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Sep 11, 2026
Rory SutherlandGUEST
The final destination of the bus is irrelevant to 95% of the potential passengers for that bus.
Rory SutherlandGUEST
And there are a whole load of ways in which you could make rail travel.
Rory SutherlandGUEST
One of the things I would campaign for, by the way, would be to find some technology that allows you to get rid of ticket gates, which I think are a criminalizing, slightly unpleasant aspect.
Rory SutherlandGUEST
You could never make brief encounter, okay, at a modern railway station.
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Rory SutherlandGUEST
It used to be the case, as recently as 15 years ago, that when you flew into Heathrow, you would quite often be put in a holding pattern, usually, and very frustratingly, above my house.
Rory SutherlandGUEST
That doesn't happen anymore because effectively computerization of the air traffic control means a plane will be told when it's 100 miles out, or 150 miles out, to reduce its speed by five nautical miles so that it can occupy a slot and fly straight in.
Rory SutherlandGUEST
But there is some- there is something very peculiar about rail travel, which is you have a large argument about capacity on the West Coast Main Line, where nobody discusses either lengthening the trains or finding ways of running trains slightly more frequently.
Peter HitchensGUEST
Well, lengthening trains, it, of course, involves lengthening stations, which is-
Gareth CliffHOST
If you, if you don't know the story of Jack the Baboon, he's probably one of the m- he's, he's like, you know, Jock of the Bushveld.
Gareth CliffHOST
Lots of people know about Jock of the Bushveld, but they don't know about Jack of the Railways, and I encourage you to look up that story.
Gareth CliffHOST
It's fucking funny-
Ben KarpinskiHOST
Yeah, I mean, it's a-
Gareth CliffHOST
... and very interesting
Ben KarpinskiHOST
... it's a shame there's not much money in movies anymore, but the next Christopher Nolan movie has to be Jack of the Railways.
Gareth CliffHOST
For sure.
Gareth CliffHOST
For sure.
Gareth CliffHOST
If you, if you don't know the story of Jack the Baboon, he's probably one of the m- he's, he's like, you know, Jock of the Bushveld.
Gareth CliffHOST
Lots of people know about Jock of the Bushveld, but they don't know about Jack of the Railways, and I encourage you to look up that story.
Gareth CliffHOST
It's fucking funny-
Ben KarpinskiHOST
Yeah, I mean, it's-
Gareth CliffHOST
... and very interesting
Ben KarpinskiHOST
... it's a shame there's not much money in movies anymore, but the next Christopher Nolan movie has to be Jack of the Railways.
Gareth CliffHOST
For sure, for sure.
Ben KarpinskiHOST
It's also, it's, it's a, it's a hell of a play there, Ted.
Richard BowkerHOST
And that obviously causes significant problems for trying to run through services.
Richard BowkerHOST
The Great Western Railway and Network Rail have come up with a plan which will keep the trains running, and I've come to Oxford to find out a little bit more.
Richard BowkerHOST
The line blocks actually take place in two chunks.
Richard BowkerHOST
First, there's a two-day block between Hayes and Slough on the weekend of the 28th and 29th of November, and then a block for the entire route between Slough and London Paddington over the Christmas holiday period, between Christmas Day and the 3rd of January 2027.
Richard BowkerHOST
But in the emerging railway model, it's net subsidy that matters, and there's over 8 million of revenue at stake.
Richard BowkerHOST
So ensuring every stakeholder is bought in, including the DfT and DFTO, is vital.
Richard BowkerHOST
From Oxford to Milton Keynes, we travel along the East West Rail, the subject of ongoing disputes between Chiltern Railways and the RMT, and we soon pass through Winslow Station.
Richard BowkerHOST
It does look ready to receive the trains that have yet to start running.
Tom HaughHOST
Did they buy the Kansas City Southern? Somebody did.
Tom HaughHOST
And now one of the Western Railroads, the Union Pacific, wants to buy the Norfolk and Southern or something.
Tom HaughHOST
So we're going to be down to like three
WaynePANELIST
railroads.
Ben WilfordNARRATOR
In the wake of the armies, the homes of rich and poor alike If spared the torch, had been despoiled of the stock and seeds necessary to renew agriculture.
Ben WilfordNARRATOR
Railways dilapidated.
Ben WilfordNARRATOR
Transportation was still more demoralized.
Ben WilfordNARRATOR
This is revealed in the pages of congressional reports based upon first-hand investigations.
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Vaughn UllmanNARRATOR
To their utter surprise, however, they were instantly informed by the country that their program was not approved.
Vaughn UllmanNARRATOR
That very autumn, they lost in the congressional elections, and two years later they were decisively beaten in the presidential campaign, Cleveland once more leading his party to victory.
Vaughn UllmanNARRATOR
References: L.H. Haney, Congressional History of Railways, two volumes; J.P. Davis, Union Pacific Railway; J.M. Swank, History of the Manufacture of Iron; M.T. Copeland, The Cotton Manufacturing Industry in the United States, Harvard Studies; E.W. Bryce, Progress of Invention in the 19th Century; Ida Tarbell, History of the Standard Oil Company, critical; G.H. Montague, Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company, friendly; H.V. Fairchild, Immigration; and F. J- J. Wayne, Immigr- The Immigrant Invasion.
Vaughn UllmanNARRATOR
Both works favor exclusion.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The priest's house of St. Dominic's Church was wrecked.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Railroads will help rebuilding.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Southern Pacific and Ocean Shore to lay tracks into ruined business district.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Fillmore Street car line will be in running order within two days.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Southern Pacific will be allowed to lay rails on 3rd Street from King to Market and on Kearney Street from Market to Montgomery Avenue.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The Ocean Shore will put down tracks on Market Street from 12th to the Ferry.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Thornwell Mullaly and George F. Chapman of the United Railroads assured the Transportation Committee that the Fillmore Street line would be reopened for passenger service within two days.
speaker_1NARRATOR
The railroad men said that 50 soldiers would be needed to protect the company's teams and material from being appropriated for other purposes than reconstruction.
Philip GouldNARRATOR
Here was I in this other cove dumped down at this horrible siding, nothing to eat and nobody to meet us.
Philip GouldNARRATOR
how rude and callous of some one or something i looked at my watch it had stopped and on trying to wind it i found it was broken i stared out of the window again gave that up and stared at the opposite seat suddenly my eye caught something shiny under the seat i stooped and picked it up it was a watch i've always looked upon this episode as an omen of some sort but of what sort i can't quite make out finding a watch means finding time perhaps it meant i would find time to write this book on the other hand it may have meant that my time had come who knows At about 8 o'clock by my new watch, I again made an attack on the station and at last found the RTO, which, being interpreted, means the Railway Transport Officer.
Philip GouldNARRATOR
He told me where my battalion was to be found, but didn't know whether they were in the trenches or out.
Philip GouldNARRATOR
He also added that if he were me, he wouldn't hurry about going there, as I could probably get a lift in an ASC wagon later on.
Ruth MitchellGUEST
So they've got a little taproom there.
Ruth MitchellGUEST
the site and then they've also got a tap room in Mumbles and then you've also got if you kind of go towards the Gower and towards Mumbles and you've got a couple of brew pubs so the Railway and the Pilot are brew pubs so you could kind of meander your way you probably need a taxi or I mean to get to Gower Brewery itself, you definitely need a car.
Ruth MitchellGUEST
But the others you could do in a taxi or a bus or by walking as a combination.
Ruth MitchellGUEST
So you could do like a little four stop, four stop pretty crawl.
Katie GibneyNARRATOR
8.
Katie GibneyNARRATOR
What political and economic reforms did labor demand? nine why did the east and the south seek closer ties with the west ten describe the economic forces which were drawing the east and the west together eleven in what way was the south economically dependent upon the north twelve state the national policies generally favored in the north and condemned in the south thirteen show how economic conditions in the south were unfavorable to industry fourteen give the southern explanation of the antagonism between the north and the south research topics the inventions assign one to each student satisfactory accounts are to be found in any good encyclopedia especially the britannica river and lake commerce calendar economic history of the united states pages three thirteen through three twenty six Railways and Canals, Calendar, pages 326-344, 359-387.
Katie GibneyNARRATOR
Komen, Industrial History of the United States, pages 216-225.
Katie GibneyNARRATOR
The Growth of Industry, 1815-1840. calendar pages four fifty nine through four seventy one from eighteen fifty to eighteen sixty calendar pages four seventy one through four eighty six early labor conditions calendar pages seven o one through seven eighteen Early Immigration, Calendar, pages 719 through 732.
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