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  • Sweden disbands final strategic steam reserve locos

    Sweden disbands final strategic steam reserve locos

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It’s hard to believe that 16 years into the 21st century, Sweden has disbanded its final Strategic Reserve, steam locos that were kept on standby in the event of war in Europe. Bob Sweet witnessed the removal of the final two locos from storage. TRAVELLERS on Sweden’s rail network over the past 60 years can…

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  • Two decades of steam at Perrygrove

    Two decades of steam at Perrygrove

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Perrygrove Railway is approaching its 20th anniversary. With an enthusiastic and experienced young family team at the regulator it looks set fair for the next couple of decades, as Cliff Thomas reports. THE 15in-gauge Perrygrove Railway, near Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, has always been a family-run operation with families at the forefront…

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  • From the Granite City to Mount’s Bay

    From the Granite City to Mount’s Bay

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    Sam Hewitt

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    John Heaton FCILT, rides Britain’s longest passenger journey, which runs from Aberdeen to Penzance – a distance of 776 miles. It is just before 08.00 as an insignificant Class 2 local train shuffles unassumingly into a bay platform at Aberdeen station. To the staff it is simply ‘2A01’ and, to its passengers, simply a humdrum…

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  • Inside Drax

    Inside Drax

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The term biomass will be familiar to many, but what is it, where does it come from, and how is it used? Chris Milner visits Drax power station, the first in the UK to switch to biomass consumption on a large scale, and finds out how rail plays a vital link in the supply chain.…

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  • “To be or not to be…”

    “To be or not to be…”

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It’s 40 years since a cash-strapped British Rail closed what was an alternative rail route between Birmingham and Cheltenham, avoiding the Lickey Incline. Fraser Pithie looks back over the origins of the line, its heyday, its chequered existence post a BR reorganisation, its closure, what happened afterwards, and why demands are now growing for the…

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  • Trainspotting Live…

    Trainspotting Live…

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    Sam Hewitt

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    IS there a problem with television and film companies when it comes to railways? They either get key facts badly wrong or they present the programme in a patronising way. We should have been delighted that the BBC had decided to feature railways as part of a three-day ‘Trainspotting Live’ series, but the quality of the…

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  • RMT calls off ScotRail strikes, but no such luck on Southern

    RMT calls off ScotRail strikes, but no such luck on Southern

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    Chris Milner

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    FURTHER planned strikes by RMT union members working for ScotRail have been called off for the time being so that further talks can take place to find a resolution to the dispute. The rail workers are striking over extending the driver only operation (DOO) which is envisaged when the new Hitachi Class 385 units –…

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  • GWR orders seven additional Hitachi bi-mode trains

    GWR orders seven additional Hitachi bi-mode trains

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    Chris Milner

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    Great Western Railway (GWR) has confirmed it will order an additional seven bi-mode Intercity Express Trains as part of a new multi-million pound deal with Hitachi Rail Europe and its finance partner Eversholt Rail Group. These trains are in addition to the 57 trains Hitachi Rail is delivering to GWR as part of the UK…

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  • Bridge collapse closes Midland Main Line

    Bridge collapse closes Midland Main Line

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    Chris Milner

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    THE partial failure of a two-arch brick bridge over the Midland Main Line has closed the line north of Leicester. Passengers who use East Midlands Trains services are being bussed from Leicester to Loughborough. Grove Lane bridge at Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, provides access to the Ivanhoe Line station, and it is the west side of the…

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  • ‘Castle’ No. 7027 Thornbury Castle sold and to be restored for mainline

    ‘Castle’ No. 7027 Thornbury Castle sold and to be restored for mainline

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    Chris Milner

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    Barry ‘wreck’ No. 7027 Thornbury Castle has been bought with the ambition of returning it to main line running order. A south west based enthusiast has acquired the Great Western ‘Castle’ from the Waterman Railway Heritage Trust. ‘Thornbury’ last ran under its own steam in 1963. It was originally bought as a source of spares…

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