RAILDATE 2024.10.25

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

UK Rail News

East

• The little-known rail project giving Reeves a £500m headache

East Midlands

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39l8jnypelo
• First look at Derby-made HS2 train interiors
• Name plates reunited with 'lost' steam engine

London

• London Underground: Why is the Victoria line so loud?
• Next train indicators at Abbey Wood Elizabeth line
• Plans for new London Overground station next to HS2 'under consideration'
• New London freight yard approved

North West

• Unique artwork celebrating Crewe unveiled at station
• New platform to be added to Salford Crescent
• Tram and Bus collision in Manchester
• No action against Network Rail over collapse of Northwich station building
• Sabotage of drainage pump near Hooton

Scotland

• Edinburgh tram workers win dispute over lack of toilet breaks
• Old railway artifacts in Elgin

South East

• First train completes test run between Oxford and Milton Keynes
• Plan proposed to fix crack in Hastings funicular wall
• Ore Tunnel closed for repairs during half-term -
• Boxhill and Westhumble station house for sale
• Test run between Milton Keynes and Oxford
• HS2 assembles new viaduct over River Cherwell floodplain
• Kingsferry bridge closure
• Lorry stuck inder Caversham Road railway  bridge in Reading
• Planning permission request for a new signal box at Sheffield Park
• ORR propose 66% cut in access fees for freight using HS1

Wales

• Passenger who died in mid Wales train crash named
• Passenger dies and 15 hurt after two trains crash
• Fatal collision at Talerddig
• RAIB statement on Talerddig collision
• Mid-Wales train crash: Poor rail adhesion found on track approaching site of head-on collision
• Steam railtour to Pembroke Dock

Yorkshire

• Network Rail confirms the closure of Deepcar branch

National

• HS2: Ministers to oversee build as costs 'spiral'
• Trainline announces Railcards will no longer work on all trains

International Rail News

Egypt

• Egyptian railways staffing and equipment problems

France

• Customised Stadler locomotives for Paris metro

Ireland

• Belfast-Dublin train: Enterprise bus substitution planned due to rail works

Switzerland

• Stadler to build metre gauge locomotive 's for Switzerland

Tanzania

• All aboard the new standard gauge railway in Tanzania

Other Transport Modes

Bus

• Former Albion Motors factory closed after 121 years.
• The London bus Superloop route which passengers love the most despite traffic issues

Canal

• Milestone' as bridge installed over Derbyshire canal

Marine

• Cargo ship with huge wing sail arrives into Southampton docks
• Resolve Marine Hired to Remove Oil From WWII Wreck in Grenville Channel
• Shipwreck Hunters Find Lost World War II-Era Submarine That Vanished With 64 Crew Members Onboard

Credits

Thank you to this week's contributors.

• Alan Rushworth
• Brian Billing
• Matthew Shaw
• Mike Price
• Neil Kearns
• Paul Hopper
• Paul Tambini
• Richard Buckby
• Richard Maund

The Weekly Poser: Where is this?

This "temporary" station on Brunel's Great Western Railway lasted 35 years (1838 - 1872). Where is it?

Please send your answers to raildate.co.uk@gmail.com

Last week's Where is this?

The Loco, Carriage & Wagon Department, Aberystwyth signboard is not in Wales at all. Where is it?

Answer: Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum, Germany. Congratulations are due to the following for their correct answers: Phil Deaves, Dave Goodyear, Andrew Treves, Gérard van Teeffelen, Paul Hopper, Tony Harker, Neil Spencer

After a late-September trip on the nearby steam-hauled Hespertalbahn, I visited this roundhouse museum. Both are actually in Essen. There is quite an extensive narrow gauge network (the Feldbahn) around the site but working trains are currently suspended. Visitors are conveyed to/from Dahlhausen station on the double-ended railbus.

One of the test vehicles from the abortive attempt at building a Maglev is on display. The test track in NW Germany closed after a fatal accident in 2006 but the concrete structures remain.

SMALL PRINT

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