Sam Hewitt
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June 2018
FEATURES 12 FYLDE ELECTRIFICATION Blackpool North reopens after five-month electrification and upgrade programme. 13 WHEN SATURDAY CAME… The glory days of holiday trains to Blackpool. 20 ‘HOOVERS’ CONQUER CUMBRIA Our April tour that took two ‘50s’ to Carlisle. 24 ‘50s’ at WORKINGTON The proof that they worked there in BR days. 27 A MOMENT IN…
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New name for Belfast Central
NIR’s largest station to be renamed after 42 years. BELFAST Central station is to be renamed Lanyon Place, which will coincide with a project to improve the main entrance and internal facilities of the through station. Northern Ireland Railways stated that the change has been made to “provide more clarity on where the station is…
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‘Peak’ could go main line
Crewe-based Locomotive Services has added a Class 45 to its growing loco fleet. FURTHER expansion of the Locomotive Services fleet took place in early February with the acquisition of ‘Peak’ No. 45118 The Royal Artilleryman – which has been located at Loram (formerly RVEL) at Derby since 2009 – by its Locomotive Diesels business. The…
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Acton Works expansion
Construction has begun on a new four-road Train Modification Unit for upgrading 1992 Stock. WORK has begun to build a new £23.3 million workshop at London Underground’s Acton Works, in West London. The 550sq m facility will initially host all 85 of the Central Line’s 1992 Tube stock fleet during their upgrade and refurbishment work,…
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HERITAGE AWARD FOR BURY ‘105’
The East Lancashire Railway’s Bury Unit Team picked up the Heritage Railway Association/Rail Express Modern Traction Award at a ceremony held in Birmingham on February 10. The award recognised the superb 20-year restoration of ‘Cravens’ Class 105 DMU Nos. 51485 and 56121, which has been completely rebuilt from a shell and is now the only…
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BI-MODE TRIES OUT INVERNESS DEPOT
GWR-liveried IET No. 800303 reached Inverness on February 28 to become the first of its type to enter the depot there, which has had a £5 million upgrade to handle the new trains. The bi-mode set – one of the batch originally specified to be a Class 801 electric-only version but changed owing to Great…
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The D200 story
Sixty years ago, the first Class 40 – or English Electric Type 4 as it was then known – was released from Vulcan Foundry. David Russell tells the story of ‘Green Goddess’ No. D200, which has now notched up 30 years in preservation as part of the National Collection. THE British Railways Modernisation Plan of…
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Prepare for change!
WHAT a year 2018 is already shaping up to be. I’m not talking about the ‘Beast from the East’, although the railway companies and all their staff have to be commended for the way they dealt with the extreme weather at the end of February to keep lines open and run as many services as…
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April 2018
FEATURES 14 THE D200 STORY Charting 60 years of the pioneer Class 40. 18 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN A round-up of the other preserved ‘40s’. 19 CLASS 40 POSTER POSER Can you solve this 1970s riddle? 22 ON SHED PART 3 Looking at purpose-built facilities in the Midlands, North England and Scotland. 28 0-60: CLASS 800…
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RIDE WITH RAIL EXPRESS!
Join us for a double-headed Class 50 tour over the Settle & Carlisle and Cumbrian Coast Lines. CONTINUING the celebrations to mark 50 years of the Class 50s, Rail Express has teamed up with Pathfinder Tours, Riviera Trains, GB Railfreight and the Class 50 Alliance to run a charter from Birmingham to Carlisle on April…
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