Railways Illustrated
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The East Lancashire Line
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Author and prolific photographer Martyn Hilbert presents a profile of the 29-mile Preston to Colne line in the heart of East Lancashire, highlighting its services, stations, and prominent structures, in words and pictures.
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An Iconic Mark 1
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Creating a business converting former BR Mark 1 coaches for residential and leisure purposes was always going to be a challenge, but Armin Obrecht has almost completed his first conversion. Andy Coward met the Iconic Railway Coaches founder to find out more.
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Train services to London halted by damaged electric wires
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Rail services connecting parts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex with London are severely disrupted due to damaged overhead electric wires.
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Preview: October issue of Railways Illustrated
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Grab the brand new October issue of Railways Illustrated magazine for the best coverage of today’s railway scene.
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The Ludgershall branch in the diesel era
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David Lindsell returns with final instalment of his three-part series covering the history of the Ludgershall branch. This covers other special trains, engineering trains and maintenance specials, redundant stock storage, and preservation, along with a report on a depot visit that took place in 1998.
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Preview: September issue of Railways Illustrated
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Grab the brand new September issue of Railways Illustrated magazine for the best coverage of today’s railway scene.
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Hitachi: We have contingency plans to deal with strike by RMT staff
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Rail firm Hitachi says it has contingency plans in place to deal with a strike by some of its workers.
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Drivers’ strike to cause severe disruption to rail services
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Rail services will be severely disrupted on Saturday because of a strike by train drivers in the latest outbreak of industrial unrest in the industry.
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Network Rail begins consultation process with unions on maintenance reforms
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Network Rail has formally started the legal consultation process with unions on the maintenance reforms it says are needed to modernise and improve productivity and efficiency, one of the issues at the centre of the current wave of strikes.
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HS2 tunnelling machine ‘Dorothy’ becomes first to complete its journey
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One of the giant machines digging the tunnels for HS2 has become the first on the project to complete the full journey underground.
