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LETTERS YOU’RE NOT LIKELY TO SEE, NO 501
By PAUL
From The Chief Executive, Rail Delivery Group,2nd Floor, 200...
PACERS FOR PRESERVATION
… 10 January 2020. Martin Turner Northern is removing its 79 Class 142s and 23 Class 144s from service, with around half of the ‘142s’ now … has become the first heritage railway to preserve a Class 142. No 142029 was moved to the railway’s Staffordshire …
SCOTRAIL FRANCHISE TO END IN 2022
… a proposed 1,600-home development with a half-hourly Class 385 service. This is No 385004 on the first day of …
DISAPPEARING COAL TRAINS
… to September 2019). Statistically, coal registered only 0.08 billion tonne kilometres, the lowest of all commodities – …
Untitled
By Chris Stokes
The outcome of December’s general election, with a stable government...
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly
THE ABOVE quote by J. F. Kennedy came to mind during Rail Forum...
STOKE BIDS FOR STATION IMPROVEMENTS
IMPROVEMENTS TO Stoke-on-Trent station feature in a Transforming...
‘314’ FAREWELL RAISES £4,000
By Bruce Peter
… EMUs bow out: ScotRail’s Class 314 farewell tours, held on 18 December, raised £4,192 …
EAST WEST RAIL AN UPDATE ON THE PROJECT
… their places of work. Western end complete: a brace of Class 168s exit Wolvercot Tunnel, under a roundabout on the … Sunday service. Operation is by London Northwestern, using Class 230 stock from Vivarail. On the roads, the Stagecoach …
TRUE COLOURS
… looks better than later efforts to jazz it up. Take the Class 37, carefully designed by the late-lamented English … (of all things). Metalwork mash-up: TransPennine Express Class 68 No 68022 and Mk 5a combo at Weaverham, Hartford, on … surround. It’s hard to believe the modern equivalent is a Class 70, especially when you consider how much work goes …
SCOTTISH OUTPOSTS
… station: No 156456 at Crianlarich while working the 08.57 from Oban to Glasgow Queen Street on 8 April 2019. Ian … the trains are six or seven coaches long and have first class facilities (but not full dining). Quite how the track … ROLLING STOCK The core units currently employed are Class 156s on the West Highland and Stranraer lines and Class …
SWR DESIRO REFURBISHMENT COMPLETED
… Railway has completed the programme to refurbish its Class 444 and Class 450 Desiro EMU fleets. Financed by Angel Trains, the … 2017 and involved increasing the amount of standard class seating on the units, including amending the 2+1 …
The laws of physics will out
By ROGER FORD
… Note that the lowly position of the company’s lone Class 802 is down to the convention used in the event of a … mileage is divided by zero, you could also argue that the Class 802 was infinitely reliable in its debut period. … been cock-a-hoop since the South Western Railway Siemens Class 707 fleet was promoted to compete with the galacticos …
ECML POWER UPGRADE CONCERN
By Tony Miles
… way ahead for future installations. TransPennine Express’s Class 802 Nova 1 bi-modes, which operate the Liverpool to … its HSTs, the expectation was that both its remaining Class 91/Mk 4 sets and all Hitachi Azumas would operate on … to cause timetabling issues, with the mix of bi-mode Class 800s and electric-only Class 801s potentially requiring …
Northern franchise to end within months
By Philip Sherratt/Tony Miles
New station for Northern: this is Warrington West, to the west...