Rail Express - 2024-04-16

• Northern leaders call for Avanti West Coast contract cancellati­on
• Production lines stop at Litchurch Lane
• First Class 47 reaches Oban on passenger train
• ‘Tag a tank’ scheme launched by C50A and Fifty Fund
• West Coast Railways suspends ‘Jacobite’ as CDL row rumbles on
• Great Central Railway shed relocation
• £60 million refurbishm­ent plan for EMR regional fleet
• £45.4 billion improvemen­t plan published by Network Rail
• Open access plans progress
• MPs write to rail minister in support of West Coast Railways
• Railway Heritage Designatio­n Advisory Board launches UK-wide consultati­on
• NEWS ROUND-UP
• PRESERVATI­ON
• INDUSTRIAL­S
• Northern Belle set reformed
• ACKNOWLEDG­EMENTS
• BRE-Leyland R3 Railbus to return to mainland UK
• DEVELOPMEN­TS
• Belfast terminal to close but Grand Central won’t be ready to replace it
• IARNRÓD ÉIREANN/IRISH RAIL
• ‘BOOSTER’ LOCOMOTIVE IN DETAIL
• Railways of Cornwall – A decade of change

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