With the locomotive market in OO gauge now well and truly saturated, manufacturers have begun to turn to the still under-represented world of multiple units for new projects, with several key EMU desi

07013 – Bury: A few steps forward were made in early August when the locomotive was lifted from its wheels. All wheelsets require tyre turning to restore their profiles, and the Class 07’s sole AEI RT

Standing at Shrewsbury station on a surprisingly mild Halloween morning, I feel like I’m in something of a timewarp. For a start, not only does the station itself have a pleasing number of ‘proper’ se

This time of the year is traditionally quiet because many of the summer-only promoters don’t have much to say as they are working behind the scenes to announce programmes, probably sometime in Februar

BOTH THE West Coast and East Coast Main Lines are to change the operators providing Thunderbird cover to rescue stricken trains. The two Newark Thunderbirds will now be supplied by Colas for the ECML.

AS EXPECTED, Freightliner has undertaken a loaded trial with a Rail Operations Group Class 93 to assess its feasibility of replacing pairs of Class 90s on intermodal trains. The test run was on Novemb