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The Railway Magazine - May 2016

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Contents
May 2016. No. 1,382. Vol 162. A journal of record since 1897.

Headline News

New Northern and TransPennine franchises launched;
Govia takes ASLEF to court; HST in collision at Plymouth;
floating track sections laid in CrossRail tunnels; £200,000
appeal to wheel 'P2'; Midland Metro to open to New
Street; Ufton Nervet bridge work begins; Three-way
battle for West Midlands franchise.

On the cover
MAIN IMAGE: On April 16
the Royal Scot Locomotive
& General Trust's flagship
locomotive – Fowler/Stanier
4-6-0 No. 46100 Royal Scot –
was given its first real main
line test when it hauled the
Railway Touring Company's
'Scot Commemorative' from
Crewe to Carlisle and back
via the Cumbrian Coast. The
train is pictured following
the shores of the Irish Sea
at Nethertown, north of
Ravenglass.
JOHN COOPERSMITH

INSET: A look inside the 'ghost' London Underground station
at Down Street - see p38. LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM

Track Record The Railway Magazine’s monthly news digest
12 Multiple Aspects
With Lord Berkeley.
12 Railways in Parliament
20 Subscription Offer
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34 Readers' Platform
Your thoughts and opinions on the topics that matter
to you.
50 100 years ago
What The RM was reporting 20, 50 and 100 years ago.
54 Panorama Special
A spotlight on the photography of the late T B Owen.
104 & 106 Heritage Diary
Opening times of steam centres and heritage railways.
62 Steam & Heritage
Gresley statue unveiled at King's Cross; 'Gloucs-Warks'
pushes for Broadway; Council backs Wadebridge
extension; double 'Manors' at Llangollen.
68 Industrial Steam
71 Steam Portfolio
72 Traction & Stock
More Hitachi bi-mode trains for TransPennine; second
batch of Class 68s complete; Vivarail moves in on main
line testing.
76 Traction Portfolio
78 Narrow Gauge
Ffestiniog to build new Double-Fairlie; Fletcher, Jennings
quintet for Talyllyn; Samson steams at Beamish.
81 Metro
82 Network
Norton Bridge flyover opens; plans for new look for
Bradford Forster Square unveiled.
84 World
86 Classic Traction
NRM 'Deltic' goes green; S&D diesel gala at West
Somerset; diesel festival for Severn Valley.
90 Classic Traction Portfolio
92 Miniature
93 Freight
94 Railtours
98 Operations
Our round-up of news from the train and freight
operating companies.
Regulars
12 Multiple Aspects
With Lord Berkeley.
12 Railways in Parliament
20 Subscription Offer
Subscribe today and receive your monthly copy of
The Railway Magazine for just £20!
34 Readers' Platform
Your thoughts and opinions on the topics that matter
to you.
50 100 years ago
What The RM was reporting 20, 50 and 100 years ago.
54 Panorama Special
A spotlight on the photography of the late T B Owen.
104 & 106 Heritage Diary
Opening times of steam centres and heritage railways.
108 Meetings
Details of railway society meetings near you.
114 Prize Crossword and Where Is It?
Features
14 Along the Welsh Marches
For this month's Practice & Performance Keith
Farr examines the exploits of both GWR and LMS
locomotives on the North & West route between
Shrewsbury and Newport.

23 The Hurn Branch
Stephen Roberts revisits the long-lost Hurn branch in
Hampshire, which closed in 1935, but which was first
mooted for closure more than 100 years ago.
He discovers what can still be seen today.

28 British locomotives in Poland
British-built electric locomotives are not confined to UK
rails as Chris West discovered when he ventured into
Poland to find these Cold War survivors still in front-line
service.

38 Churchill's Secret Station
As London Transport Museum begins a new series
of tours of London's forgotten Tube stations,
Chris Milner goes underground at Down Street – home
of Churchill's secret bunker.

46 Turning a dream into reality
Professor Dennis Wilcock outlines the Great Central
Railway's project to reconnect the two preserved
sections of the London Extension with a bridge over the
Midland Main Line.

54 Panorama Special
This month we give our Panorama pages over to the
photography of the late Trevor Boyd Owen, whose
40,000 steam and diesel images are now in the care of
the Colour Rail archive.





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