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ELECTRIC ‘FOOTEX’

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Sam Hewitt

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13th April 2017

London football fans had some Class 90 haulage along the West Coast Main Line on February 11, when Tottenham Hotspur supporters chartered a train from Euston to Liverpool South Parkway for their team’s visit to play Liverpool at Anfield. No. 90037 is pictured working the 1Z90/11.52 ex-Euston through Runcorn, which had classmate No. 90035 at…
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UK Railtours targets Goole Docks

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Sam Hewitt

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7th April 2017

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. Its offering on November 14 – the ‘Galloping Goolie’ – fell into the latter category, travelling over some bits of…
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New locomotives delivered to UK

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Sam Hewitt

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6th April 2017

Both Colas Rail and Direct Rail Services have new machinery to commission as a Class 70 and five Class 88s arrive. SIX newly-built locomotives touched down on UK rails within three days of each other as February turned to March, bringing new motive power for both Colas Rail and Direct Rail Services. It was Colas…
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Bluebell 4-VEP to go main line

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Sam Hewitt

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6th April 2017

AN appeal to raise £25,000 towards returning the Bluebell Railway’s 4-VEP No. 3417 to the main line has been launched by the unit’s custodians, the Southern Electric Traction Group. The group, which is largely comprised of railway staff based at Wimbledon and elsewhere in the former NSE region, has been looking after the unit for…
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‘Western’ appeal is successful

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Sam Hewitt

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6th April 2017

£50,000 has been raised by the DTG to fund a new power unit to get No. D1015 back on the main line. THE Diesel Traction Group has closed its appeal to raise £50,000 to return No. D1015 Western Champion to twin power unit operation after sufficient funds were raised in less than a month. The…
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REVIEWS: Monorails of the Early 20th Century

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2017

By Adrian S Garner Published by Lightmoor Press www.lightmoor.co.uk 208 pages, black & white, 283 x 220mm, hardback. £25.00 THIS amazing piece of work is a follow-up to the author’s 2011 book that covered monorails in the 1800s, moving on to detail those built from 1900 to the end of the Second World War –…
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DRS ‘68s’ BREAK NEW GROUND

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2017

CLASS 68s Nos. 68023 Achilles and 68025 Superb ‘top and tailed’ UK Railtours’ ‘Rose of the Shire’ charter on February 10, which ran from London Victoria to Claydon Junction (Buckinghamshire) formed of the Northern Belle set. This is believed to be the first railtour to run from Oxford to Aylesbury via Claydon since the line was…
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Inside the first ‘D’ Stock RAT

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2017

Christopher Westcott gets a first look at the future of London Underground’s Rail Adhesion Trains. THE first of London Underground’s ‘D’ Stock trains were withdrawn from the District Line in mid-January 2015 as replacement ‘S7’ Stock trains arrived from Bombardier in Derby. While the majority of ‘D’ Stock cars were snapped up by Vivarail for…
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Battersea bound!

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2017

Tunnelling is set to begin on London Underground’s Northern Line extension from Kennington to Battersea, as the two boring machines have been lowered into place at the former power station site. TUNNEL boring machines Helen and Amy have been lowered into place at Battersea ready to start construction of the two-mile (3.2km) twin-tunnel route to…
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Highland observations

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Sam Hewitt

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30th March 2017

The 1980s and early 1990s saw a renaissance in the use of observation saloons on the Kyle of Lochalsh route, this culminating in the conversion of a Class 101 DMU car. To mark the release of Bachmann’s model of this vehicle, Simon Bendall profiles the last 15 years of loco-hauled passenger trains on the scenic…
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