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SWR UNVEILS NEW LOOK
… New suburban unit: artist’s rendition of Class 701 Aventra train for SWR. Courtesy Bombardier SOUTH … the seven-year franchise, including a new fleet of 90 Class 701 Bombardier Aventra EMUs for suburban routes and the introduction of retractioned Class 442 EMUs on Portsmouth line services. Existing trains …
DfT predicts growth decline
By ROGER FORD
But the data are a bit weird Informed Sources Difficult...
Blood and Custard
STEVENTON STORY THE BURGHERS of Steventon in Oxfordshire like...
QMODERNISING THE METRO
By PHILIP SHERRATT
PHILIP SHERRATT reports on North East Transport Executive Nexus’s...
ABBEY WOOD OPENS
By James Abbott
Granite setts: the floor is laid inside the booking hall. The...
FIRST DUAL-MODE CLASS 88 ARRIVES IN UK
… THE FIRST dual-mode Class 88 locomotive built by Stadler for Direct Rail Services … transfer facility. No 88002 Prometheus is the first of 10 Class 88s ordered by DRS and financed by Beacon Rail Leasing … of Workington by mid-spring. The ‘88’ is a variant on the Class 68 diesel design, also built by Stadler and delivered …
TRAM-TRAIN PASSENGER DEBUT
… THE CLASS 399 Citylink tram-train was due to carry its first …
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… ongoing asset management of the new South Western Railway Class 701 Bombardier Aventra fleet. Rock also appointed James … stock contracts. The company is financing the Siemens Class 717 EMUs for Govia Thameslink Railway’s Great Northern … Flirt EMUs and electro-diesels for Greater Anglia and Class 701 EMUs for South Western Railway. Rock says the …
MML freight – we need more not less
With the dominance of container traffic on the West and, increasingly,...
‘NO GROWTH’ ATW DOUBLES SERVICES
ARRIVA TRAINS Wales has revealed it ran more than twice as many...
Glass from Tilbury
THE FIRST train of bulk glass has been loaded at the Port of...
WATERLOO – MINOR IMPACT, MAJOR CONSEQUENCES
By ROGER FORD
Clapham seems to have faded from the corporate memory Informed...
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… (p72, last month). I do hope a way is found to eliminate Class 315s from Liverpool Street to Shenfield services as …
NEW TPE EMUs TAKING SHAPE
… an image of the first carriage from its new fleet of Class 397 EMUs under construction at CAF’s factory in Spain. … to enter service in December 2018, replacing the 10x4-car Class 350/4s currently used on the route. Financed by … 13 rakes of five Mk 5A carriages, to be hauled by Class 68 locomotives, while the third is 19x5-car Class 802 …
NEW STOCK TO TRANSFORM SLEEPERS
By James Abbott
… comprise static and locomotive interface testing (with the Class 73/9s and 92s that will haul them), followed by dynamic … will offer a range of accommodation options. For first class passengers, there will be suites (double beds with … (twin or single rooms with en-suites), while standard class passengers will have the option of twin or single …