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West Midlands prepares for post-Covid reset
… towards the end of last year WMT dispensed with its Class 153s, and an improvement plan is in progress for the Class 172 DMUs. More challenging has been building train crew … STUART J. HOOD CAF is supplying 14x4-car and 12x2-car Class 196 DMUs, which will be introduced first on the …
A network for Wiltshire
… precautions: a cleaner prepares to sanitise the cab of a Class 165 on a TransWilts service during the turnround at …
Exhausting the possibilities
… which is why nobody has ordered anything smaller since the Class 56 in 1974. The snag is that to achieve the mandated … since it produces less waste heat; let’s call it a Class 38. This would be a Bo-Bo design to keep the axle load … achieve that you would need to make a case for replacing Class 66s. Stadler’s Class 68 and 88 are Bo-Bo locomotives, …
MAKING TRACKS FOR THE NETWORK
Track manufacturing is specialised work, which goes largely unseen....
Developing a whole railway approach
… is working the 07.46 Euston to Crewe and the latter the 08.07 Euston to Liverpool Lime Street. JOHN WHITEHOUSE A …
NEW RELIABILIT Y MEASURE COMING
By ROGER FORD
… Having hit 50,800 MTIN MAA in Period 8, ScotRail’s Hitachi Class 385 EMUs have been promoted out of the New Train … to see which fleet is next to follow the Siemens Class 707 and the Class 385 in cracking the 20,000 MTIN … just south of Grantham, on 6 December 2020 with the 08.59 Hull to King’s Cross service. Paul Clark Hitachi and …
Boring battery hybrids challenge hydrogen hype
By ROGER FORD
… Railways, it is fitting MTU hybrid power packs to a Class 168. The MTU power pack has been featured in earlier … power pack, Angel Trains’ HyDrive conversion of a Class 165, also in conjunction with Chiltern, involves … being removed. Diesel hybrid proposals: visual of Angel’s Class 165 hybrid drive conversion and Porterbrook’s …
Irish Rail appoints LH Group
… programme of 256 MTU R83 powerpacks fitted to its Class 22000 fleet. The contract is worth around €45 million … contract period.’ IÉ ties up with LH Group: a seven-car Class 22000 formation passes through Laytown on 15 April …
MML ELECTRICS SET FOR MAY
… Railway will introduce electric services operated by Class 360s between St Pancras and Corby, and will operate six … by Data Acquisition and Testing Services, comprising two Class 91s, a Class 90, Mk 3 coaches and Class 43 power cars, which can be …
LNER IC225s HEAD FOR TEMPORARY STORE
… Wheels LNER TOOK its entire fleet of InterCity 225 sets (Class 91 locomotives and Mk 4 coaches) out of service on 15 … 4 sets, but this has been reduced to seven, hauled by 10 Class 91 locomotives. At the end of 2020 12 sets were still …
‘483s’ bow out as Island line closure begins
… Moving Wheels COVID TRAVEL restrictions meant Class 483s were withdrawn from Island line services on the … to reopen with services operated by replacement Vivarail Class 484 EMUs on 1 April. The ‘483s’ were originally built … and signalling upgrades. SWR has ordered five two-car Class 484s from Vivarail, the first of which was delivered to …
EUROPE
By Keith Fender
… Eurostar is unlikely to be able to fill its fleet of 17 Class 374 trains any time in the near future, or possibly at … opportunity to withdraw the last of its non-refurbished Class 373 trains in 2020, and these are now stored pending … a combined train fleet; it seems possible that some of the Class 374 trains could be repurposed for busy Thalys routes …
The punster returns
… tweet (below) on 18 December about DB Cargo’s trial of a Class 66 powered by Hydro-treated Vegetable Oil (HVO – see …
COST-CUTTING
… owing to Covid over the Christmas period. Nine-car Class 802 No 802108 works the 12.04 Paddington to Penzance …
GA AVENTRAS SPREAD THEIR WINGS
… Moving Wheels GREATER ANGLIA’S Bombardier Class 720 EMUs have carried their first passengers to both … Shenfield and 06.40 to Liverpool Street, also marking the class’s debut north of Shenfield on the Great Eastern main … and 19.19 return to Shenfield. GA has ordered 133x5-car Class 720s from Bombardier, financed by Angel Trains. Their …