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2016-07-12

  The Balloon Goes Up

Broadcast on Radio Bristol on 20 July 1977
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2014-12-30

  Adrian Vaughan. The Greatest Railway Blunder.

Signalman and author Adrian Vaughan talks to Howard Benson about his book on railway privatisation and why he called it The Greatest Railway Blunder.
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2014-12-30

  Samuel Morton Peto. Part Two.

Samuel Morton Peto was one of the giants of Victorian Britain who left behind an impressive legacy, evidence of which can still be seen today. Born in 1809, he was an inspired entrepreneur who was, perhaps more than any other individual, responsible fo...
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2014-12-30

  Samuel Morton Peto. Part One.

Railway signalman and author Adrian Vaughan talks to Howard Benson about his career and biography of Samuel Morton Peto, one of the railway builders of the Victorian Britain whose whose legacy can still be seen today. Recorded at Sheringham on the Nort...
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2014-04-03

  David Shepherd. Part Two.

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2014-04-03

  David Shepherd. Part One.

A two part profile of the railway and wildlife artist David Shepherd recorded at the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway in 2009 on the 50th anniversary of the building of his 9F locomotive Black Prince.
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2013-04-25

  Railways At War.

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2013-04-24

  The Unknown Warrior.

A report on an ambitious attempt to build an LMS Patriot class locomotive, none of which were saved for posterity in the 1960s. The Unknown Warrior will serve as a permanent memorial to all those who fought and died in the First World War and all subse...
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2013-04-24

  Alex Scott. Wartime Footplate Man. Part Five.

One of Alex's duties at Watford was working push and pull trains where the driver made the return journey from a compartment in the rear carriage. They ran between Watford Junction and St. Albans and also on the short branch from Harrow and Wealdstone...
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2013-04-24

  Alex Scott. Wartime Footplate Man. Part Four.

After working as a passed cleaner for about two years Alex transferred to Watford loco shed where he was promoted to fireman. After a while he took examinations to become a passed fireman qualifying him to be a driver. Much of the work at Watford was o...
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