The Railway Magazine - 2020-01-29

• It’s about time there was a major rethink on infrastruc­ture and climate change...
• EMCL power supply issues add to TransPenni­ne’s troubles
• Northern and SWR in crisis – two others fight to survive
• 1,500 vehicles fail to meet revised accessibil­ity rules
• 250 job losses at Newton Aycliffe Hitachi factory
• Leaked Oakervee report backs HS2 but admits costs could rise further
• Government spending watchdog: “impossible to estimate” final HS2 costs
• First Stadler Class 777 arrives on Merseyside
• Stadler to build new Tyne & Wear Metro trains
• Island Line upgrade has £1m funding gap
• ‘East Lincolnshi­re 50’ event launched
• £500million in pipeline to reverse Beeching cuts
• TfN board considers Manchester infrastruc­ture and other challenges
• Railways in Parliament
• VIRGIN DEMISE
• TABLE 1:LONDON EUSTONTO CREWE
• TABLE 2:KING’S CROSSTOYOR­K
• ARE YOU REALLY BEING SERVED...?
• PUT THE CUSTOMER FIRST
• CUSTOMER SERVICE IS ABOUT INSTINCT AND COMMON SENSE
• FAILING OUR DISABLED PASSENGERS
• TO CATCH THE TRAIN, FIRST CATCH THE WIND!
• TANFIELD THE WORLD’S OLDEST RAILWAY
• ABOUT JACK...
• Harsh on the mighty Bouch?
• Avanti trip disappoint­ments
• FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
• The RCTS: then and now
• New £25,000 appeal to steam Nos. 7802 and 7812 this year
• Swindon & Cricklade Railway secures second Great Western 0-6-2T
• Taff Vale tank for Bluebell Railway’s April Branch Line Weekend
• Weardale and Dartmoor lines offered for sale
• New frames required to return ‘J21’ to steam
• Severn Valley fleet reliabilit­y reaches all-time high
• Thornbury Castle sold for Great Central Railway restoratio­n
• 4555 returning to Buckfastle­igh after almost half a century
• Row over ‘arrogant’ National Railway Museum plan to relocate Locomotion to Locomotion
• Local Barclay to be restored by Fife Heritage Railway
• Victor and Vulcan to reunite on Tyneside in May
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• Woolwich Arsenal locos join Statfold collection
• Chevallier expected to leave WLLR
• Ffestiniog explores route for new branch to Llechwedd
• Heaton Park Tramway celebrates record year despite cable theft
• Ex-Blackpool car tops Beamish’s tramway mileage chart for 2019
• Burnham demands Metrolink is extended to Stockport
• Wales finally joins the electric age as Cardiff Central goes live
• Thousands support Christmas shutdown engineerin­g effort
• East Midlands Gateway rail terminal open
• Europe timetable change: New lines open and new operators take over
• Major investment to expand passenger services in Virginia
• First batch of withdrawn ‘Pacers’ begin new lives
• Winter activity at Bo’ness
• Deltic society and Siemens to work in partnershi­p
• Rail Riders return: time to get on board!
• Shake-up at Vintage Trains as chairman and manager move on
• See the Balkans the ‘slow’ way with Continenta­l Classic Express
• UK Railtours to run last tour to Aberthaw
• No ‘Torbay Expresses’ this year as operator shelves Devon summer specials
• ‘Merchant Navy’ booked for RTC’s ‘End of Southern Steam’ commemorat­ion
• First new trains for 61 years as Stadler Class 745/0s start on Norwich to London route
• ‘Pacers’ preserved and more scrapped
• WAGON REPORT

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