Bobs Rail Relics
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Railways, Industrial History, Canals and the odd bit of strange Wales
Looks like a few visits to Wales will be on the cards for those folks who love new stations
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New stations in £14bn UK government rail funding promise - BBC News
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Wales trains: New stations in £14bn UK government rail funding promise
Sir Keir Starmer backs long list of Welsh railway projects, including seven new stations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c80jyx2xljno
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Treberfydd House. Ace wedding venue and wonderful overnight accommodation. Wonderful weekend
3 days ago
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A replica poster on the wall of the cottage I stayed on overnight. Note the address is New York
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Good morning Bannau Brycheiniog. Lovely day for a wedding
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Ready to go. A TfW 231 departs from Pengam.
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Rail Focus - Chris 🏳️🌈
10 days ago
🚨 Latest Video 🚨 South Wales Metro progress, looking at the Cardiff Bay Line upgrade and upgrade of Cardiff Queen Street, which is due to take place in 2027 ▶️
youtu.be/MtpSCytUTlQ
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Looking for something to watch tonight. How about a bit of old railway history? Enjoy
youtu.be/h3WAftstv5Y
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Untangling Spaghetti at Pontypool
YouTube video by Bob's Rail Relics
https://youtu.be/h3WAftstv5Y
10 days ago
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Just how many railways could one small Welsh town sustain? Having made a bit of a generalisation on a previous video, come with me as I unravel the Spaghetti that was Pontypool. Also has an IET on a strange working.
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Untangling Spaghetti at Pontypool
In the late 1800's a tangle of lines surrounded Pontypool. This video explores this and why I shouldn't have tried to gloss over this in a previous one!
https://youtu.be/h3WAftstv5Y
15 days ago
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Visiting the old home town of Reading. Good to see the 29 still goes to Caversham
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Every co-working space needs a dog with a hat. Prove me wrong...
16 days ago
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New railway experience this morning on a GWR IET. Points failure at Newport so reverse out of Newport, driver changes ends, back into different platform and away. Having units sometimes has advantages.
16 days ago
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A lot of people are starting to understand what it felt like when Savile was uncovered. Someone who you thought was a bit odd turned out to be a wrong 'un. Except with Epstein the discoveries are of a much greater magnitude
16 days ago
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When your sister casually mentions she is going on a train in the USA. Except it wasn't casual and she is buzzing. Heading out on the Californian Zephyr
22 days ago
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My daughter sent me a picture she took from a work event in Manchester. I decided to make it more French.
about 1 month ago
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Ian Pearce 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 💙
about 1 month ago
You won’t read about this in
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In case you missed it, some drone footage of Rail relics in South Wales and my updates to the channel. Plus a bit of cleaned up canal which is always good to see.
youtu.be/b2xKx5RytNM
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Canal footage, Railway Drone Footage and a look at 2025
A quick "State of the Union" along with some footage of relics from my new drone. Plus some plans for 2026 Music from #Uppbeat (free for…
https://youtu.be/b2xKx5RytNM
about 1 month ago
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Just watched your Morton In Marsh video, fascinating. FYI Brunel also built standard gauge railways including the Taff Vale Railway! I've done a video on the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford railway, it really was a pioneering line.
youtu.be/-MSNh_iKFeY?...
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Rail 200 - The Taff Vale Railway
YouTube video by Bob's Rail Relics
https://youtu.be/-MSNh_iKFeY?si=wkLuSNMWJMotNntn
about 1 month ago
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Canal clean up, drone over railway remains and a channel update. Live now on YouTube
youtu.be/b2xKx5RytNM?...
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Canal footage, Railway Drone Footage and a look at 2025
A quick "State of the Union" along with some footage of relics from my new drone. Plus some plans for 2026 Music from #Uppbeat (free for…
https://youtu.be/b2xKx5RytNM?si=kwLgC69hA0VSmkH7
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Farrukh
about 1 month ago
2026: Nigel Farage lies about the vaccine rollout claiming the UK did it faster because of Brexit 2020:: Dr June Raine (CEO of the MHRA), "We have been able to authorise the supply of this vaccine using provisions under European law which exist until the first of January"
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My Christmas Book haul. Vanished Wales, which I was a guest on last year,
@lateralcast.com
which I need to be a guest, as Tom doesn't have enough Boomers on there, and Map Men who would probably guest with me on Lateral. Now there's a connection.
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I haven't posted a blog for a couple of years. However with all that is happening with X I have taken finger to keyboard. Why people are moving away from X? What are the alternatives? “ I don’t have time to post everywhere” Why you need a Plan B Enjoy!
huxleypiguk.blogspot.com/2026/01/soci...
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e and other learning
Social Media, X, and Why You Need a Plan B I haven’t blogged for a while. That’s usually because I only write when I feel I’ve got somethi...
https://huxleypiguk.blogspot.com/2026/01/social-media-x-and-why-you-need-plan-b.html
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NationCymru
about 1 month ago
Details of the first stage of plans to re-open a historic railway tunnel to pedestrians and cyclists have been revealed
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Details of plans to re-open historic railway tunnel revealed
Anthony Lewis Local Democracy Reporter Details of the first stage of plans to re-open a historic railway tunnel to pedestrians and cyclists have been revealed. A planning application is being consider...
https://wp.me/p8Mk4U-1cbY
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OldRailwayAccidents
about 1 month ago
Pleased to see another
#Railway200
Great Rail Tale podcast is out! Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike talks with Gordon Churchill about railway orphanages - & Gordon discusses his father Arthur's time at the
#Woking
orphanage:
railway200.co.uk/podcast/mike...
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Dr Mike Esbester and Gordon Churchill – Remembering Arthur Churchill and the Railway Orphanages
The rail industry hasn’t always been the pioneers of safety they are today. In times gone by, the accident rate in the rail industry was much higher and accidents often very severe. Mike and Gordon…
https://railway200.co.uk/podcast/mike-esbester-gordon-churchill/
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Happy New Year from the Gren memorial at Hengoed. Sitting on a 19th century viaduct.
about 2 months ago
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Something for your diaries. I am talking at the Roath Local History Society on the Taff Vale Roath Branch in January. Visitors welcome
about 2 months ago
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A memorial in Berlin. Trains to Life, Trains to Death. The children at one end, with an intact suitcase, are heading for the Kindertransport and a new life in the UK. The others... You know the ending.
about 2 months ago
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Thank you YouTube for sending me their 20 anniversary poster. Added to my gallery.
about 2 months ago
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Lovely to see Middle Lock, at Forest Farm nature reserve, has been cleaned up. Yeh lock has been emptied of debris and the stone work cleaned. Great to see.
about 2 months ago
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Merry Christmas one and all. Or whatever you celebrate
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about 2 months ago
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Quick modern short on my other channel, an update from Ty Glas station showing the crossing and progress on the new platform
youtube.com/shorts/90TOF...
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TyGlas update
A Sunday Visit to Ty Glas staton to see the new crossing and look at progress on the station rebuild.
https://youtube.com/shorts/90TOF1amxjA?si=CBEGBdxXszt8uZJH
about 2 months ago
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A book exchange in Pontcanna, Cardiff.
about 2 months ago
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These are bad enough but when they ask if you would like a shot as well, then guaranteed hangover beckons.
2 months ago
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The SAS Gingerbread squad. Light projection at Charlottenburg Schloss in Berlin
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And so it's now Scotland that has these legends still running passenger services. Probably not for much longer, but First Class from Inverness to Perth is a real treat. Photo from June 2022.
2 months ago
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Foggy Berlin from the top of the TV Tower, with the Welt Balloon (a tethered balloon) in the air.
2 months ago
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Christmas is here. Tree up and sherry opened. Continuing some photos from Berlin. This is Spandau square.
2 months ago
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And remember kids...
2 months ago
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Have you ever seen a 0-3-0 wheel arrangement on a loco? Take a look at this. The Patila State Monorail in action at the Dehli Railway Museum. Bizzare
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“PSMT Steam Monorail in Action | Patiala State Monorail at NRM Delhi”
YouTube video by RAIL SHASTRA
https://youtu.be/ilBsu3vrVQY?si=Mw4yy0BpHsyRzfgT
2 months ago
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My review of the launch of the Cardiff Central Station upgrades just snuck past 500, which is about right for a shorter video. Have a look at what is planned to happen in Wales busiest station
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Cardiff Past Present Future
As a suppliment to the video I created on Cardiff Station, a look at the launch of the upgrades for the station, and how theevnt also looked back at what had been. Music from #Uppbeat (free for…
https://youtu.be/PGrsdmW-9ZM
2 months ago
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The Trabant is still a symbol of Berlin. They pop up all over the place.
2 months ago
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I visited the launch of Cardiff Station, Past, Present and Future event at Cardiff Central Station. What does the past have to do with it?
youtu.be/PGrsdmW-9ZM
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Cardiff Past Present Future
As a suppliment to the video I created on Cardiff Station, a look at the launch of the upgrades for the station, and how theevnt also looked back at what had been. Music from #Uppbeat (free for…
https://youtu.be/PGrsdmW-9ZM
2 months ago
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With the Rhymney Line closed this weekend to energise the wires, the rail replacement buses line up at Cardiff ready for duty. A DB 66 passes in the background
3 months ago
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The official launch of the revamp of Cardiff Central station including the Metro platforms took place today. Hedi Alexandra MP, Jo Stevens MP, Ken Skates MS and the heads of Network Rail and TfW for the region signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the event.
3 months ago
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@stevehacketthq.bsky.social
and my most listened to album....
3 months ago
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Seems me and my granddaughter seem to play this a lot
3 months ago
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Fun house at the Spandau Winter Fair in Berlin.
3 months ago
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Kate
3 months ago
Just a regular reminder that at the end of Jan a bunch of awesome, transport living ladies are getting together to make connections and have the very best time
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1972849450...
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Happy St Andrew's Day. Have a picture of Loch Ness to celebrate
3 months ago
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Berlin. Always good
3 months ago
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My wife thought this was funny. 🤔
3 months ago
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