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Coal trains, first and last?
The final delivery to Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in June ended a 400-year history of coal by rail that began just a few miles away on the edge of Nottingham, as Bob Gwynne describes.
Open for business
Siemens’new factory in Goole is ramping up production of its first order of trains for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.
Practice & Performance
Class 45s were common on trans-Pennine services in the 1980s, so surely a railtour run in 2024 couldn’t set a new record time? Or maybe it could, as John Heaton FCILT finds out.
Mongolian diesel odyssey
Steve Morris recounts a two-week trip around Mongolia, the landlocked East Asian country sandwiched between northern China and Russia.
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