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    Firsts Among Equals
    DID you go to a ‘Whistle-Up’ event near you on New Year’s Day, or maybe see one on television or social media? More than 50 heritage lines and many main line stations took part in this simple yet effective way to herald the start of Railway 200: The
    The Railway Magazine2 min read
    FirstGroup Orders New Trains For Expanded Open Access Services
    HITACHI Rail’s Newton Aycliffe factory in County Durham is to build 14 new trains to be leased from Angel Trains by FirstGroup. Delivery of the five-car sets, which will be equipped with either battery and electric or bi-mode (electric and diesel) tr
    The Railway Magazine2 min read
    Tyne & Wear ‘555s’ enter service
    THE first of the Tyne & Wear Metro’s new fleet of five-car Stadler-built Class 555s was introduced on the morning of December 18 – a year later than had been anticipated when deliveries began. No. 555021’s inaugural journey was from Pelaw in Gateshea
    The Railway Magazine2 min read
    CROSSWORD & NEXT MONTH
    The crossword winner and two runners-up can choose books worth £50 and £25 respectively from the extensive Nostalgia Collection. Visit us at www.mortonsbooks.co.uk Solution to the November issue. Across: 1 Fishplate 6 Great 9 Wigan 10 Missenden 11 Y
    The Railway Magazine26 min read
    The Network’s Notable Moves
    A STALWART of the Rail Head Treatment Train operation out of the GB Railfreight base at Stowmarket has been Class 66 No. 66799 Modern Railways Diamond Jubilee, which had worked consistently since the operation began on October 7 until it was eventual
    The Railway Magazine1 min read
    Stock Update
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    The Railway Magazine3 min read
    Crich Is The New Home For Former Wirral-based Heritage Tram Trio
    THE National Tramway Museum at Crich will be the new home for Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society’s three electric tramcars. The transfer of Birkenhead No. 20, Wallasey No. 78 and Liverpool No. 762 completes the relocation of the entire MTPS tram
    The Railway Magazine4 min read
    Major Step Forward For New-build Lynton & Barnstaple Manning Wardle Locomotives
    THE 762 Club, which is managing the project to construct new-build Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Manning Wardle 2-6-2Ts Yeo and Exe, has contracted Israel Newton & Sons Ltd to build and commission boilers for the two new locomotives. Building the boile
    The Railway Magazine6 min read
    Ex-Caltrain Silicon Valley sets for Peru
    FOLLOWING electrification of the busy commuter line connecting San Francisco and San José and introduction of new Stadler-built double-deck EMUs, most of the previous fleet of diesel loco hauled push-pull trains has been donated at nominal cost to th
    The Railway Magazine1 min read
    Brecon Mountain Railway suffers Storm Bert landslip
    THE Brecon Mountain Railway (BMR) was dealt a pre-Christmas blow by a major landslip during the night of November 23/24, amid Storm Bert. The 1ft 11¾ in-gauge BMR had commenced its Santa season trains on November 23, but had to suspend operating on t
    The Railway Magazine5 min read
    Class 47 Goes On The Market As Stratford 47 Group Calls Time
    THE Stratford Class 47 Ltd preservation group has ceased operations, with two of its three engines already finding a new home at the Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR). The group, which was the owners of Nos. 47367, 47580 County of Essex and 47596 Aldeburgh F
    The Railway Magazine3 min read
    Scope For Growth Of North East Rail Freight By 2050 Highlighted
    A REPORT by trade association the Rail Freight Group says that the North East of England can make a“significant contribution” to the Government’s target of a 75% growth in rail freight by 2050. The RFG says that the market for rail freight in the reg
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    Wagon Report
    AN early version of‘fracking’ took the form of extracting oil from shale rock in Scotland. The industry dated from the 1860s and covered around 80 square miles in the Bathgate area. Shale rock was broken in a retort and oil distilled at 900 degrees F
    The Railway Magazine11 min read
    Brighton Line steam
    WHEN The Railway Magazine chronicled the final scheduled diesel unit working into Brighton in its June 2022 issue, Railway Performance Society (RPS) steam specialist Michael Rowe was prompted to consider the history of passenger train steam haulage o
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    Steel Spans For River Cole Viaducts Lifted Into Place
    EARLY December saw the completion of the two 159m (nearly 522ft) long steel spans on the two parallel viaducts being constructed over the River Cole near Coleshill in Warwickshire, as part of HS2’s Delta Junction. Contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI was
    The Railway Magazine1 min read
    The RAILWAY Magazine
    WOLDS WONDER: The growing Yorkshire Wolds Railway in Fimber, East Riding of Yorkshire, held an evening photo session on October 14, to showcase some of its latest developments. The event featured operational GEC Traction 0-4-0DH No. 5576 and under-re
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    Last Chance To Enter Young Photographer Competition
    THERE is still time to enter the prestigious Young Railway Photographer of the Year competition, which is organised by the National Railway Museum and the Railway Photographic Society with support from Mortons Media, publisher of The RM. The prize po
    The Railway Magazine1 min read
    Shortlist For Biggest-ever HRA Awards
    NEW-build steam locomotive Beachy Head, a major Worth Valley bridge reconstruction, and the flood-hit Downpatrick and County Down Railway are among more than 50 projects, people and achievements that have made the shortlist for the Heritage Railway A
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    Pair Of Euston Tunnelling Machines Prepared For Action
    ASSEMBLY of the pair of tunnel boring machines (TBMs) which will excavate the final 4.5 miles of HS2 route into the eventual terminus at Euston, is underway, ahead of their launch this year. The two machines, Karen (named after pioneering female trai
    The Railway Magazine1 min read
    Departures Replace Adverts At Euston
    Network Rail has reverted to displaying live train information on the big advertisement screen at Euston station as a result of passenger feedback. Smaller screens had been installed at right angles to the main screen early in 2024, with the large sc
    The Railway Magazine2 min read
    From The Archive
    Subscribe and read previous issues at www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/archive A SPECIAL train was run from Moorgate to Clapham Common on December 1, at 11.30am, thus marking the restoration of public train services over this section of the old City and Sou
    The Railway Magazine3 min read
    Overhaul Of 1874-built Bellerophon Progresses
    THE overhaul of Vintage Carriage Trust’s Haydock 0-6-0WT Bellerophon, built in 1874, is now seeing significant progress following a hiatus after the covid pandemic and other factors intervened. Boiler work involves new girder stay bolts and ferrules,
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    Cosmetic Restoration For 1877 Sharpthorn
    VOLUNTEERS at the Bluebell Railway have begun a cosmetic restoration of their historic Manning Wardle Class K 0-6-0ST Sharpthorn, works number 641 of 1877. The locomotive has unfortunately had to be stored outside for many years due to a lack of cove
    The Railway Magazine2 min read
    Northumberland Line Opens To Passengers
    THE Northumberland communities of Ashington and Seaton Delaval regained their passenger service on December 15 – just over 60 years after it was lost as part of cuts recommended in Dr Richard Beeching’s Reshaping of British Railways report. Running n
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    Independent Review To Be Held Into TfL Cyber Attack
    TRANSPORT for London commissioner Andy Lord has revealed that an independent review will be held into last year’s cyber attack on the organisation. TfL board members will have oversight of the process, which could be carried out in phases due to the
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    My Mentor
    THE playing field at my school in Hyde bordered the Manchester to Sheffield 1500V DC line, and was a regular haunt for those of us who preferred ‘train watching’ to the more usual sporting activities on the field. It was there I discovered that Eric
    The Railway Magazine1 min read
    House Has Own Railway
    A house for sale in Dawlish comes complete with its own 50ft cable-hauled railway. Signalling engineer Allan Pyne started building the railway in 2002, which now features a halt at each level and various railway memorabilia along the route. The home
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    Meetings
    Bradford Rly Circ. Bradford Mechanics’Institute Library, 76 Kirkgate BD1 1SZ. 14.00. TBC. LCGB. Friends Meeting House, Butter Hill, Dorking RH4 2LE. TBA. NYMR. St Lawrence’s Church Hall, York YO10 3WP. 12.00. ‘Highland Railway Part 2’: Bill Jagger an
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    The Railway Magazine
    PUBLISHING Production editor: Sarah Wilkinson Designer: Tim Pipes Editorial assistant: Jane Skayman Publisher: Tim Hartley Sales and distribution manager: Carl Smith Head of Marketing: Charlotte Park Commercial director: Nigel Hole Publishing directo
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    Railways in Parliament
    BIRMINGHAM Northfield MP Laurence Turner asked about the fate of capital funding allocated by the last Government to restore disused platforms at Kings Norton station. Mr Lightwood said: “Proposals to bring the island platforms at Kings Norton back i

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