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  • Royal wedding crowds flock to Windsor by train

    Royal wedding crowds flock to Windsor by train

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    Sam Hewitt

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    South Western Railway (SWR) and Great Western Railway (GWR) got into the Royal Wedding spirit on May 19, providing additional services for well-wishers heading to and from Windsor. Around 45,000 passenger journeys were made on SWR services to Windsor & Eton Riverside, which were doubled to four direct, 10-car trains per hour from London Waterloo.Extra…

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  • Kenilworth rejoins national network after 53-year gap

    Kenilworth rejoins national network after 53-year gap

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    Sam Hewitt

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    KENILWORTH station opened for business on April 30, services being a hourly Class 153 DMU shuttling between Leamington Spa and Coventry. In a project costing more than £13million, the new station design is based on the previous one, with the new building housing a cafe, toilets and retail unit, which sells tickets on behalf of…

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  • First ‘Pendolino’ to Blackpool is named

    First ‘Pendolino’ to Blackpool is named

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VIRGIN Trains took the opportunity of naming the first scheduled ‘Pendolino’ to arrive at Blackpool North on May 21.Set No. 390013 was named Blackpool Belle by Virgin Trains driver Martin Gurr (right), who is also general manager of Heritage Operations at Blackpool Transport, and is seen with Michael Stewart, general manager of Virgin Trains Anglo-Scottish routes.The…

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  • Rocket is returning to Manchester as MOSI exhibit after absence of 180 years

    Rocket is returning to Manchester as MOSI exhibit after absence of 180 years

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    Sam Hewitt

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    GEORGE and Robert Stephenson’s iconic Liverpool & Manchester Railway 0-2-2 Rocket will make an historic return to one of the cities it was built to serve after an absence of more than 180 years. The remains of the much-rebuilt 1829 loco, which famously won the Rainhill Trials and paved the way for steam locomotive development…

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  • ON THE NIGHT SHIFT: Night Tube – Late but very Successful

    ON THE NIGHT SHIFT: Night Tube – Late but very Successful

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Extending London’s Tube and Overground services for overnight operation needed considerable planning as well as input from the British Transport Police and TfL staff. Almost two years on from its introduction, Peter Brown looks at the processes needed to give Londoners a night-time rail service to be proud of – and a safe one. Transport…

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  • Summer Timetable changes

    Summer Timetable changes

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    Sam Hewitt

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    As major projects begin to deliver big changes, Ben Jones summarises some of the key amendments that took effect from May 20. WIDELY touted as the biggest timetable change in living memory, the weekend of May 20-21 saw thousands of train services altered as various new routes and enhancement projects start to come to fruition.…

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  • PRACTICE & PERFORMANCE: PRE-GROUPING PERFECTION?

    PRACTICE & PERFORMANCE: PRE-GROUPING PERFECTION?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Before the construction of powerful Pacifics and 4-6-0s by the ‘Big Four’, pre-Grouping 4-4-0s handled large swathes of passenger traffic. Keith Farr looks at performances of such locos under British Railways in the 1950s and ‘60s. This year will see numerous articles about the end of regular BR standard-gauge steam working half-a-century ago. Many such…

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  • Not the best month for railways

    Not the best month for railways

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    Sam Hewitt

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    IT’S BEEN a bad month for our railways. In fact a very bad month, with so much adverse publicity stemming from a variety of problems – some of them self-inflicted. The big news was the Government’s decision to pull the plug on the Virgin/Stagecoach joint operation of the East Coast franchise, reverting to state control…

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  • JUNE 2018

    JUNE 2018

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Headline News LNER reborn as Grayling pulls the plug on Virgin Trains East Coast, massive May timetable change causes disruption on Northern and GTR, Network Rail launches digital railway strategy, former SWT and CAA chief named as new Network Rail CEO, discussions underway for London to Bordeaux high-speed services. Track Record The Railway Magazine’s monthly…

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  • NRM loses lottery funding

    NRM loses lottery funding

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A BID for £13.4million of Heritage Lottery Funding (HLF) by the National Railway Museum to redevelop the Great Hall and build interactive attraction has been rejected. Back in 2011, the NRM failed in a bid for £7m from the Regional Growth Fund that also would have been used to re-vamp the Great Hall. The latest…

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