June 2005

04 News
All the breaking news plus much more. HST power car with MTU engine rolled Out at Brush Traction, Chris Green takes up a new post with Network Rail and Bombardier wins Chittern Turbostar? trailer order.

12 News pictorial
News in picture form: SWTs? bubblecar? makes its debut, GBRI? starts new Petrochem-Carless flows and first refurbished One? Class 315 delivered.

16 Traction & RoLling StOck
Fourteen pages of traction news and top photography: Power by the hour, Powerscene, Shed talk, Spectrum, Name game, Shunter spot, Unitary authority, Coaches, Wagons and Irish. Unbeatable coverage.

26 Mess room
Unwind with RAIL EXPRESS? light-hearted page. Free biscuits, fish trains, smelly Pendolinos? and a large logo 37/4? all get a mention... -

32 Preservation
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway has sold its Class 25-it may return main Line certificated! Ruston PWM654 shunter saved for Peak Rail.

34 Midland MainLine: 10 out of 10
Midland Mainline now tops the punctuality league ollong distance operators. It wasn?t always the case. Find out how the turnabout in fortunes took place.

41 Time traveller
The railway headlines from this month 5 10,20, 30 and 40 years ago. 30 years ago, the prototype HST entered service on the Western Region.

42 Retrospectrum: InterCity Executive
InterCity created its own identity in the early 1980s based upon that carried by the APT. We take a look back and provide a full list of locos so adorned.

Modeller

III Comment: Modelling the main line
Can?t find room for express trains? Think again and then consider changing to a smalLer scale - it?ll be worth it!

IV News: Trade developments
All the latest news including the next REM-sponsored limited edition - a Class 31 in Trainload Coal livery from Hornby.

VII Reviews: All the latest
Freightliner and GBRf Class 66s plus NSE-liveried Mk. is from Bachmann; New ?N? gauge Class 73s from Dapot, and the latest products from C-Rail Intermodal.

XI Exhibitions: Showcase 2005
Diesel & Electric Modellers United hosts its annual exhibition Burton-on-Trent sponsored by RAIL EXPRESS Modeller.

XII Layout focus: Kings Park
The ?N? gauge West Coast Main Line layout of the East Sussex (Hastings) area group of the N? gauge society described.

XVIII Tutorial: Class 50
The Phoenix Locomotives 5-inch Class 50 build project continues with the arrival and assembly of the motor bogies.

XIX Pictorial: JLTRT ?Peaks?
A short break from the construction process is provided by these images of recently exhibited completed models.

XX Serial: Mostyn
Richard Oldfield details the latest developments including news of the Barrowmore Model Railway Group open weekend.

XXII Spanner: In the Works
The chairman of The Pullman Society writes in following our feature on ECML train formations in REM11.