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Borderlands frequency increase deferred to May
By Rhodri Clark
… May 2022, when it will institute a new semi-fast service. Class 230 units from Vivarail are now expected to operate … trains per hour would commence in December 2021, using Class 230s. However, the units were delivered late, and crew … delayed by Covid-19 and subsequently by a small fire on a Class 230 on 1 July. Last spring, TfW decided to suspend the …
HS2 goes green at Euston
… on plant machinery and upgrades them to the Stage V engine class, leading to reduced emissions. It allows HS2 …
Salisbury collision closes railway
… collision occurred at around 18.45 and involved GWR’s 17.08 Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol Temple Meads and SWR’s 17.20 … A casualty centre was set up at a nearby church, and by 21.08 BTP confirmed there had been no fatailities. ‘Most of …
Siemens reboots affordable signalling renewals
By ROGER FORD
… post, the largest signalling structure in the programme. A Class 175 passes on 23 February 2018, shortly before … mechanical signalling on lightly used lines. Around 2007-08 this resulted in a challenge to the signalling majors to … encouraging. Mr Stringer took me back to the initial 2007-08 low-cost signalling requirement. For Invensys, this was …
The wrong name
By Ian Walmsley
… than train names. On my trip to Doncaster to see the Class 321 parcels conversion (‘Pan Up’, July issue), I … of names about these days (see Direct Rail Services’ Class 68s and 88s and the names planned by Rail Operations Group for its new Class 93s), the best names of days gone by came from the …
Government reviews rail air quality rules
… It found the highest levels of nitrogen dioxide on a GWR Class 800 train running in diesel mode and says onboard … highest levels of particulate matter were recorded on a Class 221 running between London Euston and Birmingham New … the same levels on classes 221, 755 and 800, and on the Class 230s, brakes or dust from the hard floors contributed …
Rail showcases environmental potential
… fuel-cell powered demonstrator unit and a Vivarail Class 230 battery train will be making demonstration runs … on show at the Bo’ness preserved line will be Scotland’s Class 314 fuel cell conversion demonstration unit (‘informed … credentials. HydroFlex: Porterbrook’s converted Class 319 will offer demonstration rides around the Cathcart …
Williams-Shapps: what future for open access?
By ROGER FORD
■ Increased track access charges for new ventures
■ Revenue abstraction criteria eased
■ Existing operators protected
The return to rail, Essex-style
By Vicki Pipe
Our new columnist VICKI PIPE travels on a Bucket & Spade special to the Sunshine Coast
Time for action on bridge strikes
… kept things moving nicely. Almost all the services were Class 800/802 GWR Hitachi trains, which was great for joining … of space in the large cab. ‘The SLW began just after 08.00 on the morning of Tuesday 31 August and ran until the …
LNER takes on more ‘225s’
… intention was to retain seven rakes, with haulage by 12 Class 91 locos. However, an eighth is currently undergoing an …
GWR Turbo refresh begins
… of all table tops and legs; new floor coverings (except Class 166 carpets, which have been completed); fitment of new …
GCRE promises to be testing gamechanger
By James Abbott
… made with the Welsh Government’s plans to build a world class rail testing centre at the Nant Helen surface mine and …
ABBEY FLYER PRAYS FOR A PASSING LOOP
… problematic. Easing matters a little was the switch from Class 319s on the branch to Class 350s in May this year, as a larger pool of drivers is … of things to come: unit No 730002 forms working 5Q38, the 08.05 Crewe to St Albans Abbey test run at Bricket Wood on 27 …
TO BE OR NOT TO BE? ‘Strat’ is the question…
Reversing the 1976 closure of the railway from Stratford-upon-Avon to Honeybourne is the aim of one of the larger Restoring your Railway bids. Will this reinstatement solve some of the town’s long-standing transport problems?