Know your… liveries

TO CELEBRATE 40 years of the Class 59s, Freightliner is considering repainting pioneer 59001 back into the Foster Yeoman silver and blue livery it and 59002-004 wore when they were delivered to the UK

GB RAILFREIGHT’S first two Stadler Class 99 Electro-Diesels, 99001/002, arrived in UK on June 10, when they docked at the Port of Bristol. They were then moved by lorries to the nearby Avonmouth Hanso

he British Transport Commission’s Modernisation of the Railway report was released on January 25, 1955, by its chairman, Sir Brian Robertson, and suggested a £1.24 billion spend on the railways to upd

20213 and 20165 run alongside the river Forth via a loaded MGR from Kincardine Power Station to Longannet Power Station on February 25, 1991. This was a short term and short distance (about two miles)

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s diesel gala on June 12-15 had a varied mix of guest locos. Making the first appearance of a Class 50 on the line for more than a decade, 50021 Rodney was warmly rec

THERE HAS been a change of plan regarding wrapping Class 66s in a new livery for the new Belmond Britannic Explorer train as GB Railfreight ramps up the training for the introduction of the train, pla