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  • ScotRail gets first mini-HST as IEPs reach Waverley

    ScotRail gets first mini-HST as IEPs reach Waverley

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    THE first HST set to be taken off lease for transfer to ScotRail departed Plymouth Laira for Bristol St Philip’s Marsh on August 31, power cars Nos. 43021 and 43132 having lost their nameplates and branding. The early hours of September 1 saw the set continue north as the 5E23/01.00 working to Doncaster West Yard,…

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  • Old Oak hosts ‘Legends’ open day

    Old Oak hosts ‘Legends’ open day

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    MORE than 7000 visitors took the opportunity to have a last look round Great Western Railway’s Old Oak Common depot on September 2, which featured no less than 39 locos and units, representing more than a century of development of Western Region traction. The depot is due to close next year to make way for…

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  • Barrow Hill Roundhouse gearing up for spectacular celebrations

    Barrow Hill Roundhouse gearing up for spectacular celebrations

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    Sam Hewitt

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    WORLD famous steam locomotives Flying Scotsman and Tornado (pictured) have arrived at Barrow Hill Roundhouse ahead of this weekend’s celebrations to mark the reopening of the iconic visitor attraction following its £1.2million refurbishment. Sir Peter Luff, chairman to the board of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, will visit Barrow Hill Roundhouse…

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  • Hertford hardship

    Hertford hardship

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    YOU may be aware that Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) is currently consulting on the detail of their revised timetable for the addition of Peterborough and Cambridge services to the Thameslink network next year. Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, will be one of the principal beneficiaries of these changes, with direct links to central London, Farringdon, Gatwick, Brighton…

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  • SVR chases final million as Bridgnorth share offer campaign enters final weeks

    SVR chases final million as Bridgnorth share offer campaign enters final weeks

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    Web Editor

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    The team behind the Severn Valley Railway’s ambitious £2.5 million share offer plan to fund the restoration and development of Bridgnorth Station has this month published a set of questions and answers in a bid to help raise the final million. Developed in response to a wide range of queries received by the railway in…

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  • Cement from Clitheroe

    Cement from Clitheroe

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    THE Ribblesdale Cement Company’s works at Clitheroe, which opened in 1937, is situated at the end of a short branch just north of the station on the Blackburn to Hellifield line – a branch that was then already serving the Horrocksford Lime Company. Outgoing cement was initially dispatched in bags, but in the 1950s, British…

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  • ‘Clay Tigers’ and the Potteries

    ‘Clay Tigers’ and the Potteries

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    IT was great to read David Ratcliffe’s feature in the July issue on PBA ‘Tiger’ wagons, which were used predominantly on clay workings from the West Country to the Potteries. I am very familiar with these distinct wagons and services, as they passed through my home town of Wednesbury using the Dudley line for at…

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  • All DRS Class 88s commissioned

    All DRS Class 88s commissioned

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    Sam Hewitt

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    All ten of the Stadler locos have now worked over Network Rail metals, with just two still to make their revenue debut. JULY brought further developments with the new Class 88s as DRS completed commissioning work at Kingmoor and put further examples into traffic. However, the 4S43 Daventry-Mossend Stobart/Tesco intermodal and corresponding 4M48 southbound return…

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  • ‘Rat’ returns to Waterman

    ‘Rat’ returns to Waterman

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FOLLOWING the expiry of a 10-year loan agreement, Class 25 No. D7659 (25309/25909) has been moved from Washwood Heath to Peak Rail, where it joins other items of rolling stock from Pete Waterman’s collection, including ‘Peak’ No. 46035 Ixion. The Sulzer Type 2 had been placed in the care of a West Coast Railways employee,…

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  • Depot survey – On shed

    Depot survey – On shed

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In the first part of a new comprehensive survey of current modern traction depots, Dave Richardson uncovers survivors from the steam age still in use in the Midlands, Northern England and Scotland. A LARGE number of historic depots have survived into the 21st century – though, in some cases, there may be nothing remaining from…

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