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  • Eurostar runs final direct Disneyland Paris service while Amsterdam route faces suspension

    Eurostar runs final direct Disneyland Paris service while Amsterdam route faces suspension

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    Eurostar has ended its direct service to Disneyland Paris, while its Amsterdam link faces being suspended for nearly a year.

  • Operation ‘Javelin’

    Operation ‘Javelin’

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    Class 395 ‘Javelin’ charter trains have raised more than £125,000 for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. With this year’s Remembrance Day only two months away, Doug Lindsay takes up the story. The history of these special charter trains, utilising Southeastern High Speed Class 395 ‘Javelin’ trains’, dates back to 2011, and followed a meeting…

  • Asset Monitoring: Looking after the rail infrastructure

    Asset Monitoring: Looking after the rail infrastructure

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    Many RM readers will have seen the yellow Network Rail trains around the country, but what do they do and why are they operated? Andrew Royle, who was a technician on the trains, explains their crucial role.  The yellow-liveried test trains of Network Rail, or ‘Infrastructure Monitoring’ (IM) trains to use the correct description, feature…

  • 300 passengers stranded on HST after landslide causes ‘major incident’

    300 passengers stranded on HST after landslide causes ‘major incident’

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    AROUND 300 passengers became stranded on an East Midlands Trains HST for hours after a diverted train was engulfed in a landslide, and a rescue train sent to assist was stopped by rising flood waters. What turned into a major rescue, involving the emergency services and Network Rail, occurred on June 13 when the Midland…

  • Straighter and faster for Midland Main Line at Market Harborough

    Straighter and faster for Midland Main Line at Market Harborough

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    Market Harborough station reopened to passengers on June 3 after a six-day blockade to connect the newly realigned station to the Midland Main Line (MML).  Originally planned as part of the MML electrification programme, the elimination of tightly curved platforms in the Leicestershire town allows higher line speeds and increases safety for passengers using the…

  • Thousands of Eurostar passengers delayed by ‘Brexit’ protestor

    Thousands of Eurostar passengers delayed by ‘Brexit’ protestor

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    Terry Maher, 44, of Cubitt St, Camden, gained access to the roof of the tunnel on the evening of March 29.

  • Abellio awarded East Midlands franchise – after DfT disqualifies Stagecoach

    Abellio awarded East Midlands franchise – after DfT disqualifies Stagecoach

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    A decision by the Department for Transport (DfT) to award the East Midlands rail franchise to Abellio in the face of the disqualification of incumbent Stagecoach could have far reaching effects on rail franchising. The decision could lead to the Virgin Trains name disappearing, company founder Sir Richard Branson has admitted. .@VirginTrains can’t accept a…

  • Upgraded Lime Street is top station in Britain

    Upgraded Lime Street is top station in Britain

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    LIVERPOOL’S recently upgraded Lime Street station is the highest rated of Britain’s major stations by passengers in the latest National Passenger Rail Survey.  Scoring a 93.8% satisfaction rating, Lime Street narrowly beat St Pancras International (93.6%) and King’s Cross (92.9%) to top the list for Network Rail managed stations. NETWORK RAIL Read more News and…

  • What’s in the Shops: Farish six-car set   in ‘Western  Pullman’  guise

    What’s in the Shops: Farish six-car set in ‘Western Pullman’ guise

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    Graham Farish has reissued its popular ‘Midland Pullman’ set in the reverse livery of its final service on the Western Region. Nigel Burkin examines it in detail. The popular N-gauge six-car ‘Midland Pullman’ set by Graham Farish has reappeared in the BR ‘Corporate’ livery of rail blue and grey in what was to be its…

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