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Don't know if you're aware of this but British Pathé has uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe

Some amazing stuff on there, especially rail related there's one of Barbara Castle MP visiting Derby works, including seeing the design work they were doing on a tilting train in 1967 :)

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Thanks for the link Raven as there does look like there are some real gems in their collection.

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£70m railway depot plan to bring 160 jobs.

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/busine...jobs-1-6574901

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That's great news, we lost so many of our highly skilled railway engineers, having it on the site of the old Doncaster works is a great asset for the area :)

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Yes my Dad was born in Doncaster and he used to be trainspotting around the area quite a bit so he has some great memories of when he was younger.:)

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What a lucky man.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27137939

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You have to love the way nobody in any of the cars waiting at the gates got out to see if he was ok ...

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Indeed to drive past and not check if he was okay says everything about them as it would have taken a couple of minutes just to see if he was okay.

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Labour should reform the railways, prospective MPs say.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27273672

Taking away party politics here for a moment do you think we should renationalise the rail industry?.

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NO

I have travelled on the trains between Warrington and London and they are far better both in comfort and service compared with the bad old days of British rail.

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Three-day London Underground strike suspended.......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27282596

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Oh dear this is a very expensive error.

http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2014/...and-train.html

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A similar thing happened when I worked for Network South East and they were rolling out the then new Networker trains. NSE were criticised for introducing trains that were too long for the platforms on a lot of stations, and the papers had several articles on the incompetence of the team involved. I was an administrator/general dogs body in the Quantity Surveyor's office (one of the offices critcised for incompetence), and the fact is that we were able to get a lot of necessary maintenance and upgrades done at all the stations as part of the Networker project. Not necessarily small upgrades and maintenance either. A lot of work was done at London Bridge, for instance, and even on my local rail line, they actually demolished two road bridges (which did need major work) and moved them. In one case, the new bridge was wider and meant that, for the first time in 10 years, trucks and buses could use the road again (they had been diverted due to the structural weakness of the old bridge).

We would not otherwise have had the money to perform these upgrades.

In fact, while I no longer work on the railways, I would argue that doing that was good value as commuters are arguably still benefiting from that expenditure, even though they've replaced most of the Networkers.

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Govia chosen for new Thameslink contract.

http://www.railnews.co.uk/news/2014/...hameslink.html

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Fry's chocolate factory steam train to be restored.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-27577470

Vey nice.:)