HEADLINE NEWS - Government makes commitment to regions; DRS open day raises £10,000; More freight from Felixstowe; Leeds gets high speed rail research centre; Steam legends help launch Scottish ‘Azumas’; ‘Deltic’ repairs to begin; ‘Ironing board’ seats fail newcomfort standards; GWR prepares for ‘biggest timetable change since 1970s’; NR launches track worker safety taskforce.

POWER BY THE HOUR - LNER stands down Class 91; Class 70 trialled on stone train; Final GBRf ‘92’ outshopped..

SERVING SCOTLAND IN STYLE

CAF Class 397s quietly go about their work without much fuss. Andy Flowers provides a history of the TransPennine Express Nova 2 fleet and looks at what the future could hold.

VARAMIS LAUNCH

Richard Clinnick reports on Varamis’s plans for high-speed electric freight.

BATTERIES ARE INCLUDED

Great Western Railway has begun a trial with a battery-powered Class 230. Richard Clinnick asks why.

CLASS 50S – THE TWILIGHT YEARS
It’s 30 years since the ‘50s’ were withdrawn, but their diagrammed use ended two years earlier. David Russell recalls the final years of regular operation.

‘IF IT’S NOT RIGHT,
IT’S NOT GOING OUT’
A slam-door EMU returned to London Waterloo in January after 6820 days. Richard Clinnick visits the team looking after the 4-VEP to find out what happens next..

WHAT FUTURE FOR NEW TRAINS IN THE UK?
Richard Clinnick analyses recent Government hearings into the situation regarding new trains.

JANUARY PICTORIAL
A round-up of images sent to Rail Express this month..

SCOTLAND: INVESTING IN INFRASTRUCTURE
Richard Clinnick enjoys a cab ride on the newlyelectrified Barrhead line before visiting the soon-to-reopen Leven line.

BRITAIN’S BUSIEST (AND LEAST BUSY) STATIONS
Richard Clinnick reports on the latest station usage figures, which have dramatically altered following the opening of the Elizabeth Line..

G-STOCK CENTENARY
Christopher Westcott reports on the condition of the remaining G-Stock vehicles and looks at the history of the trains.

TPE ‘68’ FAREWELL
A selection of images from the final few days of TransPennine Express Class 68-hauled passenger trains...

100 NOT OUT!
Locomotives from the Fifty Fund and Class 50 Alliance fleet have now operated 100 main line tours since 1997. Richard Clinnick speaks to C50A chairman Tony Middleton to find out how this was achieved.

PENDOLINO REFURBISHMENT
Richard Clinnick reports from Widnes as the refurbishment of the nine-car ‘390s’ gets underway...

THE CROSS-COUNTRY HST STORY
With CrossCountry removing its fleet of High-Speed Trains from service, David Russell looks back at the history of HSTs on the North East/South West routes.

TPE MK.5A LATEST
The decision to remove 13 rakes of locomotive-hauled trains from TransPennine Express is still being debated. Richard Clinnick reports on the latest developments.

TPE TO FINISH USING CLASS 68s
NOVA 3s TO BE WITHDRAWN IN DECEMBER.

CHANGING TIMES IN CORNWALL
Craig Munday provides an update on the mid-Cornwall resignalling project set to change and sweep away much of the county’s traditional infrastructure.

WORTH THE WAIT FOR THE WEST MIDLANDS?
Richard Clinnick reports on the impending introduction of new trains for West Midlands Trains, and what will happen to the existing fleets.

PETER WATTS 50 YEARS OF RAILTOURING
Richard Clinnick meets Peter Watts to look back at his career with F&W Railtours and Pathfinder Tours...

CHANGING THE FUTURE OF CHILTERN RAILWAYS
Managing director of Chiltern Railways, Richard Allan, talks to Richard Clinnick about the future of the operator, including the prospect of new trains.

THE FUTURE OF UK TRACTION
Richard Clinnick visits Worksop to see the arrival of the first Rail Operations Assets Ltd tri-mode locomotive, No. 93001.

DC RAIL – BUILDING BRITAIN’S MEGA PROJECTS
Richard Clinnick speaks to Cappagh Group director of rail David Fletcher about DC Rail and the key role it is playing in building Britain.

ELIZABETH LINE LAUNCH
The full Crossrail network is open. Richard Clinnick talks to Elizabeth line director Howard Smith about the journey to this point, and what happens next.

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF PRESERVATION
How preserved No. 47712 Lady Diana Spencer returned to the main line to operate in push-pull mode with a Driving Brake Standard Open (DBSO) for more than 1300 miles over one weekend.

MAKING ANGLIA GREAT AGAIN
With the final ‘321s’ withdrawn, Richard Clinnick discovers how Greater Anglia’s new fleet introduction was achieved.

TRANSFORMATION FOR WALES
Richard Clinnick meets those at Transport for Wales introducing new trains into traffic.

SVR’S DIESEL CELEBRATION
On the back of a challenging year for the railway, the Severn Valley is hosting a major diesel gala in May. Richard Clinnick goes behind the scenes to find out how the event is being organised.

MODERNISING THE DRS FLEET
In an exclusive interview with Richard Clinnick, Oliver Schepisi, head of operations at Nuclear Transport Solutions and DRS, reveals that a new locomotive order is on the horizon, while decisions are to be made about the ‘37’ fleet and even the ‘68s’.

INSIDE HAYMARKET DEPOT
ScotRail’s fleet of Inter7City High Speed Train power cars are maintained at Haymarket. Richard Clinnick finds out what happens at the depot.

SCOTLAND’S GRAND PLANS
ScotRail service delivery director David Simpson talks exclusively to Richard Clinnick about new trains planned for Scotland and what this means for the existing fleets.

CHASING THE CASTLES
With their duties due to cease by the end of the year, Rail Express provides the planned diagrams for the Great Western Railway 2+4 High Speed Train fleets until May.

0 TO 60! CLASSIC ELECTRIC LOCOS
Our quest for loco haulage takes us to Switzerland to pit Swiss Federal Railways’ Class 460 against BR-built Class 90.

FAREWELL CLASS 456
In a surprise move early in 2022, the whole class of 24 two-car units was withdrawn, without so much as a farewell tour. We look back on a suburban EMU that performed solidly for three decades, with not a single coach preserved..

MY DOUBLE ROVER
Two intrepid travellers travel the UK rail network – twice, once in Standard Class and once in First Class. Spot traction and liveries already a thing of the past.

0 TO 60! CLASS 345
As the second phase of London’s hugely delayed Crossrail finally opens, we consider the traction behind the timetables. Can any reader answer our ATO question?

CHILTERN DAY OUT
Join us as we explore the capital’s last major diesel network and find many contrasts along the way..

INNOTRANS 2022
The latest UK trains were on show in Berlin, including Transport for Wales’ tri-mode Class 756 ‘FLIRT’ and bi-mode Class 398 tram-train. One of seven Merseyrail Class 777s with a battery pack was also on display.

0 TO 60! CLASS 700/1
Thameslink’s finest are put under the spotlight. Will the 12-car Siemens units’ performance on the Brighton main line match their looks?

RETRO YEARS: MC METALS
Flashback to a classic Glasgow scrapyard in 1992.

BARKING RIVERSIDE
The network’s newest station in pictures.

SHUNTERS & INDUSTRIALS
Ex-EMR shunter heads to East Anglia..

RAIL STAYS: BRUNEL HOLIDAY PARK, SOUTH DEVON
Ever wondered what it’s like to bed down in vintage coaching stock? Rail Express reader Leo Martin gives a warts-and-all review of a summer break spent in Mk.1 holiday coaches near the sea.

0 TO 60! CLASS 313
The venerable EMUs, now parted from their pantographs, are caught on the verge of retirement in DC mode as they work Coastway services out of Brighton..

A VISIT TO… PANDROL
Rail Express gets an exclusive tour of Pandrol’s UK factory, welding training school and labs facility.

RETRO YEARS: CLASS 08
A short celebration of the UK’s most venerable shunter, which celebrates its seventieth birthday this year.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS SPECIAL: CROSSRAIL
Rail Express explores the first phase of London’s Elizabeth Line on public opening day.

FAREWELL CLASS 365
The dual voltage ‘Networkers’ are gone but not forgotten.

0 TO 60! CLASS 800 (REVISITED)
With their engines uprated, how much better do GWR IETs perform in diesel mode?

PLATFORM SCREEN DOORS
As Crossrail prepares to open, the debate about equipping UK below ground stations with platform screen doors is still very much live.

PHOTOGRAPHY
A stunning selection of images from some of the winners of this year’s inaugural Young Railway Photographer of the Year Award.

0 TO 60! CLASS 717
Class 717, the six-car successor to the original Great Northern Electrics (Class 313) is put through its paces in the North London suburbs.

MY ROVER
Our occasional travelogue focuses on the West Country, with a bid to complete all passenger lines and stations in a single day.

THE 4-SUB STORY
How a four-car third rail EMU beat the odds and is now looking forward to a revival.

FAREWELL CLASS 442
Our traditional send-off in words and pictures to the popular and photogenic ‘Wessex Electrics’.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Rail Express celebrates the special anniversaries of over 30 types of locomotives, multiple units and light rail vehicles. It’s a bumper year to party!

IN THE CAB: C2C
Meet the trainee commuter train driver and would-be surfer who decided to pursue a career on the railway rather than criminals.

THIS IS THE (NEW) AGE OF THE TRAIN
HS2 very high speed rolling stock designs revealed.

HS2 EASTERN LEG SCRAPPED! - 140mph ECML alternative proposed.

0 TO 60! CLASS 59 - Our performance column gets a welcome and long-awaited opportunity to sample diesel locomotive traction as part of GBRf’s mammoth annual charity railtour in September. The loco might have been in Southern DC third rail unit territory, but that didn’t stop it pulling out the stops to put on an electrifying show.

OUR ROVER
Father and son take advantage of a three-day Heart of England Rover to spend quality family time while travelling over new lines and bagging new haulage. A rich variety of locomotives and units are encountered from the Welsh valleys to the green fields of Oxfordshire.

BRISTOL AND BEYOND
A taster of former railway professional-turned author Paul Stanford’s book covering the Bristol area, including a special reader discount for those who’d like a copy of the whole volume.

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Rail Express Magazine - September 2019

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