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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Excitement is building as we count down to perhaps the greatest model railway show in Britain
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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
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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
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THE pair of Autocars introduced by the North Eastern Railway in 1903 can rightly be described as ahead of their time and the forerunner of all multiple units to follow. Rather than go with conventional
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