The long-awaited passenger-carrying debut of battery-powered 230001 on the Greenford branch finally occurred on January 31, the set forming 2G02, the 05.30 West Ealing-Greenford, before working throug

DAVID JUKES mixes third-rail and overhead electrification for his chosen pick of EMUs past and present…

CROSSCOUNTRY TRAINS unveiled its first refurbished Class 220 Voyager, 220033, on February 10 to the press and stakeholders at Alstom’s Litchurch Lane Works in Derby. It is the start of a two-year £75

03145 – Moreton Park: A replacement dynamo had been sourced for 03145 and once fitted, it allowed the loaned dynamo to be returned to D2302. As usual, 03145 was regularly used for shunting and transfe

The effects of two years of storage delay the introduction of diesel multiple units in Devon and Cornwall

When I started trainspotting in April 1981, it was at Berkswell Station, between Coventry and Birmingham International, and a five-mile bike ride from my home town of Kenilworth. I’d tried Tile Hill s