Spa Valley Railway Summer Diesel Gala 2019 Photos Spa Valley Railway’s annual summer diesel gala was held over the weekend of 1st – 4th August 2019. In attendance were visiting locomotives D821 ‘Greyhound’ , one of two class 42 ‘Warship’s preserved, courtesy of Severn Valley Railway + Diesel Traction Group, and 27001 courtesy of the Class …
GBRf 66773 to be named this week Brighton Pride takes place this weekend, which sees GBRf’s class 66 number 66773 named “Pride of GB Railfreight”. 66773 has been undercover in the paint shop at Eastleigh Arlington for the past week. The locomotive is in standard GBRf livery, with rainbow font colour on GBRf, rainbow flags …
LNER Class 91s & MK4 Withdrawl Begins LNER withdrawal of the class 91 and their MK4 coaching stock had commenced. We’ll be regularly updating this page with new information as and when they’re moved into storage or scrapped, or transferred to their new operators. The MK4 and DVTs LNER withdrawl are being moved to Worksop …
Touax Build New Wagons for Mendip Rail Following a successful tender and signing of contracts, Touax Rail UK are pleased to announce the order of 55 new open aggregate box wagons (JNA) and 40 new aggregate hoppers (HOA) for Mendip Rail Limited. The hopper wagons will be built in Swidnica, Poland and the boxes in …
Seaford Branch Resignalling Nears Completion Network Rail have announced dates for further work on the Seaford branch in a bid to complete the Seaford Branch resignalling work. This announcement follows a number of recent branch line closures, including the 10 day Seaford Branch closure last year. Work to complete the signalling work was pencilled in …
Successful Trial of Freightliner Class 70 on Mendip Jumbo Train Last night saw the successful trial of a class 70 on a jumbo train from Merehead to Acton Terminal Complex. Freightliner class 70 number 70003 hauled the 7A91 on Thursday 19th July 2019, working 2250 out of Merehead. With approx 46 wagons, assumed loaded at …
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First Great Northern Class 313s for Scrap The first of the Great Northern class 313 electric multiple units are now being sent to various locations for scrapping. The last 313 recorded working was 048/049 working 2J83 2333 HFN-MOG on September 30th. GN 313 Scrappage Log (44) Date is shown first (oldest top, latest bottom), then …
Bluebell Railway Giants of Steam 2019 Visiting Locomotives Announced The Bluebell Railway have announced their planned lineup for the Giants of Steam autumn gala this October 2019 – and it’s a big one! BR Pacific 70000 Britannia will visit the line alongside LMS Coronation Class 6233 Duchess of Sutherland, starring with Bluebell Railway’s own larger …
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Gatwick Airport Railway Station set to receive £150m upgrade in 2020 It was recently announced that Gatwick Airport Railway Station will receive a £150 million upgrade next year, to help improve experience for the 20 million people that visit Gatwick Airport each year by train. Gatwick Airport sees trains depart for London every 3-5 minutes …
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