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  • ScotRail remedial plan delivering on its promises

    ScotRail remedial plan delivering on its promises

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A PROGRAMME of improvements demanded by Transport Scotland earlier this year is delivering more reliable and more punctual train services, according to the ScotRail Alliance.  More trains are running to time, with fewer cancellations, less ‘skip-stopping’, and more seats on ScotRail trains as new trains come into service.  Training of additional drivers and conductors has…

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  • Cardiff electrics pushed back to January

    Cardiff electrics pushed back to January

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    Sam Hewitt

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    RESCHEDULED engineering and testing work in South Wales means electric operation to Cardiff will not now start until January 2020.  The December 2019 timetable will see a typical journey time saving of 14 minutes between Cardiff and London Paddington, but the final 10-mile section of 25kV equipment between Newport and the Welsh capital will not be ready in…

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  • ‘Passengers first’ as Network Rail’s regional structure goes live

    ‘Passengers first’ as Network Rail’s regional structure goes live

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    Sam Hewitt

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    JUNE 24 signalled the start of significant structural changes at Network Rail, designed to tackle the declining performance and punctuality of passenger and freight trains over recent years.  More power is being devolved into five new regions, with 14 smaller, regional organisations aimed at being closer to customers and giving local managers the authority to…

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  • South Western Railway strike: Workers begin four-day walkout

    South Western Railway strike: Workers begin four-day walkout

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Rail workers are said to be “solidly supporting” a fresh rail strike in the long-running dispute over guards on trains, which has hit services on some of the busiest routes in the country.

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  • Preservation history made at Welsh Highland gala

    Preservation history made at Welsh Highland gala

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FFESTINIOG & Welsh Highland Railway’s (Ff&WHR) June 21-23 Welsh Highland Railway – Past, Present and Future gala title referenced the 21st anniversary of Ff&WHR trains running out of Caernarfon and the newly opened station building at the terminus.  However, this gala carried much greater significance for the ‘future’ element. That relations between Ff&WHR and Welsh…

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  • Lambton No. 29 set for NYMR return

    Lambton No. 29 set for NYMR return

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AN IMMINENT return to service is on the cards for Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Kitson 0-6-2T No. 29 (4263/1904) as its overhaul nears completion at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Grosmont works. The popular loco has been out of service since late-2014 when a crack was discovered in its cylinder block. A new cylinder…

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  • UK railway news round-up

    UK railway news round-up

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    Sam Hewitt

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    This week’s railway round-up LNER announce a new rail fares system aimed at saving passengers costs of up to £73 and are we finally getting a glimpse of the future for railways with solar power?

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  • DCRail expands with new bulk material flows

    DCRail expands with new bulk material flows

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    Sam Hewitt

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    DCRail started a new service on June 24 which is conveying used rail ballast from Westbury to Southampton for recycling by L&S Waste. The new flow follows shortly after the introduction of a similar ‘as-required’ flow of used ballast from Carlisle Kingmoor to Boston in Lincolnshire.  On arrival at Southampton the ballast is processed and…

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  • Steam returns to Drumshanbo… on the back of a lorry!

    Steam returns to Drumshanbo… on the back of a lorry!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AVONSIDE 0-6-0T Nancy once again flew the flag for the Dromod-based Cavan & Leitrim Railway (C&LR) on June 30 when it took part in the opening parade of the An Tóstal festival at Drumshanbo, County Leitrim.  The visit followed Nancy’s starring role in the Ballinamore Family Vintage event earlier in the month.  During the parade…

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  • Lakeside’s Barclay steals the show at Foxfield gala

    Lakeside’s Barclay steals the show at Foxfield gala

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VISITING Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T No. 14 (1245/1911) certainly stole the show at the Foxfield Railway’s Summer Gala on July 20-21, recalling the heyday of the Scottish coalfields when these big Barclay tanks were a common sight on coal trains.  The former Carron Iron Company loco had made the journey to Staffordshire from its home at…

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