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  • Luxury dining trains’ brief encounter in Kent

    Luxury dining trains’ brief encounter in Kent

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THERE was brief chance to see two of Britain’s luxury dining trains together on May 11, writes David Staines.  ‘Black Five’ No. 44871 was recessed at Lenham Loop with the 12.50 Maidstone East-Folkestone West ‘Heart of Kent Hospice Circular’ to allow LSL’s Nos. 47810 and 47853 to overtake with a ‘Statesman’ special to Canterbury.  No. 44871 and the…

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  • UK Railtours ventures through Butterley

    UK Railtours ventures through Butterley

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    Sam Hewitt

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    GB RAILFREIGHT No. 66753 EMD Roberts Road edges into Butterley loop with UK Railtours’ ‘Amber Valley Venturer’ tour from Euston on May 4, making for an unusual sight among the preserved DMUs and coaching stock at the Midland Railway-Butterley (MRB). No. 66719 METRO-LAND is out of view at the other end of the train. Resident ‘Generator’ No. 47401…

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  • Type 4s deputise after Torbay steam failures

    Type 4s deputise after Torbay steam failures

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Steam Dreams’ ‘Cathedral Express’ trip from Slough to Kingswear was powered by two West Coast Railways Class 47s on May 4 after the booked steam locomotives suffered failures.  The original plan was for a WCRC ‘47’ to work the train as far as Taunton, where David Buck’s ‘B1’ No. 61306 Mayflower would take over for the…

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  • Berlin’s new S-Bahn trains on test runs

    Berlin’s new S-Bahn trains on test runs

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE first new EMU for the Berlin S Bahn system in more than 20 years was presented to the media in test runs at the Siemens test centre at Wildenrath in April. A consortium of Siemens and Stadler is building 106 new EMUs (382 coaches in total) for the Berlin S-Bahn network. Eighty-five four-car Class…

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  • Elevated line opens in Buenos Aires

    Elevated line opens in Buenos Aires

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    Sam Hewitt

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    ARGENTINIAN President Mauricio Macri opened the first of three new elevated sections of commuter railway being built in the capital Buenos Aires on May 10. According to Mr Macri it is the first new railway viaduct built in a century to open in the city. The lines are being elevated on concrete viaducts to remove…

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  • English Electric survivors in Asia

    English Electric survivors in Asia

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A HANDFUL of British-built former Malayan Railways Class 22 locos remain in usable condition, but not all in Malaysia.  Forty of the metre-gauge locos were ordered in the early 1970s from English Electric and AEI (which by the time they were delivered had become part of GEC).  The locos were built by Metro-Cammell in Saltley,…

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  • Chasewater recalls Littleton Colliery

    Chasewater recalls Littleton Colliery

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Chasewater Railway held an event on April 6-7 to mark the 25th anniversary of the closure of Littleton Colliery.  The pit was located near Cannock, Staffordshire. It closed on December 3, 1993 and was the last working coal mine in the Cannock Chase Coalfield, thus ending deep mining in Staffordshire.  ‘Janus’ 0-6-0DE (Yorkshire 2748 of 1959)…

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  • NER 1903 railcar enters service at Embsay & Bolton Abbey

    NER 1903 railcar enters service at Embsay & Bolton Abbey

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AWARD-winning NER electric Autocar No. 3170 and trailer car No. 3453 are now in regular operation on the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, following launch on October 19 (RM Nov, p9).  However, on the first day of public operation on April 17, a technical problem occurred and it looked as though the four-train service might have…

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  • Spa Valley ‘Crompton’ replaces ‘Deltic’ at North Norfolk gala

    Spa Valley ‘Crompton’ replaces ‘Deltic’ at North Norfolk gala

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    Sam Hewitt

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    CLASS 33 No. 33063 R.J. Mitchell will visit the North Norfolk Railway’s June 14-16 mixed traction gala in place of Class 55 No. 55009 Alycidon, following its failure while working on the main line on March 3 (RM April, p98).  The ‘33’ appears courtesy of the South East Locomotive Group, and is making a rare appearance away…

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  • Prototype HST power car withdrawn by NRM

    Prototype HST power car withdrawn by NRM

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    Sam Hewitt

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    RESTORED prototype HST power car No. 41001 has been withdrawn from all forthcoming engagements.  This follows detection of possible engine problems during operation at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s (KWVR) May 3-6 diesel and mixed traffic gala. The power car was conveyed by rail from the KWVR to Kidderminster on May 7 in convoy 5Z89,…

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