Main line future for ‘43’

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

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

A truly wonderful picture of 47593 Galloway Princess working 1Z34, the 12.32 Fort William-Crewe ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ support train, at Lochan a’Chlaidheimh, just north of Rannoch, on June 28. Out o

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

A cosmetically restored GER ‘209’ class 040ST ...

AFTER NEARLY 40 years in preservation, the Class 40 Appeal has agreed to sell 40012 Aureol to Andania Engineering (AE), which intends to return it to the main line with Locomotive Services. As this is