May 2016
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Rail Express - May 2016

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8 HEADLINE NEWS
No sell-off for Network Rail; Hull Trains gets rights until 2029; New TransPennine Express and Northern franchises begin; Funding agreed to develop HS3 route; VTEC ‘91’ launches NRM ‘Flying Scotsman’ exhibition; Borders Railway back to Carlisle?; More ‘86s’ head to Bulgaria; ‘Choppers’ return to King’s Cross; Royal Scotsman livery for GBRf ‘66’; TfL approval for Barking Riverside; Ordsall Chord challenge dismissed; Virgin Trains unveils Class 800 ‘Azuma’ at King’s Cross – the first of its new East Coast fleet.

18 A FIERY END
Vic Berry’s scrapyard in Leicester saw off hundreds of ex-BR vehicles, but it came to an end 25 years ago in a major fire.

24 LIFE IN THE FAST LANE!
Right place, right time – chance photos of trains overtaking on the main line.

30 ‘04’ DOWN UNDER
One reader was surprised to find a Class 04 lookalike at work in Australia.

31 0-60: CLASS 143
The Teign and Exe estuaries are the setting to test out Devon ‘Pacers’.

32 TIME TRAVELLER SPECIAL
A look back to what was making the news in issue 1 of Rail Express, 20 years ago.

34 DERBY TRAINMAN
Servicing locos on the nightshift.

77 EXPRESS MAILBAG
Tamworth Castle at Tyseley; The end of NRN; Huddersfield ‘08’ haulage; No. D1010 lives.

78 LU WORLD
Boring machine for Northern Line extension.

79 RAILTOURS
West Coast Railways ban lifted; ‘Hoovers’ set for Swanage; full tour listing for May.

82 PRESERVATION
DRS ‘47’ sold to preservation; NRM ‘Deltic’ goes green; Hydraulics for Swanage and Spa Valley.

86 POWER BY THE HOUR
Six more Class 68s arrive; DRS reveals loco sale results; Electro-diesels reach Aberdeen on sleepers; 'Shed' shell gets a reprieve.

90 POWERSCENE
Notable workings listed class by class.

98 UNITARY AUTHORITY
‘New’ Class 320s enter ScotRail service.

100 SHUNTER SPOT
HNRC shunters for Cardiff Tidal.

102 COACH COMPARTMENT
More DRS coaches enter service.

103 WAGONS ROLL
More VTG Ecofrets for GBRf.

104 IRISH ANGLE
New station opens on Londonderry line.





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