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Lumo set for service start
… investing £100 million in its five-strong fleet of Hitachi Class 803 EMUs, the company has made a significant investment … and cleaning. … Fleet Services are provided by 5x5-car Class 803 EMUs, built by Hitachi at Newton Aycliffe and … train has 398 seats in a 2+2 layout set out as a single class of travel, plus four tip-up seats. The seats are to a …
Alan Williams - October 2021
By ALAN WILLIAMS
… King’s Cross services. But then the cost of aborting Swr’s Class 442 programme, on which some £45 million was spent on …
North to South Wales Mk 4 service expanded
By Rhodri Clark
… TfW and its predecessor Arriva Trains Wales operated a Class 67-hauled Mk 3 set from Holyhead to Cardiff in the … cooked complimentary breakfast or evening meals for First Class passengers. A Mk 4 set, without a chef, began to … the Mk 4 sets and their Mk 3 predecessor is that First Class occupies an entire coach, rather than half of the …
Breeze hydrogen trains to be Class 600s
… Class 600: visual of Alstom and Eversholt Rail’s hydrogen conversion of Class 321 EMUs. The Breeze hydrogen trains being developed by Eversholt Rail and Alstom are to be Class 600s, the companies have confirmed. They say the first …
Trackwatch - October 2021 issue
… . HST stabling facility taking shape: ScotRail’s 08.45 Inverness to Glasgow Queen Street speeds past Cadder on …
TfL ‘315s’ could stay longer
… Transport for London is considering retaining Class 315s on Liverpool Street to Shenfield TfL Rail services … The legacy EMUs are currently operating alongside the new Class 345s on the Shenfield service, but are set to be … diagrammed in passenger service each day. Reduced length Class 345s (RLUs), formed of only seven carriages, initially …
Southeastern introduces City Beam ‘707s’
… Southeastern introduced the first of its cascaded Class 707 EMUs into service on 27 September. Branded as ‘City … from South Western Railway, which has a fleet of 90 Class 701 EMUs on order from Alstom. The Siemens-built … Wi-Fi and plug sockets. The ‘707s’ join the Class 465/466 Networkers and Class 376 Electrostar EMUs on …
Doncaster pitches for GBR HQ
… ‘A4’ steam locomotives, and later the likes of the Class 58 diesels. The town’s Mayor, Ros Jones, says ‘I … industry manufacturing and infrastructure. We have world class rail and engineering education and training facilities …
Williams-Shapps Plan: creating the new model railway
By ROGER FORD
ROGER FORD CONTINUES HIS ANALYSIS OF THE WILLIAMS-SHAPPS PLAN
■ DfT developing ‘operating model’
■ Transition Team in action
■ Timelines emerging
First ‘365s’ sent for scrap
… Scrapping of the 40-strong Class 365 EMU fleet began on 30 September, when Nos … were already in store, having been withdrawn by GTR when Class 700s were introduced on Thameslink services, although … while issues with the windscreens on that operator’s new Class 385 EMUs were resolved. Ownership of the ‘365’ fleet …
Decarbonising Scotland's Railway
… Replacement by cascade or new hydrogen trains: ScotRail Class 156 No 156493 leads No 156474 across Loch Nan Uamh … within the next five years, either by cascades of Class 158s or 170s or by new hydrogen trains intended for … of which must be replaced. Top of the list is the ageing Class 156 DMU fleet, which will effectively be life-expired …
To Market Harborough and beyond?
… north of Bedford in the shape of East Midlands Railway’s Class 360s operating London to Corby services. After a … has only been carried out up to the 110mph maximum of the Class 360 EMUs on EMR’s St Pancras to Corby services. Further … UKMS125 capability, in time for the arrival of EMR’s new Class 810 bi-modes, which will be able to make use of the top …
November reopening for Island line
… on 4 January for a £26 million upgrade, including new Class 484 trains supplied by Vivarail and enhancements to the … Enterprise Partnership. Vivarail is supplying 5x2-car Class 484s, which will offer facilities including charging …
The summer of (7)69
By Ian Walmsley
… who let me in on the plan to put diesel engines under Class 319s. ‘I’ll do you a favour’ I said, ‘I won’t report … as I didn’t want to be anti-competitive, but last year the Class 769s eventually made it into service on the Rhymney … this year’s cool Covid summer ideal for this modern-day Class 108, but the frequent acceleration with 25% axles …
Battersea extension opens to the public
First major addition to tube network since Jubilee Line extension