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Tag: West Coast Main Line

£31m Easter rail upgrades complete between London and Scotland

7th April 2021 Shannon Butcher Network, News

Network Rail has completed a range of essential upgrades to the railway between Euston, the Midlands, North West and Scotland over Easter.

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Network Rail’s helicopter team is surveying the railway as flood waters recede across the North West after Storm Christoph.

Helicopter footage reveals Storm Christoph impact on railway

25th January 2021 Sam Hewitt Network, News

Network Rail’s helicopter team is surveying the railway as flood waters recede across the North West after Storm Christoph.

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Locomotive Services buys Class 86 and 87 from ETL

8th January 2020 Sam Hewitt Electric, News

TWO former West Coast AC electric locomotives have been bought by Locomotive Services Limited from Electric Traction Ltd (ETL). The last mainline Class 87 –

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Tornado’s 2020 tour diary takes shape

7th January 2020 Sam Hewitt Network, News, Railtours, Steam

PEPPERCORN ‘A1’ Pacific No. 60163 Tornado looks set to have another busy year on the national network in 2020 as more dates are added to the

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West Coast looks forward with Avanti

6th January 2020 Sam Hewitt Network, News

Words: Ben Jones NEW trains, more services and a better customer experience are the priorities for Avanti West Coast (AWC), which replaced Virgin Trains on

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Endangered crayfish rescued during Cumbria viaduct work

25th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News

WORK to reinforce a 173-year-old railway viaduct is helping to protect endangered crayfish in Cumbria.  The Grade-II listed Docker Garths Viaduct, on the West Coast

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HS2 bill up to £88billion as completion date slips to 2040

6th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Electric, Network, News

By Ben Jones HS2 Ltd has advised the Government the first phase of High Speed 2 to Birmingham could open five years later than planned

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Three Type 3s – to the sea!

1st October 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Freight, News, Railtours

THREE Class 37s at the head of a heavy freight train used to be a regular sight in South Wales and around Glasgow in BR

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First and Trenitalia to run West Coast Main Line

5th September 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News

By Tony Miles OPERATION of the West Coast Partnership (WCP) will be in the hands of First Group and Trenitalia from December 8, under what

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Main line Travelling Post Office run to mark 85th anniversary of Night Mail?

26th August 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

“THIS is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order…” W H Auden’s opening lines to 1936’s evocative GPO documentary

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