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Has signalling lost the plot?

… fleet set for additional digital upgrade’. Wasn’t the Class 700 fleet supplied as ETCS-ready? And hadn’t I travelled through the Thameslink central core in a Class 700 under ETCS with Automatic Train Operation (ATO) on, … Afraid not, it’s a £32.7 million contract to upgrade the Class 700 fleet to the latest ETCS specification. Software …

A West Midlands Trains Class 150 being prepared for use on the Marston Vale line. West Midlands Trains Article

Marston Vale resumption in November

… last December after Vivarail, the maintainer of the three Class 230 DEMUs then used on the line, went into … fleet in service. WMT has since taken delivery of three Class 150 DMUs cascaded from Northern, which will be used to …

Ready for retractioning? A CrossCountry Class 220 calls at Worcestershire Parkway. Philip Sherratt Article

Bi-mode for Voyagers?

… The prospect of re-tractioning the Class 22x fleet of Bombardier DEMUs was raised by Alstom UK & …

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Great Turbostar Journeys

… emerge after the hiatus of privatisation, Adrian Shooter’s Class 168 being the first away. But the design had been … to replace the last of the ‘conventional’ DMUs, such as Class 101s. In the early years of Porterbrook full general … being 40 years old by then. The ‘second generation’units (Class 15x) had been a great step forward, but Regional …

Battery-electric No 777142 departs from Headbolt Lane station on 5 October 2023. Tony Miles Article

Headbolt Lane station opens

… battery-powered passenger fleet’, with the Stadler Class 777/1 units carrying their first passengers. At the … connection. Initially Merseyrail had four of the seven Class 777/1s fitted with batteries available and accepted to … beyond Kirkby on the non-electrified stretch. As further Class 777/1 units are accepted into the fleet, service …

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VIDEO: Northern aims to drive economic and social value

New trains sought for service from 2028

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Building on the success of the Elizabeth Line

… Western Railway to continue this work. Reliability of the Class 345 trains has not improved as quickly as had been … increasing the number of signalling transitions. While the Class 360s used on the former Heathrow Connect service (which … Elizabeth Line) had Automatic Train Protection (ATP), the Class 345s do not, so ETCS was specified to ensure a …

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Etches Park gets fit for the future

… for a short test facility for East Midlands Railway’s new Class 810 Aurora bi-modes from Hitachi, which are due to … and is run by EMR. Nowadays it is dedicated solely to the Class 158 and 170 DMUs used on regional services, but it was … the base for HST maintenance and, until May, for the four Class 180s EMR used on the Midland main line for a few years, …

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Totalkare: Pioneering Solutions for the UK Rail Industry

… stationed across the UK. Committed to providing first-class service, these professionals ensure that Totalkare's …

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Piccadilly Line 2024 stock on test

New Siemens-built trains to enter service in 2025

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VIDEO: Devolution potential for Manchester

Trailblazer deal includes Pay As You Go ticketing trial

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Swanage resists swansong

… Remember what it was like taking a Class 117 DMU out of Paddington? Well, this summer you can … foray into through running was in 2017, when WCR operated Class 33-hauled top’n’tailed Mk 1 stock between Wareham and … Instead, in 2018, South Western Railway operated a Class 159 through service on summer Saturdays from Salisbury. …

An artist's impresssion of LNER's new CAF tri-mode trains. Courtesy LNER Article

LNER orders CAF tri-mode sets

… South Wales. The fleet will be of a similar design to the Class 397s used by TransPennine Express, with the 10-car … with passengers, the InterCity 225s, and in particular the Class 91 locomotives, are becoming increasingly hard to …

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VIDEO: ‘777s’ revolutionising Merseyrail travel

… Merseyrail’s new Class 777s are delivering a huge improvement in the passenger …

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DB Cargo stands down electric locos due to cost concerns

… DB Cargo has stood down its fleet of Class 90 electric locomotives in favour of diesels due to the … emissions and operate more sustainably’. DB Cargo owns 24 Class 90s, of which 12 have latterly been in active use. DBC …