August 2016

Testing begins on first Class 707s for SWT

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

TRAIN builder Siemens has begun testing the first Class 707 EMUs at the test track in Wildenrath, Germany. Thirty five-car […]
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Northern announces dates for rundown of ‘Pacer’ fleet

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

By David Russell Class 142 and 144 units due to be handed back from September 2018. The planned hand-back dates […]
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GWR receives first Class 387s

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

STAFF training has begun on Great Western Railway’s Class 387 EMUs after the first two units arrived on July 28. […]
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NR plans for growth in Scotland

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

Major changes are needed to accommodate longer and more frequent services – including extra platforms, tracks and a new tunnel […]
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British Rail Diesels

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

By Mick Hymans Subtitled ‘The lives of the early diesels in photographs’, this book sets out to catalogue every British […]
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HS2 NEEDS INTERMEDIATE STATIONS

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

I READ with interest the article on why the former Great Central Route between Marylebone and Nottingham could not realistically […]
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Derby Trainman: Like a limestone cowboy

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

One of the toughest, but most tedious, jobs for a 1990s Derby trainman was the stone train to Washwood Heath, […]
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Working with ‘Grids’

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

Steve Morris recounts his time on British Rail’s Western Region in the 1980s, trying to get the newly introduced Class […]
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A new generation of engineers

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

Young volunteers are becoming involved in railway preservation, and the recent ‘Deltic’ tour to Tweedbank saw an 18-year-old among the […]
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New stock boom

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

THERE is a mention on our Time Traveller page this month of the infamous three-year hiatus in the mid-1990s when […]
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