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HIS LORDSHIP’S LOCOMOTIVE
One for the guv’nor: outgoing Rail Freight Group chairman Tony...
DON’T PANIC!
By Ian Walmsley
The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard has been called to help out...
Grant promoted at Merseyrail
MERSEYRAIL HAS promoted Suzanne Grant to the role of Commercial...
PLANNING HORIZONS TOO TIGHT
COMPRESSED TIMESCALES HIGHLIGHTED AS KEY CAUSE OF MAY TIMETABLE...
Queen Street set for 2020 completion
… routes across the Scottish central belt, with eight-car Class 385 formations set to operate between the two cities on …
Delays to ‘442’ re-tractioning
… THE RE-TRACTIONING of 18 Class 442 EMUs to be used by South Western Railway on the … displays, along with new LED lighting and Wi-Fi. In first class there will be new leather seats and tables … enabling regenerative braking to be used. The 24 Class 442 EMUs are owned by Angel Trains. Aside from the 18 …
Consolidation continues in a data-rich world
By ROGER FORD
… have included work on the door systems of Southern’s Class 455/8 fleet. No 455806 heads away from Clapham Junction … the necessary approval, for the door systems on Southern’s Class 455/8 fleet. This was followed by implementation, … to accommodate ETCS train-borne systems. Work on ‘first in class’ fitment of ETCS has already been awarded. Siemens has …
MAGHULL NORTH OPEN FOR BUSINESS
THE NEW station at Maghull North on the Ormskirk branch of Merseyrail’s...
WHAT WON’T HAPPEN IN DECEMBER?
… in time (see ‘Infrastructure News’). Waiting for wires: a Class 170 crosses over the M6 toll road as it passes under … a cascade of units facilitated by introduction of its new Class 710 EMUs (see pages 20-21). South Western Railway was …
ESG to design ETCS for ‘66s’
… contract to fit European Train Control System (ETCS) onto Class 66 locomotives. The project forms part of Network … Train Fitment Programme, with Siemens awarded the first-in-class design and fitment contract for its Trainguard 200 … and electrical vehicle installation design and first-in-class support of an ETCS Level 2 on-board and Train …
THAMESLINK takes top innovation prize
… Rapport utilises an enhanced GPS feed from Northern Class 333 units, which operate in the Leeds North West area, … pump in the auxiliary drive system of an operational Class 170 DMU and replacing it with a highly flexible, … a new mobile app that enables passengers to bid for First Class upgrades. Developed by Virgin Trains East Coast with …
ELECTRIFICATION IN SOUTH WALES
By Rhodri Clark
… to Cardiff will not usher in different trains. Five-car Class 800 bi-mode units have been operating in diesel mode … Western Railway has previously said it will deploy 12-car Class 387 EMUs from its Thames Valley fleet in the Cardiff … has been promised. Discontinuous electrification: a Class 142 enters Birchgrove station on 6 February 2017, …
SWR slump drives fall in passenger journeys
THE NUMBER of passenger journeys using franchised rail operators...
50 YEARS AFTER
By Ian Walmsley
The spirit of the Fifteen Guinea Special can be channelled to...
GERMANY
ALSTOM AND OTHERS CRACK THE GERMAN LIGHT RAIL MARKET Announcing...