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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’?

    by

    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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