February 2016
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Rail Express - February 2016

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Issue No. 237 February 2016

8 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.

14 BARNETBY FAREWELL
The famous semaphore signals at Barnetby
and along the North Lincolnshire line from
Scunthorpe to Cleethorpes are no more. We look
at the work done over Christmas, and how the
area just won't be the same again.

18 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.

26 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.

27 DERBY TRAINMAN & REVIEWS
Some drivers would readily let trainmen have a go –
while they got up to other things!

28 EXPRESS MAILBAG
Waverley Route diesels; 2-HAP restoration progress.

29 TIME TRAVELLER
Looking back over the past five decades.

30 LU WORLD
Watford Met Line extension gets the go-ahead.

71 RAILTOURS
Rare outing for Freightliner ‘66’; Class 59s in the
spotlight; charter diary for February.

73 PRESERVATION
The full list of operational ex-BR diesels and which
others should be back in traffic this year.

78 POWER BY THE HOUR
DRS culls its loco fleet; Caledonian ‘73s’ continue
testing; plus a full list of stored locos and locations.

82 POWERSCENE
Notable workings from the past month.

91 SHUNTER SPOT
DB Schenker fleet reduced to six in service.

92 UNITARY AUTHORITY
Thameslink ‘Desiro’ deliveries continue.

94 COACH COMPARTMENT
Chiltern slam-door Mk.3 suffers fire damage.

95 WAGONS ROLL
DB Schenker box programme – the story so far.

96 IRISH ANGLE
GM diesels feature on main line ‘Santa Specials’.





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