Class 379 electrostars begin new duties for gtr

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

In a special ceremony at its Peterborough depot on July 17, GB Railfreight officially showed off its brand-new Stadler Class 99 bi-mode locomotives to an audience of more than 250 stakeholders, staff

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

Devon debut for Coradias The first runs for a Class 175 in Devon took place on June 23, this seeing 175002 make four return trips between Plymouth and Newton Abbot, albeit operated by Rail Operations

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

Have you ever thought, ‘I dodged a bullet there’? Well, for anyone who chose not to travel on the Branch Line Society’s ‘Tytherington Quarrier’ charter of July 12, you most certainly did. This was one