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  • No end in sight as Southern conductor dispute rolls on

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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 even though the union has told staff to accept the new contracts being offered strikes are continuing. Southern had given…

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  • HS2: Not seeing the bigger picture

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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 push for this, but if the head of one of the largest funders of infrastructure is unable to see the…

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  • Made in Swindon calendar 2017

    Made in Swindon calendar 2017

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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for 2017 to mark the 90th anniversary of the construction of loco No. 6000 King George V. Each page features a superb unpublished photograph of a GWR locomotive taken by Richard Bell, ranging from the Railmotor to a ‘King’ 4-6-0. All will…

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  • Long Train Running

    Long Train Running

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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 with a difference – they were recorded not in a studio, but on trains and stations during a 2,728-mile journey…

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  • FAWLEY FINALE

    FAWLEY FINALE

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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. Born of the oil industry and now discarded by it, the 9½-mile Hampshire branch from Totton to Fawley has stopped carrying…

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  • Britain’s least-used stations

    Britain’s least-used stations

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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 a thought for the stations at the bottom of the list that see very few passengers. The RM has compiled…

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  • Tuxford: The growth and decline of a railway centre – Part 2

    Tuxford: The growth and decline of a railway centre – Part 2

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    Sam Hewitt

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    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 Railway. Negotiations had begun with the GCR some two years earlier after talks with the GNR failed. The LD &…

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  • Mastering the Mendips: Part 2

    Mastering the Mendips: Part 2

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In the 50th anniversary year since the closure of the Somerset & Dorset railway, Keith Farr concludes his performance analysis by looking at the Bulleid and BR Standard classes that worked the route to its final day. PART one of this article (RM September) focused on ‘2P’, ‘7F’ and ‘Black Five’ performance over the Somerset…

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  • Facing a freight crisis

    Facing a freight crisis

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    Sam Hewitt

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    BRITAIN’S rail freight companies are facing a crisis. In the past 18 months coal traffic has taken a substantial downturn, with the latest quarterly figures showing a 61.4% drop, not helped by the Government’s doubling of carbon tax and the decision to close all coal-fired power stations by 2025. With UK manufacturing facing an uncertain…

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  • Campaign launch for £50bn upgrade project

    Campaign launch for £50bn upgrade project

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    Sam Hewitt

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    BRITAIN Runs on Rail campaign has been launched by the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) to raise awareness of the industry’s £50billion upgrade plan and why the investment is needed. RDG chief executive Paul Plummer has called for an “open and honest conversation” about the future challenges facing Britain’s railway. Mr Plummer wants the campaign to…

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