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ARUP PARTNERSHIP WITH EAST WEST RAIL COMPANY
A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY planning, economics, environmental and engineering...
£1 billion bung
SPENDING IRONY: as an aside at the 4th Friday Club’s Rail in...
GETTING IT TOGETHER
‘COLLABORATION IN the UK rail industry is like teenage sex,’...
Tarmac and Tilbury tie-up
TARMAC IS forming a partnership with the Port of Tilbury to create...
Battery partnership for Class 230s
… to design and integrate batteries for Vivarail’s Class 230 trains. The Class 230 uses Hoppecke’s Battery Energy Storage System … for battery trains. Vivarail launched the batterypowered Class 230 at the Bo’ness and Kinneil Railway in October 2018. …
GWR CLASS 800s PUTTING IN THE MILES
… a Golden Spanner (p55, last month), have ensured that the Class 142 Pacer fleet reliability remains tantalisingly just ahead of the Thameslink Class 700 Miles per Technical Incident. However, this month I … but GWR is clearly getting its money’s worth out of the Class 800s. It did occur to me that there may be some …
ORR SEEKS TO CUT HS1 CHARGE INCREASES
… by £7.3 million. It also disagreed with HS1’s proposal to class implementation of European Train Control System (ETCS) … East. Additional stabling is required in Kent for 6x8-car Class 700s, which would be stabled at Hitachi’s Ashford depot … waiting to go into the assembly hall. On the left is a Class 196 DMU for West Midlands Railway: CAF is building 26 …
NEW TRAIN TIN-WATCH
By ROGER FORD
… New trains in the table: Stadler-built Class 755s at Norwich on 2 October 2019. Colin Boocock … 2019, one of only two pairs on duty the day before the class was withdrawn from Great Northern suburban routes; No … more reliable the train. This month’s comparator heritage class is Govia Thameslink Railway’s Class 313, phased out of …
’153s’ FOR CYCLES AND LUGGAGE
… innovative response is the conversion of five single-car Class 153 units to provide additional storage space, … of all, the West Highland. The initiative began when five Class 153s owned by Angel Trains went off-lease from Great … out corrosion repair and overhaul work on Northern’s Class 155s; the ‘153s’ were converted to single-car sets from …
RVE RETURNS TO DERBY
… with a paper on interior design focused on the company’s Class 230s. The afternoon session provided a further emphasis …
BETTER IN THE MAKING
… THINGS ARE SEEN NORTH OF THE BORDER Eight cars on the E&G: Class 385s at Park Farm, east of Linlithgow, on 8 August … where the distance is covered in 43 minutes by the new Class 385 units. Currently, other routes don’t fare so well: … late finishes – ‘you could drive quicker’. On the way out: Class 314 at Langside on a Cathcart circle service on 26 …
Trackwatch
Level crossing abolished: unit No 313204 passes over the now-closed...
Cardiff and Thameside
By ROGER FORD
ODST making a difference It’s early days, but slow take-up...
GWR overhaul leads timetable changes
… of the Intercity Express Train (IET) fleet of Hitachi Class 800s and Class 802s enables services to be retimed in tune with the … introduction of a sixth service, leaving King’s Cross at 08.06 and returning from Lincoln at 20.25. Alongside this are …
TPE ‘802’ MAKES PASSENGER DEBUT
… 2019, the first passenger-carrying trip for the TPE class. Tony Miles Nova 2: CAF-built TPE Nova 2 EMU No 397005 … Steve Hobson Blue colour scheme: First (top) and Standard Class in TPE Class 802. Tony Miles TRANSPENNINE EXPRESS operated its first …