Author: Sam Hewitt

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.

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

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

  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

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

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

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