Issue No. 225 February 2015

8 NEWS
Christmas engineering works end in fiasco at King’s
Cross; Reading viaduct opens; West Coast Main Line
open access denied; double-deck trains for Waterloo?;
Bicester Chord nears completion; DfT wrong to get
directly involved with IEP and Thameslink procurement.

16 BOX-TO-BOX: The Highland Main Line
Documenting the manual signalboxes on the highly
scenic line north from Perth to Inverness.

22 YELLOW GOES OUT OF SEASON
Looking back on the six Network Rail Class 57/3s
now that the last one has gone for repainting.

25 NETWORK RAIL TONBRIDGE
Behind the scenes at the purpose-built depot for
autumn and winter seasonal trains in Kent.

26 0-60: CLASS 153
How quickly can these railcars get off the mark?

27 TIME TRAVELLER
News from February over the past five decades.

28 EXPRESS MAILBAG & REVIEWS
D7018 update; a salutary lesson; HST prototype.

65 LU WORLD
Could ‘D’ Stock be a replacement for ‘Pacers’?

66 RAILTOURS
DRS ‘37s’ – what has and hasn’t worked a tour
recently? Plus a full listing of forthcoming trips.

68 PRESERVATION
Detailing which diesel locos are currently
operational on our heritage railways; MGR wagon
bid successful; power unit removed from
‘Western’; and gala events in 2015.

71 POWER BY THE HOUR
More Class 92s to leave for Eastern Europe;
further delays for rebuilt ‘73s’; ETL Class 86s
head to Willesden for assessment.

71 STORED LOCO UPDATE
A full roundup of all 300 locos in store around
the country, a total which has risen in 2014.

74 POWERSCENE
Our roundup of notable locomotive workings.

82 UNITARY AUTHORITY
Class 387s enter service with Govia Thameslink.

84 SHUNTER SPOT
RMS Locotec helps out at Bounds Green.

85 COACH COMPARTMENT
First HST Composite conversion begins.

87 WAGONS ROLL
Prototype BGA steel carriers go for scrap.

88 IRISH ANGLE
‘Santa specials’ feature GM haulage; new look
for ‘Enterprise’ loco; DD set goes for overhaul.

FRONT COVER: Stored Class 58s Nos. 58048 and
58022 look in a sorry state in the sidings at Crewe
Electric depot on June 30, 2014. These are just two of
the 300 locos in store around the country, and we
detail exactly what’s where in our review starting on
page 71 this month. Nigel Bainbridge