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  • ‘K1’ joins Stanier pair for ‘Jacobite’ summer season

    ‘K1’ joins Stanier pair for ‘Jacobite’ summer season

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    APRIL 19 saw the start of the 2019 operating season for West Coast Railways’ ‘Jacobite’ trains.  Two of Ian Riley’s Stanier ‘Black Five’ 4-6-0s moved north from Carnforth to Fort William on April 16, with No. 45407 having the honour of hauling the first train three days later.  No. 45212 is the other ex-LMS 4-6-0 allocated…

  • Toronto ‘Flexity’ trams slowly entering service

    Toronto ‘Flexity’ trams slowly entering service

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    TORONTO public transport operator TTC is taking delivery of 204 specially designed Bombardier ‘Flexity Outlook’ light rail vehicles The are numbered 4400-4603 in the series (the first two – Nos. 4400 and 4401 – were prototypes).  Deliveries began in 2014, but a number of problems emerged, ranging from construction quality issues to electrical faults.  Read more…

  • Berlin’s new S-Bahn trains on test runs

    Berlin’s new S-Bahn trains on test runs

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    THE first new EMU for the Berlin S Bahn system in more than 20 years was presented to the media in test runs at the Siemens test centre at Wildenrath in April. A consortium of Siemens and Stadler is building 106 new EMUs (382 coaches in total) for the Berlin S-Bahn network. Eighty-five four-car Class…

  • Elevated line opens in Buenos Aires

    Elevated line opens in Buenos Aires

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    ARGENTINIAN President Mauricio Macri opened the first of three new elevated sections of commuter railway being built in the capital Buenos Aires on May 10. According to Mr Macri it is the first new railway viaduct built in a century to open in the city. The lines are being elevated on concrete viaducts to remove…

  • New Stadler diesel locos for Bolivia taking shape

    New Stadler diesel locos for Bolivia taking shape

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    STADLER is building three metre-gauge, six-axle diesel locos for Bolivian freight operator FCA. The loco’s design – known as the ‘South America Light’ – is based on the earlier Euro Light model (supplied to DRS as the Class 68).  The three locos will be moved by sea this summer to the Chilean end of the…

  • A1 Trust orders TWO new boilers from DB Meiningen

    A1 Trust orders TWO new boilers from DB Meiningen

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    GERMAN steam locomotive works Dampflokwerk Meiningen has been awarded the contract to construct the new Diagram 118a boiler for new-build LNER ‘P2’ 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales. The £1million order by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust (A1SLT) covers not only the boiler for the Gresley Mikado, but also a second identical boiler for the trust’s…

  • English Electric survivors in Asia

    English Electric survivors in Asia

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    A HANDFUL of British-built former Malayan Railways Class 22 locos remain in usable condition, but not all in Malaysia.  Forty of the metre-gauge locos were ordered in the early 1970s from English Electric and AEI (which by the time they were delivered had become part of GEC).  The locos were built by Metro-Cammell in Saltley,…

  • 300 passengers stranded on HST after landslide causes ‘major incident’

    300 passengers stranded on HST after landslide causes ‘major incident’

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    AROUND 300 passengers became stranded on an East Midlands Trains HST for hours after a diverted train was engulfed in a landslide, and a rescue train sent to assist was stopped by rising flood waters. What turned into a major rescue, involving the emergency services and Network Rail, occurred on June 13 when the Midland…

  • Chasewater recalls Littleton Colliery

    Chasewater recalls Littleton Colliery

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    THE Chasewater Railway held an event on April 6-7 to mark the 25th anniversary of the closure of Littleton Colliery.  The pit was located near Cannock, Staffordshire. It closed on December 3, 1993 and was the last working coal mine in the Cannock Chase Coalfield, thus ending deep mining in Staffordshire.  ‘Janus’ 0-6-0DE (Yorkshire 2748 of 1959)…

  • NER 1903 railcar enters service at Embsay & Bolton Abbey

    NER 1903 railcar enters service at Embsay & Bolton Abbey

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    AWARD-winning NER electric Autocar No. 3170 and trailer car No. 3453 are now in regular operation on the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, following launch on October 19 (RM Nov, p9).  However, on the first day of public operation on April 17, a technical problem occurred and it looked as though the four-train service might have…

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