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Wales awaits new fleets
… long-distance and rural services will be a fleet of 77 Class 197 Civity DMUs, built by CAF at its Newport factory … Newport has already assembled vehicles for the Northern Class 195 and West Midlands Trains Class 196 DMU fleets. For the ‘197s’, the whole fleet of 180 …
Coventry VLR vehicle tours the city
Low-cost tram alternative: the prototype VLR vehicle on the back...
SWR ABANDONS ‘442s’BUT RETAINS ‘458s’
… plans to reintroduce refurbished and re-tractioned Class 442 EMUs, but will be retaining 28 Class 458 EMUs which will be reformed as four-car sets and …
c2c celebrates its Spanners
… The latest operator to do this is c2c, whose six-strong Class 387 EMU fleet was the most reliable in the country at … ‘387s’ ruled the roost, with Govia Thameslink Railway’s Class 387/1 and 387/2 fleets taking places two and three in … where the fleet is maintained by Alstom alongside the 74 Class 357 Electrostars, and the other at Shoeburyness. Some …
Industry highlights electrification benefits
Front Why no wires? The site of Winslow station on the...
SCOTS BALANCE BATTERY AND WIRING BENEFITS
… Reeve explained that this broadly assumes replacement of Class 156s around 2025, Class 158s and HSTs around 2030 and Class 170s around 2035, but that these milestones are not …
WABTEC’S PICCADILLY WORK
Win for Wabtec: the company has secured contracts to supply products...
SLAUGHTERED PIGS SAVE JUNIPER’S BACON
… at the news that South Western Railway is disposing of its Class 442s, formerly owned by Angel Trains, but retaining refurbished and regeared Class 458s (‘Moving Wheels’). The Class 458s are dear to Ian Walmsley’s heart, as he was …
Timetable rebuild continues
By reports JAMES ABBOTT
… lengthening of platforms 16 and 17 to accommodate nine-car Class 345s. In platform 16 (right) No 345013 forms the 10.50 … target a return to December 2020 service levels. Extra Class 170 services will be operated and some longer-distance … Scarborough to York will be extended to Leeds, arriving 08.57; ■ the 08.34 Scarborough to York will be reinstated; ■ …
Grand Union tries again for South Wales
… station when it opens. These services would be operated by Class 91 locomotives hauling rakes of Mk 4 coaches. GUT … calls at Swansea and Llanelli. New Hitachi bi-mode Class 802 trains would be ordered to operate services from …
TRANS-PENNINE QUADRUPLING
NETWORK RAIL has submitted a Transport and Works Act Order (TWAO)...
LAKES LINE BATTERY TRAIN DEBATE
… Furness line –a candidate for battery operation? A Northern Class 195 crosses Leven viaduct on 1 September 2020 with the … cost of creating a small sub-fleet of AC/battery hybrid Class 331 sets will be ‘not far short’ of the £16 million … ‘We learned that the DfT asked Eversholt (owner of the Class 331 units) to come up with a way of allowing our …
STANTON PARK HUB PLANNED
Ironworks site revived: visual of the proposed New Stanton Park...
WELD FAILURES HIT CAF UNITS
… completely detached from the body on vehicle No 102121 on Class 195 No 195121. The failure had been found during a … Checks were immediately started across Northern’s fleet of Class 195 and 331 units. The report notes that failure could … injured. Northern has 101 CAF trains in its fleet – 58 Class 195 DMUs and 43 Class 331 EMUs, although one of the …
CRICK IMPROVEMENT PLANNED AT SPEED
… on the two fast lines quickly. Avanti’s standby Class 57, provided by Direct Rail Services and based at …