#Railnatter 

It may just be my warped mind, but the term "scheduled ancient monument" conjures the image of checking a timetable to see when the next ancient monument is due

The (pre)history of early railways! I could watch a whole series or two on this.

It would be interesting if you did a program about the recent developments with Overhead Line Equipment in particular with the use of composites. There is emerging information that simple electrification is cheaper than battery electric trains for most routes over 30 years. Other podcasts like Green signals mainly discuss rolling stock rather than the infrastructure..

With the supply of more new trains to the London area, more of the high mileage Electrostars need to be cascaded to the North. This requires the acceleration of programme of electrification in Yorkshire, including between Selby and Leeds and Leeds and Halifax.

Yay!! The Causey Arch is one of my favourite structures and not celebrated nearly enough

"I'm not going to describe them as high speed railways at this point". That pan was magnificent haha!

An Interesting analysis. Promoted as a public general-purpose railway, the S&DR didn't progress technically beyond contemporary colliery tramways. It is the first widely known achievement of the Stephenson dynasty though, and the firm probably used the reference widely in subsequent publicity and bids, perhaps another reason it has become so firmly entrenched as an origin myth. A glorified colliery tramway, an embodiment of the state of the art, accomplished competently by an individual and firm that would play a major part in the true revolution later.

I like this walking about in nature looking at stuff natter, also really looking forward to the part2 / spruce version / edit

Tanfield Railway alive and well, Gala is weekend coming 😊

Very interesting Gareth as all your videos are, but I'm surprised there was no mention of the world's first steam locomotive to travel on rails.

What is the current state of play with connecting the two stations in Bradford to improve connectivity in Yorkshire?

Currently watching this on DB WiFi outside Wuppertal Hbf whilst in Germany for the Euros - whenever I look up from my phone screen I see the Schwebebahn. I’m starting to stop agreeing with you about gadgetbahns bad, it’s so twee and fun 🤣

Much of the UK electricity is generated at the Drax power station near Selby, why is it not being used to electrify the local railways of Yorkshire, e.g., between Selby and Hull.

Ramblings might be a better description of the chat..... Rather than the walk....