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    EWS Business Train pack
    00 GAUGE 4mm:1ft Mid-to late 2000s ERA SCOTRAIL modellers may be the ones that benefit the most from the latest train pack from Hornby. Labelled as the ‘EWS Business Train’, it contains one of Hornby’s super detailed Class 67s rather than the form
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    Northern Belle Set Reformed
    THE Northern Belle dining set made its first passenger outing of the year on March 15, having been fitted with Central Door Locking (CDL) and a new vehicle being inserted into the formation. Mk. 2f First Open (FO) No. 3313, which previously carried W
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    A Brace Of ‘Dace’
    KIT BUILDING has numerous benefits for railway modellers, and saving money over buying ready to run models is the last of them! More importantly, kit-built rolling stock will fill gaps in signature vehicles for a given era and location. Southern Regi
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    Production Lines Stop At Litchurch Lane
    ALSTOM has demobilised the production lines at Derby Litchurch Lane and is now consulting with staff, trade unions and its supply chain to provide as much certainty as it can regarding its future. This follows the conclusion of the construction of th
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    GTR To Lease Class 379s From Porterbrook
    GOVIA Thameslink Railway has signed a £50 million contract to lease all 30 four-car Class 379 Electrostar electric multiple units, currently stored at Worksop, from Porterbrook. The new lease coincides with a change in ownership of the fleet, which h
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    Southern Legends: The Class 70 ‘Booster’ in ‘OO’
    00 GAUGE 4mm:1ft 1941 to 1968 ERA OUR model locomotives rely on kinetic energy from flywheels to overcome minor interruptions in electrical supply from the rails. The booster devices designed by Alfred Raworth for the Bulleid ‘Booster’ locomotives
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    Why Batteries Could Be Included
    THE issue of traction power for trains, both existing and new-build, is one that is set to dominate discussions for some time. In many cases, electric trains are the preferred choice, however this is not always possible. A lack of coherent electrific
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    £60 Million Refurbishment Plan For EMR Regional Fleet
    EAST Midlands Railway (EMR) plans to refurbish its Class 158 and ‘170’ diesel multiple units and Class 360 electric multiple units. The operator has confirmed a £60 million refurbishment plan that will be delivered in partnership with rolling stock l
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    IRM Fuels Up Irish Diesels
    THE SECOND new tank wagon to be revealed in March is an Irish prototype from the early Corás Iompair Éireann (CIÉ) diesel era. Built in 1956, the 21 locomotive depot fuel tank wagons were based on the Bulleid triangulated underframe design which was
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    Intermodal Wagon In TT:120 Announced
    IN APRIL, Hornby revealed its new TT:120 range for 2024 which includes a useful intermodal wagon which has been constructed in large numbers and sees regular use on Network Rail. The Sffgmss IFA is a single intermodal wagon with drawgear at each end.
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    DB Cargo UK to sell 47 Class 60s
    ALMOST 50 Class 60s have been put up for sale by DB Cargo UK. The operator’s chief executive Andrea Rossi had confirmed earlier this year that DBC would look to dispose of redundant locomotives (RE334). Ten Class 67s, 12 Class 90s and 16 Class 60s ha
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    DB Cargo UK To Sell More Class 60s
    DB Cargo UK put 16 Class 60s up for sale, most of which have been stored within the past 12 months, as this column went to press. A second tender was issued a few days later (see Headline News). The locomotives put up for tender are Nos. 60001/007/01
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    Bakerloo Line Upgrade Plans Confirmed
    A list of contracts valued at greater than £100,000 reveals the extent of works already underway to upgrade and even extend the Bakerloo Line. Previously, the Bakerloo Line was due to be upgraded as part of the Deep Tube Upgrade Programme (DTUP), est
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    Modern Narrow Gauge: The Baguley-Drewry 70hp Locomotive
    009 GAUGE 4mm:1ft 1980s to 2004 ERA THE FIRST diesel locomotive to be produced for the Bachmann narrow gauge range, designed to run on ‘OO9’ gauge track (9mm gauge) is the tiny Baguley-Drewry 70hp locomotive which has been produced in five liveries
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    Hornby’s Ruston 88DS Shunts In
    00 GAUGE 4mm:1ft 1938 to preservation ERA HORNBY’S brand-new Ruston & Hornsby 88DS shunter is cute, just like its smaller brother, the 48DS locomotive which was released a few years ago and reviewed in the February 2020 issue of Rail Express (REM19
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    Rail Express
    EDITORIAL Editor Richard Clinnick Tel: 01507 529565 Email: RailExpressEditor@mortons.co.ukProduction editor Sarah WilkinsonDesigners Tracey Markham, Tim PipesPublisher Tim HartleyEditorial addressRail Express Magazine, Mortons Media Group Ltd, PO Bo
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    HSTs Near Nigerian Passenger Debut
    ELEVEN Class 43 High Speed Train power cars and 11 Mk.3s were exported to Nigeria towards the end of 2023 by ROMIC Consulting. The vehicles had all been withdrawn last year, with one of the power cars, No. 43008, used by CrossCountry on its farewell
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    Tata Receives Seventh Clayton
    CLAYTON Equipment has completed the construction of the two additional CBD90 shunters ordered by Tata Steel last year, with the departure of the second hybrid machine from its Burtonupon-Trent workshops on March 13. This was delivered to Port Talbot
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    Flurry Of Summer Tours Announced
    FOUR railtour promoters have released a series of new tours that are set to run over the coming weeks, with an array of traction, rare track and unusual itineraries on offer. The Branch Line Society is visiting the North Norfolk Railway on June 6, wh
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    Green Class 60 Moves To Margate For Static Display
    FOLLOWING cosmetic restoration in Great Western Railway Brunswick Green by DB Cargo UK, No. 60081 left Toton for Margate on March 18 (see Power By The Hour), arriving at the One:One Museum the next day. The Class 60, which is not operational, has yet
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    Belfast Terminal To Close But Grand Central Won’t Be Ready To Replace It
    GREAT Victoria Street (GVS) in Belfast is planned to close in mid-May, however Translink has confirmed that trains will not be using its replacement, the new £200 million Belfast Grand Central, until the autumn. Construction and fitting out of the ne
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    BR ‘Palvan’ Revealed By Bachmann
    AN INTERESTING freight vehicle in the form of the BR 12t ‘Palvan’ has been added to the Bachmann ‘OO’ gauge Branchlines range, with the first preproduction models being revealed in mid-March. Nearly 2400 ‘Palvan’ wagons were constructed between 1954
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    Reviews
    Published by Platform 5 www.platform5.com ISBN: 9781915984180 Price £29.95 THE essential guide for all enthusiasts and for the large number also working in the rail industry, the 2024 combined volume from Platform 5 contains almost all the relevant i
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    50 More JNA-X Box Wagons For GBRf
    GB Railfreight and Porterbrook have signed a contract for the lease of a further 50 of the revised JNA-X variant of the ubiquitous JNA (UIC code Ealnos) box wagon, to be built by Greenbrier/ Astra Rail and delivered in the third quarter of 2024. Intr
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    West Coast Railways Suspends ‘Jacobite’ As CDL Row Rumbles On
    WEST Coast Railways suspended its ‘Jacobite’ steam service from March 20 as it still had no exemption to operate Mk.1 coaches without central door locking (CDL). The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) had revoked WCR’s previous exemption to use stock with
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    Cut And Shut Wagon: The HRA Aggregate Hopper
    00 GAUGE 4mm:1ft 2017 to present ERA DB CARGO UK has undertaken a programme to shorten the HTA coal hopper wagon fleet it inherited from EWS, to adapt them for aggregate traffic. Effectively, one bay was removed from the middle of the wagon and the
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    Powerscene
    Nos. 20189 and 20205 passed Birmingham New Street station on March 18, forming the 5Z33 17.35 Soho-Kings Norton sandwiching translator vehicles and West Midlands Trains electric multiple unit No. 323240. Three days later the same ‘20s’ top-and-tailed
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    TPE’s Class 397s – Serving Scotland In Style
    CONSTRUCCIONES y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) Class 397 electric multiple units (EMUs) are part of the Spanish manufacturer’s Civity family of units, with 12 owned by rolling stock leasing company Eversholt Rail Group and leased to TransPennine Ex
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    Together In Electric Dreams
    LESS than a year after Class 321s finished serving London Liverpool Street in daily service, a pair of the four-car electric multiple units returned to the station on March 13, to showcase their planned return, which could happen in the very near fut
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    0 To 60! Just How Nimble Are Today’s Locos And Units, And What’s The Quickest Off The Mark?
    THE headline statistics announced for the new Merseyrail Class 777 units, purchased to replace British Rail Class 507 and ‘508’ stalwarts, were impressive. Manufactured by Stadler using aluminium, and featuring articulated bogies, their weight is a m

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