Britain's Best-Selling Rail Title

Subscribe
The Hub Logo

Britain's Best-Selling Rail Title

Subscribe
Buy Latest Issue

News

  • New middle cylinder cast for ‘A2’ Blue Peter at Crewe

    New middle cylinder cast for ‘A2’ Blue Peter at Crewe

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    PEPPERCORN ‘A2’ Pacific No. 60532 Blue Peter has cleared one of the major hurdles on its road to a return to steam with the casting of a new middle cylinder. Blue Peter last ran in 2002 when still owned by the Drury family and under the custodianship of the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group. After more…

    Continue reading »

  • ‘Witherslack’ and ‘S160’ go south as West Somerset celebrates the GWR

    ‘Witherslack’ and ‘S160’ go south as West Somerset celebrates the GWR

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    THE exceedingly rare sight of two Hawksworth ‘Modified Halls’ running on the same stretch of railway will be just one of the highlights of the West Somerset Railway’s spring gala on March 22-25 as the Minehead branch ‘Goes Great Western’. The Great Western Routes & Branches event will bring together a combination of visiting and…

    Continue reading »

  • Ugly front ends

    Ugly front ends

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    IN THE January issue the editor asked what readers consider to be the ugliest multiple unit front end. The ugliest (or shall we say, least aesthetically pleasing) front end I have come across is the driving coach end (cabcars) of the push-pull units that operate between San Luis Obispo and San Diego in Southern California…

    Continue reading »

  • Class 156 derailed by landslide on West Highland

    Class 156 derailed by landslide on West Highland

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    SCOTRAIL Class 156 DMU No. 156458 was derailed as a result of a landside above Loch Eilt on the West Highland line extension on January 22. The unit was working the 06.03 Mallaig-Glasgow Queen St when it came to grief, but remained upright as the slurry from the landslide lifted it off its wheels. There were…

    Continue reading »

  • Network Rail moves quickly to protect projects after Carillion collapse

    Network Rail moves quickly to protect projects after Carillion collapse

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    THE collapse of Carillion, one of the UK’s largest construction and infrastructure management firms, has caused major difficulties for Network Rail and a number of other rail-related projects. The compulsory liquidation of the group in January put thousands of jobs at risk and raised fears major rail projects such as High Speed 2 (HS2) Phase…

    Continue reading »

  • London Bridge fully reopen after £1bn rebuild

    London Bridge fully reopen after £1bn rebuild

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    LONDON Bridge’s vast new concourse and five new platforms opened to the public on January 2 after five years of reconstruction and redevelopment work. Following the latest 10-day closure over Christmas and New Year, trains to and from Cannon Street can once again call at London’s oldest railway station. Since work began in 2013, London…

    Continue reading »

  • Arson blamed for damage at Nottingham’s Grade II station

    Arson blamed for damage at Nottingham’s Grade II station

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    A MAJOR fire that damaged some of the period features at Nottingham station is being treated by the British Transport Police (BTP) as arson. The fire broke out at around 06.15 on January 12 in a ladies’ toilet in the new southern concourse off Queen Street, close to the multi-storey car park. However, flames quickly…

    Continue reading »

  • Will anyone speak up for the rail industry?

    Will anyone speak up for the rail industry?

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    DURING the Christmas and new year period, railways were very much in the news: not all of it was good. News of the decision by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to terminate the East Coast franchise early gained a fresh set of legs, helped in part by some vociferous tweeting by opposition MPs, including one who…

    Continue reading »

  • New Churchward ‘County’ 4-4-0 to be built at Toddington

    New Churchward ‘County’ 4-4-0 to be built at Toddington

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    PICTURE the scene: A passenger train of chocolate & cream carriages runs into the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway’s new Broadway station, hauled by a gleaming Churchward ‘38XX’ ‘County’ 4-4-0. The tableau is almost pure 1920s Great Western, yet both the station and locomotive are in fact 21st century re-creations of the originals. It may sound…

    Continue reading »

  • Thameslink franchise not delivering value for money

    Thameslink franchise not delivering value for money

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    AN IN-DEPTH report by the National Audit Office (NAO) into the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) rail franchise has revealed it has not delivered value for money as a result of high levels of passenger disruption. The report also concludes that between September 2014 and September 2017 passengers using the franchise have experienced the…

    Continue reading »

Latest Issue

Subscribe
Buy Latest Issue

Next Issue On Sale:

Loading data…

Free Digital Issue

Search

Tags

ASLEF Avanti West Coast British Railways COVID-19 Department for Transport East Lancashire Railway Editor's Intro EMU eurostar Flying Scotsman From the archive Great Central Railway Great Western Railway GWR Heritage Railway HS2 Irish Latest issue Latest issue RM Letters LNER London Underground Mortons Books narrow gauge National Railway Museum Network NETWORK RAIL News North Yorkshire Moors Railway Office of Rail and Road Rail Express Rail strikes Railway Round-Up Railways Illustrated RMT ScotRail Severn Valley Railway South Western Railway Sponsored Content steam The Railway Hub The Railway Magazine TransPennine Express Transport for London West Somerset Railway