Making Tracks Railway Podcast
By Alasdair Stewart
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Episodes: 40
Description
Railway Infrastructure Engineer Alasdair Stewart, Sharon Gregory and contributors Paddy Range plus young reporters and railway enthusiasts George Woodward and Cynan Hughes (plus parents) meet experts and enthusiasts to talk trains. They'll chat technology and infrastructure and locos as they visit historic, minor and quirky railways around the world. Sharon co-presents the podcast and will often take you with her on a 'Railway Rideout' on her Harley to review heritage lines by bike.
Australia correspondent Michael Cunningham.
Produced by Journalist Laura Raymond.
This is a British Podcast Awards Longlisted Podcast 2026
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The Zig Zag Railway, Australian Photographer and Author William Cope Tells The Story Behind His New Book, The Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway plus Will New UK Guidelines Open Up Opportunites For Young Heritage Volunteers?
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Aug 29, 2026 |
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Baldwin 590 Returns to Traffic, Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway, Chinnor and Princes Risborough and Meeting Railway Influencer Andy Miller, plus Behind the Scenes Tour Of Bluebell's Sheffield Park Station
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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Netherlands' VSM and Museum Buurtspoorweg, Bristol Harbour Railway and the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway Gala
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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North Yorkshire Moors Railway's 'Piglet' Talks TV's 'Steam Train Diaries', Amerton Railway and London's Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway
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Jul 09, 2026 |
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Visiting Australia's Mornington Tourist Railway, Queensland's Mary Valley 'Rattler' Volunteers, Ffestiniog's Carol Becomes a 'Chelsea Pensioner', London's Leslie Green Tube Stations and Restoring an Art Deco Station - Bishopstone in Sussex
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Southwold Railway's First Public Steaming of 'Blyth', The 762 Club, Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Diesels! Mainline Pendolino Spotters' Trip around Manchester
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Jun 13, 2026 |
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Talyllyn: Celebrating 75 Years As The World's First Preserved Railway, Leighton Buzzard Light Railway and Barton House Railway. Plus, Encouraging Young Volunteers At The North Norfolk Railway!
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May 29, 2026 |
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HST Rail Tour, Rideout to Crich Tramway Museum, My Dad Saved A Railway, Tom Bright- Rail Journalist, Progress at Rother Valley Railway and Photography at Fairbourne
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May 18, 2026 |
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Trading Places - Harz Mountain Railway and Baie de Somme Railway UK Heritage Railway Exchanges
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May 02, 2026 |
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'Bring Euro Trains Back To Kent' Campaign, Biking to Blaenavan and Borth, 34028 'Eddystone', A railway poet & The Youngest Model Railway Show Organiser & WHHR's First Class Museum!
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Rockstars and Railways: Ashford Model Railway Education Centre, Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway, A Rail Tourist in Milan, Railway 200 Final Few Stops For The Successful 'Inspiration' Train
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Colonel Stephens, East Kent Railway, Kent Mining Museum, Severn Valley Railway DMU, Llangollen Railway Volunteer's Royal Invitation, Peak Rail, #WorldBookDay,
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Winter Work at Snowdon Mountain Railway, Biking to Ironbridge Gorge, Diesels at Spa Valley & Chiltern's new 'Explorer' trains.
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Touring India's Railways, Steam at Oswestry Station, The Locomotive Club of Great Britain and Dapol Wagons for #WorldBookDay!
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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'Mr Hornby' - Simon Kohler's memories, Manchester Model Railway Society, Scottish Mainline Adventure, Stockton & Darlington Locomotion No 1 Railway 200, Southern Rail Driver Embraces Christmas!
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Queensbury Tunnel Campaign in Yorkshire, Tanat's Steam Monorail and Young Railway Enthusiasts Report on Collection X & the Railway 200 'Inspiration Train' plus a Network Rail renewal in Sussex
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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A tale of two railway museums: Utrecht and York, the East Lancashire Railway Gala, English narrow gauge in Kent and a Dutch preserved line.
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, Hastings Diesels, 'Railway Children' performed at Keighley & Worth Valley, and Young Railway Enthusiast wins footplate experience at Rudyard Lake.
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Railway 200; 'Greatest Gathering', Sharon's Railway Rideouts to the Glyn Valley Tramway and TV Newsreader Nicholas Owen's Railway Enthusiasm.
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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L'viv Children's Railway In Ukraine, UK Loco In Transylvania, NERHT, FEDECRAIL & UK Parliamentarians Lobby for Heritage Rail's Future plus Sharon Gregory visits a Garden Viaduct
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Childhood Memories from a Welsh Station House, Blackpool & Seaton Trams and Telford Steam Railway, plus Ffestiniog 70 years of Preservation
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Heritage Railways Improve Visitor Appeal in North Wales and Sharon Gregory's Holiday Rideouts
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Hastings Railway History, Kent & East Sussex Line Celebrations & Llanberis Lake Railway
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May 03, 2025 |
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Anglesey Line Revival, Talyllyn's Job Share GMs, Lithuanian Narrow Gauge & Bluebell Railway Volunteer's Heartfelt Fundraiser
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Pioneering Electric Railways: A Look at Liverpool's Overhead Railway & Brighton's Volk's Electric Railway
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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#Railway200 Celebrations Underway and the Corris Railway Extension
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Railway Modelling: Experts, Exhibitions and Enthusiasts! Featuring Pete Waterman
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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Out of Africa: 'Kalahari' NG15- 134 Back in Steam & Memories of Uganda , Sharon's Railway Ride-outs in Wales
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Advanced Passenger Train & Crewe Heritage Centre, Avanti's Present Day Crewe & Railways by Bike
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Mail Rail:London's Underground Narrow Gauge, Biker Railway Ride-outs, Ffestiniog Gravity Train & Darjeeling Himalayan locomotive 19B
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Rother Valley Railway:Missing Link Restoration Underway & Tours of Boston Lodge, steam engine driving experience courses as Ffestiniog Railway Society Marks 70 Year Anniversary
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Sussex: The Lavender Line, Rother Valley Update & Stephen Cranford, Tracing the Steyning Line Rails
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Amberley Museum Narrow Gauge Visit & Volunteering Excellence
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Railway History with a Robert Fairlie descendant, Santa trains & Updates From Sibiu Agnita Railway & Darjeeling Locomotive19B
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Ryedale's 5" gauge mainline in miniature & 'Oil firing' on the North Yorkshire Moors railway; A Sustainable Way Ahead For Heritage Railways?
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Overseas Locos: Enthusiasts Going The Extra Mile For Railway History #ValeofRheidol Railway, #India, #China & #SouthAfrica...
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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New Ffestiniog Fairlie 'James Spooner' and Network Rail's Barmouth Viaduct - Iconic Victorian Railway Engineering Re-imagined For The 21st Century
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Sibiu Agnita Railway - Brits bitten by the volunteering bug travel to Transylvania to help narrow gauge revival
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Bala and Llangollen railways: The contemporary planning challenges for Heritage Railway extensions.
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Making Heritage Railway Tracks With Volunteer Civil Engineering Professionals on the Ffestiniog Railway
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Jul 18, 2023 |