DAVID JUKES mixes third-rail and overhead electrification for his chosen pick of EMUs past and present…

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…and full electrification should have been agreed from the start

When I started trainspotting in April 1981, it was at Berkswell Station, between Coventry and Birmingham International, and a five-mile bike ride from my home town of Kenilworth. I’d tried Tile Hill s

I doubt there are any drivers still alive who were among some of the first to be trained on driving the English Electric Type 5s – the famous Deltic – in 1961. For those who were trained at the time,

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