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■ Layout focus: Greenford Broadway ■ Hornby ‘Deltic’ prototype reviewed ■ Cavalex JXA wagons on test ■ Low-cost Hornby Class 800 rated ■ Plus, lots of new model news
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■ DRS selling Class 57/3s ■ SWR to withdraw Class 458/4s ■ Landslip at Cotswold heritage line ■ A step forward for Peak line? ■ Disruption for both WCML & ECML
ArticleBRITAIN’S LEAST USED STATIONS
Several stations are used by less than two passengers per week, as Chris Milner discovers. AT the end of April, there were 2598 stations which are open in the UK and receive a timetabled passenger service. Annually, the O ce of Rail and...
ArticleHEADLINE NEWS
First Lumo Class 222 refurbished, Alstom to pause work at Widnes, China Clay contract for GB Railfreight, SWR to withdraw Class 458/4 units, Class 56s for Ghana? OPEN Access operator Lumo has revealed its first completed Class 222 which will...
ArticlePROTOTYPE NO. 10800
Andy Flowers tells the story of prototype No. 10800 which although unsuccessful, was later part of a BR research project. WHILE much has been written about the LMS ‘Twins’ Nos. 10000 and 10001, and how they paved the way for the replacement of...
ArticleTIME TRAVELLER
A look back at what was happening 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. ■ DRIVER CLEARED OF MANSLAUGHTER AT Birmingham Crown Court on June 11, the driver of the overnight sleeper that derailed at Nuneaton on June 5, 1975, with the loss of six lives,...
ArticleSHUNTERS AND INDUSTRIALS
Class 08e named at Whatley as plans for a Class 13e emerge. WORK is underway on the conversion of a third Class 08 into a battery locomotive at Positive Traction’s Chesterfield workshops. However, unlike the already completed Nos. 08308...