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■ HS2 completion slips to 2036-2039 ■ New platforms open at Darlington ■ Old Tyne & Wear Metro trains bow out ■ Mid-Cornwall Metro begins operation ■ ‘Outlander’ branding for Scottish sleeping cars
■ Hornby to release GBR-liveried IET ■ CDA China Clay wagons reviewed ■ CIE cement ‘bubbles’ assessed ■ Glasgow Queen Street in ‘O’ gauge ■ And all the latest model news
HS2 opening date slips back again, Great British Railways branded trains revealed, Avanti to reduce services, Lumo’s West Coast operations begin, £856million contract signed for HS2 maintenance depot, Cambridge South to be first GBRbranded...
Running from the industrial sprawl of Teesside to the popular resort of Whitby, the Esk Valley line, at 35 miles long, is one England’s longest branch lines, as Chris Milner discovers. IF you ever take a ride over the Esk Valley, what will...
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A class-by-class round-up of this month’s interesting and unusual workings. CLASS 20 On May 6 Nos. 20142 Sir John Betjeman and 20189 paid a rare visit to Eastbourne before heading to Ashford On- Track Plant Depot and thence to Kidderminster
Alstom Widnes to cut back its shunter fleet?
Successful tests for ‘Deltic’ No. D9015 Tulyar, out of tra c since 1997. HAVING undergone final preparatory work following its movement by road from Barrow Hill in April, the Deltic Preservation Society’s No. D9015 Tulyar made its...
ESH Rail acquires all but one DB Cargo Class 60s. ESH Rail Services is a new name to the rail freight industry, but the team behind the brand has been slowly building its portfolio of stored motive power and rolling stock over the last few years.
A round-up of diesel gala and other heritage line workngs.