about the amount of data, the infrastructure used at Sensorfact to manage and derive valuable insights for their customers. We also discuss the skills needed to work as a data scientist and discover his personal story of becoming the head of a Data Science team. In this episode, Dennis shares how important it is to formulate the business problem well in order to build the right technology.
2021-10-0551 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 73: Is electrifying motorways really a good idea?We’re getting back to our #RailNatter roots in this week’s episode, as I’ll be doing a mostly “big face” Q&A to talk about the e-Highway plans proposed by the UK government for trial on the M180 near Scunthorpe. Is putting catenary over a motorway a good idea? How will it actually work in practice? Is this yet another distraction technique for a government desperate not to actually invest in rail?
Tune in LIVE to find out!
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2021-08-041h 20
2021-07-3000 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 61: Let’s talk about busesThis week’s episode of #RailNatter is diving into the government’s “Bus Back Better” report… That’s right, we’ve hopped over to the dark side!
Is the paper any good? Do I actually agree with most or even all of it?
There’s also A LOT of news to catch up on… Join LIVE on Weds at 7pm to go through it all!
Download the report here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publica…
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2021-05-131h 38#Railnatter#Railnatter Episode 60: Why bother with electrification?Given that government is still prevaricating on the critical need to electrify Britain’s railways, this week’s #RailNatter is once again going to explore the question: why bother?
A couple of weeks ago, RIA (the Rail Industry Association) published another report laying out the incontrovertible evidence supporting conventional electrification. With the aid of the facts and figures held within, we’ll topple every tired argument against electrification in turn.
Join LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm to have your say.
Download the report here: https://www.riagb.org.uk/RIA/Newsroom…
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2021-05-061h 28#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 59: The Carmont derailment (looking at the interim report)On the 12th August 2020, a High Speed Train derailed near Stonehaven, killing three people including the driver and conductor.
With the RAIB having just published their interim report on the incident, this episode of #RailNatter is going to pick through and pull out the key findings thus far, exploring what we know and what we still don’t know.
Join the discussion LIVE on Wednesday at 7pm (UK time).
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2021-04-292h 16#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 58: That time Gerrards Cross Tesco fell on the railwayWe’re doing an impersonation of WTYP this week… Because #RailNatter is going to unpick the tale of the Tesco tunnel collapse in Gerrards Cross!
Why did the tunnel collapse? Why was that structural form chosen? Why was the tunnel needed at all? What even is Tescos?
Join us LIVE to find out answers to all this and more!
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2021-04-231h 10#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 57: What should the Welsh railway map look like?It’s another Welsh episode!
The Welsh railway network is a mess – in fact, there isn’t really a “Welsh” network at all, it is just a series of branches of the English one… In this week’s #RailNatter, we are discussing why that might be, how we might reverse that state of affairs, and – ultimately – what a useful and realistic Welsh railway network might actually look like!
Join LIVE to have your say and to see what I think…
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2021-04-231h 30#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 56: How governments use evidence to make transport policyWe are joined by not one but TWO guests in this week’s #RailNatter…
Alistair Baldwin and Kelly Shuttleworth were the joint authors of the Institute for Government’s excellent paper “How governments use evidence to make transport policy” that was released in February, and I am very pleased to say that they will be joining us for a classic #RailNatter page-turn of that very report!
Join us LIVE to ask your questions and share your thoughts!
Download the paper here: https://www.instituteforgovernment.or…
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2021-04-231h 41#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 55: Why Is Standard Track Gauge Four Foot Eight And A Half Inches?In a change to the previously advertised schedule, I’m filling in with a pre-record in this week’s #RailNatter (we’ll have our first dual-guest episode next week)… We’re covering the origins of “standard” track gauge!
We’ll bust open the myths about horse’s bottoms and Romans (see also: the Space Shuttle episode) and look at the far more interesting reality of early railway infrastructure development – and not for the last time I am sure!
Join LIVE(ish) to keep up to date with the chat, even if I am not about to follow!
Enjo...
2021-04-2356 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 54: The Engineer’s Guide to Being A Good Crayonista (Part 2)This week’s #RailNatter is a return to the railway colouring-in book!
In the previous Crayonista episode, we listed seven top tips for creating vaguely useful or realistic railway alignments. This time I’ll be jumping into Google Earth and looking in more detail at the process of actually creating sensible alignments using these top tips…
Where are we linking up? Well, I will be attempting to add Wetherby back into the national rail network!
Join LIVE to watch along and have your say!
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2021-03-251h 13#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 53: A page-turn through the Scottish Greens’ “Rail for All” reportWe’re flicking through another PDF on screen today, and this time it is the rather exciting Rail for All report created for the Scottish Greens.
No other UK party has created a document like this in modern history – and the country is all the worse off for it. But does it hold up to scrutiny?
Join LIVE to find out.
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2021-03-241h 40#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 52: The #RailNatter Anniversary SpecialWe’ve done it – #RailNatter is a year old!
To celebrate, we’re getting all of the Patreon supporters on to talk about their favourite moments and episodes, and more importantly to hand out the GOLDEN PANDROL CLIP to the award winning episodes…
Join the chaos LIVE at the usual time!
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2021-03-241h 03#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 51: Railway staff safety through time (with Mike Esbester)Much as the situation appears to be improving year on year, the railways still aren’t safe enough, as we were tragically reminded of earlier this year with the death of Tyler Byrne at Surbiton station.
But how has railway staff safety changed over the years? Is there anything we can learn from accidents from decades and even centuries gone by? There are few better people to ask than Dr Mike Esbester, who leads the Railway Work, Life & Death project out of the University of Porstmouth. We’ll talk about both contemporary and historic safety incidents, and see...
2021-03-241h 33
Amplify FMHS2 and Public Transport w/ Gareth DennisIn this episode we are joined by Gareth Dennis to discuss the political, environmental and economic dimensions of the HS2 infrastructure project and why the libertarian right hate public transport. Gareth is an engineer and writer, specialising in transport systems. He is a sustainable transport advocate and regularly appears on television and radio explaining engineering and transport ideas to a broad audience. At the end of January, he published an article in Left Foot Forward, arguing that environmentalist direct action would be better directed towards road building projects such as...
2021-03-0752 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 50: Space Shuttle Rocket Boosters (with John Morgan Cristoph)This week’s #RailNatter is harking back to the days of AOL and email chains (oh, and more recently, THAT daft Twitter thread about track gauge, horses bottoms and rocket boosters)…
Yes, friend of the show John Morgan Christoph is joining us to bring his space and geology skills to bear and guide us through the more interesting spacey side-stories associated with this silly set of myths! Why did the Shuttle use solid rocket boosters? Why did they travel by rail? How did the railways help build the Kennedy Space Centre in the first place?
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2021-02-252h 03#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 49: West Yorkshire mass transitIt’s another solo #RailNatter, and this week we are also doing another page turn…
This time we are picking through the West Yorkshire mass transit proposals. Are they any good? Is there anything that needs to change? What is the likelihood they will actually happen? Is there anything we can learn from them?
All this and more, LIVE and with you lot asking the questions!
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2021-02-251h 29#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 48: Tunnels Under the US Capitol (with Ann Gavaghan)We’re back for another #RailNatter, and this one is somewhat topical…
A month after everyone got a really good look at the inside of the US Capitol buildings, we are joined by the brilliant Ann Gavaghan (@anngav on Twitter) to talk about the tunnels underneath this complex of buildings.
Join us LIVE as the secrets are revealed to ask all your questions!
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2021-02-161h 24#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 47: The Architecture the Railways Built 2 (with Tim Dunn)#TheArchitectureTheRailwaysBuilt has returned to our tellies, which means that Britain’s most effervescent ferroequinologist is coming back on #RailNatter!
One of the loveliest and most pleasingly knowledgeable railway folks out there, replete with his array of books, miniatures and scarves, joins us again to talk about his new series, with more behind the scenes goodies and hints as to what lies in store for us in future episodes.
Join us LIVE to ask all of your questions and to see the two of us quaff wine like it is out of fashion…
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2021-02-041h 16#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 46: Coronavirus versus railways#RailNatter started with the first of the coronavirus lockdowns… With the virus having been around in the UK for around a year, and with passenger levels still at less than 20% of pre-COVID levels, what does the future look like for Britain’s railways?
For Episode 46, we’ll look at a lot of the myths, forgotten realities and plans elsewhere in the world to get an idea of whether the doom and gloom currently being peddled is in fact misplaced…
Join LIVE to ask all of your questions, make your suggestions as to what happens next, and genera...
2021-02-041h 21
Rail Technology Magazine PodcastEp 25. The industry needs to take matters into its own hands, Gareth DennisOn this week’s episode of RTM’s Track Talk, host Ailsa Cowen is joined by Gareth Dennis, a Railway Engineer and Writer. Gareth dissects the strong anti-devolution agenda affecting the industry, how our railways are a jack of all trades and master of none and how HS2 is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.Gareth discusses the 40% cut in Transport for the North’s operational budget. He says, “there’s no sensible reason to cut this money other than the fact the current Transport Minister has created his own what he calls Accelerati...
2021-01-2831 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 45: A page-turn through the NIC’s strategic rail links reportFor Episode 45 of #RailNatter, we’re grabbing a copy of the National Infrastructure Commission’s “Rail Needs Assessment for the Midlands and the North”.
This was supposed to be the stepping off point for a revolution in railway transport for the regions outside of London and the south, and yet it appears to have signified the start of a major abandonment of by the current government. But why?
Join me LIVE to ask your questions as I flick through the report and explore its contents in detail…
Read my piece on why the report was...
2021-01-251h 19#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 44: What is the South Wales Metro? (with James Bennett)We’re back for our first LIVE #RailNatter of 2021… For episode 44 we are heading to South Wales, where James Bennett will update us on the progress of the South Wales Metro, and indeed explain a bit more about what it is.
Will I have to hammer the #NotAMetro buzzer? What type of traction is being used where? How much of the system will be electrified?
Join us LIVE for the answers to these and any other questions you might have!
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2021-01-201h 22#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 43: US railroads can be Good, Actually (with Justin Roczniak)That’s it! 2020 is finally over! It can only get better, right?!
To celebrate, this episode of #RailNatter is a corker: we’ve got Justin Roczniak a.k.a. @donoteat01 off of Franklin and @Well There’s Your Problem Podcast bursting some preconceptions that us exceptionalist Brits might have about US railroads… Oh, and quite a lot of other stuff, too (this one ran long, as you might have imagined it might)!
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2021-01-061h 59#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 42: Snow versus railways (with Alex Priestley)Well, everyone is hopefully stuffed full of carb-rich food at this point, and given that (for British viewers at least) it is probably four degrees and drizzling outside, I thought it would be best for us to think about snowier times…
Who better to join us to talk about snow than certified/certifiable snow nerd and in-denial Bahnnerd Alex Priestley? We’ll cover what snow is, how it impacts on the railway, how the railway deals with it, and two times we escaped snow-based railway calamity (and yes, we’ll mention snow sheds and jet engines mounted on fla...
2020-12-301h 00#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 41: What do the railways do at Christmas? (with Bonnie Price)Yuletide Greetings, all! It’s the first of the #RailNatter holiday specials, and Bonnie Price has joined us to talk about what on earth the railways get up to when the trains are all tucked up in their depots!
We cover what a blockade is, what sort of thing we do when they are in place, and why we both think the future of the railways would be brighter if we were more comfortable with spreading them around the year a bit more…
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2020-12-231h 36#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 40: Four fatal derailments that changed the permanent way for goodFour post-war railway disasters changed the modern permanent way (a.k.a. track system) more than any others: Hither Green, Tattenhall, Ulleskelf and Hatfield.
All of these fatal tragedies exposed cracks in our understanding of the way the permanent way worked, resulting in the industry learning, developing, and becoming safer. This week’s #RailNatter will explore the legacy of each in turn.
Join LIVE to ask your questions and hopefully see how important and powerful incremental innovation is.
Note that this episode contains images and descriptions of train derailments that some viewers may fi...
2020-12-171h 42#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 39: What is slab track and why is it good (with Ivana Avramović)I harp on about slab track quite a bit, not least in relation to its improvement in the whole-life costs and impacts of intensively-used railway infrastructure… But what exactly is it, and how does it work?
Well, Ivana Avramović is from PORR, which is the world’s leading manufacturer of slab track, and she’ll be joining us for tonight’s #RailNatter to explain all!
Tune in LIVE to ask your questions!
2020-12-161h 38#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 38: Get an e-bike for Christmas (with Lindsay Broadwell)This week’s #RailNatter is for everyone who thinks that cycling and railways are a perfect match… Lindsay Broadwell and I will be talking all things e-bike! We’ll touch on bike provision on trains, trolley buses and nuclear, too…
See you LIVE for much chat!
2020-12-031h 31#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 37: Why is it so important to tell people that Hyperloop is bad?There’s been a lot of transport nonsense in the news recently: Hyperloop pretended it carried some passengers, Elon Musk’s Loop outed itself as completely useless, the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro is asking for people to submit ideas as to what on earth it is…
In all cases, real transport solutions are pushed further away. So I thought I’d do an episode of #RailNatter explaining why it is so important to trash talk this junk, how best to do it, and the best tools in your rhetorical armoury to make use of.
Join LIVE to ask a...
2020-11-261h 11#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 36: What exactly is sustainability? (with Simon Kendler)In Episode 36 of #RailNatter, we are being joined by bona fide young rail professional Simon Kendler!
Given that both of us call ourselves sustainable transport advocates, we thought it would make sense to discuss what exactly “sustainability” means in a transport context… What constitutes “sustainable” transport? Is it all about the colour green? Are railways sustainable? Is anything?
Join us LIVE to ask us your questions!
2020-11-251h 48#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 35: Scenic Rail Tours Of An Hour In Length – Inverurie to ElginFor Episode 35 of #RailNatter, we are trying a new intermittent format: Scenic Rail Tours of An Hour In Length (as requested by the Patreon people)!
For the first episode, we are going back to my roots and taking a virtual trip from Inverurie to Elgin… What is there to see and do? What will we find out along the way? Will this format actually work?
Join LIVE to find out!
Here’s the link to the NLS’s old mapping comparison website: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/
2020-11-181h 17#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 34: A Correspondent’s Guide to Europe’s railwaysThis week, I am very pleased to say we have long-time audio-only #RailNatter listener (oh, and the Independent’s Policy Correspondent) Jon Stone joining us to talk about his experiences of mainland Europe’s railways during his time posted as Brussels correspondent…
Where could Britain learn from our mainland railway colleagues? Is there anything that we do better? Just how terrible is #RailNatter in an audio-only format?
Join us LIVE where Jon will be answering these and many other questions.
2020-11-111h 40#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 33: Would a fixed link to Northern Ireland work?In Episode 33 of #RailNatter, we are looking at what a fixed link to the island of Ireland (via Northern Ireland) might look like…
Should it be high speed? Are either a bridge or a tunnel possible? Should it link from Wales, England or Scotland? How much might it cost? Given that Boris Johnson likes the idea, is the whole thing completely nonsensical from an engineering perspective?
Join me LIVE for a chat all about it… But a warning: we may raise more questions than answers!
2020-10-291h 13#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 32: The Island of Tube TrainsThis week (or rather, a month ago as this is a pre-record), railway writer Richard Long is joining us to talk about the mysterious Island of Tube Trains, or the Isle of Wight as it is generally written on the map.
This will be a #RailNatter full of tales of little engines, gauge clearance and a second chance for many a former metro train…
Buy Richard’s book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01DS2I7H4
Or here if you want to avoid Amazon: https://iwsr-store.solent.co/product/…
Find R...
2020-10-2359 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 31: Is level boarding on trains really that hard to achieve?This week’s #RailNatter aims to get to the root of an issue incredibly close to my heart, and something we as an industry do a very bad job of: actually letting everyone get on our trains.
In Episode 31, we’ll be looking at the issue of level boarding: what do I mean by this, why is it an issue, and is it as hard to achieve as lots of people say it is? I’ll also look at why an industry in the 2020s still thinks it is okay to exclude huge numbers of people from using...
2020-10-231h 30#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 30: Skills gap? What skills gap? (#RailWeek special with Harriet Glen)It is #RailWeek! Which means we are having a special Rail Week-themed #RailNatter!
In Episode 30, we'll be joined by brilliant transport planner Harriet Glen for a live, hour-long ASK US ANYTHING session! Interested in a career in the railways? This is the Q&A for you!
We'll be setting out to answer the following questions... What is the skills gap and how bad is it? Why do we have a skills gap? How can we look to address the skills gap?
As promised, here are some links to help with...
FINDING...
2020-10-071h 30#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 29: A hundred* ways for railway rails to failIn this week's #RailNatter, I'm talking about all of the ways in which railway rails - yes, just the rails themselves - give up and stop holding trains up in the air.
What's a squat? Fatigue got you down? Want to crack gauge corner cracking? Well, this is the episode for you...
Join LIVE to ask your questions and I'll do my best to respond!
*we won't be covering one hundred failure modes
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2020-09-301h 40#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 28: Quails on Rails (with Dr David Turner)The venerable Dr David Turner is back on the show! In Episode 28 of #RailNatter, we'll be turning our attention to the humble quail...
Why? Well, because it allows us to explore the shape and development of supply chains on the British railway network through time, including thinking about how they operate now. It also lets us look at wider international supply chains, and how for a long time freight across the globe moved through Britain (for better or worse). But most of all, because an episode on quails is what all of us need at this point.
2020-09-231h 32#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 27: The Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy (phew)In a change to the announced schedule, Episode 27 of #RailNatter is going to be a marathon page turn of Network Rail's freshly published Traction Decarbonisation Network Strategy - a.k.a. The Electrification Map Report!
Join us LIVE as we flick through all 257 pages, check out all of the areas that AREN'T proposed for wiring and consider how realistic it is that Britain might finally get the rolling programme of electrification that was first mooted over a hundred years ago.
Download the report: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-cont...
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2020-09-162h 03#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 26: How do sleeper trains work? (with Edward Schofield)We're finding out how sleeper trains work in this week's #RailNatter... And Edward Schofield (@CapotrenoEd on Twitter) shall be our guide!
You've been asking for this one - and it is a subject I'm looking forward to learning a lot about... Join us LIVE to ask your questions!
Ed's blog: https://railguideeurope.com/night-tra...
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/5CPAC8W
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2020-09-091h 05#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 25: The Engineer‘s Guide To Being A Good CrayonistaWell here we go - it is finally time for a #RailNatter with interactive railway creation... In Episode 25, I'll be providing you with the tools you need to make your crayon railways as realistic as possible!
I'll show you how to dodge towns, make use of existing alignments and skip your way between ancient woodlands as we look over a few examples of railways that I've already fiddled with...
Join the natter LIVE to see a railway appear in real time, to have your say over how it looks, and to ask any burning questions...
2020-09-021h 10#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 24: Is road pricing the future? (with Edward Leigh)We've talked about it before, but what is road pricing and is it the future for managing road traffic? Well, this is what Edward Leigh (leader of Smarter Cambridge Transport) and I will be talking about in Episode 24 of #RailNatter!
With electric vehicles being the future of road transport, income from fuel duty will start rapidly decreasing. At the same time, road users need to be rewarded for reducing their miles and for driving sensible vehicles. Can road pricing achieve this?
Join us LIVE to find out and ask all your questions!
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2020-08-261h 29#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 23: The Tube Mapper Project (with Luke Agbaimoni)In this week's #RailNatter we're being joined by Luke Agbaimoni (@TubeMapper on Twitter) to talk about his mission to expose the ostensibly mundane as the aesthetically beautiful!
Here are Luke's social media links: tubemapper.com (website) @tubemapper (instagram and twitter)
Buy a first edition signed copy of the book (!): https://unbound.com/books/tubemapper/
Buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/075099437...
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2020-08-1947 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 22: Making Electrification Stick (with Garry Keenor)In this week's #RailNatter I'm very pleased to say we will be joined by the electrifying Garry Keenor (@25kV on Twitter)!
In Episode 22, we'll be talking about all things OLE (OCS if you're elsewhere in the world)... Given that national electrification was suggested seriously back in the 1910s, how on earth can we finally get Britain to #ElectrifyAllTheThings, over a century later?
Join us LIVE to ask all of your electrification questions!
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2020-08-121h 30#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 21: Light Rail Is Not A Metro (and other gripes)Episode 21 of #RailNatter is being hijacked as a #NotAMetro soapbox!
This is one of my all-time bug-bears: what is and is not a “metro”, and why the UK in particular is fixated on calling tram systems “metros” despite them being a long way short of that. But where does the line sit?
Is the DLR a metro? Is the Tyne and Wear Metro a metro? Is Thameslink a metro? Watch to see as I try to create the definitive categorisation system for railways!
2020-08-051h 17#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 20: So Just What Structure Should Britain‘s Railways Have Anyway?Episode 20 of #RailNatter is going to be an hour of me making a rod for my own back, no doubt... Why? Because I am going to make my proposal for what the organisational structure of Britain's railways should look like!
Do I want a return to Grouping? Sectorised BR? The Japanese model? Tune in to find out!
(Here's Alasdair Rae's CityMetric piece explaining his Federal England map: https://www.citymetric.com/politics/w...)
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2020-07-291h 24#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 19: STEM or STEAM (with Lucy Prior MBE)We're LIVE again for Episode 19 of #RailNatter, and I am very pleased to say we'll have the brilliant Lucy Prior MBE joining us to talk about STEM... or is that STEAM?
Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS and Mathematics: Are we broadening the description too much, or are we just acknowledging that engineering is as creative as it is technical?
This is the subject that got the two of us together in person for the first time, though in true me style we never ended up actually talking about it. Now's the chance for us to put...
2020-07-221h 00#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 18: Morpeth CurveMorpeth Curve - a ridiculous kink in Britain's 125mph East Coast Main Line that has tipped more than one train into the adjacent housing estate...
In this week's #RailNatter, I'll be postulating on why it exists, looking at what we might do about it, and thinking on the tragedy and comedy of successive derailments in this small Northumbrian town.
I'm away for this one... But through the wonders of modern technology, you can still join this episode at 7pm and chat away LIVE (ish)!
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2020-07-1530 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 17: The Woodhead RouteSeeing as trans-Pennine infrastructure was in the news recently, this week's #RailNatter is going to cover THE WOODHEAD ROUTE and why "reopening" it is an idea beloved by nostalgists that isn't rooted in reality.
Join me to tell me why I'm wrong - and it's just me this week, so we'll be doing a lot of nattering, no doubt!
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2020-07-081h 12#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 16: The upsides of closing railways (with Andrew White)In this week's #RailNatter, Andrew White is joining us to talk about a topic close to our hearts, but perhaps from an unusual angle... What are the BENEFITS of closing railway lines?
Are there any? Are we doing the work of the devil in even talking about closing railways? Join us LIVE to get involved and tell us what you think!
Check out Walks Around Britain at their website: walksaroundbritain.co.uk
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2020-07-011h 14#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 15: Art on the Underground (with Charlotte Monroe)In this week's #RailNatter, we're diving underneath London again and looking at one of my favourite transportation art projects... Art on the Underground.
And we are being joined by signaller and all-round urban transit buff Charlotte Monroe (@BeingCharley on Twitter) who is going to tell us all about it!
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2020-06-241h 53#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 14: Building railways, but with less carbon...This week, I'm delighted to welcome Prab onto #RailNatter! In Episode 14, we'll be talking about carbon emissions in construction... How do you calculate them? How do you reduce them? Are we doing enough? Is concrete evil?
We'll also touch on the experiences of entering and thriving in the rail industry as someone who doesn't fit within the "prevailing engineering demographic".
Circular Ecology Website (the Inventory of Carbon and Energy can be downloaded from here): https://circularecology.com/
Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator: https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse... Harvard University Implicit Association Test: https...
2020-06-171h 16#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 13: Going Underground (with Geoff Marshall)We've got Geoff Marshall on! I'm delighted to say that Geoff is going to be joining us to talk about all things Underground (that's with a capital U)...
Episode 13 of #RailNatter (our fourteenth episode, so hopefully things will run smoother than last time) will take us on a tour of London's subterranean railway network!
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2020-06-101h 09#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 12: Beeching (with Dr David Turner)Well, it has finally happened. We are talking about Beeching. In Episode 12 of #RailNatter, we are unpicking the mythos of Beeching, helped by the historical handiwork of Dr David Turner, who is back for his second appearance (which I think makes him a "friend of the show").
Was Beeching the harbinger of railway destruction? Should we reverse Beeching? What does that actually mean? Was Beeching good or bad? Was there more going on? What would the railways look like today if Beeching hadn't happened? Is Beeching just an allegory for the demise of a British - and...
2020-06-031h 26#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 11: Getting trains from A to B without crashing into stuff or each otherYou've all been asking me for it, so here it is: the (first) signalling episode!
Melanie Osborne is joining us for Episode 11 of #RailNatter, and she's going to be telling us all how to get trains from A to B without bumping into things. Why are train traffic lights upside down? What is semaphore? Who is Balise? All questions we may or may not answer in varying degrees of detail - in all seriousness, we're all going to be learning a lot in this one!
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2020-05-271h 36#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 10: Weather versus railwaysThis week's #RailNatter is like a Harry Hill fight between British small talk topics...
In Episode 10 (we've reached double figures!), meteorologist and thinly-veiled bahnnerd Alex Priestley will be talking about how weather is a constant challenge to railways, and how climate change is making it worse. We'll sail through a few of the big hitters (Dawlish as a biggie) and might also mention a few tales you might not have heard of.
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2020-05-201h 36#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 9: An official and objective ranking of London rail terminalsI'm pleased to say we've been joined by the brilliant Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge on twitter) for this week's #RailNatter!
In Episode 9, Jonn is going to guide us through his Official and Objective Ranking of London Terminals™ - who knows what other tidbits we'll stumble upon?
Jonn's original piece in CityMetric is here: https://www.citymetric.com/transport/...
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2020-05-151h 36#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 8: The Forth BridgeIt's time to slow things down a bit for Episode 8... This week's #RailNatter is going to be a leisurely stroll through the story of the Forth Bridge, warts and all (who am I kidding, there are no warts, this thing is the greatest structure humankind has ever created).
Without 200 slides to hammer through this one will be much more of a natter, so do check in live to get involved and share your stories!
My Medium piece on the Forth Bridge is here: https://medium.com/@garethdennis/the-...
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2020-05-061h 03#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 7: The Architecture the Railways Built (with Tim Dunn)We're onto Episode 7 of #RailNatter, and I'm very pleased to say that Britain's most effervescent ferroequinologist Tim Dunn is joining us to talk about his new TV show: The Architecture the Railways Built... #RailwayArchitecture started this week on UKTV Yesterday, and you can see it at 20:00 (UK time) on Tuesday evenings!
What is the show about? Where will Tim end up? What's in store for us over the coming weeks? Tune in to find out and ask us your questions...
More info about Tim's show here: https://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/shows/ar...
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2020-04-291h 28#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 6: What if APT had made it?It's Episode 6 of #RailNatter, and this time we're doing a bit of alternate history... On the APT!
What might Britain's railways have looked like if the Advanced Passenger Train project had succeeded? What small changes might have resulted in that happening? Would there have been any downsides? What would the trains be doing now? We'll dig into all of this, and more!
Link to the Hornby/Hitachi NHS competition: https://www.hornby.com/uk-en/nhs-comp
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2020-04-221h 13#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 5: Beer! (with Dr David Turner)Here is this week's #RailNatter... In Episode 5 we are talking about BEER and everything Dr David Turner and I can think of that connects this fine drink with the railways!
We cover the complex relationship between supply chains and railways, hint at why Beeching wasn't the baddie everyone says he is (oooooh), talk about Burton quite a lot, and imbibe a few ales in the process!
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2020-04-151h 18#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 4: Hydrogen trains (with Mike Muldoon)Here is this week's #RailNatter... In Episode 4 we are talking about all things hydrogen with (I'm pleased to say) Alstom's Mike Muldoon!
Are hydrogen trains a good idea? What is the hydrogen economy? Are battery trains better? All is answered here!
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2020-04-081h 01#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 3: Rail over the PenninesHere is this week's #RailNatter... In Episode 3 we are talking about "Rail over the Pennines" and all that entails (amongst other things)!
How many lines crossed the Pennine watershed in the past, and how many do now? How many lines are electrified? How does trans-Pennine railway history compare with the Scottish Central Belt? We cover it all here!
Link to the episode of Well There's Your Problem that I guested on: https://youtu.be/38-MKEap0AQ
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2020-04-011h 01#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 2: Are Class 158s good?It's time for Episode 2 of #RailNatter, and this time we're talking about the Class 158 Express Sprinters... and the history of Sprinter trains/British Rail Diesel Multiple Units (DMUs) more generally!
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2020-03-2559 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 1: Britain‘s Rail Pinch PointsThis week we're looking at the list of rail pinch points that I (mostly) came up with and featured in Channel 4's Dispatches on Monday!
Head to the map of pinch points here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Emq...
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2020-03-1858 min#Railnatter#RailNatter Episode 0: High Speed 2 Q&AAs a trial run for the proper #RailNatter series, I did a live Periscope Q&A on High Speed 2 and answered as many questions as I could in an hour... Now it's here for you to re-watch!
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2020-03-1157 min
MarketScale RadioSustainable Public Transport: Is it Possible? with Gareth Dennis of Permanent Rail EngineeringAs more and more cities, most recently Houston, urge its citizens to carpool to help with congestion, accidents and pollution, we decided to sit down with a MarketScale Transportation Podcast frequenter, Gareth Dennis of Permanent Rail Engineering, to get his take on this worldwide trend. Gareth, an engineer and writer, joined us to talk about the growth of active travel (and what that means), how public transit is evolving, and how the UK compares to the US in terms of transit and carpooling.
2018-08-2021 min
MarketScale RadioDissecting the Hype Behind Hyperloop with Gareth Dennis of Permanent Rail EngineeringThe Hyperloop transit system has been turning everyone's heads since 2013, and as test runs continue, the world is waiting to see where the company will build its first route. However, the transportation technology is far from complete. Gareth Dennis, Senior Engineer for Permanent Rail Engineering, comes on the podcast to explain some of the major gaps Hyperloop still needs to fill before it's viable, and what he thinks transportation investors and innovators could be investing their time and money into instead.
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2018-06-1217 min
MarketScale RadioDissecting the Hype Behing Hyperloop with Gareth Dennis of Permanent Rail EngineeringThe Hyperloop transit system has been turning everyone's heads since 2013, and as test runs continue, the world is waiting to see where the company will build its first route. However, the transportation technology is far from complete. Gareth Dennis, Senior Engineer for Permanent Rail Engineering, comes on the podcast to explain some of the major gaps Hyperloop still needs to fill before it's viable, and what he thinks transportation investors and innovators could be investing their time and money into instead.
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2018-06-0722 min
MarketScale RadioDigitally Enhancing Railways with Gareth Dennis of Permanent Rail EngineeringToday we sit down with Gareth Dennis, Senior Engineer with Permanent Way. He gives us a look at the innovations in transforming railway information from analog to digital, and how that’s helping make infrastructure more adaptive and dependable.
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2018-05-2522 min
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