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  • The Railway Magazine6 min de lecture
    Further Five ‘Super Voyagers’ Are Set To Boost CrossCountry Fleet
    CROSSCOUNTRY has announced that a further five Class 221‘Super Voyagers’, leased from Beacon Rail, will be added to its fleet. The units are in addition to seven secured last October, making a total of 12 units transferring to the operator following
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    Railways in Parliament
    LORD Taylor of Warwick asked what steps the Government has been taking to implement contingency plans to manage the impact of the ASLEF strikes in April across many rail companies. Transport Minister Lord Davies of Gower said:“On March 20, ASLEF anno
    The Railway Magazine1 min de lecture
    Sidelines
    CLASS 18 No. 18006 was delivered to Freightliner at Crewe Basford Hall on April 9. It was dispatched from Wolverton by Beacon Rail, which owns all 15 members of the class of battery-diesel hybrid shunting locos, built for it by Clayton Equipment Ltd.
    The Railway Magazine2 min de lecture
    Battery Power Boosts Fleet
    DEVON Railway Centre (DRC) kicked off its 2024 operating season on Good Friday, March 29 with a brand-new locomotive entering traffic on the venue’s 7¼in gauge line. The as yet unnamed battery-powered locomotive was built in 2024 by Abbots Model Engi
    The Railway Magazine1 min de lecture
    Memorial Day Celebrates The Life Of RM Writer Peter Nicholson
    WESTONZOYLAND Pumping Station Museum hosted a Memorial Day for the family and friends of the late Peter Nicholson on March 24. Peter, who made a significant contribution to railway preservation (standard and narrow gauge) as owner of a collection of
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    Steam Loco Fleet Strengthened
    THE Aln Valley Railway’s (AVR) steam locomotive fleet has been boosted by the news that the Northumberland line will be the new home for Hudswell Clark 0-6-0ST, Renishaw Ironworks No.6, works number 1366 built in 1919. The locomotive, along with fell
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    End Of The Line
    AFTER 98 years, peat haulage by rail came to an end on Bord na Móna (BnM) on March 29, when the last load of peat was hauled off the Bellair System near Ballycumber, Co. Offaly. Several locomotives had been transferred in by rail after being made red
    The Railway Magazine12 min de lecture
    Remembering The All-line Timetable
    “FOR the first time since the demise of the Bradshaw’s Guide, Britain once again has a single comprehensive rail timetable – only this time it is the official book issued by the operator,” reported The Railway Magazine 50 years ago. Known internally
    The Railway Magazine1 min de lecture
    Heritage Line Landslip
    THE Ecclesbourne Valley Railway has reached its £30,000 fundraising target to restore services to Duffield after a landslip. The target was reached with hundreds of donations from the public and one anonymous gift of £10,000. The railway has only bee
    The Railway Magazine1 min de lecture
    Betton Grange Steams Into Action
    BRITAIN’S latest new-build standard gauge steam locomotive moved under its own power on April 11 at Tyseley Locomotive Works. GWR 4-6-0 No. 6880 Betton Grange ran for the first time in the yard in the afternoon, watched by a small group of invited gu
    The Railway Magazine5 min de lecture
    ‘Jacobite’ Resumes – But Steam Loco Stalls On First Trip Of The Year
    JUST three weeks after the West Coast Railway Company (WCR) announced it was indefinitely suspending operation of the annual‘Jacobite’steam train came an announcement that the popular service would resume on April 15. No trains ran from March 28 to A
    The Railway Magazine5 min de lecture
    Back In The Ring
    THE Champion is back. After being sidelined by a technical knockout at the end of 2016, April 14 saw Class 52 C-C No. D1015 Western Champion make its main line passenger train return on its native Western Region main line out of Paddington, punching
    The Railway Magazine2 min de lecture
    Landslip Watch
    NETWORK Rail is to spend £22 million improving drainage across its East Coast route, to help prevent major disruption brought to passengers by landslips and heavy rain. There have been multiple incidents of landslips and flooding over the past year a
    The Railway Magazine7 min de lecture
    Bodmin Bouncing Back
    THERE’S a very friendly feel to the Bodmin Railway – from the ticket office to the cafe and on-train staff, you are sure to receive a warm welcome and a great day out. The BR is not alone in this amongst heritage railways, but what does add up to mak
    The Railway Magazine5 min de lecture
    Readers’ Platform
    PANORAMA in the April issue (pages 46/47) offered an irresistible question, intended rhetorically but provoking the idle detective in me:“Is there anything in this shot that gives it away as being taken this year and not towards the end of steam in t
    The Railway Magazine1 min de lecture
    Sidelines
    BUSINESSES interested in tendering for the infrastructure contract for the automated people mover (APM), which will link HS2’s Interchange station (northeast of Solihull) with the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham International station and Birmi
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    Electrical Issues Delay Start Of New Season
    PROBLEMS with the supply to overhead power lines affected the start of the planned running season for two heritage tramways. At Crich Tramway Village in Derbyshire, home to the National Tramway Museum (where a decision was taken in early March to pos
    The Railway Magazine1 min de lecture
    The Railway Magazine
    PUBLISHING Production editor: Sarah Wilkinson Designer: Tim Pipes Editorial assistant: Jane Skayman Publisher: Tim Hartley Sales and distribution manager: Carl Smith Marketing manager: Charlotte Park Commercial director: Nigel Hole Publishing directo
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    From The Archive
    AN order has been placed with Beyer, Peacock & Co Ltd, Manchester, by the London and North Eastern Railway for one powerful‘Garratt’locomotive. It will be the largest engine in Great Britain and will have a tractive effort of some 62,000lb. The engin
    The Railway Magazine2 min de lecture
    Colne Valley Viaduct crosses the Grand Union Canal
    DECK construction work for HS2’s 2.1-mile long Colne Valley Viaduct has just over half-a-mile to go after it reached the point where the structure crosses the Grand Union Canal at the end of March. By the time of it bridging the waterway near Denham
    The Railway Magazine5 min de lecture
    Rail Trespassers Beware
    CONCERNED at the increasing level of trespass on the main line when steam specials are running, Vintage Trains (VT) has said it is considering plans to fit a GoPro camera to the front of a steam locomotive. The first expected use of the technology is
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    Partners ‘Proud’ Of Successful Nuclear Material Movements By Rail
    NUCLEAR Transport Solutions (NTS), the parent company of Direct Rail Services, has announced that a project involving the movement of 1068 drums of low level radioactive waste from Winfrith in Dorset to Cumbria for final disposal, was concluded signi
    The Railway Magazine2 min de lecture
    Stock Update
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    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    Reviews
    By Keith Barrow THERE is something so appealing about the railways west of Plymouth, with the main line cutting through some stunning scenery, and four of the five branch lines heading off to coastal towns and resorts. Even though the manual signalli
    The Railway Magazine1 min de lecture
    Poetry In Motion:
    The Severn Valley Railway’s Stanier Mogul has been repainted into LMS black livery with original number No. 13268, a combination the SVR says has not been carried in more than 80 years. Looking superb, the locomotive took part in the SVR’s Spring Ste
    The Railway Magazine2 min de lecture
    Milk Train Reborn
    AN easily forgotten aspect of railway goods operations of the past has helped the East Somerset Railway (ESR) to celebrate its half-century as a heritage line. While milk trains are today a memory on the national network, they were once a familiar si
    The Railway Magazine5 min de lecture
    ‘Chargers’ Are Taking Over
    AMERICAN national passenger rail company Amtrak has now replaced most of its 1990s vintage General Electric (GE) built‘Genesis’P42 diesel locos used for the major long-distance trains across the USA with new Siemens-built type ALC-42‘Charger’locos. T
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    More Class 153s Readied For Heart Of Wales Line
    THE first of six Transport for Wales Class 153 single-car diesel units converted for ‘Active Travel’use is expected to be released for testing from Chrysalis Rail’s Landore depot in Swansea within weeks, and could enter service during July. To be giv
    The Railway Magazine3 min de lecture
    Supertram Investment Case Submitted To The Government
    SOUTH Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) has submitted a business case to the Government as it seeks funding for modernisation of the Supertram system. SYMCA plans the refurbishment of all of the existing trams by 2027 and the introduction
    The Railway Magazine6 min de lecture
    Successful Test Runs For DEPG’s Preservation Pioneer ‘Hymek’
    THE Diesel and Electric Preservation Group’s‘Hymek’No. D7017 is preparing for a return to traffic after a successful series of loaded test runs on April 9-11 at the West Somerset Railway. The diesel-hydraulic has been out of action since failing at t

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