Current Trains
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Current Trains 26 Sep
FROM THE ARCHIVES: How to drive a ‘Class 37’
RICHARD CLINNICK joins Abellio drivers undergoing training on the locomotives
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Current Trains 13 Feb
How the HSTs are being transformed for Scottish services
RICHARD CLINNICK investigates the work being done to modify Great Western High Speed Trains before their cascade to north of the border
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Current Trains 30 Mar
Fearless returns after 15 years
RAIL looks back at the first Class 50's final years in service and its remarkable return to the main line in 2016
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Current Trains 16 Mar
VTEC’s HSTs: life begins again at 40
VTEC’s £4.5 million refurbishment and overhaul of its High Speed Train fleet could be the final revamp for the workhorses as they approach 40 years’ service
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Current Trains 17 Feb
Carry on tamping
London Underground’s ageing maintenance fleet has become the welcome beneficiary of fresh investment. PAUL STEPHEN reports
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Current Trains 3 Feb
A capital pedigree
The S-Stock Tube train has been a resounding success for Bombardier. RICHARD CLINNICK looks at why it is so well liked by London commuters
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Current Trains 3 Feb
Mind the generation gap
Bombardier has really raised the bar with its next generation Aventra variants. But will it overshadow Bombardier’s previous generation of trains?
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Current Trains 6 Jan
Golden oldies continue to play their tune
RICHARD CLINNICK reveals how veterans from the 1960s and earlier are being resurrected for niche duties across the country
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Current Trains 23 Dec
All ‘a-bird’ the Virgin Trains ‘Penguilino’
Virgin Trains made heads turn at King’s Cross when it unveiled its special Christmas wrap trains - the ‘Penguilino’ and the Claus 91’. NATALIE HORTON reports
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Current Trains 16 Sep
Eversholt takes the initiative
Eversholt Rail has taken bold steps in modernising Scotland’s trains in readiness for a rejuvenated network
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Britain’s hardest-working train
RICHARD CLINNICK climbs on board a Class 390 Pendolino that within 24 hours travels more than 1,300 miles up and down the West Coast Main Line
Railway renaissance
In the final part of his All-Line Rover trip around the UK’s railways, PAUL BIGLAND focuses on the North, before a final trip back down to King’s Cross
