Sam Hewitt
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Driverless people mover plan for HS2
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HS2 has unveiled designs for a driverless people mover that will connect its Interchange station in Solihull with Birmingham Airport, Birmingham International station and the National Exhibition Centre. The people mover will feature 20-metre vehicles departing every three minutes over a 1.5-mile route, entirely on a viaduct. It will be capable of carrying up to…
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Terrible state of the lineside – RM readers voice concerns
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I AM a driver with a UK train operator and raised the issue of the state of the lineside about eight years ago with Network Rail, citing the points that both The RM and David Nattress made. Their answer? “We and our contractors clean-up after every job and we recovered enough scrap rail to go…
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Vandals ordered to pay compensation to model railway club
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Three teenagers have been sentenced after a model railway exhibition was destroyed at a school in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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GWR sheds make way for Old Oak Common hub
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Demolition of former Great Western Railway sheds at Old Oak Common, in west London, was completed in July.
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West Highland Line re-opens after flooding
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Network Rail has announced that the West Highland Line has fully re-opened for start of service today, after repair works finished following flash floods.
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Lakeside’s Barclay steals the show at Foxfield gala
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VISITING Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T No. 14 (1245/1911) certainly stole the show at the Foxfield Railway’s Summer Gala on July 20-21, recalling the heyday of the Scottish coalfields when these big Barclay tanks were a common sight on coal trains. The former Carron Iron Company loco had made the journey to Staffordshire from its home at…
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Preserving Britain’s railway heritage
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As long ago as 1845 Benjamin Disraeli wrote in his novel Sybil: ‘The railways will do as much for mankind as the monasteries did’
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North set to receive ‘£2,300 less per person in transport spending than London’
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Boris Johnson has been urged to keep his promises after a report suggested the North is set to receive more than £2,300 less per person in transport spending than London.
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Snowdon Mountain Railway invests in future with new hybrid diesel locomotives
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Snowdon Mountain Railway has begun a programme of replacement for its existing diesel locomotives which began service in 1985.
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British railways still Europe’s safest – but SPAD risk rises
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The RSSB annual health and safety report for 2018/19 confirms Britain’s place as the safest of the European Union’s 10 biggest railway networks.
