Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2024 i The Railway Magazine

Headline news The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway staged a four-day Class 14 gala on July 25-28 to mark the diesel-hydraulic class’s 60th anniversary. Taking part were Nos. D9537 and non-operational D9525 (home-fleet), D9523 (Wensleydale Railway), D9551 (Severn Valley Railway), D9504 (Kent & East Sussex Railway), D9529 (Nene Valley Railway) and D9553 (Caledonian Railway). A highlight of the event was the last train of the day from Duffield on July 27, which had all seven‘Teddy Bears’head the train and they are seen arriving at Wirksworth with No. D9523 leading.…

HEADLINE NEWS An open day at DRS’s Carlisle Kingmoor depot on July 6, saw more than 1500 people attend. Over £65,000 was raised for charity, which included the auction of 17 former Class 37, 66 and 68 namplates. Eighteen locos were on show (Nos. 57309, 66421/424/429/431, 68001/6/7/16/17/19/21/24/25/33/34, 88005/8), while No. 66429 was named Charlie Birse after the company’s late engineering team leader, and No. 66431 was named Kingmoor TMD. This view shows Nos. 68021, 68025, and 68016 inside the shed.…

A DECADE-long overhaul reached fruition on July 27 when GNR S Class 4-4-0 No. 171 Slieve Gullion made its first movements under its own steam since 2002. No. 171 was lit up the previous morning at the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland’s main engineering base at Whitehead, and brought slowly into steam for a series of static tests. First the hydrostatic lubricator, vacuum brakes, main steam pipes, superheaters and whistle were tested, then the injectors and both worked satisfactorily. Fully oiled The fire was relit the following day and, following completion of the static tests, No. 171 made its first move in over 20 years under the control of RPSI driver Phil Lockett – moving just far enough so that parts of the motion not previously oiled could be reached.…

HEADLINE NEWS AFTER much local opposition, a huge new rail-served logistics park just south of Northampton is entering the final stages of construction and getting ready to accept its first freight services. Segro’s Northampton Gateway Logistics Park is adjacent to the Northampton loop just north of Roade, with rail connections at its north and south ends. The southern connection (at milepost 61 and 30 chains) has been named Courteenhall Junction and the northern one (at milepost 62) Collingtree Junction. Both junctions will be commissioned in the autumn. Collingtree Junction connects to the terminal through a short tunnel, which has been under construction for two years and clearly visible from passing trains. It appeared initially as a standalone concrete box, but has now been covered in earth as part of a…

HS2 NEWS Nine steel beams forming the structure of a 112m (122yd) bridge have been lifted into place over the HS2 alignment near Quainton in Buckinghamshire (left). They will carry Edgcott Road over the high-speed route and the currently disused ex-Great Central Railway line which runs northwards alongside it for five miles from the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre to Calvert. As one of 24 structures being built to accommodate both alignments, the new bridge gives scope for the line (which could provide a connection to the East West Rail route at Claydon) to reopen. The old Edgcott Road bridge can be seen behind the new one. By mid-July, 83 concrete beams weighing a total of over 1500 tonnes had been positioned onto the 91m (298.5ft) wide Carol Green bridge (right), which…

LOCOMOTIVE FOCUS OF the four locomotives used to haul the very last train of the British Rail steam era, three have been saved for preservation, but the fate of the fourth took it down a line to the axeman. The ‘Fifteen Guinea Special’, better known by its famous headcode 1T57, ran from Liverpool Lime Street to Carlisle and back 56 years ago this month on August 11, 1968 and featured ‘Black Five’ No. 45110 from Liverpool to Manchester Victoria (and back), ‘Britannia’ No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell from Manchester to Carlisle via Settle, and ‘Black Fives’ Nos. 44781 and 44871 from Carlisle to Manchester, again via Settle. Today No. 70013 is part of the National Collection and, although currently out of action being overhauled at GCR Loughborough, it has seen regular…

FOLLOWING the end of steam operations at Sandaoling Mine in China last autumn, the honour of being the last place in the world where multiple steam engines are operated in service each day has fallen to Tuzla, the third largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The area in the north-east part of the Balkan country is home to a number of opencast coal mines that generate rail traffic to coal-fired power stations. The mines produce lignite (brown coal), which is principally burnt in Kreka Power Station, just south of Tuzla, but other power stations are also supplied – including some in neighbouring Serbia. Opencast coal mines at Sikulje, Banovici and Dubrave each have steam locomotives to shunt coal wagons, the mines and locomotives being owned by Kreka Mining. Until around 2015, the…

100 YEARS AGO AUGUST 1924 Mass exodus THE Great Western Railway mechanics, with their wives and families, numbering in all 29,000, constituted the biggest excursion in the world when they entrained at Swindon recently for their annual holiday. Some 19,000 adults and 10,000 children were conveyed to Penzance, St Ives, Newquay, Torquay, Ilfracombe, Taunton, Weston-super-Mare, Weymouth, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, the Channel Islands, Worcester, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Birkenhead, Pembroke Dock, Swansea, Aberystwyth, with five train loads going to London. They were accommodated in 31 trains totalling 520 coaches. 50 YEARS AGO AUGUST 1974 Evaluation trials of HST THE prototype High Speed Train (HST) set of British Railways has now completed the first stage of its evaluation programme by running 100,000 miles in some nine months. This has included regular running at 125mph betweenYork…

THE project to reunify the surviving Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire sections of the Great Central Railway (GCR) has reached its latest milestone after a planning application was submitted to Charnwood Borough Council. Three parts of the scheme have already been completed and millions of pounds raised, but planning permission is required to construct further phases. It was initially planned to reinstate the lengthy section of missing embankment. However, rail designers Cass Hayward were asked to look again at the section north of the canal bridge and a revised scheme has now been developed. Working from south (GCR Loughborough station) to north, the Reunification project will see double track head over the canal bridge for a distance of approximately 80 metres. It will be an on an embankment, where the ground level…

KERR’S Miniature Railway (KMR) locomotive Loch Lee, the main engine used on the railway until its closure four years ago, has been loaned to the Scottish Deer Centre & Wildlife Park near Cupar in Fife, where a 273 yard-long line has been created. The 10.25 inch gauge KMR, which ran a distance of 350 yards at West Links Park in Arbroath, shut in October 2020 after 85 years of operation. Passenger numbers had fallen from around 60,000 per season in the 1950s to 2550 by its penultimate year of operation. KMR was well known for its proximity to the boundary with Network Rail, which gave visitors the opportunity to view the narrow gauge operation alongside standard gauge traffic travelling between Dundee and Aberdeen. Revival Hopes that it could be revived…

TWO Blackpool trams dating from the 1930s had significant roles to play on their respective home tramways on June 15. Modified English Electric ‘Balloon’ car No. 700 became the first tram from the Blackpool Heritage Trams fleet to operate a tour on the £23.4 million extension to the system between North Pier and the new terminus serving Blackpool North station. Coming three days after the official opening, it formed part of a programme of special trips prior to the launch of normal timetabled services the following day. The link brings trams back to the town’s Talbot Road for the first time since 1936, when the line from North Pier to Layton closed, although they continued to serve the station (which then extended onto the site of the current tram terminus)…

WHAT is expected to be the last delivery of coal to Ratcliffeon-Soar Power Station in Nottinghamshire was made by GB Railfreight on June 28. Owned by the German energy company Uniper, the power station is the last operational coal-burning example in the UK, and is due to close on September 30. Class 66 No. 66781, which was named Ratcliffe Power Station to mark the occasion, hauled 1650 tonnes of coal to the site, enough to power around 500,000 homes for eight hours. The movement ends a long-term partnership between GBRf and Uniper, during which a total of more than 6000 kilotonnes of coal has been delivered from the Port of Immingham. Closure of Ratcliffe will meet the UK target of this year for ending electricity generation using coal. Commissioned in…

FOLLOWING its announcement in March of plans for the interior refurbishment of all of its Class 158 and 170 diesel, and Class 360 electric multiple units, East Midlands Railway has released images of how it expects the revamped vehicles to look. In total, nearly £56 million will be spent on the project to modernise 90 trains, supported by the three companies who lease them to EMR – Porterbrook, Eversholt Rail and Angel Trains. The operator says the changes will enhance the travelling experience for passengers as its regional DMUs, which have migrated from different operators, will all be of a consistent standard once work has been completed. ‘Transformative’ “The £28.2 million refurbishment of our Class 170 and Class 158 trains will be transformative, offering customers more convenience, comfort, and better…

THE new Labour Government wasted no time in publishing proposals on July 18 for legislation to take back direct control of passenger services rather than use private company franchises or National Rail Contracts. This is not a far reaching change to the industry, as it is confined to amending the 1993 Railways Act in respect of franchising, while leaving independent regulatory functions in place. This means there will still be private freight operations, passenger charters and approved open access services. What it does do, however, is to prohibit franchise extensions and the granting of new franchises – although there is a caveat that franchise extensions will be allowed if it is not reasonably practical to transfer these to the public sector. The provisions also apply to Wales and Scotland, where…

THE Office of Rail & Road has received a formal appeal from Avanti West Coast against an improvement notice it issued to the operator concerning the lack of an automatic speed supervision system on its new Hitachi-built Class 805 and 807 ‘Evero’trains. Avanti’s Class 390‘Pendolino’ electric units and Class 221 ‘Super Voyager’diesel units, which form the rest of its fleet, are fitted with Tilt Authorisation and Speed Supervision System (TASS). This works in conjunction with balises placed in the‘four foot’between the rails on the West Coast Main Line to manage the speed and tilting of the trains (which, due to their tilting capability, can operate at a maximum speed of 125mph on the route). The ORR’s concerns are based on the fact that speed supervision is installed on these existing…

HEADLINE NEWS SUPPORTING vaults and a lost Mill Goit have been uncovered during work to transform the main entrance to Leeds City station. The somewhat cramped approach, formerly shared by pedestrians and road traffic, is being opened out in a £46m scheme to create a pedestrian-only‘gateway’to the city. The previous cycle hub and rotunda steps outside the station have already been demolished, exposing some of the vaults under the station and a disused waterway hidden away for decades. The Mill Goit is a man-made channel that took water from the nearby River Aire to power a long-demolished mill. It is now being repurposed as a cycle hub with space for around 600 bicycles. Other works include two passenger lifts connecting the upper level on New Station Street to the lower…

NB. Publication of a letter does not imply that the Editor or staff of The Railway Magazine necessarily agree with its contents. Leeds Central museum signs IT was good to see a feature on the new ‘mini museum’at Wellington Square in Leeds (June issue). It may interest readers to know that both of the tangerine signs in the museum have been loaned to the developers by the Middleton Railway Trust. The Middleton Railway has had these signs in its possession for many years, but have been stored with no real use in our own museum, which concentrates on the Middleton Railway and the Leeds locomotive building industry. When we heard of this project, we realised that we could finally give these signs the attention they deserve and, at the same…

WITH the end of the peak summer operating period on the horizon, several heritage railway venues are preparing themselves for the traditional autumn gala season. Two visiting main line steam locos are to be among the attractions at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway’s September 13-15 Annual Steam Gala. Bodmin Railway’s GWR ‘4575’2-6-2T No. 5552 is due to operate alongside the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s BR ‘2MT’No. 41241. They will be joined by three resident locos – Hunslet 0-6-0ST Jessie and Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T No. 1857 and Barclay 0-4-0ST‘Caledonian Works’. An extensive passenger timetable will be supplemented by the demonstration coal train in operation, plus static locomotive displays in the car park, and driver for a tenner. The following weekend, No. 41241 is booked to head east to star in…

THE overhaul of Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST Slough Estates No. 3 (1544/1924) at the Middleton Railway (MR) reached an important milestone on Wednesday, June 12, with the arrival of a new front frame stretcher. The original frame stretcher was found to be badly cracked and known to be beyond repair when the locomotive was dismantled for overhaul in 2022. The new one has been fabricated by Northern Steam Services of Stockton, the same firm which is now the custodian of No. 60103 Flying Scotsman for the National Railway Museum. The railway is looking towards preserving the front of the old frame stretcher, which has the name of the manufacturer cast in it. MR Trust engineers are now working to fit the new stretcher, which will almost complete the chassis overhaul, which…

THE Network SouthEast Railway Society (NSERS) has announced ambitious plans to restore its ‘4-CIG’electric multiple unit No. 1753 to main line standard. Society president Chris Green (who launched Network SouthEast in 1986 as the brand name for British Rail’s London & South Eastern sector when he was its director) attended Nemesis Rail in Burton-on-Trent to mark the launch of a public fundraising appeal. Both Nemesis Rail and the West Sussex-based bus company Southern Transit are supporting the project and allowing their premises to be used for work on the project, which NSERS says will help apprentices to learn and maintain the skills necessary to undertake such work in the future. It also wants to encourage volunteers to gain an insight into what is involved and potentially learn the basics of…

FIFTY years of electricity generation by Drax power station is to be marked over the weekend of August 17/18, when the Branch Line Society (BLS) has organised a series of special trains. The Society has planned a number of charity trains which will visit goods lines and branches, with others making circuits of the power station’s rail network. Proceeds from the trains on both days will be donated to Martin House Hospice at Boston Spa. Starting from Derby on August 17, a GBRf Class 69 will haul the‘Cooling Tower Choppers’on a one-way excursion from Derby (08.52) to Leicester (09.27), where a pair of Locomotive Services Class 20s will be attached. The BLS has requested a red stripe Railfreight pair which would mean Nos. 20118 and 20132. From Leicester, the tour…

AFTER over four decades of service, during which they are each estimated to have covered around 2.6 million miles (the equivalent of 400,600 loops of the system), the final two Metro-Cammell-built Glasgow Subway sets worked their last passenger duties on June 28. Car Nos. 119, 203 and 103 formed the final Outer Circle train of the old stock, entering traffic at 13.40 and leaving service at 17.14. Nos. 106, 207 and 120, which ran on the Inner Circle from 13.45, brought the curtain down on the 44-year reign of the Birmingham-built units, when they went out of service at 17.24. A total of 33 sets were introduced in 1980 following a three-year closure of the system for modernisation, with an additional eight trailer cars, built in 1992, subsequently being added…

SELF-PROPELLED or autonomous wagons are fairly unusual, with only 14 currently in use. Balfour Beatty has two YJA-F power wagons (Nos. DR 78701/702, dating from 2004) for use with Harsco Track Technologies’New Track Construction (NTC) machines. An earlier version of NTCs, operated by GART Renewals, used a tracked bulldozer for on-site haulage. Network Rail owns Cowans Boyd YXA-P power wagons Nos. DR 89005/007/008. Introduced in 1985 by British Rail, there were originally 16 long-welded rail trains (LWRT) with the power wagons providing traction and braking during rail drops to the trackbed. Most of these sets were replaced by locomotive-powered Rail DeliveryTrains (RDT), though three were refurbished in 2006-07. Known as LWRT 01-03, they were lengthened by one YEA‘Perch’ intermediate flat to allow the carriage of 216 metre-long ‘strings’of rail. Network…

Avanti West Coast Ten Voyager units, Nos. 221107/10-18, have now been handed over to CrossCountry with AWC retaining eight units, Nos. 221101-06/08/09, until December, six for daily service with two as spare or on maintenance. Realtime Trains shows that on Saturday, June 29, Pendolino No. 390009 on the 1A80/18.35 from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston failed on arrival at platform 5, Euston. The following day, Thunderbird Class 57 No. 57307 Lady Penelope was seen arriving light engine at platform 5, 0Z99 from Crewe Gresty Bridge to recover the failed Pendolino unit. AWC’s plain white unbranded Class 805 No. 805002 ran empty on Monday, July 1 as 5Q05/08.11 from Oxley Depot north to Carlisle (pass 11.33), Edinburgh (pass 13.33) and then south on the ECML via Newcastle (pass 17.01) to finally…

BRAZIL has a large rail network of around 30,000km with two main track gauges in use; metre gauge and 1600mm (5ft 3in) broad gauge. Apart from the electrified network in the Sao Paulo area, part of which is worked by Stadler built rack fitted locos, most of the lines are not electrified, and as a result a wide variety of diesel locos are in use. The majority of the locomotives hail from North American manufacturers, although many were built in Brazil where Wabtec (formerly GE) has a major locomotive factory. Railways in Brazil were privatised in the 1990s with former state railway Rede Ferroviária Federal SA (RFFSA) split up with six large mostly geographic concessions awarded. Passenger services such as the Trem de Prata between Rio de Janeiro to São…

HEADLINE NEWS PORTERBROOK has told The RM it expects to hand over two of the Class 769/9 multiple units originally destined for Great Western Railway to a freight operator next month, for use on parcels movements. Hauled during May from Long Marston (where they had been in storage) to Wabtec at Doncaster, Nos. 769935 and 769949 have been undergoing conversion into express freight units. As this issue went to press, Porterbrook was unable to reveal the identity of the freight company that will use them, but said it was looking at“other options”for conversions. The Class 769s were themselves converted from redundant Class 319 EMUs with the addition of diesel power packs to the driving trailer vehicles, giving them the ability to run in either diesel or electric modes. Eight were…

PARIS expanded its rail, metro and light rail network for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with events being held at locations across the city. The automated Metro Line 14 has been extended at both ends as part of the Grand Paris Express programme, which is building several completely new metro lines around Paris, mostly due to open in the 2030s. French President Macron opened the extended line on June 24, which now covers 28km (17.5 miles) from Orly Airport in the south to Saint-Denis-Pleyel in the north. Line 14 is expected to handle 700,000 passengers a day during the Games and will run all night on busy days, as are the Metro’s other two automatic Lines 1 and 4. Alstom is building a fleet of type MP14 rubber-tyred EMUs…

THE excavation of an underground box that will accommodate the HS2 platforms for the new‘super hub’station at Old Oak Common in West London has been completed after three years of work and removal of 1.3 million tonnes of London Clay. Creation of its walls (formed of a total of 1.12 miles of fibre-reinforced concrete) began in June 2021. Excavation started from both the east and west sides, meeting in the middle. The bottom is 20 metres (more than 65 feet) below ground level and has a base slab of concrete up to 2m (6.5ft) in depth. Assembled by hand onsite, 32,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement bars were used to complete the box, along with 160 reinforced concrete columns within the outer wall to help support the structure. HS2 Ltd says…

THE former Head Of Steam museum in Darlington has reopened as an enlarged heritage site renamed Hopetown Darlington following completion of a two-year, £37 million upgrade. The new site brings together a previously disparate group of buildings under a single banner, ahead of major celebrations in the town next year to mark 200 years of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR). The main museum in the North Road station building has been revamped, while the refurbished former Goods Shed and Carriage Works are now open to the public. As part of the scheme, the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has moved into a purpose-built engineering shed called Darlington Locomotive Works, which is connected to the museum by a new footbridge and lifts over Network Rail’s branch line to Bishop Auckland. The…

THE fog was so thick outside Leeds City Junction signalbox, it was impossible to see what moves were taking place except by observing the operation of the track circuits shown on the large diagram above the lever frame. Noel Proudlock, still in his teens, had been seconded on behalf of the District Office for four nights in February 1952, to record all train movements in and out of Leeds Wellington station. The first two nights had been foggy, but on the third it was impossible even to see which locomotive was moving where, let alone record its number. Luckily on the fourth night, February 28/29, it was clear enough to record the following account. Signalman Perkins was working the night shift single-handedly, as booked, in contrast to the double-manned day…

LOCOMOTION at Shildon is hosting a six-week summer festival, which includes a four-week visit from‘A3’No. 60103 Flying Scotsman. The Pacific was due to be at the National Collection’s County Durham rail venue from July 20 until August 18, with the wider festival being held until September 1. Flying Scotsman steam rides are available to book, including a cab ride experience, the chance to ride in a brake van hauled by the 4-6-2 and behind-the-scenes tours of the support coach. Steam rides with a replica of the seminal Stephenson’s Rocket or an‘08’diesel shunter will also run, as well as an opportunity to view Flying Scotsman on static display and climb aboard the cab. A‘Shildon-by-the-Sea’popup beach, street food stalls and a host of make-and-do kids’ activities will also be on offer to…

DESCRIBED by the Diesel & Electric Preservation Group as one of the most significant events in its 50 year history, a major operation was launched on July 8 to lift Class 52 No. D1010 Western Campaigner from its bogies, to allow them to be inspected and overhauled as part of the locomotive’s ongoing restoration. On the morning of July 8, two road cranes arrived at the south yard at Williton on the West Somerset Railway, accompanied by escort vans and a flatbed vehicle carrying specialist lifting tackle. Their role was to raise No. D1010 and move it onto stands formerly used at BR’s Swindon Works, where it will sit until its bogies are overhauled and ready to be reunited with its body. No. D1010 was last lifted when still in…

ESSENTIAL maintenance is to close the 8½ mile long Island Line, which will be followed by a nine-month long closure of the Ryde Pier Head section of the line. As reported in the July issue (p15), replacing the track and providing new trains on what is a short line, has proved anything but straightforward. News of the latest closure was released to the public two days after the July issue went to press. Network Rail has confirmed the line will close in its entirety from September 6 to October 6, for the maintenance which will include track and bridge renewals between Ryde St Johns Road and Ryde Pier Head, renovations to a historic footbridge at Brading, signalling works at Ryde and bridge repairs in Sandown. A rail replacement bus service…

THE first of South Western Railway’s 28 refurbished four-car Class 458/4 electric multiple units were introduced on June 24, for use (initially at least) on services from between Waterloo and Weybridge/Twickenham via Brentford. Nos. 458415/420/421/422 were the first sets placed into traffic to work in pairs as eight-car formations. Eleven units have so far been released from the £25 million refurbishment programme at Alstom’s Widnes site, during which they were returned to four-car configuration (with the removal of the additional intermediate car per set gained from the disbanded Class 460‘Gatwick Express’units), regeared to run at 100mph (rather than the previous 75mph) and had seating changed to a 2+2 layout. Interior Each Class 458/4 has a total of 234 seats in Standard Class. The majority are airline-style with folding tables and…

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IARNRÓD Eireann’s (IÉ) 2023 Annual Report showed significant growth in passenger journeys and a robust financial performance. The document highlights a 28.5% increase in passenger journeys, totalling 46.1 million trips, a figure nearing the pre-pandemic 2019 level of 50.1 million. Financially, the company reported a net surplus of €7.5 million, a substantial increase from the €0.8 million surplus recorded in 2022. This was driven by increased revenues from both freight and passenger services. Its freight business had mixed results in 2023, generating €10.7 million, with rail freight contributing €4.6 million. However, this was a slight reduction of €0.2 million, primarily due to the closure of Tara Mines. Despite this, the company is moving forward with its Rail Freight Strategy 2040. Key initiatives include the commencement of phase one of the…