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  • New Basford Hall TMD unveiled with remembrance naming

    New Basford Hall TMD unveiled with remembrance naming

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Freightliner’s new depot in Crewe played host to the first of the Project Railway Honour namings on Armistice Day. The historic links between the railways and the military were strengthened further on November 11 when Freightliner named one of its Class 66s in honour of the 20,000 railwaymen that lost their lives in the First World…

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  • Excess speed the cause of Croydon fatal tram crash

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    Sam Hewitt

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    RAIB’s initial report finds the Croydon tram was being driven at more than three times the line speed limit when it derailed and rolled over on a tight curve. The Rail Accident Investigation Board has issued its interim report into the fatal tram accident in Croydon. The accident occurred near to Sandilands Junction just after 06.00…

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  • New open access plan for Waterloo to Southampton

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Office of Rail & Road is considering an application to run open access services on the South Western Main Line using the stored Class 442 EMUs. Open Access operator Alliance Rail Holdings, the Arriva/Deutsche Bahn subsidiary that is set to operate Great North Western Railway services on the West Coast Main Line from May…

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  • GW electrification postponed to 2024

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Rising costs and project delays mean that Great Western electrification now offers a lower benefit-cost ratio than that for the Midland Main Line. Network Rail has run out of money to complete the Great Western electrification project with the estimated cost rising to £5.6 billion, and has admitted that wiring will not now reach central…

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  • CHILTERN REACHES OXFORD

    CHILTERN REACHES OXFORD

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Chiltern Railways began driver training into Oxford ahead of extending its Marylebone services from Oxford Parkway to the city’s main station from December 12. Its first train over the upgraded line was at 06.58 on November 21 for the first of 126 drivers needing to be passed out on the route. The Oxford to Marylebone…

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  • Chancellor promises more funding for key rail infrastructure projects

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Government guarantees new funding for the digital railway, East-West works and regional enhancements. Network Rail has been awarded £450 million of additional funding for a range of infrastructure schemes in the Government’s Autumn Statement, which was presented to Parliament on November 23. One project to gain from this is the ‘digital railway’ enhanced cab signalling…

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  • Forgotten prototype

    Forgotten prototype

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I HAVE just completed Simon Bendall’s excellent article on the HST prototype set (December issue, REM). It brought to mind a visit (perhaps with Dalesrail?) to Crewe Works on July 23, 1972 when we came across the second power car No. 41002 in undercoat and apparently under initial testing. With all the recent publicity surrounding…

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  • Dawn of the diesels

    Dawn of the diesels

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Sixty years ago in 1957, and after nearly a decade of dithering by those in charge, the first of the new diesel fleets entered traffic as part of the Modernisation Plan for British Railways. Rail Express looks back to those heady days of hit and miss designs in the rush to start replacing steam. THE…

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  • First of the many

    First of the many

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THIS will be a big year for modern traction, as 2017 is the diamond jubilee of the first main line diesel fleets starting work with British Railways. Yes there had been shunters and prototypes developed by the ‘Big Four’, but it was only after the Second World War that things could really get going –…

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  • c2c takes delivery of its first Class 387/3

    c2c takes delivery of its first Class 387/3

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The fleet of new ‘Electrostar’ units should be in service with the Essex operator before the end of November. THE first of six Class 387/3 units for c2c was delivered to East Ham depot for training on October 21, when No. 387302 was moved across by No. 66953 as the 7X36/21.06 Bletchley-East Ham following completion…

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