The Railway Magazine - 2021-08-02

• Something old, something new…
• Headline News
• Steam & Heritage
• Crossword & Where Is It?
• From The RM Archives
• Readers’ Platform
• Industrial Steam
• Traction & Stock
• Classic Traction
• Narrow Gauge
• World News
• Irish News
• Miniature
• Railtours
• When was the real end of BR steam?
• Life & times of the Horncastle Railway
• Practice & Performanc­e
• The Llanelli and Mynydd Mawr Railway
• The freight experience
• ‘X’ marks the spot
• Bright future for post-Covid rail freight growth
• European lines wrecked by heavy rains and flooding
• Ovid rail freight growth
• OTHER FOAK FUNDING WINNERS
• Former Ryde Pier Drewry Railcar rebuild completed
• New role for NY Subway car
• Troon station fire
• Nameplate auction
• Crossrail progress
• Leeds HS2 doubt
• ‘It’s the perfect time to reshape the industry’
• Infill needs permission
• Engine donated to Class 210 project
• Digital centre opens
• ‘158s’ suffer hot boxes
• £117m ‘Pendolino’ upgrade programme begins
• Your chance to own a unique piece of railway history!
• Deal reached to reactivate St Blazey turntable
• Cecilia joins Florence on Chiltern tunnelling
• First excavated spoil train departs Willesden Hub
• Stock storage plan for mothballed MoD site at Eastriggs
• Piling rig fuel trial
• ‘Lightweigh­t’ viaduct
• Tree milestone
• 650th apprentice
• Railways in Parliament
• MOUNTAIN ASH: WHERE BR STEAM REALLY ENDED
• LONDON’S FINAL WORKINGS
• MORE SCRAP METAL THAN THE TITANIC
• Thompson Myths
• RETURN TO CATFORD?
• PUTTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (RM JUN-JUL)
• Bridge Infills
• A recreation proposal too far
• Female Signallers
• Why Not A Euston to New Street Record?
• The RCTS: then and now
• Shildon move for Kirtley locomotive
• SIDELINES
• PACIFIC POWER:
• WSR trains return to Dunster
• Heritage Railway Safety Standards Board scoped
• Gala line-ups to whet your appetite
• 92 Squadron on home straight!
• Raveningha­m Hall bows out – next stop, Margate
• SIDELINES
• Facelift for Froghall station
• Go-ahead for LYR ‘Pug’ overhaul to progress
• ‘Terrier’ locomotive Poplar is now in a class of its own!
• Duke of Gloucester’s driving wheel milestone reached
• Cracks found on Patriot’s six driving wheels
• ‘N7’ overhaul takes a leap forward at EARM
• ‘Clan’ project progresses
• SIDELINES
• Llangollen Railway rides again as railcars prove popular
• Austin No. 1 steals show at Midsomer Norton gala
• First heritage era runs for ‘Marston No. 3’
• Albert returns at Marsh Mills
• …while Helston gains a Peckett
• ‘Austerity’ No. 22 to Lincs Wolds line…
• Seaforth en route from Australia to join Statfold collection
• Full line trains reintroduc­ed on the Ff&WHR
• SINGLE LINES
• 150 years of ‘Quarry Hunslet’ celebrated at Statfold
• Boiler work agreed for WHR ‘Kalahari’
• SINGLE LINES
• SGLR unlikely to reopen in 2021 following rock fall
• All set for steam haulage on new Astley Green line
• Wythall Miniature Railway’s first SG event
• Funds needed for works car restoratio­n
• Glasgow tram renovation resumes at Sumerlee
• Kingsway tours launched
• Shipley Glen renews plea for donations
• Shropshire base to display more Rail Trolley Trust fleet
• Caledonian Railway acquires Dartmoor ‘Thumpers’
• West Somerset ‘Teddy Bear’ helps K&ESR
• WSR diesel operating dates are revised
• Darlington’s last-built ‘Tractor’ is all set to join North Road museum collection
• £10,000 appeal launched to complete vital bodywork repairs on ‘Whistler’ No. 40145
• Open day is a success for Llanelli
• South Devon ‘Crompton’ to visit Spa Valley Railway gala
• Main line hopes for new Class 315 EMU preservati­on project
• Branch Line Society special raises £50,000 for hospice
• More seats on Steam Dreams special trains
• ROG to operate Barrow Hill real ale festival shuttles
• Ticket prices are:
• First ever use of plastic sleepers by Network Rail
• Cambrian river bridge is lifted out of flood zone
• Free wi-fi for Liverpool Street station users
• Trespassin­g increase prompts warning
• Kidbrooke station officially opens
• Proposal for waiting shelters at Salhouse
• Innovative footbridge design unveiled
• £100m scheme could reconnect the East and West Midlands by 2030
• New ticket hall opens as Moorgate goes step-free
• Major grant supports Hebden Bridge signal box preservati­on
• Flagging down trains at request stops to cease in Scotland
• Milestone reached as Ashington line transforma­tion gets underway
• £26m transforma­tion planned for Sunderland
• Kenilworth booking office to close in September due to lack of footfall
• Victorian canopies repaired
• Werrington Junction project track gets tamped
• £2.6m restoratio­n at Balham completed
• £7.5m Swansea station investment
• Arun Valley line improvemen­ts get extra £5m
• WMR pays tribute to station volunteers
• Tinsley gets daily intermodal
• Swift gets ready for action
• DB Cargo seeks digital solutions for its depots
• Midlands to Solent corridor
• Colas Class 37 named in tribute to ‘Auntie Barbara’
• Heroes recognised
• GTR to GWR
• Name for second GBRf Class 69
• EMR begins Class 170 emissions trial
• Class 66 dual fuel project secures funding
• Daytime testing for new Merseyrail Class 777 fleet
• Scotrail Class 43 naming first remembers campaigner
• CLASS 197 TESTING IN NORTH WALES:
• Eversholt agrees hydrogen power partnershi­p
• WAGON REPORT
• Pendolino progress
• ‘Pacer’ returns to Huddersfie­ld
• Railriders naming
• London’s Asset Inspection Train cars head to scrapyard
• Metro interior finalised
• Timetable and parking boosts for Metrolink
• Authority granted for Luton DART operation
• Northern Line extension testing
• Accommodat­ion bogies built
• Tracks progress to Blackpool North
• Operations Track Record
• Stradbally aims for a reopening in 2022
• Explosive training on track
• Early Chinese railways focus of Belgian exhibition
• Contracts for new Alpine base tunnel
• South African steam resumes post-Covid
• Siemens gains order for large fleet from Amtrak
• DB’s Škoda-built passenger fleet finally enters traffic
• Former DLR trains are set to be replaced in Germany
• Electric trains for Tanzania
• Tours and tribulatio­ns: 30 years of charity charter trains
• CORNWALL TRANSITION FROM STEAM
• The Engineers and Contractor­s
• Gresley’s B17s
• Where is it?

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