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  • Mock-up of Merseyrail Class 777 gets positive response

    Mock-up of Merseyrail Class 777 gets positive response

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VISITORS who visited the mock-up of Merseyrail’s new Class 777 EMU earlier this year have given some positive feedback to the features of the full-sized model. Nearly 50% of those who viewed the replica said the design of the train would persuade them to use the Merseyrail network. An order worth £460million for 52 four-car…

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  • Days numbered for Cumbrian coast loco haulage

    Days numbered for Cumbrian coast loco haulage

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Class 37 loco-hauled diagram on the Cumbrian coast is scheduled to end by January 25. DRS provides the locos, driver and rolling stock for the trains. The two daily Northern Rail diagrams was reduced to one a couple of months ago after the top-and-tailed Class 68 diagram was replaced with a Class 156 DMU.…

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  • Greater Anglia Class 720 ready for testing at Derby

    Greater Anglia Class 720 ready for testing at Derby

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    Sam Hewitt

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    BOMBARDIER has an order to build 111 ‘Aventra’ trains for Greater Anglia (GA), with five-car set No. 720501 having been completed. On November 4 it was outside the workshops at Litchurch Lane, Derby waiting to be moved to the commissioning area and testing on the short works line. Bombardier is building a total of 2210-car…

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  • NZ ‘Southern Diesel Tour’ pays visit to South Island

    NZ ‘Southern Diesel Tour’ pays visit to South Island

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AN EXTENSIVE tour covering many lines on the South Island of New Zealand was operated in October. A good proportion of the lines have no regular passenger services. The ‘Southern Diesel Tour’ was hauled by preserved English Electric-built locos owned by the Diesel Traction Group: Di 1102 (Co-Co built in 1966 by English Electric, Rocklea…

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  • ODIN returns to Danish railways

    ODIN returns to Danish railways

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    Sam Hewitt

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    IN September the Danish National Railway Museum in Odense presented the new working replica of Denmark’s first steam loco – ODIN. The original was a 2-2-2, built in 1846 by Sharp Brothers and Company in Manchester, and named after the Norse God. ODIN was built for the opening of the line between Copenhagen and Roskilde…

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  • New Indian GE locos enter service

    New Indian GE locos enter service

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    Sam Hewitt

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    INDIAN Railways has ordered 1,000 of two types of new diesel locos from American loco builder GE Transportation in an order worth $2.5billion. The first of the 700 4,500hp diesel electric locos, designated ES43ACi by GE and Class WDG4G by Indian Railways, was handed over to Indian Railways in October 2017. The 100kph locos are…

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  • No. 60007 joins Hosking fleet at Crewe

    No. 60007 joins Hosking fleet at Crewe

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    Gary Boydhope

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    GRESLEY ‘A4’ No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley is to spend the next 10 years as part of the Crewe-based Locomotive Services Ltd (LSL) fleet as part of an agreement between the Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust (SNGLT) and the Royal Scot Locomotive & General Trust (RSL&GT). The agreement will see No. 60007 step into the…

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  • More new EMUs for French Intercités to replace locos

    More new EMUs for French Intercités to replace locos

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    Sam Hewitt

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    SEVERAL batches of new multiple units have been ordered by the French regions which are taking over responsibility for most non-high-speed Intercités routes. ‘Omneo Premium’ part double-deck articulated EMUs were ordered from Bombardier in November to operate services between Paris Nord and Maubeuge/St Quentin in northern France. The new trains will replace SNCF Class BB…

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  • Old German locos substitute for modern EMUs

    Old German locos substitute for modern EMUs

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VETERAN electric locos have made a comeback on several routes in Germany. They are replacing modern EMUs, which are out of service because of accident damage or maintenance. In December, three routes in western Germany had these temporary stand-ins operating, two of them using Class 110 electric locos originally built for West German Railways (Deutsche…

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  • ‘Polar Express’ delights Birmingham crowds

    ‘Polar Express’ delights Birmingham crowds

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VINTAGE Trains (VT) operated its first ‘Polar Express’ trains between Birmingham Moor Street and Tyseley from November 29 until December 23. VT used GWR ‘Hall’ No. 4965 Rood Ashton Hall, temporarily carrying the classic GWR name Polar Star. No. 4965 carried the characteristic headlight on its smokebox door as seen in the animated movie which inspired…

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