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SWR UNVEILS ‘701’
… SOUTH WESTERN Railway has showcased the first of its Class 701 Aventra EMUs ordered from Bombardier for suburban … Of the four fleets the ‘701s’ are replacing, only the Class 458s have toilets. AVENTRA PRODUCTION Following a … U shop are the two SWR lines plus a third completing the Class 710 build for London Overground, which will switch to …
NORTHERN SENDS FIRST PACERS OFF LEASE
… LINCOLN AND NOTTINGHAM NORTHERN HAS sent its first three Class 142 Pacer units off lease. The sets, Nos … 2019. Steve Widdowson Northern’s Pacer fleet comprised 79 Class 142s owned by Angel Trains and 23 Class 144s owned by Porterbrook. The first Class 142 was …
PENDOLINO REFURB PLANNED
… SEAT DESIGN A £117 MILLION refurbishment of the 56-strong Class 390 Pendolino fleet will include the debut of a new standard class seat designed outside the railway industry. The work is … by April 2023. Across the fleet 25,000 new standard class seats will be installed to a new design developed by …
DB ESG
… manufacturing: grab handles fitted to Chiltern Railways Class 165s are among the first such produced parts to be … are ready to support. WSPER DB ESG has unique and world class capabilities, exemplified by its wheel slide protection … a contract with Network Rail for the provision of first-in-class design and fitment of Siemens Mobility’s ETCS …
EMR LOOKS TO 2020 TIMETABLE CHANGE
… ELECTRICS TO CORBY USING 110MPH CLASS 360s EAST MIDLANDS Railway has begun consultation on … service linking London St Pancras and Corby operated by Class 360 EMUs transferred from Greater Anglia. The … Pancras, which will be used by the Corby service. The 21 Class 360s are due to transfer from Greater Anglia to EMR in …
RCM KEEPS OPERATORS ON TRACK
… Useful information: this screen is showing data from a Class 66. ■ RCM has been able to identify faulty sensors on …
Trackwatch
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HAVE WE REACHED PEAK NEW TRAIN?
By PHILIP SHERRATT
… the Caledonian Sleeper Mk 5 stock from CAF Hitachi’s Class 385s for ScotRail and Class 800/802s for Great Western Railway, and Siemens’ Class 717s for Govia Thameslink Railway’s Great Northern …
MANAGING A CHANGING FLEET
By SYEDA GHUFRAN
… No 385022 calls at Shotts on 4 June 2019 while working the 08.57 from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Central. IAN LOTHIAN … on the way: the problems with windscreens on our new Class 385 EMUs have been well documented, and we had to call Class 365s from store in England as a temporary stopgap while …
Empirical engineering wins out
By ROGER FORD
… a case of hail and farewell as the table-topping Siemens Class 707 electric multiple-units of South Western Railway … training run on 6 September 2019. Paul Senior With the Class 707s the fourth most reliable EMU fleet on the network, … 8. With that we welcome the TransPennine Express Hitachi Class 802s to TIN-Watch. Hitachi’s latest customers are …
DUAL FUEL TRIAL
… challenge by trialling dual fuel technology on a Class 180 DMU. Diesel in the capital: Grand Central’s No … Grand Central is trialling dual-fuel technology on a Class 180 with the use of liquified natural gas (LNG). This … study in 2016 using LNG on the engine of a two-car Class 156. The trial demonstrated the potential for 30% net …
RESEARCH RESURGENCE
By Ian Walmsley
… next to it is the CaFiBo carbon fibre bogie, based on a Class 180 design but half the weight. The objective is to …
2020 VISION
… last-mile diesel capability, such as the Stadler Eurodual Class 88, the four-axle configuration limits the diesel power … locomotive with the performance off the wires of, say, a Class 66. John Smith reckons that a 2,000hp diesel engine … invested £2 million per loco on returning seven Brush Class 92 AC locomotives to running order. Getting the wires …
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KIRKDALE DEPOT REBUILD COMPLETED
… the Liverpool City Region (centre), is shown round the new Class 777 depot in Kirkdale by Stadler apprentices. THE £21 … depot has been completed ahead of the arrival of new Class 777 trains for the Merseyrail network. A £460 million … North is the main maintenance site for the current Class 507 and 508 EMUs, which are now maintained by Stadler. …