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Abellio unveils East Midlands branding
ABELLIO HAS unveiled the branding it will use when it takes over...
Rail Freight Group
Should Network Rail lead on franchising? With the Williams...
QUEEN STREET WORKS
Ian Lothian E&G expansion: this is the scene at Glasgow Queen...
Pint pot Paddington
… now featuring short platform 14 on the left (with a Class 387 present), and long platform 12 on the right. KEITH … Great Western Railway in the December 2019 timetable, with Class 345s being prepared for this duty. TfL was keen to run … taking half the capacity of these two tracks. HEATHROW Class 345s were due to take over Heathrow Connect paths into …
IEP VTAC mystery resolved
… the Variable Track Access Charges (VTAC) for the Hitachi Class 800 vehicles. More properly the Variable Usage Charge … along. But throughout CP5, which started on 1 April 2014, Class 800s were noticeable by their absence. DIFFICULT … are either Trailers (T) or Motored (M). A five-car Class 800 fits this template – sort of – but a nine-car has …
ENHANCEMENTS - DISMISSIVE JONES FUELS INDUSTRY IRE
For contractors, ignorance is far from bliss Electrification:...
REGIONAL ROUTE BOOST
… HALLMARKS OF EMT’S REGIONAL ROUTES Serving the region: EMT Class 158 at Lincoln Central. TONY MILES A series of … where the constraints of the fleet mean only a single-car Class 153 is used. This was a result of the allocation of … hand right at the start of the franchise, when two-car Class 158s were allocated to operate the service. Some …
OXFORDSHIRE Waits to see what the ORCS will bring
… bay platforms, each able to accommodate a six-car Class 168 set, built in the former parcels dock area on the … of Intercity Express Trains to replace the few remaining Class 166 DMUs between Oxford and Paddington in December is … increase passenger numbers on the GWR route. Today’s Class 166 trains are often overcrowded and competing coach …
Carbon emissions
… suggest that less freight is being electric-hauled The 15 Class 88 electro-diesel locos ordered by Direct Rail … reversing the trend, and the impending displacement of 15 Class 90s in Anglia looks like another short-term opportunity … to use the third rail on the latter with the tri-mode Class 769s. To some extent this is tinkering at the edges: …
HS2: STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
… Modern high-speed train interiors: Eurostar e320 standard class (above) and Duplex TGV (below). Paul Bigland / Alstom …
CARDIFF SWITCH-ON DELAYED
… June 2019, with No 57312 Solway Princess leading a pair of Class 313s from Hornsey destined for scrapping at Newport … by December, thanks to the lively performance of Class 800 units under the wires east of Bristol Parkway (p8, …
Defending the Devon coast
… problem: power car No 43194 trails a GWR HST working the 08.40 Plymouth to Paddington service through Dawlish on 10 … the stretch from Teignmouth to Parsons Tunnel with the 13.08 Paignton to Exmouth service on 25 June 2019. The current …
Innovation showcase at Modern Railways RVE
Innovative project: the team from BCRRE and Porterbrook celebrates...
Battle of the mini-HSTs
… sixth and seventh place respectively are the LNER Hitachi Class 800 bi-modes and the ScotRail Inter7City IC125s. … benefited from all the mileage accumulated by the GWR Class 800s, the LNER fleet is not far short of its Western … new generation EMUs with the first results from the three Class 710 Aventra units in service on the Gospel Oak – …
A MAIN LINE OF GROWTH
… Trains made two key alterations – a reorganisation of the Class 222 Meridian fleet into five-car and seven-car units to …