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STEAM Boston shares the untold stories and reshapes the existing narrative of individuals in the #STEAM field in the Greater Boston area. We also share our career advice offerings to the community as well. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steamboston/support
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Making Tracks

Alasdair Stewart

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Engineer Alasdair Stewart and guests talk trains, technology and infrastructure at historic, minor and quirky railways from around the world... The ‘Making Tracks’ podcast is a blatant excuse for railway enthusiast Alasdair to spend more time talking to other track and infrastructure experts and take a deep dive into Heritage Railway projects world-wide. From Civil Engineering Manager for the Welsh Highland Railway reconstruction, completing the final twelve mile phase from Rhyd Ddu to Porth ...
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FReality is a Virtual Reality and immersive tech podcast recorded live every other Saturday at 10am Pacific, 1pm Eastern, and 6pm in the UK. We cover the entire XR spectrum including VR, AR, and MR. Join us live or catch up with past video episodes on the FReality YouTube channel. Previously known as the VR Inside Podcast.
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Making Tracks, Alasdair Stewart goes over old ground, or rather underground, as he revisits the Post Office railway – or Mail Rail as it has become known in recent decades, which is part of London's Postal Museum. Alasdair was keen to take a journey on the railway after working as a contracting engineer on…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is a tale of two railways both celebrating milestones. A new beginning of the final stretch the two mile missing link that will join Robertsbridge to Tenterden and the Kent and East Sussex Railway and the Ffestiniog Railway Society marking 70 years. The inauguration of the RVR's new turntable coincided with the …
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Send us a Text Message. This episode of Making Tracks finds us once again in Sussex visiting a gem of a Railway, The Lavender Line just outside Uckfield. It is then onward to Robertsbridge to talk over plans, now getting underway for the rebuilding of the Rother Valley Railway, which will re-connect the Kent and East Sussex Railway to the National …
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Send us a Text Message. We visit Amberley Museum in West Sussex. Get off on the main line at Amberley and you are there, at this excellent showcase of rural, transport, industrial and communications history of the south of England. They're also recent recipients of The King’s Award for Voluntary Service … staying with the subject of volunteering ..…
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In this episode, the FReality crew discusses Asgard's Wrath 2 and Xbox Cloud Gaming. Also a special guest, Anton Hand, joins the show to talk about Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades and other topics.*Release Date:* 16 December 2023 on https://www.youtube.com/freality/liveBy FReality Crew
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Send us a Text Message. This edition of Making Tracks is a Christmas Selection Box: We talk Santa trains and seasonal specials with Eleri Mottram at the WHR , and Neil Dale from the Durango and Silverton steam railway in Colorado, who represents the Polar Express brand in the UK. We meet artist Rebecca Kitchin, who brings Christmas to several railw…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode takes us to Yorkshire at the invitation of the Ryedale Society of Model Engineers to visit their mainline in miniature on a steam day in November 2023. The extensive dual gauge 7 1/4 and 5" gauge ground level layout has been built by members, many of whom are rail professionals in their day job and qualified dri…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode we look at engines built for service overseas that are now running or will run, on railways in the UK. We ask why travel around the world to find a loco to restore when there's no shortage in the UK? We hear from enthusiasts behind the restoration projects of engines which have journeyed to the UK from China …
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Send us a Text Message. Episode 4 of Making Tracks looks at the new Double Fairlie Loco built at Boston Lodge and now in service on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway . We also look at another Railway investment, this time on the mainline and the £30M refurbishment of the iconic Barmouth Viaduct. You can view the animation of Barmouth metall…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Making Tracks, we visit the Sibiu Agnita Railway in Romania for a steam gala event, known as ‘Mocanita Days’ and hear from local and UK volunteers, taking part who have been working to restore the line since it was abandoned by the state operator over twenty years ago. The weekend saw the first publicly ha…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode Alasdair visits Bala Lake Railway and chat to Julian Birley BEM, chair of Bala Lake Railway Trust to discuss the challenges they are working to overcome in their bid to extend the narrow gauge line from its current terminus to a new station site closer to Bala town centre. Volunteer Dinah Delchambre also spea…
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Send us a Text Message. In this first episode Alasdair talks to two experienced volunteers and looks at the challenges and positives that come with having volunteers involved in a large scale high value Heritage Rail infrastructure project. Alasdair heads to the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railway to reminisce with former volunteer colleagues Stu…
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