Wednesday Nov 27, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 240: What we must learn from the Grenfell Tower disaster
Episodes
Episodes
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 239: Vancouver's SkyTrain and what we can learn from it
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday Nov 20, 2024
I'm delighted to say we're joined this week by genuine Vancouverite Cariad Heather Keigher, who takes us on a tour of the SkyTrain and the messy history that created it. Don't worry though - it's actually very good!
We chart the fall of the interurbans and the rise of this not-a-gadgetbahn system as it grew across the city, and consider what's next in store for Vancouver. There's a lot for us to learn, positive and negative, and it's all wrapped up in this week's episode.
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Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 238: How a Sheffield Crossrail would boost South Yorkshire
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Wednesday Nov 13, 2024
Okay, so if by Crossrail we mean high capacity suburban rail - yes. And in this episode we'll look at exactly what that might look like for Sheffield and the wider South Yorkshire area. There will be maps!
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Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 237: Bad budget, worse election (it's a news ep/struggle sesh)
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
We've an awful lot of news to get through, not least the horrible budget from last week and the dismal election results in the US announced today.
Those big stories aren't all of what we'll cover, though. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on that's worth us all talking about together!
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Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 236: Are cars really the future of green transport? (NO!)
Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
Wednesday Oct 30, 2024
In October 2024, the supposedly left-leaning Resolution Foundation released a report into the role of electric cars and public transport in reducing UK greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
The report was... awful. And in this episode, we'll pick through why via a traditional page-turn!
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Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 235: Ireland's railways 3. What about the future?
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
In the third of our three-part miniseries on Ireland, we are joined by Iain (anoniaino on Twitter!) to talk about the what Ireland's railways are facing in the future! We've thought about the past and about what the issues are today, now we think about what is planned for the future, and if it is good enough!
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Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 234: Britain's dismal rail tickets
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
I'm delighted that Jack Fifield (formerly of the Bolton News) is joining us to talk about his story on Northern's ridiculous and damaging revenue protection policies, but also the wider mess that Britain's railway ticketing system is in, and ultimately how difficult a lack of investment in ticketing outside of London is making people's lives.
It's a story of how much we get wrong as an industry, and of Britain's over-centralisation, and of annoying people who think all this is fine and the fault of travellers. Perfect #Railnatter fodder!
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Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 233: Changing the UK's useless fiscal rules
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
We've been decrying the fact that the UK has crippled its own economy by imposing its own made up and entirely useless fiscal rules - in other words the rules on what it can and cannot borrow, and for what - for a long time. But the Office of Budget Responsibility (itself also pointless) has published a report suggesting these should change.
Will they? Why might this government finally change them? Will this definitely be good? Tune in LIVE to find out!
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Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
#Railnatter Episode 232: The crash of Independent Air Flight 1851
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Every now and then, we abandon trains and talk about something different, then by the end of the episode everyone gets to see how much the episode has actually been about trains the whole time. This is one of those times.
The crash in 1989 of IDN 1851 is one of the aviation disasters that most grimly highlights how successive small factors can overlay to result in unavoidable calamity. It is critical to understanding systemic, widespread effects right down to seemingly innocuous human errors and their relationship to each other and to safety outcomes. It also happened on my birthday. So it's a worthy episode (in all senses) for us to look at and consider in some detail.
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