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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
NEWS: HEADLINE NEWS - 'Le Shuttle' services start; Nunney Castle in disgrace - again; Record runs on West Coast route; Bypass threat to Romney; Waterman gets green Class 26s; China clay trains to return to Wenford Bridge; Two green 'Jubilees' for GCR; VAT threat to hit steam centres; Sheffield Supertram hires a Class 02 - as a snowplough! Ixion works Res train; Historic tube stock for Epping & Ongar project; Through trains to West Somerset? No loco-hauled ScotRail trains; Cholsey bay reinstated MODERN TRACTION NEWS - Redundancy threat to National Power's Class 59; BR depot codes, revised; Unused features isolated on Gatwick Express locos; GEC- Alsthom wins LUL Northern line contract; Fratton depot back on the map. PRESERVED TRACTION NEWS - Threat over Class 503 and 506 units; Class 25 visits Shackerstone; Celtic 9000 Fund confirms main line bid; New homes for Class 26s; Ixion gets replacement turbo-charger; No plans for Class 50 run in Holland, yet. STEAM NEWS - Clan Line to haul rush-hour commuter train! Union of South Africa moves at last - by rail! BIyth & Tyne steam chaos; B1 return gets closer; London's 'Santa' success; Mid-Hants 'Tackle the Alps' offer to would-be drivers; Middleton stunned by festive break-in; Llangollen invests heavily in Flying Scotsman; No, 9 in Mid-Hants crew-training exercise. NARROW GAUGE NEWS - Caledonia reaches Snaefell summit; Welshpool's 'no' to town running; Ffestiniog to rebuild L&B coach; New museum at Cleethorpes; Talyllyn buys ex-MoD rail; New frames for Maria, NETWORK NEWS - Award for Waterloo International; 'Le Shuttle' freight increases; 'Cambrian Coast' branding unveiled; Stratford re-modelling explained; Temporary closure for LUL's East London line; Black leather jackets for Gatwick Express drivers. OPERATIONS NEWS - Tunnel derailment upsets south-west services; Airport Class 323 still hampered by teething problems; Withdrawn Class 56s reprieved; Kineton MoD update; Metrolink derailment. SPECIAL FEATURES: THE BOTTOM 100 STATIONS - Clapham Junction and Birmingham New Street are well-known as two of Britain's busiest stations. Alan Brackenbury looks at 100 stations at the other end of the scale with just a mere handful of departures. PRIVATISATION PROGRESS - John Cormack continues his look at the progress towards privatisation as the sell-off of Railtrack is announced. PANORAMA - Now sponsored by film giants Fuji - with free film for every successful 'Panorama' colour contributor - this month's 'Panorama' features an appropriate look at how the country's leading photographers interpret railways in winter. RAILS TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE - Railway Magazine's chief correspondent Peter Semmens pays a visit to Sweden and looks at a post-privatisation re-opening. STEAM: THE MAN WHO REMEMBERS THE LAUNCH OF 'RAILWAY MAGAZINE' - Nick Pigott interviews Britain's oldest railway celebrity - Kenneth Leech - who at 102 years of age, remembers the opening of the Great Central Railway and is older than the vast majority of steam locomotives extant in this country! MODERN TRACTION: MAINTAINING THE SHUTTLES - Although less glamorous than their 'Eurostar' counterparts, 'l_e Shuttle' locomotives are destined to become the workhorses of daily Channel Tunnel services. Colin J. Marsden visits Coquelles and examines how the locomotives and stock are maintained. NIGHTSTOCK - With 'Eurostar' day services now on stream, overnight sleeper services are due to begin early in 1996. Colin Marsden takes a preview of the stock and proposed services. PRESERVED TRACTION: THE 'PREMIER DIESEL LINE' - As well as being one of the country's leading steam lines, the East Lancashire Railway is considered by many to be Britain's premier diesel railway. Brian Ashworth and Graham Thornton tell the story., REGULARS: RAILWAY ANSWERS SEEN & HEARD READERS' FORUM COMING EVENTS STOCK SPOT DISPOSALS FRONT COVER - The Diesel Traction Group's Class 42 'Warship', No. D821 'Greyhound' - normally shedded on the Severn Valley Railway - reposes at Toddington during the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's diesel weekend on November 11, 1994. 'Greyhound' and its sister, Ho. D832 'Onslaught' are featured in the 'Premier Diesel Line' on pages 49-52.
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