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  • Transport bosses deny claims £500m contract awarded to Spanish firm

    Transport bosses deny claims £500m contract awarded to Spanish firm

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    Transport bosses deny claims that a £500m contract to build new trains has been awarded to a Spanish firm ahead of a British plant 30 miles away.

  • HS2’s controversial clearance of ancient woodland halted by government amid review

    HS2’s controversial clearance of ancient woodland halted by government amid review

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    Clearances of ancient woodland for HS2 must be stopped while the project is reviewed, Grant Shapps has announced.

  • Operation ‘Javelin’

    Operation ‘Javelin’

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    Class 395 ‘Javelin’ charter trains have raised more than £125,000 for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. With this year’s Remembrance Day only two months away, Doug Lindsay takes up the story. The history of these special charter trains, utilising Southeastern High Speed Class 395 ‘Javelin’ trains’, dates back to 2011, and followed a meeting…

  • Country Railway Routes: Ambergate to Buxton

    Country Railway Routes: Ambergate to Buxton

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    By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith MIDDLETON’S ever-expanding library of regional railway histories has found its way to the much-loved – and much-missed – Midland Railway (MR) main line between Ambergate and Buxton.  Parts of the route remain open, with the section between Matlock and Rowsley occupied by Peak Rail, and efforts continue to reinstate…

  • Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled

    Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled

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    Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.

  • Practice & Performance: A West Highland celebration

    Practice & Performance: A West Highland celebration

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    Marking the 125th anniversary of the West Highland line, Keith Farr concludes his performance summary of different traction types by looking at the diesel classes that replaced steam. In the August issue I took advantage of the 125th anniversary of the West Highland line to discuss steam performance between Glasgow and Fort William. Supporting the…

  • The shocking state of trackside vegetation in public areas

    The shocking state of trackside vegetation in public areas

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    I AM constantly depressed by the lack of vegetation control on our national network, as highlighted in your Readers’ Platform this month (RM August). On a recent visit to St Mary’s crossing near Stroud I was shocked by just how bad things have got.  Not only were there weeds growing between the track but small shrubs…

  • Sweet news for HS2 ‘sugar cube’

    Sweet news for HS2 ‘sugar cube’

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    THE first major structure to be built at Euston as part of HS2 has received planning permission from the London Borough of Camden.   The eye-catching London Underground (LU) ventilation shaft and substation –nicknamed the ‘sugar cube’ – will be covered with more than 13,000 glazed white terracotta tiles, drawing inspiration from historic LU stations,…

  • MP’s electrification call as Northern marks Class 195s switch on Windermere branch

    MP’s electrification call as Northern marks Class 195s switch on Windermere branch

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    By Tony Miles EVERY Northern service to and from Windermere is now operated by new Class 195 units, with the transition being marked at Windermere station on August 21.  Services to Windermere and Barrow-in-Furness became the first to be worked by then new CAF DMUs in July, and with additional sets now in Northern’s operational…

  • East Midlands franchise taken over by Abellio

    East Midlands franchise taken over by Abellio

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    AUGUST 18 saw the take over of the East Midland franchise by Abellio, with the brand name East Midlands Railway replacing East Midlands Trains (EMT), the Stagecoach brand.  EMT had run services since November 2007 Abellio formally launched the franchise and new brand in Derby the following day, unveiling reliveried ‘Meridian’ set No. 222104 in a…

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