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12th April 2022

… accuracy, is being trialled on a Great Western Railway Class 150. The key lessons from this are to understand the …

By ROGER FORD 23rd February 2022

… allowed to lapse. As we have seen, the relatively modern Class 365 EMUs failed to find a new home and are going for scrap. The recently withdrawn South Western Class 456 units could soon follow. However, these are not …

By Vicki Pipe 24th February 2022

Community Rail projects in Wales and the Borders are supporting the post-Covid rebuild

By Ian Walmsley 22nd February 2022

… Annual Average), only 20 times more reliable than a Class 769. Class 170s were fitted with condition monitoring at build, … better ways to use it. MITRAC is in use on the newer Class 172s, so it isn’t written off, but for the earlier …

14th April 2022

… tour in Blackpool, and bidders can also vie for a first class Pendolino seat or station signs. RBF President Pete …

By Martyn Brailsford 22nd February 2022

A digest of the main changes on Network Rail, London Underground and Northern Ireland Railways infrastructure during December 2021

7th April 2022

… Southampton operated by South Western Railway using diesel Class 158s or 159s. The shuttle would probably run out of bay …

By ROGER FORD 24th February 2022

■ Last decade’s headcount growth reversed
■ Redundancies to follow VSS
■ More savings from GBR efficiencies

By PHILIP SHERRATT 23rd February 2022

… OF TRAVEL Last year, Avanti West Coast launched a new class of travel – Standard Premium. This was first introduced … with the option to book online in advance. The new class sits between Standard and First, giving passengers … space but without some of the extras that come with First Class travel such as complimentary refreshments and lounge …

By PHILIP SHERRATT 18th February 2022

Major programmes at Euston, Crewe and elsewhere are getting under way, as DAVE PENNEY, Network Rail’s Passenger Director for the North West & Central Region, tells PHILIP SHERRATT and ANDY RODEN

By PHILIP SHERRATT 22nd February 2022

… creates a company with a superb services business, a class-leading rolling stock platform (the Aventra EMU) and a … with Eversholt Rail to develop the ‘Breeze’ conversion of Class 321 EMUs to Class 600 hydrogen multipleunits (HMUs), described by Mr …

By James Abbott 21st February 2022

… forming the 11.50 Birmingham New Street to Euston; and a Class 710 working the 12.45 Euston to Watford Junction London …

18th May 2022

… System (ETCS) is the lead control system on the 70 Alstom Class 345s bought for the Elizabeth Line, trains in the …

28th March 2022

… of the railways, if it wants the sustainable, world-class network it says it does to serve the UK, its economy …

By ROGER FORD 18th February 2022

… my colleague Tony Miles for providing the illustrations. CLASS 180 Photo 1 highlights the particular problem faced … detected in the yaw damper interface area of the 100mph Class 175 fleet. It is assumed the remedial measures were carried over to the later build of the similar 125mph Class 180s. Note that the yaw damper arm is bolted to a steel …