East midlands railway launches first refurbished class 158

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

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

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

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

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

THE ONLY remaining preserved Class 56, the Class 56 Group’s 56006, has undergone a B-exam which was carried out in accordance with the maintenance regime put in place by EWS, its last owner. Based on