GWR launched its electric services on September 2. Class 387/1 units were initially used on Paddington to Hayes & Harlington services, with the service starting three days later. GWR will operate two four-car sets in
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By Keith Fender A FULL-size conceptual model of a double-deck, high-speed train carriage able to operate on both the UK conventional network and high-speed lines was displayed at Innotrans in Berlin. The development work, paid
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SCOTLAND’S transport minister Humza Yousaf has announced a review as well as a £14million package of improvements on the first anniversary of the reopening of Borders Railway. With well in excess of one million passengers
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THE first Class 373 Eurostar train was poised to be sent for scrap as we closed for press – just as the sleek high-speed trains are about to turn 25 years old. Eurostar has signed
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MORE than 280 passengers enjoyed the third of the Virgin Trains/DRS/Railway Magazine charters on September 3, the destination being a rather wet Scarborough. Running from Chester, Crewe and Stafford, the ‘Independent Yorkshireman’ – hauled by
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I WAS very interested in Gary Boyd-Hope’s article on the IE 071 class locos. Very well written and a mine of information. The Yugoslavian railway locos (Jugoslavenske Željeznice), now running in Serbia, mentioned on page 34,
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ABELLIO has retained the Greater Anglia franchise, with the Department for Transport announcing a new nine-year term until 2025, beginning from October 16. The announcement of the award was delayed by the EU Referendum vote,
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NEARLY a year later than planned, the first all-night running of London Underground on Friday and Saturday nights began on August 19 on two Tube lines covering 51 stations. London Undeground said that there were
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IT WAS anything but a ‘standard’ month for locomotive comebacks, as three British Railways Standard 4s and a ‘2MT’ all returned to running order in August, significantly boosting the operational fleets of four railways. Fresh
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ALMOST 52 years after the last of the original Hawksworth ‘County’ 4-6-0s was consigned to the scrapyard, the Great Western Society unveiled the rolling chassis of its ‘new’ No. 1014 County of Glamorgan at Didcot
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