Great Train Show with Tim Fischer
Summary: Tim Fischer brings us the latest on all things rail - industry news, history, anecdotes, passions and behind-the-headlines info
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Podcasts:
Episode 17: Rail in China, a gentleman who started his rail career as a call boy and 5461 steam recording.
Episode 9: Why author Mark Twain was unimpressed with his stop at the Albury Train Station, we continue our tour of Sydney Central Railway Station and Bendigo Tramways.
Episode 12: Rail in Australian folklore, Sir Rod Eddington on his 18 billion dollar transport plan for Melbourne and State of Steam in Adelaide.
Episode 1: The Governor General of Australia, His Excellency Major General Michael Jeffrey is Tim's first guest also the Lunatic Express in Kenya and meet two sleeper layers in Central Australia.
Episode 18: A game created by rail workers, Train Traveller's report of the UK and a town literally put on the map by rail.
Episode 38: (Podcast version from January 18th 2009 live radio show). Barack Obama on a train to Washington DC, Mount Rushmore and your stories from around Australia.
Episode 36: (Podcast version from January 4th 2009 live radio show) Train stories from around Australia, rail fares going up in the UK and we find out just how Zig Zag railways work.
Episode 39: (Podcast version from January 26th live radio show). Co-host is Jeff Richardson. Australia and India's National Day, lost passports on trains in Italy, flying gangs, and a recording from inside a train.
Episode 26: The magic of the Zig Zag railway, a railway station that's adapted a new life in Scotland and a preview of an international rail conference for trains and trams to be held in Australia 2009.
Episode 25: Seventy years since the speed record for a steam locomotive was set, your questions answered and more from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum.
Episode 24: Lifetime rail perk for India's first individual Olympic gold medallist, confusing work colleagues with train sounds in the Middle East and Tim on board the Spirit of the Outback in Queensland.
Episode 32: Photographer and author the late Jim Powe, retired rail repairer John White and more from UK author Christian Wolmer.
Episode 37. (Podcast version from January 11th 2009 live radio show) Bhutan set to get its first railway, train travel in Iran and China prepares for its peak rail season.
Episode 35: At the Movies David Stratton on trains in film and the Black Hills Central Railroad in the United States.
Episode 34: A stop at the Workshops Rail Museum in Queensland, a million dollar plus refurbishment for Maryborough Station in Central Victoria and author John Evans.