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ANOTHER two Class 373 Eurostar sets were despatched to the scrapyard during December. Half-set Nos. 3019/20 made the trip from Temple Mills to EMR Kingsbury on December 3 and were followed on December 15 by Nos. 3003/4.
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By Keith Fender GREATER Anglia operator Abellio, together with industry partners Eversholt, Wabtec and Vossloh Kiepe, launched the first of the production batch of ‘Renatus’ (Latin for ‘born again’), refurbished Class 321 EMUs, on December
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MAJOR changes at Govia Thameslink Railway’s Hornsey depot have been completed with the modernised depot ready to take on three new fleets of trains worth £1billion. Hornsey will be one of two new locations to
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IN early October Botswana’s main copper and nickel mining company Bamangwato Concession Limited (BCL) was put into liquidation, with depressed global prices for metals being blamed. The Selebi-Phikwe copper mine was closed and more
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THE only rack railway in Greece – Diakoftó to Kalávryta on the Peloponnese Peninsula – celebrated its 120th birthday last year. And for the first time in a decade one of the original steam locomotives
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FRENCH Railways SNCF bought hundreds of diesel locos in the 1960s and 70s to replace steam on lines that were not electrified. Several types were introduced, but the majority of those which have remained in
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EASTLEIGH Lakeside Steam Railway’s new 10¼in-gauge loco – re-built Bulleid ‘Merchant Navy’ No. 35004 Cunard White Star – was officially named on December 3. A small ceremony was attended by the deputy mayor of Eastleigh, Coun
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I was most interested in the article in the December issue about Trains Annual and Locospotters’ Annual. What immediately caught my eye were the two colour illustrations from the 1950 edition of Trains Annual, stated to
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Fourteen years after the official end of regular duties, the main line diagrams of the hugely popular Deutsche Bahn Class 103 electrics have ended. Ben Jones takes a nostalgic last run behind this iconic class
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Since 1999, British diesel and electric locomotives have worked in various parts of Europe for a variety of reasons. In this definitive and exclusive feature Anthony Sayer tells the story of what worked where and
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