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Teenagers celebrate as YREA Video Fest winners are announced
very year the Youth Rail Enthusiasts Association holds a competition where it’s members are invited to film and produce a video. The event is designed to promote teamwork and creativity and improve media production skills.
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The videos were judged by the association’s small team of volunteers, and YREA’s manager Chris Jeffery said: ‘I am always amazed what our members come up with every year. No matter what title we throw at them, our youngsters always produce some fantastic videos with such thought and passion behind them.’ The most recent competition ran with the title Welcome to my
station. First prize winner was sixteen year-old Wilson Hill whose video covered his home station, Salisbury - its history, why it is so close to his heart, the services if offers, and the tea! The judges described the video as ‘a real joy to watch’. Second prize was awarded to fifteen year-old Tim Taylor from Ludlow, Shropshire who created a video about Kidderminster station on the Severn Valley Railway in the West Midlands. The judges commended his creativity in using poetry at the start of his video and commented on how well it was edited. Third prize went to eighteen year-old Jeffrey Wong from Crewe, Cheshire, whose video about Ardwick station in Manchester caught the judges’ eye. They enjoyed learning about his personal attachment to the station and what it means to him.
A package of prizes was donated by Network Rail, First Great Western, Hornby, Southern, Northern, London Midland, the London Transport Museum, Armstrong Powerhouse, Train Simulator
Scenarios, RailMiles and Amberley Publishing. The competition brought together the YREA’s growing community of young people and the
organisation received an ‘awesome’ selection of entries about stations all across Britain. Chris Jeffery said: ‘We’d like to thank all the companies who donated prizes free of charge and supported the competition and we’re looking forward to welcoming everyone back in late 2014 for a celebration of five years of Video Fest.’
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SBB unveils first Starbucks on Rails
between Geneva airport and
St.Gallen late last year and a second coach is set to follow in spring 2014. Starbuck’s designers worked closely with SBB’s engineers to make the restaurant car look as authentic as possible, and SBB admits the greatest challenge lay in reconciling SBB’s strict safety standards with Starbucks’ high-level design requirements .
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The two levels provide seating for a total of 50 people and to add Swiss-inspired details, special dials resembling watch faces were crafted and built into all of the upstairs tables. Each has a number on it which is also used to support table service, so customers can order from their seats and have drinks delivered.
‘It was an incredible and rewarding challenge,’ said Liz
Muller, director of concept design for Starbucks. ‘We had to combine functionality and beautiful design, while taking into account a variety of factors such as constant movement of the train, space limitation and stringent safety regulations. This is one of the smallest espresso bars and stores we have ever designed and is a result of a unique collaboration of experts, including local designers and engineers from SBB.’ Jeannine Pilloud, director of SBB Passenger
Transportation, described the project as ‘an evolution of our catering concept.’
The two cafés on rails will be tested over a nine-month period with a view to making them a permanent fixture. The results of the pilot trial will then be used to decide whether and on which routes Starbucks coaches will be travelling in the future.
wiss Federal Railways has achieved a world first in rail with its Starbucks on Rails train. The maiden voyage of the double-decker took place on the line
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