“large void” caused by damaged pipe led to class 195 derailment

Reduced services could continue for months. RAIL heads out on track to assess the scale of the challenge

Our final extract from Bradley’s Railway Guide: A Journey through Two Centuries of British Railway History, 1825-2025 takes us to 2000… and an accident that would change the face of the railway

Network Rail accused of “losing control of its estate”

D3265 – Llangollen: Work has continued on the overhaul of the Class 08 based in North Wales, with a start made on looking at the valves and guides and also pressure testing of the block itself. Firstl

DR JOSEPH BRENNAN considers the challenge to make the railway safer, and how lessons can be learned from incidents at level crossings

ABOVE: On June 2, 1980, 20066 hauls a coal train from Markam Colliery formed of mineral wagons and hoppers at Barrow Hill, having just come off the line from Hall Lane Junction and Seymour Junction. C