#RailNatter

Join railway engineer and writer Gareth Dennis plus a wide range of guests on his semi-topical weekly talk show about all things rail...This podcast is uploaded after the live (or live-ish) show has finished on YouTube at 7pm (UK time) on Wednesdays.

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Recent Episodes
  • #Railnatter Episode 255: Goodbye USAID, hello China (and much more railway geopolitics)
    Mar 26, 2025 – 58:47
  • #Railnatter Episode 254: Urban transport in Dubai (and what’s stupid about a lot of it)
    Mar 19, 2025 – 56:51
  • #Railnatter Episode 253: The (draft) Mid Wales Regional Transport Plan
    Mar 12, 2025 – 01:02:26
  • #Railnatter Episode 252: What we must learn from the Grenfell Tower disaster (2)
    Feb 19, 2025 – 01:35:55
  • #Railnatter Episode 251: The Future of Cities (keeping an eye on urban trends)
    Feb 12, 2025 – 53:46
  • #Railnatter Episode 250: The little station that defeated Westminster
    Feb 5, 2025 – 01:15:36
  • #Railnatter Episode 249: Heathrow's Third Runway and other economic disasters
    Jan 29, 2025 – 01:50:56
  • #Railnatter Episode 248: What should the Scottish railway map look like? 2
    Jan 22, 2025 – 01:33:11
  • #Railnatter Episode 247: A look at Scotland's draft Islands Connectivity Review
    Jan 15, 2025 – 01:19:32
  • #Railnatter Episode 246: A page-turn through the English devolution white paper
    Jan 8, 2025 – 01:18:31
  • #Railnatter Episode 245: Is there any reason to be cheerful about the future?
    Jan 1, 2025 – 24:43
  • #Railnatter Episode 244: Ten Of The Most Pointless US Regional Flights That Should Be Trains
    Dec 25, 2024 – 02:08:18
  • #Railnatter Episode 243: What a year 2024 was! (an on-location live AMA)
    Dec 17, 2024 – 33:00
  • #Railnatter Episode 242: Contrast on the London Underground
    Dec 11, 2024 – 01:11:32
  • #Railnatter Episode 241: An Integrated National Transport Strategy?
    Dec 4, 2024 – 57:42
  • #Railnatter Episode 240: What we must learn from the Grenfell Tower disaster
    Nov 27, 2024 – 01:21:45
  • #Railnatter Episode 239: Vancouver's SkyTrain and what we can learn from it
    Nov 20, 2024 – 01:39:52
  • #Railnatter Episode 238: How a Sheffield Crossrail would boost South Yorkshire
    Nov 13, 2024 – 01:28:21
  • #Railnatter Episode 237: Bad budget, worse election (it's a news ep/struggle sesh)
    Nov 6, 2024 – 01:23:30
  • #Railnatter Episode 236: Are cars really the future of green transport? (NO!)
    Oct 30, 2024 – 56:08
  • #Railnatter Episode 235: Ireland's railways 3. What about the future?
    Oct 23, 2024 – 01:23:21
  • #Railnatter Episode 234: Britain's dismal rail tickets
    Oct 16, 2024 – 01:13:38
  • #Railnatter Episode 233: Changing the UK's useless fiscal rules
    Oct 9, 2024 – 01:02:40
  • #Railnatter Episode 232: The crash of Independent Air Flight 1851
    Oct 2, 2024 – 01:13:59
  • #Railnatter Episode 231: Fares unfair (it's a news ep)
    Sep 25, 2024 – 38:39
  • #Railnatter Episode 230: How to change minds and ingratiate people
    Sep 18, 2024 – 01:35:10
  • #Railnatter Episode 229: Euston, safety, and Hendy's legacy
    Sep 11, 2024 – 01:22:25
  • #Railnatter Episode 228: Ireland's railways 2. Thoughts on the present
    Aug 28, 2024 – 01:36:33
  • #Railnatter Episode 227: Labour's pre-election rail and urban transit review
    Aug 21, 2024 – 01:19:03
  • #Railnatter Episode 226: Ireland's railways 1. A potted history
    Aug 14, 2024 – 01:26:42
  • #Railnatter Episode 225: How The Railways Will Fix The Future
    Aug 7, 2024 – 01:04:10
  • #Railnatter Episode 224: What's left of HS2? (a flick through the latest NAO report)
    Jul 31, 2024 – 01:06:06
  • #Railnatter Episode 223: West Yorkshire mass transit (reviewing the consultation plans)
    Jul 24, 2024 – 01:13:17
  • #Railnatter Episode 222: A high speed rail network for the UK and Ireland
    Jul 17, 2024 – 01:29:07
  • #Railnatter Episode 221: The 2024 General Election Special Edition No. 2
    Jul 10, 2024 – 01:08:17
  • #Railnatter Episode 220: The 2024 General Election Special Edition No. 1
    Jun 26, 2024 – 01:27:28
  • #Railnatter Episode 219: A short word or two on early railways
    Jun 19, 2024 – 28:42
  • #Railnatter Episode 218: What four years of rail reform has delivered
    Jun 12, 2024 – 01:00:00
  • #Railnatter Episode 217: Everything we can say about Haxby station
    Jun 5, 2024 – 01:00:02
  • #Railnatter Episode 216: What to do about rail in the West Midlands
    May 29, 2024 – 01:23:03
  • #Railnatter Episode 215: How to tip trains over on purpose (with equations)
    May 15, 2024 – 01:04:11
  • #Railnatter Episode 214: Finishing The Borders Railway (with maps and routes)
    May 8, 2024 – 01:26:20
  • #Railnatter Episode 213: Labour Will* Nationalise Rail (a Getting Britain Moving page-turn)
    May 1, 2024 – 01:21:43
  • #Railnatter Episode 212: How To Fix Buses In Wales (looking at the TfW plan)
    Apr 24, 2024 – 01:18:18
  • #Railnatter Episode 211: Britain's SUV problem
    Apr 17, 2024 – 01:18:40
  • #Railnatter Episode 210: Joby Aviation Will* Save Us (and other nonsense)
    Apr 10, 2024 – 01:35:01
  • #Railnatter Episode 209: How To Become A Freight Train Driver
    Apr 3, 2024 – 01:12:25
  • #Railnatter Episode 208: Everything You Wanted To Know About New Trains
    Mar 27, 2024 – 01:47:33
  • #Railnatter Episode 207: What is to become of Great British Railways?
    Feb 28, 2024 – 01:26:53
  • #Railnatter Episode 206: California’s hydrogen train hell (and other news stories)
    Feb 21, 2024 – 01:27:15
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