By David Russell Class 142 and 144 units due to be handed back from September 2018. The planned hand-back dates for Northern’s fleet of Class 142 and 144 ‘Pacers’ have been revealed. The Class 144
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STAFF training has begun on Great Western Railway’s Class 387 EMUs after the first two units arrived on July 28. Europhoenix Type 3 No. 37800 brought Nos. 387130 and 387131 from Bletchley to North Pole
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Major changes are needed to accommodate longer and more frequent services – including extra platforms, tracks and a new tunnel at Edinburgh Waverley – as the number of passenger journeys continues to rise. Network Rail has
Read moreBy Mick Hymans Subtitled ‘The lives of the early diesels in photographs’, this book sets out to catalogue every British Railways diesel type from Class 15 to Class 55 plus shunters and prototypes resulting from
Read moreI READ with interest the article on why the former Great Central Route between Marylebone and Nottingham could not realistically be used as a low-cost alternative to HS2 (August issue). One of the main criticisms
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One of the toughest, but most tedious, jobs for a 1990s Derby trainman was the stone train to Washwood Heath, as Tim Helme explains. “WHOA!” came the urgent shout, crackling through the walkie-talkie wedged on
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Steve Morris recounts his time on British Rail’s Western Region in the 1980s, trying to get the newly introduced Class 56 fleet up to scratch. THE Class 56 fleet was born out of the need
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Young volunteers are becoming involved in railway preservation, and the recent ‘Deltic’ tour to Tweedbank saw an 18-year-old among the support crew. David Russell reports. THERE are many people who believe the average age of
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THERE is a mention on our Time Traveller page this month of the infamous three-year hiatus in the mid-1990s when no new trains were ordered while the privatisation of British Rail was being sorted out,
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