RAILDATE 2024.07.12

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There are sections on:

• UK Rail News
• International Rail News
• Other Transport Modes
• The Weekly Poser (and the answer to last week's poser)

UK Rail News

East Midlands

• Information panels illuminate the history of Long Eaton’s four railway stations
• Internal refurbishment of EMR class 170 units
• Safety briefing for schools about 25kv overhead lines between Kettering and Wigston

London

• ‘Reopen Camberwell Station’ says Lib Dem candidate for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green
• Bus replacement rail service for North Greenwich
• Elizabeth line now has 4G and 5G coverage within the tunnels

Midlands

• Shakespeare Express from Worcester
• Repair work set to begin at 19th Century station
• Severn Valley Railway wins tourist award
• Restoration of a LNER Teak coach completed on the SVR

North East

• Fares for Northumberland Line announced as customers will pay no more than £3 for a single journey

Scotland

• Canopy at Girvan railway station could be set for return
• Ivatt class 2 in steam again
• Scotland's only Art Deco style train station set for stunning makeover
• Dunbar Railway Station welcomes Breathing Space bench
• ScotRail app and website not reflecting new timetable
• Helmsdale pupils perform song and poem at 150th railway anniversary event
• ScotRail to introduce temporary timetable

South

• A look back at Ventnor and its poorly sited stations

South East

• Botley Road bridge under Oxford station will not reopen in October
• Fears Abbey Line 'would become busway' under HERT scheme

Wales

• Trains to Pembrokeshire are rubbish, new MP says
• Recreation of gravity slate train on Festiniog Railway

West

• RAIB report int an accident at St Philips Marsh Depot September 2023
• Dawlish rockfall shelter listed for engineering award

Yorkshire

• First delivery of waste by rail to Yorkshire waste-to-energy facility
• Special trains to celebrate 50 years of Yorkshire Power Station

National

• Lord Peter Hendy appointed as minsiter of state for Transport
• Strikes resolution high on government to-do list
• Royal Mail to stop moving post by rail on cost grounds
• An American view of what the new government will or won't do to the railways.

International Rail News

Austria

• Cross-Europe sleeper services suspended for two months [correction from last week]

Canada

• Flyover to improve rail and road access to port at North Vancouver

USA

• Dangerous Goods derailment and fire in North Dakota
• STREET Running STEAM TRAIN & Freight Train

Other Transport Modes

Air

• Background to Boeing court case
• Boeing plead guilty to criminal fraud charges over 737MAX failures
• 30th June: Noratlas 2501 engine start, taxi, and take off

Credits

Thank you to this week's contributors.

• Alan Rushworth
• Mike Price
• Neil Kearns
• Paul Tambini
• Richard Buckby
• Richard Maund

The Weekly Poser: Where is this?

Not TfL - or London at all. Where is it?

Last week's Where is this?

A magnificent viaduct. Where is it?

Answer: Lydgate, NW of Todmorden. Congratulations are due to the following for their correct answers: [Fully correct] Simon Wass, Tony Harker, John Grimley, Tony Fox. [Close enough] Nigel Petre, Brian Francis, Simon Moppett, Jim Allwood. The following answers were rejected: Gauxholme, Denby Dale, Slaithwaite.

On the line towards Burnley there are several major viaducts that cross the A646, but this one - adjacent to Kitson Wood tunnel - does not.

Whilst staying in the area, I tried - and largely failed - to take photos from above, but this is a fine view. The Eagles Crag brewery occupies part of the mill behind.

SMALL PRINT

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