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Coming soon – the Railway Industry Innovation Awards
On Friday 23 October we will be holding an online version of our annual Railway Industry Innovation Awards, the longest standing awards event in the industry.
Railtalk: How do we build back better?
… 17 at Liverpool Street to accommodate full length nine-car Class 345s (FLUs) is due to start at Christmas, enabling the …
FAREWELL TO ‘THE JOLLY FISHERMAN’
With East Midlands Railway set to withdraw its HSTs next May...
Gateway gets going
Maritime Transport’s intermodal terminal at East Midlands Gateway...
2020 Railway Industry Innovation Awards Ceremony
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Five more ‘66s’ for GBRf
… Germany. GB Railfreight is to introduce a further five Class 66s converted from locomotives in service in Germany. …
Electrostar upgrade programme
… have announced a £55 million modernisation programme for Class 377 and 387 Electrostar EMUs. Enhancements will include … predict and diagnose faults. The programme will cover 214 Class 377s working on GTR’s Southern services and 56 Class 387s on Great Northern and Gatwick Express duties. …
Bathtub curves calculated
By ROGER FORD
… Hitachi’s Class 385 is a model of reliability growth You will note that … the classic bathtub. However, with Hitachi’s table-topping Class 385 fleet recording just 10 TINs in 500,000 miles, we … sense-check, I looked up the South Western Railway Siemens Class 707 fleet, which was promoted from TIN-watch some time …
Clear the decks for action
… Government. East Coast franchise: LNER celebrity liveried Class 91 No 91119 Bounds Green Intercity Depot 1977-2017 … to be withdrawn imminently as LNER reduces the size of its Class 91 fleet. Mat Yardley RECOVERY As reported last month, …
NORTH DOWNS BOOST AS FIRST GWR ‘769’ ARRIVES
By PS/Tony Miles
… THREE MORE CASTLE 2+4 HSTs ALSO ON THE WAY THE FIRST of 19 Class 769s has been delivered to Great Western Railway, as … Reading Traincare depot on 7 August, delivering the first Class 769 to GWR. John Whitehouse The operator says it has … improvement to be completed the following year). The first Class 769 was delivered to GWR on 7 August, with plans for …
Trackwatch: September 2020
… Railway’s new facility, which will accommodate 10x10-car Class 701s, the new suburban EMUs being built by Bombardier …
NEW WMT FLEETS PROGRESS
… included the beginning of network testing with the first Class 196 DMU and the transfer of a Class 730 EMU to the Velím test track in the Czech Republic. … Steve Widdowson WMT has ordered 12x2-car and 14x4-car Class 196s from CAF, and four-car unit No 196101 began …
THREE DEAD AFTER SCOTTISH HST DERAILMENT
NETWORK RAIL INSPECTS HIGH-RISK EMBANKMENTS AS INVESTIGATION...
SOFTWARE: TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?
By ROGER FORD
… output demanded from the engine by the driver. In the Class 55 Deltics I was working on, the torque regulator was … Rail service on 5 August 2020, in the first week of the class working in passenger service to the airport. Joel … one. TEMPERAMENTAL Jumping forward a few decades, when the Class 50s, which used the engine being demonstrated in DP2 …
SAFETY REGULATOR SPLITS THE POINTS
By Ian Walmsley
… at Bombardier’s Litchurch Lane plant in Derby at work on a Class 701 driving vehicle for South Western Railway. Philip …