The Railway Magazine - 2021-11-01

• Sending mixed messages
• Win a free cab or footplate ride
• Rail Adventure’s
• On the cover
• Headline News
• 24 Putting it bluntly
• 32 Breaking BR’s steam ban
• Freightlin­er switches to diesel haulage for electric diagrams
• £7bn transport boost for Regions
• Lumo is go!
• The benefits of open access
• NEW SEES OLD OFF TO PRESERVATI­ON:
• DRS to sell off redundant locomotive­s and carriages
• Controvers­ial Battlefiel­d ‘Peak’ set to be scrapped
• Digital signalling for heritage stock
• Passengers return
• Immingham intermodal
• Brid semaphores go
• November start for Dartmoor line services
• RHEIDOL GARRATT:
• Extending the Borders Line is ‘best idea’ for the region
• Sheffield derailment
• Petition against reopening
• Waterloo to Bristol campaign
• EMR wagon auction
• Debut for innovative Very Light Rail vehicle
• ‘World first’ autonomous transit system for Shildon
• First black driver commemorat­ed
• ‘Standard’ locomotive­s on the move
• Track monitoring trial
• Neville Hill takeover
• Inverness Airport constructi­on begins
• Second contract awarded for tunnel segments
• First mile of tunnelling under Chilterns completed
• Bintou wins Apprentice of the Year award
• Tenders invited for enabling works
• Students present accessibil­ity ideas
• Insights shared
• Railways in Parliament
• IET BRANDED:
• Electrific­ation rate ‘behind schedule’
• Goal for modal shift
• Rail catalyst for jobs
• Tesco backs rail
• Call for flight ban
• Bridge bash woes
• …and a lorry driver’s view
• Railtour jinx
• PUTTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
• Mallard crew memorials
• LT-bound pannier in black
• In search of South Wales steam
• Ex-GWR panniers
• Steam audio recordings
• FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
• The RCTS: then and now
• Furness Railway No. 20 returns to action
• BACK TO BRONTE COUNTRY:
• Models to aid ‘GSN’
• SVR board changes SIDELINES
• Earlstoke milestone
• Avon Valley lamp hut
• Supporters greeted by ‘face’ of ‘4MT’
• Unique GWR carriage relaunched at Severn Valley
• Spring hopes for Rother Valley Railway Transport & Works Act Order decision
• ‘Lizzie’s boiler needs £165K
• Autumn galas delight
• Tyres back on the Duke
• WELCOME BACK:
• GCR Cuneo auction
• East Lancs upgrades
• Hertford to Leyburn
• GWR group closes
• West Somerset passenger trains all set for Minehead return in 2022
• Llangollen Railway secures future
• New Gresley ‘P2’ ‘Mikado’ on course as cylinders and boiler take shape
• Help ‘N2’ steam again
• ON THE WAY BACK:
• Bluebell seeks to return sparkle to ‘jewel in the crown’
• ‘County’ tender takes shape
• Restored PalVan boosts Midsomer Norton fleet
• STEAMING INTO BIRKHILL:
• Iron ore opens to remain in Rutland
• Birkenhead to get new museum
• Derwent Valley Railway anniversar­y
• Hunslet Hastings moves to the Chasewater Railway
• Williton workshop to return Barclay Victory to action
• OVERHAUL PLAN FOR SENTINEL GERVASE
• Telford’s Rocket boosts Dean Forest’s gala
• …as Jessie heads to Cholsey
• Elsecar Avonside moves to Ribble line…
• Ogwen returns to steam – as Durham!
• ‘Workshop X’ marks its fourth loco restoratio­n
• SINGLE LINES
• Delivery of Blyth replica to Suffolk home is imminent
• LYNTON & BARNSTAPLE ENJOYS RECORD AUGUST
• £3.1 million lottery win for Ff&WHR
• Go-head given for overhaul of Sierra Leone No. 85
• Restored 3ft gauge Wickham Trolleys go to Crowle Peatland
• Thornhill to be returned to steam?
• Quadruple-header at Scarboroug­h gala
• Ferry Meadows Railway for sale
• An efficient portable railway for hire
• Work underway on new halt for Seaton Tramway
• Newcastle 114 fit for traffic at Beamish
• A WASH AND BRUSH-UP:
• Wirral volunteers help prepare site for reopening
• Fylde Transport projects progress
• Nene Valley Railway stages three ‘Peaks’ challenge
• CLASS 24 MAKES A RETURN TO THE SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY:
• Locos moved to Nemesis Rail
• Porterbroo­k Leasing gifts 8000th Crewebuilt loco to Crewe Heritage Centre
• Ivatt 10000 diesel project makes further progress
• Two 400 series cars to boost East Kent battery-powered EMU project
• Classic Traction Track Record Highs and lows of visiting ‘Choppers’
• KWVR GALA WELCOMES TWO BIRMINGHAM RCW PIONEERS:
• Class 40 No. D345 makes a comeback
• CEPs relocate from Eastleigh Works to Southall
• Glos/Warks celebrates 40th anniversar­y
• FIRST USE OF MID-NORFOLK RAILWAY’S Mk.3 STOCK:
• Yorkshire Wolds Railway launches Fund the Fowler appeal
• Dartmoor disposals, some saved, some scrapped
• Scotrail to operate charity HST Santa trains to Boat of Garten and Fife
• Steam Dreams adds more main line Santa specials
• Northern Belle hopes for ‘Lizzie’ as it outlines 2022 steam plans
• £25m project to protect Wales and Borders link
• £8m investment to stabilise GSW embankment­s
• Tunbridge Wells-Hastings line closed for a week
• Hitachi wins Gloucester area signalling upgrade contract
• Contract completed for Norwich station offices upgrade
• Keadby Canal bridge repairs
• Tunnel repair materials airlifted
• Drier passengers at Orpington
• First section of Dawlish sea wall completed
• Surbiton station to receive £6.7m capacity upgrade
• Second Ely capacity consultati­on begins ahead of TWAO submission
• Nine-day closure of Brighton Main Line
• Leeds prepares for minor remodellin­g
• DfT developmen­t funding for Stratford improvemen­ts
• Hayes & Harlington becomes step free
• Network Rail and Amey develop innovative tunnel drill
• BRUNEL BACK AT TEMPLE MEADS:
• Disused track removed for Levenmouth line revival
• Trackworke­rs turn rescuers in the Peak District
• Freightlin­er receives its first FFA-G wagons
• DBC Class 66 on display
• Cemex depot investment
• Midlands Parcel Hub nears completion
• Ward opens Barking site
• Pride roundels revealed
• Lower cost VLR track design developed
• Contractor repairs Edinburgh defects
• Wolverhamp­ton milestone
• Final ‘Paragon’ unit launched into traffic
• Cumbrian rail heritage remembered with unit naming
• New jacks for SWR depots
• TPE Class 802s to enter WCML service next month
• UNHAPPY JOURNEY:
• All five Lumo Class 803s authorised for public use
• Bescot naming
• WAGON REPORT
• COP26 launch for ‘next generation’ battery train
• Stock Update Track Record
• Operations Track Record
• Drumboe in triumphant Donegal homecoming
• ‘Strengthen­ed’ NIR 4000 Class enters service
• Restored Guinness grain van relaunched
• Sandstone moves Cape gauge locos to safety
• Massive Soviet electrics fade away
• New ‘EMD’ passenger diesel locos built in Argentina
• Stadler wins New Zealand loco order
• European heritage lines bounce back from Covid
• Electric railways set for renaissanc­e in Costa Rica to help cut carbon
• NRM Puzzle book
• Glasgow by Tram
• Steam in and around Eastleigh
• Nottingham to Mansfield
• Market Harborough A Railway Crossroads
• South Yorkshire Railways
• Llangollen Railway
• STEAM Museum calendar
• Talyllyn Railway
• LMS Patriot
• BR Blue & Steam calendars
• Talyllyn Railway
• Corris Railway
• Footplate 2022
• Where is it?
• Solution to the September issue.
• The closing date for this month’s crossword is Friday, December 3, 2021.

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