Anyone wanting to see multiple working in action should head to the northern half of the West Coast Main Line, where pairs of diesel and electric units and locos can be found in everyday use.
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A fiery end
From our 2016 archive A fire 25 years ago marked the end for Vic Berry’s, one of the most prolific private scrapyards to deal with ex-BR diesel locos, units and stock. Ashley Butlin tells the story
Read moreThe ‘RAT’ that refused to die
FROM OUR ARCHIVES March 30 (2016) marks the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of celebrity Class 25 Tamworth Castle, which was resurrected long after the fleet had been withdrawn, and against the odds returned to
Read moreTrans-Pennine loco-hauled remembered
FROM THE ARCHIVES It is 25 years since loco-hauled services between Liverpool and Newcastle went over to Class 158 operation. David Russell looks back at the last few years of diesel haulage on the trans-Pennine
Read more0 to 60: Just how nimble are today’s locos and units, and what’s the quickest off the mark?
Always willing to go the extra mile, Neville Hill grits his teeth to endure a long distance ‘Pacer’ trip with Northern. THE days of mill owners commuting from the Lancashire coast to their empires in
Read moreA trip down memory lane
Today’s few remaining Class 08/09 shunters are confined to yards and depots, but the once thousand-strong fleet was also entrusted to some local trip workings until the demise of wagonload freight in the 1990s. David
Read moreRemembering ‘D’ stock
The final regular workings of London Underground ‘D’ Stock should take place as this issue comes out. Christopher Westcott looks back over their career with LU. THE story of London Underground’s ‘D’ Stock begins in
Read moreWhen Saturday came…Skegness
It wasn’t just football fans that looked forward to weekends – summer Saturdays used to bring rail enthusiasts out in force for the mouth-watering prospect of freight locos hauling passenger trains to holiday destinations across
Read more50 years of West Coast electrics
FROM OUR ARCHIVES Following electrification of the southern half of the West Coast Main Line in the 1960s, subsequent decades saw completion through to Glasgow, sectorisation, privatisation, franchise controversy and a full route upgrade. AFTER
Read moreUK Railtours targets Goole Docks
FROM OUR ARCHIVES Forgotten Tracks tour visits rare East Yorkshire lines THE Forgotten Tracks series of charter trains, arranged by UK Railtours, visits some lines relatively frequently while other trips are more ‘one off’ events.
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