October 2019 - The MrT Podcast Studio

Surrey’s Greener Future – Pilot

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Episode 1 – Surrey’s Greener Future – Pilot

Welcome to the Surrey’s Greener Future – Pilot podcast.

In September 2019 Surrey County Council invited both individuals to submit ideas to help combat the climate crisis. Ten ideas were then selected from the submissions.

The Surrey’s Greener Future – Pilot podcast is about the workshop to kick-start these projects.

Chris Tisdall introduces the workshop and explains that there are three groups present:

The ‘ideas teams’.
Representatives of organisations sponsoring the programme.
A team from Surrey County Council to facilitate and bring other skills to the workshop.

Anna was there to create a graphic record of the day, the result is the picture below:

Click on one of the pictures below to see a larger copy:

The podcast continues with members of each team giving a brief description of their projects. After this there was time for discussion and reflection about the best ways forward.

Finally each team give their activity plan. The challenge is to complete the activities before the next workshop.

Find out more about Surrey’s Greener Future:

To find out more about the ‘design challenge’ please follow this link.

Listen to Mike Goodman, Cabinet member for Environment and Transport, at Surrey County Council. Click here to find out more.

About the ‘Surrey’s Greener Future’ podcasts:

The next episode will be in a few weeks.

Please use any of the material to support your own initiatives to Combat Climate Change – each of us can make a difference!

You can listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Deezer, Spotify and Stitcher.

AKM Music has licensed ‘Perfect Circle’ for use as both the theme and incidental music.

Joseph McDade has licensed ‘Ironic Smooth Jazz – Sundown incidental’ for use as incidental music in this episode.

Canadian Pacific update part 1

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Episode 23 – Canadian Pacific update part 1

Welcome to the Canadian Pacific update part 1, where I talk to Becky Peacock about the progress made over the past year.

The project is mainly about the restoration of the Merchant Navy class locomotive, number 35005, Canadian Pacific.

Oliver Bulleid designed the class for the Southern Railway early in the Second World War. These locomotives had many innovations – some worked well, others didn’t!

Oliver Bulleid was a very persuasive person; this allowed him to produce such an innovative design.

Canadian Pacific was the fifth locomotive of the class built at the Eastleigh works in 1941. She entered service on 13 January 1942. Canadian Pacific worked hard on passenger and freight trains during the war.

After the war the Merchant Navy class hauled the Southampton boat trains and ‘named’ expresses such as the Bournemouth Belle.

On 15th May 1965 Canadian Pacific, pulling a Bournemouth express, reached 105 m.p.h. She was travelling down the Winchester Bank.

Sadly she was withdrawn from service later in 1965.

Find out more about the Watercress Line:

To visit the Watercress Line website please follow this link Watercress Line.

Join us on a Santa Special between Saturday 30th November and Christmas Eve. Click here to find out more.

Don’t forget Christmas Leave on the 26th and 27th of December. Click here to find out more.

About ‘Life on the Watercress Line’

The next episode of Life on the Watercress Line is in two weeks.

This podcast is available on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Deezer, Spotify and Stitcher.

AKM Music has licensed Steam Railway for use as the theme and incidental music.

In the Blood

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Season 2018 / 2019 – Talk 16 A – In the Blood

Andrew Cole’s talk In the Blood is the first in a series of four short talks given to the Farnham U3A World History Group.

Andrew’s talk is about the influence that parents have on the careers chosen by their children.

He starts by asking the question ‘to what extent are eminent composers from professional musician families?’ In his analysis he went through the family trees of 100 famous composers. The composers came from the periods – pre-1700, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.

Andrew then created similar lists for other professions. He reviewed doctors, lawyers, clergy, engineers and novelists.

Andrew found that the strongest ‘in the blood’ links were amongst composers and the clergy.

Please click below to open a .PDF copy of Andrew’s presentation.

Presentation for ‘In the Blood’

The other three talks in this series of Short Talks will be published over the next few weeks.

The Farnham U3A site is at Farnham U3A Home Page.

AKM Music has licensed Media Magazine for use as the title music.

Spring Steam Gala 2019

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Episode 22 – Spring Steam Gala 2019

Welcome to Spring Steam Gala 2019, where we look at the attractions for this special weekend.

London Transport 0-6-0 Pannier Tank L92

This loco was originally a Great Western class 5700 tank engine. The GWR and BR built 863 of these locomotives between 1929 and 1950.

The class was designated as light goods and shunting engines. They were also used for passenger trains on branch, suburban and shorter mainline journeys.

British Railways withdrew them by 1966. London Underground bought 13 of these locomotives following trials and modifications and used them for permanent way trains.

London Transport sold L92 to the Worcester Locomotive Society in 1969.

WD 300

WD 300 is an American built locomotive. 382 of the type were built and used in World War 2. They saw service in many countries during and after the war. The War Department borrowed 42 which were stored at Newbury Racecourse station.

The Southern Railway bought 15 for use in Southampton docks.

Two of the locomotives, including WD 300, are at the Kent and East Sussex Railway. They survived because they seized up on their journey to the scrapyard.

The Freight Train

The Gala was an opportunity for people to ride on the ‘Queen Mary’ guards van. This is an articulated guards van and is very rare. Listen to the engine, look at the photographs and find out more about this rare railway vehicle.

Interested in the pictures? Please click on a thumbnail to open the gallery: