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Making Tracks Railway Podcast

Alasdair Stewart

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

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65:52

Tracking Down Your Railway Roots. A Special Episode...

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2026/10/04

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a special episode of Making Tracks Railway Podcast as Alasdair Stewart and producer Laura Raymond go on a mission to trace family railway history. They share their own family's stories and chat to others along the way. Alasdair meets Ruth Willmore of the Society of Genealogists to get some tips on where to start looking for Railwaymen and women antecedants. They also discuss with volunteers and railway staff with several generations of railway workers in thei...

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61:46

Stourbridge, the Shortest UK Branchline, The ‘Bewdley...

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2026/09/24

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another episode. In this episode Sharon takes a Railway Rideout to the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway in Scotland. Paddy Range has been on a record breaking commuter journey – the shortest branch line in the UK in Stourbridge in the West Midlands and a we hear from Matt Hall who spotted the first day of service for Steam Hauled Auto Train being used as a Commuter Service on the ‘Bewdley Express’ Commuter Trial Service on the Severn Valley Railway. Alasdair Ste...

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57:17

The Zig Zag Railway, Australian Photographer and...

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2026/08/29

Send us Fan Mail Welcome aboard another episode of Making Tracks Railway Podcast with Alasdair Stewart and Sharon Gregory. In this episode we are travelling vicariously to The Zig Zag Railway in New South Wales in Australia with Michael Cunningham and Sean Maxwell They meet up with Operations and Assets Manager Andrew Fairweather Alasdair talks to author and photographer William Cope about his new book – title Branch: Lost Railway Lines of New South Wales and Victoria" Back ...

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62:02

Baldwin 590 Returns to Traffic, Embsay and Bolton...

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2026/08/16

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we feature a Baldwin loco - 590 – a war veteran in its own right as it returns to traffic on the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. Young reporters Cynan Hughes, George Woodward and Alasdair Stewart go along to find out more. Sharon Gregory heads on a railway rideout by train this time to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway in Yorkshire. Producer Laura Raymond calls in to have a chat at Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, a standard gauge rural l...

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65:45

Netherlands' VSM and Museum Buurtspoorweg, Bristol...

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2026/08/03

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Alasdair Stewart heads to Holland to visit the VSM - Veluwxce Stoomtrein Maatschappij. The VSM is a heritage line that connects with the Dutch national network – and where volunteer operated steam trains run beneath electric wires at Apeldoorn. Its also home to an impressive collection of locos and rolling stock and a 'get your hands dirty approach to teaching young people about coal fired steam. A little further East, he also calls in at the Museum Buurtspoor...

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60:46

North Yorkshire Moors Railway's 'Piglet' Talks TV's...

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2026/07/09

Send us Fan Mail This week we had some excellent news..we've made the Longlist of the #BritishPodcastAwards 2026 in the factual category.. your time listening and suggestions for stories are really appreciated! Welcome to this episode where young reporter George Woodward and dad Tony catch up with Paul Middleton aka 'Piglet' the Director of Mechanical Engineering at North Yorkshire Moors Railway during filming for his new Channel 4 television series 'Steam Train Diaries' Sharon Gregory&...

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63:59

Visiting Australia's Mornington Tourist Railway,...

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2026/06/23

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we are delighted to have been made so welcome at the Mornington Tourist Railway, a broad gauge railway in Victoria , Australia, as Mikey Cunningham rides the footplate and chats to Secretary Robert Read. Regular listeners will know most of us are based in the top left hand corner of Wales and at the same time Mikey was in Melbourne, volunteers from Queensland were working on the Welsh Highland Railway. Producer Laura Raymond catches up with Darrell McCul...

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60:12

Southwold Railway's First Public Steaming of 'Blyth',...

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2026/06/13

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Alasdair Stewart visits the Southwold Railway in Suffolk on the day the volunteers mark the first public steaming of the replica engine 'Blyth'. Alasdair finds out about the Manning Wardle Project being run by The 762 Club from Martin Greenland. The group formed in 2009 to initially manage the rebuilding of replacement locomotive No. E762 LYN for the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway. The MC is back in the house ...welcome back to Paddy R...

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70:53

Talyllyn: Celebrating 75 Years As The World's First...

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2026/05/29

Send us Fan Mail This episode celebrates the contribution of young people in heritage railways ...both in the past and present day, as Alasdair Stewart and Producer Laura Raymond, sitting in for Sharon Gregory, visit three charming railways: Barton House in Norfolk, The Talyllyn Railway, as they mark the 75th anniversary as the world's oldest preserved railway and Leighton Buzzard Railway. Alasdair also talks to Michelle Bartram one the leaders of the young people's group at North...

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48:26

HST Rail Tour, Rideout to Crich Tramway Museum, My...

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2026/05/18

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Alasdair Stewart travels on an iconic Intercity 125 Class 43 rail tour from Euston to the north Wales coast . He meets up with travel journalist Tom Bright, Tom is the news and features editor of Steam Railway Magazine. We hear how the love of telling stories and steam landed him a pretty ideal job. We have an update from Rother Valley Railway in Kent as they open a new station building in a million pound prjoect to link the village of Robertsbridge with...

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61:15

Trading Places - Harz Mountain Railway and Baie de...

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2026/05/02

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we meet Railwaymen and Women from Germany and France at two railway twinning events. 'Dampflok' is the common language in the regular Harzer Schmalspurbahnen / Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Exchange established in 2003. Alasdair Stewart joins the group in north Wales on their familiarisation train and chats to the visiting staff and, organiser and originator of the exchange, Driver John Bell. Alasdair also joins a trip from the East Sussex and Ken...

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59:17

'Bring Euro Trains Back To Kent' Campaign, Biking to...

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2026/04/16

Send us Fan Mail In this episode find out how a conversation with a Kent poet Nick Russell and his poem ' Connections' led to taking a look at a well established campaign to bring Euro trains back to Kent after Eurostar ceased serving Ashford International during Covid. Alasdair Stewart speaks to Bring Back Euro Trains campaign spokesperson Diccon Spain and we include a statement from Eurostar. Sharon Gregory takes two Railway Rideouts on her Harley to Borth in mid Wales to ...

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38:01

Rockstars and Railways: Ashford Model Railway...

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2026/03/26

Send us Fan Mail This episode is very much one of Rockstars and their Model Railways as Alasdair Stewart attends the official launch of the Ashford International Model Railway Education Centre in Kent. The new centre is supported by Patron Jools Holland, well know for their modelling nearly as much as their music, Roger Daltry and Peter Waterman. Sharon Gregory gets her Harley out for the proper first Railway Ride-out of the season to the Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway. Producer La...

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82:55

Colonel Stephens, East Kent Railway, Kent Mining...

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2026/03/05

Send a text It is a full house this episode we have all been out visiting railways across the UK. Alasdair goes to East Kent Railway – a Colonel Stephens Line ..if you are not familiar with that name...he was an engineer who built and managed his own empire of branch lines up and down the UK around the early part of the last century. Alasdair chats to Chris Jackson from the Colonel Stephens Society to set the scene before setting off to Kent Sharon has been considering her favouri...

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48:15

Winter Work at Snowdon Mountain Railway, Biking to...

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2026/02/06

Send us a text We visit the UK's only public rack and pinion line, Snowdon Mountain Railway which is also the highest railway route, going to the Summit station from the foot of Snowdon – or Y Wyddfa its official name in the Welsh language. Sharon heads to England on her Harley on a 'Railway Rideout' to explore a tranquil corner of the birthplace of the industrial revolution, IronBridge Gorge Museum in Telford. Paddy Range goes to Kent, for a ride on the Spa Valley railway behind a Class 33 f...

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58:56

Touring India's Railways, Steam at Oswestry Station,...

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2026/01/28

Send us a text We've revamped for 2026 with new branding, featuring presenters Sharon Gregory and Alasdair Stewart marking our 4th year of chatting about Railways. In this episode Alasdair meets a couple of UK Railway volunteers Dan Holbrook & Caleb Lovegrove, They, and a group of friends and colleagues have recently been on what we could refer to in the UK as a bus man's holiday, taking a tour of railways in India. Sharon travels to Oswestry this time to catch the steam train on th...

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79:01

Simon Kohler's Hornby memories, Manchester Model...

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2025/12/20

Send us a text In this episode, Mr Hornby himself, Simon Kohler chats to Alasdair about his new book 'My life at Hornby' and his career at the model manufacturer. Alasdair travel to Manchester to visit an exhibition put on by one of the most senior railway modelling societies in the world and young rail enthusiast Cynan Hughes reports from a grassroots model railway club exhibition in north Wales, Sharon Gregory leaves her bike in the garage and a very looong day trip, to Scotland . And I cat...

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66:12

A Campaign to Re-imagine a Victorian Railway Tunnel...

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2025/12/08

Send us a text Welcome to this episode of Making Tracks Podcast with Alasdair Stewart and Sharon Gregory. In many episodes you will have heard us welcoming opportunities for young railway enthusiasts...so we thought we should practice what we preach and in this episode we welcome two teenage guest presenters. Rail enthusiasts , George Woodward and Cynan Hughes, accompanied of course by their parents and with all permissions given, went out to report for Making Tracks Railway...

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65:38

A tale of two railway museums: Utrecht and York, the...

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2025/11/01

Send us a text In this episode we’ll be visiting two national railway museums, in Utrecht and York, a gala event at the East Lancashire railway, and riding on standard and narrow gauge heritage lines, the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, run entirely by volunteers in Kent, and the STAR museum railway in the Netherlands, and along the way, discovering a replica broad gauge pioneer, running on rails 1945mm apart... Links to all the railways and museums below: Home Page - The East ...

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58:30

Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, Hastings Diesels,...

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2025/09/16

Send us a text In this episode of Making Tracks with Alasdair Stewart, Sharon Gregory and Laura Raymond, we’ll be visiting Welshpool and Llanfair Railway a rural, narrow gauge light railway, built to develop the economy of a marginal hinterland in Welsh border country, hear from competition winner George Woodward, who at 14 years old, got to try his hand on the regulator of a steam locomotive for the first time. George won a driver experience in a Facebook competition run by the Rudyard...

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