A TEN-year contract to deliver biomass to Lynemouth power station has been won by GB Railfreight, securing drivers’ jobs in the North East. The power station opened in 1972, then owned and operated by Alcan

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PREDICTIONS of a 49% increase in demand for rail travel across the West Midlands and Chilterns regions by 2023 have led to proposals for longer trains, an increase in services, extended platforms, and upgraded stations.

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THE month-long upgrade of Glasgow’s Subway system is taking longer to complete, and is now expected to be finished in mid-August – two weeks after the planned reopening. The Subway, which forms a circular route

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TALYLLYN Railway’s The Grand Finale gala lived up to every expectation. The July 1-3 event specifically celebrated the 150th birthday of TR’s Fletcher, Jennings 0-4-0WT No. 2 Dolgoch, while rounding off the series of events

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NETWORK Rail has unveiled a paper that documents maximum permitted loads for steam locomotives for the first time since Privatisation. It follows an unhappy sequence of stalls and struggles by steam on the national network,

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THE well-known steam railway museum in the historic Japanese city of Kyoto reopened to the public on April 29. The museum was closed for extensive refurbishment in 2015. It now has much more display space,

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BIG strides have been made in the Great Western electrification project. On July 16 the overhead wires between Reading and Didcot were energised, allowing two Class 800 Hitachi IEP five-car sets to run on electric

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TRAINS will be able to traverse the full length of the Settle & Carlisle line from the end of March next year as Network Rail continues to work on stabilising the 500,000-tonne landslip that severed

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