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    Production company behind "Secrets of the Undergound" and "The architecture the railways built" closes down

    From Televisual, a TV industry publication: "Brown Bob Productions has closed, entering voluntary liquidation on the 27th September. The London-based indie founded in 2013 by Jacqueline Hewer and Nicki Gottlieb, has produced shows from fixed-rig factual (Inside the Ambulance for W) to access...
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    Creating Great British Railways - IET webinar presented by Rufus Boyd, GBRTT

    I've just watched a livestreamed presentation from the IET which covers some historic background, current thinking and priorities around the creation of Great British Railways, presented by Rufus Boyd, Programme Director Passenger and Freight Services, GBR Transition Team. Some of the points...
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    Nailsea and Backwell station: buildings demolished in error?

    During my school days, my local station was Nailsea and Backwell, situated 12 miles west of Temple Meads on the Bristol to Exeter line. By the time I first visited in the early 1970s, it was already a shadow of its former self, having lost its sidings, signal box and platform buildings. I...
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    A bit of a stretch but any idea where in the Reading area this might have been?

    My local paper, the Reading Chronicle, occasionally publishes photos from their archives with suitably amusing "goodness me, look at that" type captions. They recently included one of a user operated crossing which they thought might have been somewhere between Reading and Newbury. There's very...
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    Using a Network Railcard on a delayed pre-10am train

    This morning I renewed my Network Railcard, which gives a 1/3 discount for weekday off-peak travel after 10:00. I was intending to catch the 10:18 from Pangbourne to Paddington, but noticed that the preceding train, scheduled to depart at 9:52 was running 6 minutes late. The (very pleasant and...

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