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GRINDING SLOW
Blood and Custard REMEMBER THE debacle over West Coast...
New GBRf intermodal service
Rail Freight Boxes from Southampton: in September,...
TPE Nova 3 enters service
By Tony Miles
… in service as quickly as possible as this will free up Class 185s for strengthening overcrowded services. New CAF … Beacon Rail, they provide 291 seats (30 of which are First Class), a significant improvement on the 180 seats (15 First) on the three-car Class 185 DMUs they are replacing. They feature power sockets …
EMR KICKS OFF NEW ERA
… visible early sign of the change was the unveiling of a Class 222 Meridian in EMR’s new livery at the franchise … The first of the type to join the fleet will be five Class 170s currently operating in Scotland, Nos 170416-420; … route to Corby will be served by the 21x4-car fleet of Class 360s cascaded from Greater Anglia, operating a …
INDUSTRY AT A TURNING POINT
… A DYNAMIC ROLLING STOCK MARKET Manufacturing in Derby: a Class 710 vehicle for London Overground takes shape at … market. Mid-life refurbishment: the West Midlands Trains Class 323 fleet has been visiting Gemini Rail Services’ … an accessible toilet. This is No3 23217, the first of the class to be treated. PHILIP SHERRATT A feature of this year’s …
Europe View
By Keith Fender
… Swiss inter-city: SBB is slowly introducing its new Class 502 double deck EMUs into service to replace older … trains; it is also refurbishing the entire Re460 class of electric locos (but slowly scrapping older Re4/4 II …
AZUMAS TO LINCOLN IN OCTOBER
… weekday services from this date, operated by five-car Class 800/2 bi-mode units, running under electric power from … switching to diesel. Currently LNER is operating nine-car Class 800/1 bi-modes between London and Leeds/ Edinburgh, and … including an earlier departure from King’s Cross at 08.06, is planned to be introduced at the December timetable …
WEST COAST CAPACITY STUDY
… Mix of train types: Virgin Pendolino No 390103 forms the 08.55 Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston at Cheddington … at up to 125mph with tilt; green for West Midlands Trains Class 350 units, maximum speed 110mph without tilt. And what …
‘442s’ withdrawn due to signal interaction issues
… Moving Wheels Caught in a squall: Class 442 units Nos 2413 and 2417 depart from Petersfield … beginning of September South Western Railway withdrew its Class 442 EMUs from service due to a safety issue concerning … was introduced on 19 August, including the return of the class to the Portsmouth direct line, for which the units will …
Edge Hill upgrade
Infrastructure News LIVERPOOL LIME Street station will...
HS2 COSTS RISE AS SCHEDULE SLIPS
By Dan Harvey
High Speed 2 FULL OPENING PUT BACK BY UP TO SEVEN YEARS ...
Between the Lines
… Chris Stokes Chester: here the first Class 158 unit to carry TfW livery forms a service to … station efficiently sold me a ticket in 30 seconds. The 08.10 Euston to Chester was on time at Milton Keynes and … The TfW train to Penmaenmawr, a well loaded three-car Class 175 from Cardiff, was on time too. The Virgin train was …
Boswell to leave Hitachi
People Leaving Hitachi: Karen Boswell. HITACHI...
FIRST TRENITALIA WINS WEST COAST PARTNERSHIP
… in preparation for the change of franchisee, repainted Class 390 Pendolinos are now being outshopped from Alstom’s … December 2022. VOYAGERS REPLACED The current fleet of 20 Class 221 Voyager diesel trains is to be refreshed by … spaces and greater accessibility, along with new First Class lounges at Preston, Stockport and Rugby and remodelled …
DERBY CONTINUES TO LEAD THE WAY
RAIL FORUM MIDLANDS DESCRIBES DEVELOPMENTS IN MODERN RAILWAYS...