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Merseyrail offers a swansong tour for Class 507s
Merseyrail and the Branch Line Society have announced ‘The Wirral Swansong’ charter as a farewell to the Class 507 electric multiple units.
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Main line-bound Class 89 at Crewe
The sole Class 89, owned by the AC Locomotive Group (89001), was collected from the UK Rail Leasing site at Loughborough on August 15 and taken to Crewe.
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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.
