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  • NEW STREET CHANGES

    NEW STREET CHANGES

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A view of the West Midlands Metro stop at Grand Central (Birmingham New Street) on November 30, where there is currently only one platform in use while the line is being extended to Centenary Square. Tram No. 34 is pictured in the temporary combined arrival/departure platform with a service to Wolverhampton. PAUL BICKERDYKE Read more Metro…

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  • Poignant farewell to semaphore signals in north Humberside

    Poignant farewell to semaphore signals in north Humberside

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE use of semaphore signalling came to an end in north Humberside on November 23 when the old system was finally switched out on the line between Ferriby, Gilberdyke and Saltmarshe. The delayed decommissioning of the old system took place after the passing of the final train that evening. It forms part of Network Rail’s…

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  • First trains run over electrified Dunblane and Alloa routes

    First trains run over electrified Dunblane and Alloa routes

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    Sam Hewitt

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    SCOTRAIL Class 380 EMU No. 380004 became the first train to use the newly electrified Stirling-Dunblane-Alloa lines on November 27 when it completed a successful early-hours trial to both Dunblane and Alloa. The trial paved the way for the full introduction of ScotRail electric services on the line from December 9, including the new Class 385s.…

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  • New platform 0 for Leeds in latest city investment

    New platform 0 for Leeds in latest city investment

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    Sam Hewitt

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    LEEDS station will receive an additional platform as part of a £161million investment programme to improve train journeys and the functionality of the station. Current platforms 1-6 are to be lengthened to cater for longer trains, but it is the creation of a new platform 0 in the site of the current long-stay car park…

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  • West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes

    West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It was opened in 1965 as a normal, steam-operated 9½in-gauge railway.

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  • Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

    Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…

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  • Narrow and minimum gauge at Warley show

    Narrow and minimum gauge at Warley show

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FULL-sized narrow gauge exhibits at the November 23-25 Warley Model Railway Exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC featured Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway’s Davey Paxman 4-6-2 No. 2 Northern Chief and 4-8-2 No. 6 Samson, together with the line’s Royal Saloon coach, War Office Locomotive Trust’s Hunslet 4-6-0T WDLR No. 303 and Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell, Clarke ‘P’ class 0-6-0T…

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  • New boiler for Darent

    New boiler for Darent

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A NEW boiler barrel is being built for Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway’s (H&KWR) resident steam loco Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Darent. The chassis is undergoing overhaul at London Museum of Water & Steam (RM Oct), withthe boiler having been sent to A G Bicknell & Co Ltd for assessment and repair. The smokebox, front tube…

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  • Russell steams to Beddgelert

    Russell steams to Beddgelert

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE WELSH Highland Heritage Railway’s (WHHR) Hunslet 2-6-2T Russell made an historic trip from its Gelert’s Farm base onto Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) metals to steam to Beddgelert on November 25. This was the first time Russell had steamed over the Porthmadog to Beddgelert section of WHR since 1937. Russell hauled replica North Wales Narrow…

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  • Downpatrick completes Bulleid ‘Park Royal’ restoration

    Downpatrick completes Bulleid ‘Park Royal’ restoration

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    Sam Hewitt

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    PASSENGERS are once again able to experience travelling in one of Córas Iompair Éireann’s (CIÉ) Park Royal carriages after the Downpatrick & County Down Railway (DCDR) completed the restoration of 1955-built Brake Standard Open No. 1944. The vehicle emerged from the DCDR’s workshops on November 24 for its first gauging runs over the line behind GM…

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