Alstom crewe’s latest milestone

After months of meticulous technical upgrades, Govia Thameslink Railway has reintroduced Class 379 Electrostars into passenger service. RICHARD WILCOCK pays a visit to Hornsey Depot to find out more

12099 – Kidderminster: The Class 11 was taken out of service in 2019 for overhaul. Since then it has received a thorough internal and external makeover from bufferbeam to bufferbeam by the dedicated t

Moving a 117-tonne Class 50 between railways, neither of which is main line-connected, calls for a specialist company. Allelys is just the ticket, as PIP DUNN discovers

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

Over the past five years, Govia Thameslink Railway has been quietly overhauling its fleet of Class 377s and ‘387s’. As the refurbishment reaches its completion, RICHARD WILCOCK visits Selhurst Depot in south London to learn more about Project Aurora