The Railway Magazine - 2022-01-31

• FREIGHT FIGHTS BACK
• Let us know your rail memories
• Headline News
• FirstGroup seeks new locos for TPE and GWR
• ‘DELTIC’ ANNIVERSAR­Y:
• Class 197s authorised for use by Transport for Wales
• ‘Exciting programme’ promised for Scotsman
• Britannia is back!
• Dorset Heritage line marks 50th anniversar­y since closure by BR
• East Kent to be home for Class 365
• ‘P2’ PROGRESS:
• ‘Tractor’ added to DRS sale list
• ‘Tractor’ takes EMU for a trip into the Forest!
• Business case for Metro ‘loop’ will be developed
• Luxury carriages begin Irish exit for life elsewhere
• East Coast Digital Programme ‘should set new standard’
• DfT to cap on-train announceme­nts
• Society objects to canopy removal
• TRM 2021 index
• Freight recovers to pre-pandemic levels
• Rail career scheme
• Locked wheelset led to tanker crash
• Rail Alphabet 2
• KWVR gala update
• TEES AND THAMES DERAILMENT­S:
• BLETCHLEY BACK IN USE:
• Archaeolog­ists make further Roman finds
• Net zero carbon plan published
• HS2’s ‘net zero’ timeline
• FROM THE RM MARCH/APRIL 1948
• PRESERVATI­ON
• FROM THE RM FEBRUARY 1982
• FROM THE RM JULY 1967
• For a better Bradford
• Okehampton LSWR loco
• PUTTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
• Lickey ‘Castle’
• REMEMBERIN­G JEREMY ENGLISH
• Dumbleton Hall sale
• Amersham replica Met loco
• The RCTS: then and now
• New bogie frame plates for ‘Clan’
• Bluebell goes limited
• Royal Scot booked for East Lancs gala
• Weighbridg­e progress
• Barry pioneer bows out at Worth Valley
• L&Y saddle tank debuts ‘down south’
• Boiler and chassis work on course for Swanage ‘T3’
• Bufferbeam ready for fitting to Bury ‘2MT’
• New wheels for ‘Patriot’
• Swede next in line for overhaul
• Pannier boosts SDR fleet
• £200,000 SOS for Didcot’s historic coal stage
• Embsay kick-starts Midland carriages restoratio­n
• End of the year return for Duke?
• Appeal signals start of Wymondham upgrade
• Bridge weight limit leads to ‘42XX’ leaving Bodmin
• Kinlet hopeful of September return
• Horsted hits target
• Tender progress
• Bluebell secures SECR ‘O1’
• Wooden coal wagon restored
• All guns blazing on Minehead fleet!
• January blues as locos bow out in style in the north
• Overhaul progress and new livery for Kilmersdon at the Watercress Line
• Home straight for Spa Valley’s Lady Ingrid
• Austin No. 1 to stay in Somerset
• Caliban rewheeled in Preston
• Tornado storms before overhaul!
• £250,000 ‘All Change At Chirk’ appeal launched
• SINGLE LINES
• Talyllyn developmen­ts to proceed despite £1.3m lottery funding setback
• More L&BR trackbed acquired by Exmoor Associates
• Planning applicatio­n for Bala Lake Railway extension submitted
• American 4wBE arrives at Steeple Grange
• New Ratty carriage delivered for Christmas
• Rarely seen Rustons
• Wagon for Wharf narrow to standard gauge display
• Lord Granby cosmetic restoratio­n progresses
• Much travelled diesel arrives at Kempton
• WHR carriage derails in Aberglasly­n Pass
• Hastings now has three steam locos
• Nexus volunteers work on Beamish Tramway
• Southampto­n No. 57 saved from scrap threat
• Tramway repairs required at Birkenhead
• Further ‘Bluebird’ progress
• North Shields lines uncovered
• Five work Bo’ness gala
• North Star arrives at North Yorks
• Fourth Bitton ‘Gronk’
• RETRO LOOK FOR ‘PACER’:
• Planet loco set for Vale of Berkeley
• Restricted view led to Grosmont ‘20’ crash
• ‘TEDDY BEAR’ LOCATED:
• ‘Hoovers’ head to Devon
• LSL Class 87 confirmed for Norwich visit in mid-March
• ‘Deltic’ farewell anniversar­y excursion postponed
• Royal 67s requested for ‘Platinum Jubilee’ tour
• GBRf railtour raises £147,000 for Prostate Cancer UK
• ‘Black Fives’ to power ‘Jacobite’ in 2022 as ‘K1’ overhaul gets underway
• BOOKING CONTACTS
• Barmouth Bridge reopens after latest stage of revamp
• Piccadilly lift replacemen­t
• New response vehicle for West Highland
• Smethwick gets lifts
• Unlimited wi-fi at Leeds
• Flood protection works carried out on WCML
• Seldom used Far North stations get ‘request kiosks’
• Facelift for Crawley station
• Petition to return regular services to Edinburgh ‘sub’ route gains traction
• Six-hour stand-off costs Network Rail £1m in delays
• Platform upgrades for Drumry
• TPE now run five ECML services to Scotland
• Landport viaduct strengthen­ed
• Delay for Beam Park
• Penmaenmaw­r traffic resumes after Hanson investment
• OUT ON THEIR OWN:
• Further consultati­on on Hinckley plans
• Tesco launches twice daily refrigerat­ed service to Scotland
• Francis gets GBRf role
• Closure for Bank station capacity upgrade work
• RECENT ARRIVAL:
• Nottingham trams honour local figures
• Phased resumption of WMM services
• New UKTram chairman
• Focus shifts forward for ETCS in-cab signalling
• Contract awarded for Mk.4 SDO system
• Energy project at Streatham Hill
• THREE IN A ROW:
• More Class 37s and 57s in second DRS sale
• CLASS 156s FOR BARTON:
• Class 387s go into AngloWelsh service on GWML
• WAGON REPORT
• Class 97 named Dave Berry in memory of Network Rail manager
• Operations Track Record
• Operations Track Record
• Reconstruc­tion of cabin and track at Maam Cross begins
• PREPARING FOR THE SEASON AHEAD:
• Additional funding for Dublin-Cork and Limerick -Waterford
• Cullybacke­y Area Signalling & Level Crossings Renewals Project starts
• Electrific­ation of German Südbahn route goes live
• Battery train world record
• Abellio loses most of its German rail contracts
• Australian diesel back in pre-Privatisat­ion livery
• Winter steam-hauled excursion to Siena
• New Czech double-deckers begin to enter service
• Steam on the Great Eastern, Norfolk & Suffolk
• The Leader locomotive, (Revised and Expanded)
• Central Division Miscellany – BR Days.
• Alnmouth to Alnwick, Coldstream & Berwick
• Model event’s the flower of Scotland
• Where is it?
• Solution to the December issue.

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