OCTOBER 16 saw the start of the new Greater Anglia franchise, which for the next nine years will be operated by Abellio. Rail Minister Paul Maynard has called the plans “exciting and ambitious”. A new
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Woman killed as train crashes at New Jersey station
By Keith Fender ONE person was killed and around 100 others injured when a push-pull train failed to stop and went over the bufferstops at the Hoboken terminus in the USA on September 29.
Read moreDB Cargo sheds 900 jobs as coal and steel crisis bites
A SIGNIFICANT downturn in the coal and steel freight markets over the past 12 months has forced DB Cargo (DBC) to announce plans to cut 893 jobs. The RM understands that 371 of these are
Read moreNo end in sight as Southern conductor dispute rolls on
THE bitter dispute between Southern and the RMT over the role of conductors becoming on-board supervisors and door closing transferring to the driver has still not found a solution. The row has dragged on and
Read moreHS2: Not seeing the bigger picture
SO, NIGEL Wilson of Legal and General thinks HS2 should be scrapped in favour of a second Brighton Line? (RM October 2106) I would expect the leader of the Conservative Group on Brighton Council to
Read moreMade in Swindon calendar 2017
STEAM, the museum of the Great Western Railway, has produced an A4 spiral-bound calendar for 2017 to mark the 90th anniversary of the construction of loco No. 6000 King George V. Each page features a superb
Read moreLong Train Running
The link between railways and music is extremely strong, as our best-selling souvenir issue on the subject revealed three years ago. Now, British folk singer Billy Bragg has produced an album of popular railroad songs
Read moreFAWLEY FINALE
For more than 80 years, ExxonMobil and its predecessors used rail to move oil products from the Fawley refinery, but all traffic ceased in September. Nick Lera charts the history of this Hampshire industrial site.
Read moreBritain’s least-used stations
Every year, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publishes data showing the number of entries and exits for each UK station. While London stations generally make up most of the top 10 busiest, spare
Read moreTuxford: The growth and decline of a railway centre – Part 2
Robin Stewart-Smith concludes his historical review of Tuxford, a town that once had a railway works and three railway stations. On New Year’s Day 1907, the LD & ECR was absorbed by the Great Central
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