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  • Colas Rail bolsters its loco fleet

    Colas Rail bolsters its loco fleet

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Further locomotives were returned to the main line during October, including the reinstatement of another Class 37. LATE October proved to be productive for Colas Rail as more motive power resources became available. The highlight was undoubtedly the reappearance of No. 37099 back on the national network for the first time in over 19 years,…

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  • NYMR buys Class 24 from TJ Thomsons

    NYMR buys Class 24 from TJ Thomsons

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The veteran Type 2 has been purchased from the scrapman 40 years after being loaned to the railway. FOLLOWING an unexpected offer from the loco’s owner, TJ Thomson & Son Ltd, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has purchased Class 24 No. D5032 (24032) Helen Turner from the firm. The Stockton-based scrap dealer had originally acquired…

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  • ROG takes ‘Tractors’ on rare outing

    ROG takes ‘Tractors’ on rare outing

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    Sam Hewitt

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    EUROPHOENIX-liveried Type 3 duo Nos. 37800 and 37884 took centre stage on October 23, when they worked the Rail Operations Group’s round-robin ‘Thrash Bash’ tour from Derby to Worcester Shrub Hill. It was an opportunity for the grey pair to take a break from their usual fodder of moving EMUs and other stock around the country.…

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  • LT Museum sends last surviving prototype 1986 Stock to Coventry

    LT Museum sends last surviving prototype 1986 Stock to Coventry

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE London Transport Museum has decided to permanently relocate its unique 1986 Stock vehicle to the Electric Railway Museum, situated a couple of miles outside Coventry. Car No. 16 is unique in that it is the only surviving example of the 16 prototype vehicles constructed during the mid-1980s as the basis for a new fleet…

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  • Welsh Government pushes the case for light rail

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Bidders for the next Wales and Borders franchise are being asked to consider alternatives to electrifying the existing Cardiff Valley routes. BIDDERS for the next Wales and Borders franchise will be expected to look at plans for the Cardiff Metro project and evaluate whether light rail operations will provide a better value for money solution…

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  • Downturns leads DB Cargo to cut jobs

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The decline in coal and steel traffic has led to redundancies at Britiain’s biggest rail freight operator DB Cargo. THE collapse in demand for carrying coal to electricity generating power stations, combined with the weak output from steel producers, has resulted in a 30% cutback in DB Cargo’s UK workforce of 2943 people as the…

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  • Eurostar cuts services and fleet as revenue falls

    Eurostar cuts services and fleet as revenue falls

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE number of international services operated by Eurostar is to be reduced by 8%, with a subsequent reduction of 80 jobs. As a result, a number of the Class 373 ‘Three Capitals’ trainsets built by Alstom and introduced in 1992 are to be scrapped. The measures are a response to falling passenger numbers and income…

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  • Tebay tankers revisited

    Tebay tankers revisited

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I AM just reading the October issue of Rail Express and I see on page 29 (Express Mailbag) there is a picture of some redundant bogie tanks being used as fuel storage at a motorway services. This is actually taken at the J38 Tebay Truckstop, not the nearby Westmorland motorway services, which is about a…

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  • The art of railway photography

    The art of railway photography

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FOLLOWING the demise of steam in 1968, railway photography entered something of a ‘dark age’ when many star names had put away their cameras, and publications often could not see beyond a standard front three-quarter view of an approaching train. In an attempt to rectify this, the Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle was set up in…

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  • What future for the last ‘306’?

    What future for the last ‘306’?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Christopher Westcott reports on the sole surviving Class 306 unit No. 306017, which is owned by the National Railway Museum but currently on loan to the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel & Wakes Colne in Essex. A VISIT to the East Anglian Railway Museum in early August reacquainted me with preserved EMU No. 306017,…

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