Trains - Page 2
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Features
Meteor conversion aims to make '08' a star
Pip Dunn reports on a project to provide low-cost, low-emission shunting locomotives, using the Class 08 as a starting point
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Features
Suppliers’ uncertain wait for new trains
Challenges - and opportunities - ahead for Britain’s train builders, refurbishment specialists and their supply chains, as they await vital new orders.
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Current Trains
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
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
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
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
Carry on tamping
London Underground’s ageing maintenance fleet has become the welcome beneficiary of fresh investment. PAUL STEPHEN reports
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New Trains
Deep thinking
RICHARD CLINNICK finds out how Bombardier’s bid for New Tube for London will bring global experience to a very British institution…
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Current Trains
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
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?