EXPERT ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING TODAY’S MAIN LINE CHARTER SCENE

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Overhauls, restorations and running notes

Pick up the phone, call your local railway, offer to volunteer, and it could be the start of a whole new adventure, says ALEX ALDER. You might even go the whole hog and buy an engine…

…and full electrification should have been agreed from the start

I doubt there are any drivers still alive who were among some of the first to be trained on driving the English Electric Type 5s – the famous Deltic – in 1961. For those who were trained at the time,