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Summer recovery still well short of 2019 figures
PASSENGER RAIL usage in Britain during summer 2020 recovered...
FASTER RAIL WELDING
In Business Welder at work: rails being joined on the...
Talkin’ ’bout re-generation
By Ian Walmsley
… Gresley design in 1941 and withdrawn in 1970. The fleet of Class 76 freight locos and Class 77 passenger locos, built at Gorton in the early 1950s, … best illustration of interference I ever saw was on the Class 357 test train, allowed out in the middle of the night …
‘86s’ to retire
… FREIGHTLINER IS withdrawing its ageing Class 86 fleet, but says it intends for the locos to be … at a later date. The operator recently acquired 13 Class 90 locos from Porterbrook which formerly worked for … and these have joined its pre-existing fleet of 10 Class 90s. Freightliner told Modern Railways: ‘Some of these …
King’s Lynn lengthening
Eight-car debut: Nos 387107/108 at King’s Lynn after arriving...
Travelling in the age of Covid
… crowds were noticeably absent: I had the carriage in the Class 800 to myself on the return journey. Loadings on the up … with a comfortable 12 minutes to spare. The down Class 800 had a sprinkling of passengers and the IET’s … Ealing and other suburban stations for Crossrail, with Class 345s all over the place: at Royal Oak, in massed ranks …
Positive signs as New Year dawns
Crossrail Update Crossrail enters 2021 with more money...
DISTRICT BRANCHES CUT FROM 4LM
SUB-SURFACE RESIGNALLING DESCOPED Legacy signalling...
HEX ‘332s’ HEADING FOR SCRAP AS ‘387S’ IMMINENT
… Moving Wheels SCRAPPING OF Heathrow Express Class 332 EMUs has begun, with the arrival of replacement Class 387 EMUs on the airport shuttle imminent, potentially … full ‘332’ fleet is not presently needed. The 14-strong Class 332 fleet has operated the airport shuttle since the …
YORK TO HARROGATE IMPROVEMENT
IN NOVEMBER and December Network Rail was working on the largely...
Between the Lines
By Chris Stokes
The recent Spending Review confirmed two key Government strategies...
WEST HIGHLAND CHANGE IN PROSPECT
AN ANNOUNCEMENT on the future of the aluminium smelter at Fort...
PPE INAUGURATES TILBURY2 TERMINAL
THE FIRST commercial workings into the intermodal terminal at...
CONTAINERS FROM LIVERPOOL
MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING Company has launched a new rail service...