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  • No end in sight for the Southern dispute

    No end in sight for the Southern dispute

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    Sam Hewitt

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    SO, AFTER two days of talks before Christmas, there’s still no agreement in the long-running and bitter dispute between Southern and the rail union ASLEF over who presses the door buttons. The strikes continue, the sides as far apart as ever. Southern’s passengers are desperately fed up with the saga of having their working lives…

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  • Fire damages Vivarail DMU

    Fire damages Vivarail DMU

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    Chris Milner

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    PROTOTYPE Vivarail DMU No. 230001 has been damaged after a fire broke out on December 30. The fire occurred during a test run from Tyseley steam depot – where the DMU is being based – to Nuneaton via Leamington Spa and Coventry. The train had ten staff on board. Warwickshire Fire & Rescue service reported…

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  • Khrushchev’s Cold War loco in action

    Khrushchev’s Cold War loco in action

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    Sam Hewitt

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    IN JUNE 1961 the leaders of the two world superpowers – the USA and the USSR – met in Vienna. US President John F Kennedy flew to Austria but the leader of the USSR Nikita Khrushchev came by train from Moscow. His train was hauled from Bratislava, then in Czechoslovakia, to the Austrian border station…

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  • LMS-built shunters in Italy: Could UK preservationists bid to bring them home?

    LMS-built shunters in Italy: Could UK preservationists bid to bring them home?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    IN 1939 the first of a batch of 40 0-6-0 diesel locos ordered by the LMS appeared from Derby Works. Unusually, they featured an English Electric 6K 350HP diesel engine and the single-motor jackshaft drive developed by Armstrong Whitworth. Both manufacturers had previously built prototypes for the LMS earlier in the 1930s and the new…

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  • ROG takes Brush Type 2s on festive trip to Norfolk

    ROG takes Brush Type 2s on festive trip to Norfolk

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    Sam Hewitt

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    DERBY’S Rail Operations Group is to take the last two main line-certificated Class 31s on a festive jaunt from King’s Cross to the Mid-Norfolk Railway’s winter diesel gala on December 30. The ‘One Last Task’ tour is being operated in conjunction with Vintage Trains. It will feature Devon & Cornwall Railways’ No. 31452 working together with…

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  • St. Cadfan named and blessed by ‘Bishop Andy’

    St. Cadfan named and blessed by ‘Bishop Andy’

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    Sam Hewitt

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    TALYLLYN Railway’s ex-RNAD Trecwn 99hp Baguley Drewry diesel No. 12 St. Cadfan (3779/1983) was officially named by The Bishop of Bangor, the Rt Revd Andrew John, on October 30. Saint Cadfan established a Christian community in Tywyn 1,500 years ago and the ceremony formed part of this year’s celebrations marking that event. Bishop Andy, as he…

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  • c2c Class 387/3s are in service – tendering begins for new trains

    c2c Class 387/3s are in service – tendering begins for new trains

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Keith Fender c2c introduced the first two of its six new Class 387/3 EMUs on November 14. Sets 387301 and 387302 will operate the 07.43 service from Thorpe Bay to London Fenchurch St. The same units had been used for a first passenger special, working from Southend to Barking and back on November 11,…

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  • Mass transit plan for Luton

    Mass transit plan for Luton

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    Sam Hewitt

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    LONDON Luton Airport has announced a revised scheme to connect the airport with Luton Parkway station via a Mass Passenger Transit (MPT) system. The news comes as the airport recorded a year-on-year passenger growth for October of more than 18% to 1.3million. The MPT idea is being developed to encourage passengers to travel to and…

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  • Hercules joins Class 50 Alliance fleet

    Hercules joins Class 50 Alliance fleet

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    Sam Hewitt

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    SEVERN Valley Railway-based Class 50 Alliance (C50A) has bought No. 50007 Hercules from Neil Boden. The purchase was made possible by means of a loan from Phil Swallow and a small number of shareholders, and has to be repaid over the next two years. Hercules is a main line operational loco currently based at Washwood Heath,…

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  • Major improvements for customers to be phased in across northern network

    Major improvements for customers to be phased in across northern network

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A RAFT of improvements for customers across the Northern and TransPennine networks have been scheduled for a phased introduction from the end of next year. All part of Northern Programmes – the largest railway upgrade in the north of England since the Victorian era – Network Rail, together with TransPennine Express (TPE) and Northern, has…

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