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  • Time Gained, Lost and Wasted

    Time Gained, Lost and Wasted

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In Practice & Performance, John Heaton FCILT looks at how trains lose and gain time, but also how slack operating can result in late running even on easy schedules. STREAMLINED Gresley ‘A4’ No. 60028 Walter K. Whigham stands resplendently at the head of the nine-coach ‘Talisman’ in King’s Cross station one September afternoon in 1958, ready to depart…

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  • INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS: A Tyneside Gem

    INDUSTRIAL RAILWAYS: A Tyneside Gem

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Mark Smithers visits the Tanfield Railway, with its origins rooted in the 17th century and a focus on north eastern-built industrial steam locomotives. TUCKED away in a rural part of north-east England, just a few miles distant from Gateshead, is an important part of our railway preservation scene, some of whose attractions have tended to…

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  • April 2017

    April 2017

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    Sam Hewitt

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    [su_note note_color=”#c0142b” text_color=”#ffffff”]Current issue: April 2017 – Next issue: May 2017 – On sale: May 3, 2017[/su_note] Headline News Stagecoach loses SWT after 21 years; four generations of ECML traction to side-by-side in Yorkshire this month; Public Accounts Committee criticises Network Rail and DfT handling of GW route modernisation; work starts on GCR bridge link; GWR Railmotor to work…

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  • DRS Class 88 makes its debut on the WCML

    DRS Class 88 makes its debut on the WCML

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Fresh out of the box! DRS Class 88 No. 88002 Prometheus made a test run from Carlisle Kingmoor to Crewe on March 27 as part of ongoing driver training and acceptance testing. The loco is seen arriving into the bay, platform 10. Testing on Daventry to Grangemouth intermodal trains is expected during April. IAN SHARPE…

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  • GW electrification: “Flawed planning and an appalling waste of public money” – Public Accounts Committee

    GW electrification: “Flawed planning and an appalling waste of public money” – Public Accounts Committee

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NETWORK Rail’s management of the Great Western Route Modernisation (GWRM) has been severely criticised by the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The PAC’s Modernising the Great Western Railway report says that NR and the Department for Transport must learn from serious failings in the design, planning and costing of the project. It…

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  • Stockton firm ends its loco-scrapping operation

    Stockton firm ends its loco-scrapping operation

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE scrapping of rolling stock at T J Thomson in Stockton-upon-Tees has ended because it is uneconomic. The firm will in future concentrate on metal trading. For more than 85 years, the yard has cut up numerous diesel locos as well as wagons and other vehicles, and had been one of the country’s leading metal…

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  • DB still planning to run Frankfurt to London trains

    DB still planning to run Frankfurt to London trains

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Keith Fender The RM has confirmed that Deutsche Bahn (DB) still sees London as a viable market. This follows denials in a national newspaper report that the company planned to begin Frankfurt to London services in 2020. In a statement to The RM, DB said: “In the medium-term DB is still interested in operating…

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  • Branch Line railtours raise £55,000 for two charities

    Branch Line railtours raise £55,000 for two charities

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    Sam Hewitt

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    TWO Branch Line Society railtours in March raised a total of £55,000 for charity. More than £43,000 of the total was from March 18’s ‘Bound for Craigy’ InterCity 125 tour of unusual lines and depots along the length of the East Coast Main Line. Another £12,000 was raised on March 12, when the BLS ran…

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  • Transport for Greater Manchester in plan to take control of region’s stations

    Transport for Greater Manchester in plan to take control of region’s stations

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    Sam Hewitt

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    TRANSPORT for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is proposing to take over the ownership and operation of 94 stations in the Manchester city region. The £400million plan would see TfGM remove responsibility for small and medium stations in the region from train operators by 2020 and turn them into ‘community hubs’. Funding for improvements would come from…

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  • New depots for Merseyside and Exeter

    New depots for Merseyside and Exeter

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    Sam Hewitt

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    STADLER has confirmed it will build a £20million depot at Kirkdale to maintain its fleet of new trains for Merseyrail. Civil engineering company BAM Nuttall has been contracted to construct the state-of-the-art depot and refurbish the facility at Birkenhead North. The deal is part of the £700million contract signed last month for Stadler to manufacture…

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