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BI-MODE TRIES OUT INVERNESS DEPOT

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Sam Hewitt

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28th March 2018

GWR-liveried IET No. 800303 reached Inverness on February 28 to become the first of its type to enter the depot there, which has had a £5 million upgrade to handle the new trains. The bi-mode set – one of the batch originally specified to be a Class 801 electric-only version but changed owing to Great…
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The D200 story

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Sam Hewitt

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28th March 2018

Sixty years ago, the first Class 40 – or English Electric Type 4 as it was then known – was released from Vulcan Foundry. David Russell tells the story of ‘Green Goddess’ No. D200, which has now notched up 30 years in preservation as part of the National Collection. THE British Railways Modernisation Plan of…
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Prepare for change!

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Sam Hewitt

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28th March 2018

WHAT a year 2018 is already shaping up to be. I’m not talking about the ‘Beast from the East’, although the railway companies and all their staff have to be commended for the way they dealt with the extreme weather at the end of February to keep lines open and run as many services as…
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April 2018

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Sam Hewitt

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28th March 2018

FEATURES 14 THE D200 STORY Charting 60 years of the pioneer Class 40. 18 THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN A round-up of the other preserved ‘40s’. 19 CLASS 40 POSTER POSER Can you solve this 1970s riddle? 22 ON SHED PART 3 Looking at purpose-built facilities in the Midlands, North England and Scotland. 28 0-60: CLASS 800…
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Sir William McAlpine

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Web Editor

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8th March 2018

THE railway movement is mourning the death of Sir William McAlpine who died on March 4 after a short illness, at the age of 82. Director of the McAlpine construction firm, Sir William (known to most as Bill) was a great supporter of the railways, particularly the preservation movement. He became the saviour of A3…
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Finding the sweet spot

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Sarah Wilkinson

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16th February 2018

EVEN the most die-hard supporter of a fully nationalised railway must secretly realise there’s very little prospect now of us ever going back to a British Rail-style era. More than 20 years on from privatisation, the franchising structure has brought many benefits – such as record numbers of passengers, service frequencies to the point of…
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UK range launched by Accurascale

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Sarah Wilkinson

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16th February 2018

FEBRUARY 1 saw Accurascale become the latest manufacturer to enter the UK-outline ready-to-run market, with the unveiling of its first ‘OO’ gauge model. Run by the same four modellers behind Irish Railway Models, Accurascale promises to bring the same very high standards, both in terms of models and custom service, to this side of the…
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MORE USES FOR CARGOWAGGONS

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Sarah Wilkinson

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16th February 2018

ALTHOUGH steel and other metals were the main traffics to use Cargowaggon flat wagons (February issue), mention was also made of their use for conveying non-metals related commodities, such as sawn timber (e.g. scaffolding boards), which I believe was mainly imported from Luxembourg and possibly elsewhere. One of the UK destinations mentioned for sawn timber…
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‘EARLY ‘08’ SURVIVOR’

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Sarah Wilkinson

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16th February 2018

THANKS for printing the picture of LMS diesel shunter No. 7069, which is an early precursor of the Class 08 fleet (Express Mailbag, February issue), as I have worked on the loco and can add some more details. No. 7069 remained in use up to 1972 when it was withdrawn and then remained in a…
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‘Baby Warship’ from Little Loco

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Sarah Wilkinson

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16th February 2018

FOLLOWING on from its highly successful Class 15, the Little Loco Company has announced it will tackle the North British Class 22 diesel hydraulics as its next BR ready-to-run model in ‘O’ gauge. With the Type 2s being a minefield of detail variations, the initial releases will portray the production versions from No. D6306 onwards,…
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