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Days numbered for Cumbrian coast loco haulage

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd February 2019

THE Class 37 loco-hauled diagram on the Cumbrian coast is scheduled to end by January 25. DRS provides the locos, driver and rolling stock for the trains. The two daily Northern Rail diagrams was reduced to one a couple of months ago after the top-and-tailed Class 68 diagram was replaced with a Class 156 DMU.…
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Greater Anglia Class 720 ready for testing at Derby

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd February 2019

BOMBARDIER has an order to build 111 ‘Aventra’ trains for Greater Anglia (GA), with five-car set No. 720501 having been completed. On November 4 it was outside the workshops at Litchurch Lane, Derby waiting to be moved to the commissioning area and testing on the short works line. Bombardier is building a total of 2210-car…
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‘Screaming Valentas’ tour raises more than £21,000 for HST depot

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Sam Hewitt

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30th January 2019

EAST Midlands Trains took one of its ex-Grand Central 2+6 High Speed Train sets from Derby to Ruddington on the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) on November 17. At Ruddington one of the power cars was switched for the National Railway Museum’s prototype HST power car No. 41001. The sold-out train was organised jointly by EMT, the…
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Supporters secure future for Bulleid double-decker

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd January 2019

THE Bulleid 4-DD Double-Deck EMU Supporters Group Committee became the owners of double-deck EMU DMBS No. S13003S at Sellindge, Kent on November 20. The group was formed inlate-2015 to rescue and restore this historic vehicle, which had been saved for preservation by Esmond Lewis-Evans, who died in 2017. Now the group owns the vehicle it will…
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Poignant farewell to semaphore signals in north Humberside

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd January 2019

THE use of semaphore signalling came to an end in north Humberside on November 23 when the old system was finally switched out on the line between Ferriby, Gilberdyke and Saltmarshe. The delayed decommissioning of the old system took place after the passing of the final train that evening. It forms part of Network Rail’s…
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First trains run over electrified Dunblane and Alloa routes

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd January 2019

SCOTRAIL Class 380 EMU No. 380004 became the first train to use the newly electrified Stirling-Dunblane-Alloa lines on November 27 when it completed a successful early-hours trial to both Dunblane and Alloa. The trial paved the way for the full introduction of ScotRail electric services on the line from December 9, including the new Class 385s.…
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New platform 0 for Leeds in latest city investment

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd January 2019

LEEDS station will receive an additional platform as part of a £161million investment programme to improve train journeys and the functionality of the station. Current platforms 1-6 are to be lengthened to cater for longer trains, but it is the creation of a new platform 0 in the site of the current long-stay car park…
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Downpatrick completes Bulleid ‘Park Royal’ restoration

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Sam Hewitt

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16th January 2019

PASSENGERS are once again able to experience travelling in one of Córas Iompair Éireann’s (CIÉ) Park Royal carriages after the Downpatrick & County Down Railway (DCDR) completed the restoration of 1955-built Brake Standard Open No. 1944. The vehicle emerged from the DCDR’s workshops on November 24 for its first gauging runs over the line behind GM…
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Llangollen line launches ‘infill’ appeal

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Sam Hewitt

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16th January 2019

A TARGETED appeal to infill a 150-yard gap in an embankment just east of the new Corwen Central station has been launched by the Llangollen Railway (LR). The section of embankment was originally bulldozed to provide an alternative access point to the neighbouring sewage farm, but was subsequently widened in 2013 by contractors for the…
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Greater Anglia simulator gears up for new train fleets as ‘FLIRT’ makes first test run

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd January 2019

GREATER Anglia is making extensive use of ‘immersive’ simulator technology to prepare for the introduction of its new train fleets over the next two years. Housed at Ipswich station, GA’s ‘Mission Room’ features a simulator with wrap-around screens that are being used to check for issues needing to be resolved before the 169 new trains…
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