Flex

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Porterbrook: modified trains have a role to play

Porterbrook claims that maximising the service life of trains, as well as avoiding premature scrapping, helps save unnecessary carbon emissions.

6 Apr

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Spring debut targeted for Welsh FLEX bi-modes

Heavily-delayed bi-mode trains finally set for passenger introduction

20 Feb

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Great Western Railway to keep using Pacers into 2020

Continued delays to tri-mode FLEX fleet forces GWR to retain its eight Class 143s

29 Oct

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EXCLUSIVE: London Gateway-Liverpool Street freight trial planned

Freight to serve London terminus from next year

9 Oct

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New trains promised, but many are already delayed

Of the 11 operators introducing new trains this year, six were due to put them into traffic last year.

9 Jan

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EXCLUSIVE: Northern to introduce converted bi-modes next year

Northern confirms FLEX will enter traffic in first half of 2019 as testing continues at Great Central Railway

23 Oct

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Nineteen tri-mode Flex Class 769s for GWR

Porterbrook to lease 19 tri-mode Class 769s to Great Western Railway from next year

19 Apr

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Flex and flexibility

Porterbrook’s plan to run converted Class 319 EMUs as hybrid units by fitting diesel engines will be realised this year. RICHARD CLINNICK reports.

22 Jan

Northern 319434 inside Brush Traction, Loughborough on August 15. This is Unit 2 in the Flex programme. RICHARD CLINNICK.

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EXCLUSIVE: Engine testing about to begin on Flex Class 769s

Engine testing on converted Class 769 Flex about to begin

30 Aug

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Flex... and flexibility

Porterbrook’s plan to run converted Class 319 electric multiple units as hybrid units by fitting diesel engines could be realised by the end of the year.

14 Mar

Flex

Porterbrook: modified trains have a role to play

Spring debut targeted for Welsh FLEX bi-modes

Great Western Railway to keep using Pacers into 2020

EXCLUSIVE: London Gateway-Liverpool Street freight trial planned

New trains promised, but many are already delayed

EXCLUSIVE: Northern to introduce converted bi-modes next year

Nineteen tri-mode Flex Class 769s for GWR

Flex and flexibility

EXCLUSIVE: Engine testing about to begin on Flex Class 769s

Flex... and flexibility

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No takers so first DB Cargo UK Class 67 goes for scrap

HS2 faces £100bn cost and delay until late-2030s, government told

FirstGroup explains why Class 222s were "only option" for Lumo Euston-Stirling service

Flex

Porterbrook: modified trains have a role to play

Spring debut targeted for Welsh FLEX bi-modes

Great Western Railway to keep using Pacers into 2020

EXCLUSIVE: London Gateway-Liverpool Street freight trial planned

New trains promised, but many are already delayed

EXCLUSIVE: Northern to introduce converted bi-modes next year

Nineteen tri-mode Flex Class 769s for GWR

Flex and flexibility

EXCLUSIVE: Engine testing about to begin on Flex Class 769s

Flex... and flexibility

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No takers so first DB Cargo UK Class 67 goes for scrap

HS2 faces £100bn cost and delay until late-2030s, government told

FirstGroup explains why Class 222s were "only option" for Lumo Euston-Stirling service

GB Railfreight planning to repurpose at least 12 more Class 66s for heavy trainloads

DB Cargo UK discussing transferring drivers to rival as it deals with Network Rail contract loss

FirstGroup confirms Class 222s for Euston-Stirling Lumo route

Chiltern Railways on verge of agreeing deal to take ex-TransPennine Express Mk 5s

Why the Class 67s have been running on borrowed time for nearly the whole of their lives

Network Rail begins process to replace rail infrastructure monitoring trains