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UK RAILTOURS boss John Farrow has had to relinquish using the ‘Northern Belle’ set of carriages for his luxury-end tours. […]

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IT is now 15 years since a Class 58 last ran under its own power in Britain. The date was […]

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WHILE most of British Rail’s first generation DMU fleet was phased out of operation by the mid-1990s, the Class 121 […]

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  THE long-expected exodus of locomotives from Washwood Heath finally occurred during January, ahead of the former Alstom site being […]

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DMU No. 156458 was derailed by a landslide near the eastern end of Loch Eilt on January 22 as it […]

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GB RAILFREIGHT has announced that two of the long-stored Class 92s formerly owned by Eurostar and SNCF are to be […]

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EXPERIMENTS with shunters powered by internal combustion engines date back to the Victorian era, but it was not until the […]

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THE full 24-train-per-hour Thameslink timetable has been postponed until December 2019, despite the necessary infrastructure improvements and fleet of new […]

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THE start of the new eight-year West Midlands franchise, which took over from London Midland on December 10, saw the […]

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Passenger services started using Manchester’s Ordsall Chord on December 10, which provides a direct connection between the city’s two main […]

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