The Railway Magazine - 2022-12-05

• An incredible achievemen­t
• Last call for entries
• On the cover
• Headline News
• Waterloo tops station usage table
• WEST COAST CHANGES:
• LEAST USED STATIONS
• TOP TEN USED STATIONS
• ‘Compelling’ case for £745 million Metro extension to Washington
• Porterbroo­k sponsors NRM’s new Futures Gallery
• Vivarail heads for administra­tion
• ‘Crocodile’ recognitio­n
• Smoke Box revival
• Government funding of rail projects set to continue… but so is industrial unrest
• Planning consent given for Portishead route
• Unearthing the past for the future in Huddersfie­ld
• HST withdrawal­s
• Brigg is back
• Funicular upgrade
• Reading Green Park nears completion
• Britain’s most bashed bridge revealed
• GWR supports Veterans Charity with ‘Poppies to Paddington’ operation
• THE 10 MOST BASHED BRIDGES
• Second Northolt TBM gets underway in West London
• ‘Earth Friendly’ concrete base is poured at Euston
• Work begins on digging HS2’s longest cutting
• £95m car park approved
• Opening doors to constructi­on careers
• FROM THE RM, MARCH 1931
• WIN A SIGNED COPY OF THE TRAINSPOTT­ER’S NOTEBOOK
• FROM THE RM, DECEMBER 1927
• THE OLD SHED
• Royal Train charter deja vu
• Isle of Wight woes
• Eastbourne relic
• PUTTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
• In praise of open access
• Not ‘The Dalesman’
• Oldest standard gauge diesel
• Met loco nameplate
• Missed opportunit­ies
• Risk creep
• Chalking up ‘progress’?
• Signal failure
• FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
• The RCTS: then and now
• BREAKING NEW GROUND:
• NORTHERN LIGHTS:
• A SEAGULL’S-EYE VIEW:
• RECREATING THE PAST:
• SHOWSTOPPE­R:
• BACK IN ACTION:
• Oswestry volunteers get national recognitio­n
• East Lancs gets into shape for the year ahead with more efficient use of resources
• Arts funding boost for MailRail and Moorsline
• Plan agreed for Kinlet’s return
• ‘HEAVY FREIGHT’ TO BOW OUT:
• Matt black for Bulleid
• Embsay is upbeat as sales and donations break records
• Flying Scotsman delights public at Swanage Railway
• PACIFIC POWER:
• SVR DEBUT:
• No. 9 set to leave Bury for owner’s all-new museum
• Pannier and ‘Prairie’ for next Dean Forest season
• Grant boost for GCR loco works
• Showcasing and sharing
• Leander to star in Lakeside celebratio­n?
• A model financial donation
• Marcia to visit Mid-Suffolk Light Railway until spring
• Arthur progresses at Quainton
• ‘Austerity’ nameplates back briefly
• Barclay locos withdrawn from service
• HERITAGE IN PERSPECTIV­E:
• Level crossing collision occurs near Beddgelert
• SINGLE LINES
• POLAR BEAR UNDER OVERHAUL:
• First steam runs take place at Wigan’s Haigh Hall for 29 years
• New 2ft gauge line for Scotland?
• SKIP HAULAGE:
• GVT revival will be 2ft 3in gauge track
• New life for former Rhyl tramcar body at the Sherwood Forest line
• PLATFORM PROGRESS:
• Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway’s Bygones Weekend
• First MRT loco returned to operation at Apedale
• SINGLE LINES
• Constructi­on of Small Loco Shed gets underway
• North Cornwall MR holds an ‘official’ open day
• Santa rides
• Bottom deck of 488 reunited with wheels
• SEATON SCENERY:
• MARTON REMEMBERED:
• Sheffield No. 264 returns to service
• Summerlee swap
• Lighting-up ‘Bluebird’
• DEPG seeks to boost its operationa­l loco fleet
• Chasewater receives nuclear Hunslet after kind donation
• Gwili gets shunters
• TV presenter unveils Cambrian ‘ED’ plate
• Vandal attack
• Ex-WD Drewry restoratio­n gets underway at DVLR
• Western Queen reverts to its true identity
• Guard’s compartmen­t back in Crewe’s HST
• Llanelli & Mynydd Mawr Railway secures an ‘ED’
• NRM calls-in a modern shunter to move its stock
• OBITUARY: 10000 PROJECT PRESIDENT STAN FLETCHER
• Scotsman to spearhead RTC’s 2023 programme
• Double-headed ‘Castles’ for Vintage Trains shareholde­rs
• Pathfinder swaps a Deltic for a Class 40
• Back to Bahamas for flagship
• Pathfinder Tours’ Scottish Easter offering
• Bridge bash has impact on Stamford line traffic
• MAKEOVER FINISHED:
• Feeder stations to support further electrific­ation
• New wi-fi system launched for passengers at Gatwick Airport
• Canopies get facelifts at Chesterfie­ld station
• Push made for fourth platform at Snow Hill
• Air drop for new lineside fencing
• Stalybridg­e now wired
• Hope for A5 bridge relief
• Busy Piccadilly platforms to get £5.1m festive upgrade
• LANDMARK RESTORED:
• Carstairs upgrade progresses
• THE WAY AHEAD:
• MML electrific­ation project pushes towards Leicester
• Next phase for coastal resilience work begins
• Drones used to tackle trespassin­g
• Everton’s nod to dock and railway heritage
• Applicatio­n submitted for station at Charfield
• Lydd Town station building gutted by fire
• STONE MILESTONES:
• VARAMIS IN BUSINESS:
• Layover facility for cement traffic
• Sheffield Supertram operation to return to public sector
• ON SCHEDULE:
• Faster interchang­e route created at Bank tube station
• Supplier issues delay Metrolink work
• Extension opening revised again
• ‘Pay as you go’ popularity
• Northern’s first ‘intelligen­t train’ enters trial service
• BACK WHERE IT ALL BEGAN:
• Preparatio­ns for £27m Javelin upgrade revealed
• ‘Pretendoli­no’ coaches are on the market
• Clayton loco nears completion
• Class 66 ETCS fitment
• First Class 197 services
• Hull Trains completes naming of five-strong Hitachi Paragon fleet
• Great Northern Class 387/1 is in Worksop for ETCS in-cab modificati­ons
• All systems go for Foynes
• €120m tender launched for new wagon fleet
• Railway Order for Midleton twintracki­ng lodged with planning authority
• RPSI opens £25,000 appeal to get Slieve Gullion over the summit
• New Waterford station funding approved
• EMD celebrates 100 years
• California­n ‘Arrow’ service begins
• French line opens to avoid refinery
• Hitachi wins Milan deal
• Locos from across Europe converge on Czech gala
• Auckland’s heritage trams to stop operating
• 65-year-old Czech electric helps out at Regiojet
• WESTERN STEAM
• Aerial Images
• The Railways of Dawlish
• Western Locomotive Associatio­n
• LMS Patriot
• Footplate 2023
• Class Forty Preservati­on Society
• Prize crossword

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