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‘710s’ debut on West Anglia
… Class 710s have entered passenger service on London …
LOOKING TO A DIGITAL FUTURE
… a bespoke design. Design work continues ahead of first in class installations for each type, with preliminary design in … progress on seven classes and substantially complete for Class 66 and 67 locos. Testing will first take place in a …
Who runs the railway 2020?
By ROGER FORD
Two-thirds of TOCs run by railway lifers...
WONDERFUL WORLD
By Ian Walmsley
I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and...
Europe View: August 2020
By Keith Fender
… (BTE) is the main operator, using an RDC-owned Class 251 diesel between Westerland (Sylt) and Hamburg and a … be required in ‘real life’ operation. Two ENNO-branded Class 1440 Coradia Continental EMUs owned by the regional … water port. To be replaced: the six unique Swiss-built Class 442 EMUs, dating from 1976, that operate the Cercedilla …
Great Western: Dawlish defences move forward
By PHILIP SHERRATT
WITH THE FIRST PHASE OF COASTAL RESILIENCE WORK NEARLY COMPLETE...
Take back the railway
Managers throughout the industry are currently only too keen...
Great Western: Solving the Severn Tunnel conundrum
AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION HAS BEEN DEPLOYED BY NETWORK RAIL...
HS2 Trains of the Future Supplement
Modern Railways Editor Philip Sherratt explains the significance of the biggest rolling stock contract in a generation
Rail in Oxfordshire and the Midlands
This year we visit a new city for our Midlands conference, Oxford in the South of the region
Sponsored by Porterbrook and Resonate
In association with Oxfordshire County Council and the Rail Forum
Fawley fact-finder trip as reopening mooted
… On board the fact-finding train, comprised of an SWR Class 159, were Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris, Network …
RAIL REPLACEMENT COACHES
By ROGER FORD
RDG's inconvenient truths...
Europe View: July 2020
By Keith Fender
… May 2021. BDŽ will use them to replace older Škoda-built Class 44/45 locos (dating from 1975 to 1983) working … an electric loco from DB Cargo (a former Danish Railways Class EA) to operate fast services between Sofia and Burgas. … The first of the DSB Vectrons locos – to be classified as Class EB – is due to be delivered later in 2020. New …
The third protocol
By Ian Walmsley
… it is time for a policy definition On the juice: Southern Class 377 No 377111, wearing a special livery in tribute to … made great again. Southern infill would liberate all the Class 171 Turbostars, which with minor modification can be … fewer cars and lorries and more trains in the long-term. Class 66s slogging up the South Western main line should not …
Getting to net-zero
By DAVID SHIRRES
… train idling by installing auto-shutdown software on Class 220/221 units. This is supported by analysis of large … eliminating diesel running under the wires. For example, a Class 800/1 Azuma between London and Inverness has about … Covid-19 emergency. The company has a fleet of 10x5-car Class 180 ‘Adelante’ DMUs, which are now the only diesel …