Sam Hewitt
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Clan Line makes a surprise appearance on Bluebell Railway service train – for one day only
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BULLEID ‘Merchant Navy’ Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line made a surprise appearance on Bluebell Railway services on August 27 during a break from its busy main line schedule. The locomotive arrived at Sheffield Park two days previously in order to use the railway’s wheel drop to conduct a precautionary inspection and maintenance of the front bogie.…
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Ryde Rail: A History of Tube Trains on the Isle of Wight
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By Richard C Long ONE of the quirkiest and most interesting parts of the UK rail network is the line from Shanklin to Ryde Pier Head on the Isle of Wight. Since 1967, the line has been operated using second-hand London Transport Tube trains, and this new book provides a thorough history of the island’s electric…
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TRAIN TEST: LONDON OVERGROUND CLASS 710
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Transport for London’s Overground operation has transformed services on many local railways in the capital. As the city’s population grows and demand increases, its train fleet is expanding to create additional capacity. Ben Jones visits the modernised Gospel Oak to Barking line to sample the first Bombardier ‘Aventra’ design to enter service. Class 710 is the…
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Delays as person hit by train at Newark Northgate
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A person has died after being hit by a train at Newark Northgate station this afternoon, causing services to be cancelled or delayed as far as between Edinburgh and London.
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HS2 ‘will not solve the problems facing rail travellers today’
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HS2 should be scrapped in favour of upgrading existing rail routes, according to a free market think tank.
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Poppy Line launches appeal to restore Sheringham’s platform 2
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THE North Norfolk Railway (NNR) has mounted a £185,000 appeal to return platform 2 at Sheringham station to the condition it was in when the line was closed by BR in 1967. The project will see the long-demolished waiting room building re-instated, together with the wall, which was primarily there to support the canopy, but…
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Single-chimney ‘9F’ ready for traffic at North Yorks
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NEWLY restored BR ‘9F’ No. 92134 has steamed again at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Grosmont workshops, almost four decades after it left Barry Scrapyard for restoration. Howard Self’s single-chimney 2-10-0 was coupled to the borrowed ‘BR1G’ tender from Wansford-based ‘5MT’ No. 73050 City of Peterborough’ It was lit up for the first time on September 6…
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Bath conundrum
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I enjoyed Mike Arlett’s articles on Bath Green Park in the August and September’s issues. In particular, I was pleased to see the Ivo Peters’ photograph in the September article showing the departure of No. 568 on a Bournemouth train, and specifically No. 41902 preparing to leave on a local to Bristol St Philip’s. One…
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Practice & Performance: Working at Wortley – 1952
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Wortley Junction, west of Leeds, was a busy part of the network and had a complex layout. In an unorthodox Practice & Performance, John Heaton FCILT recalls how the ’box was operated, as well as timings of workings on that route. DUSK used to fall early on February afternoons in the northern industrial cities of…
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Why is it so important to clear leaves from tracks?
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When trains pass over leaves, the heat and weight of the trains bake them into a slippery layer on the rail which is the railway’s equivalent of black ice.
