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By Keith Fender
… on order for DSB from Siemens; 34 locos designated DSB Class EB will be delivered from late 2020 onwards. The new … December 2025. Difficult introduction: a DB IC2 train with Class 147.5 loco No 147 554 at Nuremberg Hbf on 3 April 2019. … of these trains in three batches; the first 25 utilise a Class 146.5 ‘Traxx AC2’ 15kV AC loco and have been in service …
Class 710 service imminent
… of delays, entry into passenger service for Bombardier’s Class 710 EMUs for London Overground was thought to be a … away as this issue went to press. Introduction of the Class 710 Aventras has been set back due to a variety of software-related issues, with the first of the class originally due to be introduced last spring on the …
GBRf waste to Calvert
IN DECEMBER GB Railfreight resumed services from Cricklewood...
Shortforming
AT GREAT Western Railway there is an internal social media platform...
100 years of Government control
By Chris Austin and Richard Faulkner
From the earliest years the Government has sought to control...
LIGHT RAIL BEST FOR BLACKPOOL
… will be much kinder to track formations than Pacers and Class 15x units. Northern could continue to connect East … is currently doomed to have cast-off diesel units such as Class 150s, and maybe ‘156s’ when available, these are now …
TPE ramps up Nova fleets
By Tony Miles
… work on CAF sets following delivery to the UK. The Class 397 Nova 2 EMUs will require a fleet-wide replacement … currently takes. Eleven daily diagrams were covered by Class 802 Nova 1 bi-mode units since early February as more … West Midlands Trains anxious to receive the remaining six Class 350/4 sets as part of its own service recovery and …
Whistles Winners
By Awards photography Tony Miles
EXCELLENCE IN RAILWAY OPERATING TOOK CENTRE STAGE AT THE GOLDEN...
CALLING ALL INNOVATORS!
ARE YOU and your colleagues coming up with bright ideas that...
Trackwatch
A digest of the main changes on Network Rail, London Underground...
Bodysnatchers, Gronks, and Bones
By Ian Walmsley
… Is it only me that has trouble remembering the new class numbers? T he new modernisation plan has brought a rash … onto the railway, at the same time as years of logical class numbering has faltered. If that wasn’t enough, some … ‘Gronk’ is strangely descriptive of the ubiquitous Class 08 shunter, extended to ‘Super Gronk’ for a Class 09. On that …
BORIS BACKS HS2
By Dan Harvey
OAKERVEE FAVOURS BUILDING FULL LINE But Phase 2b route under...
INTRODUCING AZUMA
… one. Azumas in service: Nos 801101/103 work the 08.45 Leeds to King’s Cross service at Welwyn North on 23 … a new train, tracking consistently with the similar GWR Class 800/802 fleets. Lessons are being shared with GWR and …
CAF builds for the UK
By PHILIP SHERRATT
… Sherratt WORKLOAD The first trains built at Newport were Class 195s for Northern. From an order for 149 vehicles … build. Work has already begun on the next order for Class 196 DMUs for West Midlands Trains. 14x4-car and … contract. The complete order for 51x2-car and 26x3-car Class 197s will be built at Newport; ‘this is very exciting …
Fork in the road
FORGET THE Profumo scandal of the early 1960s, investigative...