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  • CROSSRAIL UPDATE: Countdown – Getting Farringdon ready for the Elizabeth Line

    CROSSRAIL UPDATE: Countdown – Getting Farringdon ready for the Elizabeth Line

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The first tunnel section of the Elizabeth Line – better known as Crossrail – is due to open next December between Paddington and Abbey Wood via Canary Wharf. Keith Fender has been given an exclusive tour of Farringdon, one of the major interchange points on the £16billion project. On December 9 the tunnel section of…

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  • PRACTICE & PERFORMANCE: Shanghai to Shenfield

    PRACTICE & PERFORMANCE: Shanghai to Shenfield

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    Sam Hewitt

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    For this month’s Practice & Performance, John Heaton FCILT recalls some of his highlights of 2017, including the Shanghai Maglev, a Chinese high-speed train and a ‘Deltic’ over Diggle. AS the silver bullet hurtled its way towards Shanghai’s Pudong Airport my GPS registered 435kph (270.4mph). Despite being on a viaduct, the ground below blurred, even…

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  • SHADOWED BY THE STATE: From Ukraine with love

    SHADOWED BY THE STATE: From Ukraine with love

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Mark Darby takes a trip to the former Soviet country of Ukraine – an adventure which presented him with more than a few problems, including the discovery he’d been under surveillance for days… as a suspected terrorist! Railway photography in countries hidden away within the shadows of the former Iron Curtain is, at times, delightful…

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  • Britain’s newest build: Re-creating a Rough Rider

    Britain’s newest build: Re-creating a Rough Rider

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The launch of a new project to build the 41st member of Churchward’s Great Western Railway ‘County’ class 4-4-0 has been a long time coming, more than 10 years since the possibility was first mooted. Project manager Gary Boyd-Hope looks at the proposal in more detail and explains why these ‘rough riders’ hold a significant…

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  • Ro-Railers – ahead of their time or overtaken by events?

    Ro-Railers – ahead of their time or overtaken by events?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A new type of vehicle for use on both road and rail was trialled in the early 1930s, but never caught on. Alan Dale considers whether early road-rail vehicles were too advanced for their time. The Ro-railer, or road-rail vehicle, is an innovation that has flickered in and out of fashion and topicality, with changing…

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  • Tracks to the Trenches 2

    Tracks to the Trenches 2

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Cliff Thomas reports from the Apedale Valley ‘front line’, where a second Tracks to the Trenches gala was a great success. The event marked the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. MOSELEY Railway Trust’s (MRT) inaugural Tracks to the Trenches event in 2014 was totally ground-breaking. Ambitious in scale and expensive…

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  • Steel for Paris

    Steel for Paris

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    Sam Hewitt

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    For three days in September, steam locomotives were given responsibility for heavy goods trains in Germany, including a 550-ton steel train bound for the French capital. Plandampf is alive again, but for how much longer? WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHY: NICK BRODRICK “Here I stand, I can do no other.” Those were the immortal, defiant words of…

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  • Education for all: Rail story – Ingrow’s newest attraction

    Education for all: Rail story – Ingrow’s newest attraction

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Chris Milner visits the Bahamas Locomotive Society base at Ingrow West to find out about a new visitor attraction – ‘Rail Story’ – which is set to transform the railway importance of the Keighley suburb. TO SUCCESSFULLY obtain money from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for a railway-related project, the proposal has to offer more…

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  • Lines under threat – Will the ‘Flyer’ be Grounded?

    Lines under threat – Will the ‘Flyer’ be Grounded?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Opposition to converting the semi-rural Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey line into a guided busway is mounting. Peter Brown takes a look at the proposals. THE name of ‘The Abbey Flyer’ sounds rather like a title for a comedy film on the lines of something similar to The Titfield Thunderbolt. However, in reality, this…

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  • Railway Relics: Sign of the Times

    Railway Relics: Sign of the Times

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    Sam Hewitt

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    One of the most overlooked aspects of our railway heritage is its wonderful architecture. Many aspects of the past, including former company names and crests in stone or metal, have survived in one form or another into the 21st century. Many are visible to today’s passengers, others less so. Steve Ryszka take us on a…

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