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  • New livery for Freightliner’s second batch of MWAs

    New livery for Freightliner’s second batch of MWAs

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    FREIGHTLINER has taken delivery of its first wagons since US owner Genesee & Wyoming unveiled its new orange, black and yellow corporate image for the erstwhile ‘green team’. Unsurprisingly, although not without some sadness, the classic British Racing green adopted in the late-1990s has been retired and the box wagons are showing off a new…

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  • Lady Diana Spencer to return to the main line

    Lady Diana Spencer to return to the main line

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    THE Crewe Diesel Preservation Group’s No. 47712 Lady Diana Spencer is set to return to the main line during 2019 in a deal between the loco’s owners and Locomotive Services Ltd, which operates from the former Crewe Diesel Depot. The ‘47’ is currently based at the nearby Crewe Heritage Centre. The 18-month agreement between the…

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  • Cumbrian ‘Tractors’ bow out

    Cumbrian ‘Tractors’ bow out

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    FRIDAY, December 28 saw the last loco-hauled workings by Northern on the Cumbrian Coast route following the cascade from ScotRail to Northern of three Class 156 and three Class 158 DMUs. Five different examples of the DRS fleet saw use in December, Nos. 37401/3/9, 37424/5, with No. 37425 in action on all but two of…

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  • Could there be a return to the ‘Big Four’?

    Could there be a return to the ‘Big Four’?

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    THE Williams Review of the rail industry has become mired in intense lobbying from a generation of past experts about the future organisation of the network. Those who never wanted or understood the need for the changes that Privatisation brought are pressing for a return to the days of the 1923 Grouping, when the ‘Big…

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  • Class 50 farewell re-created

    Class 50 farewell re-created

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    WITH their horns blaring, Class 50s Nos. 50007 Sir Edward Elgar and 50050 Fearless drew to a stand at the stops at Paddington on March 26, 1994 bringing to an end the life and times of the ‘Hoovers’ on national metals. The aptly-named ‘50 Terminator’ tour was the last passenger service for the English Electric-built…

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  • No end in sight for DCO disputes

    No end in sight for DCO disputes

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    TRAIN services operated by the Northern franchise continued to be disrupted during December, with the RMT union imposing strike action on successive Saturdays in the run-up to Christmas. By the end of the month, there will have been 19 successive Saturdays when it has only been possible to run 30% of planned services. Support for…

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  • Commuter rail proposals could hit ELR operations

    Commuter rail proposals could hit ELR operations

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    A RAIL feasibility study by the Centre for Economic and Business Research, which has been sent to Barry White the chief executive of Transport for the North, suggests that a significant amount of road traffic could be reduced around Manchester if rail services are reintroduced north of Bury in Rossendale, writes Jonathan Webb. The report…

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  • Check out brand new subscriptions for Railway Magazine Guide to Modelling at Warley

    Check out brand new subscriptions for Railway Magazine Guide to Modelling at Warley

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Excitement is building as we count down to perhaps the greatest model railway show in Britain

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  • DPS ‘Deltic’ Royal Highland Fusilier being considered for main line return

    DPS ‘Deltic’ Royal Highland Fusilier being considered for main line return

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    THE Deltic Preservation Society is looking at options that might see its No. 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier back on the main line. A railtour operator has, in effect, offered to sponsor its return by guaranteeing a set number of charters, which would allow the DPS to procure and fit the necessary equipment. Since No. 55019…

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  • Looking to the future

    Looking to the future

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    IT is five years now since the surviving prototype HST power car No. 41001 arrived at Ruddington, Great Central Railway (Nottingham), its operating base while under the care of the 125 Group. The Group had already pulled off what many saw as a minor miracle – not only getting the National Railway Museum to loan…

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