HEADLINE NEWS:
Arriva wins Northern Rail and First retains TransPennine Express, with both promising new
train fleets; flooding cripples the network; DRS puts locos up for sale; West Coast Railways
threatened with loss of safety licence; LMS 10000 group buys scrap Class 58; Stagecoach
withdraws from joint bid for East Anglia franchise; another Chiltern Class 68 catches fire.
BARNETBY FAREWELL - The famous semaphore signals at Barnetby and along the North Lincolnshire line fromScunthorpe to Cleethorpes are no more. We look at the work done over Christmas, and how the area just won't be the same again.
WEST COAST ELECTRIC 50 - Part 2 of our feature marking 50 years of electric
services out of Euston, looking at how the route developed from the 1970s to the present day.
0-60: CLASS 68 - The Scottish Class 68 locomotives sure are quick out of the blocks, as Neville Hill discovers in this month's time trial.
DERBY TRAINMAN & REVIEWS - Some drivers would readily let trainmen have a go while they got up to other things!
EXPRESS MAILBAG - Waverley Route diesels; 2-HAP restoration progress.
TIME TRAVELLER - Looking back over the past ?ve decades.
LU WORLD - Watford Met Line extension gets the go-ahead.
RAILTOURS - Rare outing for Freightliner Class 59s in the spotlight; charter diary for February.
PRESERVATION - The full list of operational ex-BR diesels and which
others should be back in traffic this year.
POWER BY THE HOUR - DRS culls its loco fleet; Caledonian continue testing; plus a full list of stored locos and locations.
POWERSCENE - Notable workings from the past month.
SHUNTER SPOT - DB Schenker fleet reduced to six in service.
UNITARY AUTHORITY - Thameslink Desiro deliveries continue.
COACH COMPARTMENT - Chiltern slam-door Mk.3 suffers fire damage.
WAGONS ROLL - DB Schenker box programme a€" the story so far.
IRISH ANGLE - GM diesels feature on main line 'Santa Specials
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