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Type 5s star on charity charter
Five Type 5 freight locomotives from GB Railfreight and Cappagh starred on a Branch Line Society charter from Derby to Hove and back on August 3.
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Charity charter celebrates Drax’s 50th anniversary
A series of charter trains ran over two days on August 17/18, raising more than £30,000 for charity to commemorate 50 years of Drax Power Station.
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Something for everyone on LSL North-West charter
Locomotive Services Limited, through its InterCity brand, ran the first muti-traction tour using all preserved former BR heritage locomotives on August 10.
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Class 08s and ‘09’ on the move
Preserved 08888 has gone on hire at Wolverton Works, replacing 09009.
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Balfour Beatty starts work on new £10.5m wheel lathe facility
Balfour Beatty has commenced construction on a state-of-the-art £10.5 million wheel lathe facility in Holyhead.
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UK's first Intercity battery train hits the tracks
Main line tests have started on the nation's first intercity battery train. The class 802 bi-mode unit has seen one of its engines replaced and retrofitted with batteries, a first for the UK rail network.
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More Class 90s are broken up
The latest former DB Cargo Class 90s to be scrapped by Sandbach Dismantlers at Middlewich are 90023 followed by 90032.
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Two-sided livery shows true colours for restored ‘90’
The only Class 90 that can so far be regarded as preserved, last-built 90050, has been repainted in a clever ‘dual’ livery.
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‘465’ at Yarmouth for evaluation
ROMIC Group has moved 465237 to Great Yarmouth from the Potter Group site at Ely, for it to be inspected and evaluated by a potential client.
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Stricken Class 66 ready to move
A month after its ran into issues at Blair Atholl, Direct Rail Services 66122 was still dumped in a siding at Dunkeld & Birnam.
