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By MIKE WILD 28th June 2024

… theme. Above: A Class 91 in LNER livery races through East Coast Cement on its first outing in this guise at the 2022 Spalding Model Railway Exhibition. West Coast Cement in ’OO’ gauge will take centre stage set up …

By PHILIP SHERRATT 27th August 2024

… by Hornby Magazine and Key Model World featuring East Coast Cement in 'OO' gauge, Natford TMD in 'OO' gauge and … Hornby Magazine's layouts will be on show at Wansford with West Coast Cement featuring East Coast traction - as well as …

By MIKE WILD 2nd September 2024

… by  Hornby Magazine  and Key Model World featuring  East Coast Cement  in 'OO' gauge,  Natford TMD  in 'OO' gauge and  …

10th May 2024

… beauties. I’ll never forget my first meeting with South West Trains:‘The first thing we want is full compatibility … No 5913 was involved in an accident at Oxshott where a cement lorry fell on it from a bridge. Obviously, the roof … necessarily those of the editors or publishers. THE EAST COAST AND OPEN ACCESS Efficient timetabling of a busy main …

By Andy Roden 2nd March 2023

… from Basingstoke to Reading and from Didcot via East West Rail to the West Coast main line before then extending the wires from … The third phase involves routes from major quarries and cement works in the Peak District and Mendips, allowing …

By James Abbott 6th May 2022

… Modern Railways Fourth Friday Club Rail in Wales and the West conference in Cardiff on 25 March. Thus this May’s … TfW is planning service intensification on the North Wales coast line, a major artery for holiday traffic. There will be … in the new timetable to allow the Oxwellmains to Inverness cement train to get a path over the Highland main line. The …

By Rhodri Clark 2nd February 2022

… the return of revenue-earning freight on the North Wales Coast main line. A separate aggregates flow is due to … to deliver rail-borne aggregates into markets in the North West of England. To support this, the company has invested … waste from Llandudno Junction to Dewsbury and the Hope Cement works in Derbyshire. The waste will be taken by road …

1st November 2021

… the decision to defer the introduction of the revised East Coast timetable to May 2023 or beyond (p28, September issue). … with a sleeper lounge and other facilities. Splitting the West Highland sleeper at Crianlarich is unlikely, as this … trains on the Highland main line, there are around three cement trains a week to Inverness. On the West Highland line, …

26th August 2021

… swap bodies. Even in the bulk sector, products like cement and finished steel often move to locations that are … Doncaster. Northampton Gateway is under construction, West Midlands Interchange has its Development Consent Order … not swamping the network. The exceptions are the West Coast main line and Felixstowe to the Midlands and North …

20th May 2021

… distance, on 24 April 2021. This photo is taken looking west from Jaggers Lane bridge at Hathersage; the new freight … freight paths an hour between the Peak Forest and Hope Cement, toward Sheffield and Chesterfield and beyond. All … Manchester from May 2003 to September 2004 when the West Coast main line was disrupted by engineering work. The …

14th April 2021

… at the start of May beams for the new flyover across the West Coast main line will be installed – these are laid out in the … developments, such as the redevelopment of the former cement works site at Barrington. The group’s main argument is …

By JULIAN WORTH 17th March 2021

… North London line, but the links from Acton Wells to the West Coast main line via the South West Sidings and via Acton … wiring the Hope Valley would permit aggregates and cement from the Peak District to switch from diesel haulage. …

26th November 2020

… than ever. REBUILDING What the pandemic has done is to cement the place of Network Rail at the centre of … Government’s strategy for the passenger sector? Since the West Coast franchise difficulties led to a reset of the programme, …

24th December 2020

… passengers in winter is packed with people bound for the coast in summer. Seasonal paths are of little use to either … must surely be to run enhanced HS2 tilting trains on the West Coast main line north of Wigan. Current trains run at … gave us such delights as box girder bridges, high alumina cement, high-rise flats, brutalist architecture... and the …

By James Abbott 22nd October 2020

… difficult summer: the ‘Jacobite’ steam operation on the West Highland extension has been one of the beneficiaries of … with support from partners including DB Cargo and West Coast Railways and with funding support from Transport … Mossend in the central belt to Inverness, and a Lafarge cement service from Oxwellmains to Inverness. There is …