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The five short-listed bidders for the £2.75billion HS2 train

contract revealed their proposed designs in June.This is the

joint Bombardier-Hitachi 'Great British' train design, widely

regarded as the favourite to win as construction will support

two existing UK factories.BOMBARDIER/HITACHI

ClassicTraction:

Weybourne

Diesel Group

at the North

Norfolk Railway

has restored the

National Railway

Museum’s Metro-

Cammell DMU to

a high standard.

Paired with the

NNR’s own‘Met-

Camm’, the DMU

leavesWeybourne

on June 14.

GLEN BATTEN

Panorama: BR diesel-hydraulic No. D1001WesternPathfinder

creates a smokescreen as it leaves Exeter St David’s for

Penzance, while Class 33 No. 33003 waits with a train for

Salisbury andWaterloo on September 5, 1975.LES NIXON

MAIN IMAGE:Class 35

‘Hymek’No. D7018 is

back in traffic after an

absence of 24 years.

On June 22, the Diesel

& Electric Preservation

Group (DEPG) loco

approaches Blue

Anchor with the 12.

Minehead-Bishops

Lydeard.PAUL BIGGS

INSET 1: Forgotten

locomotives in

preservation.

INSET 2:Train test –

Caledonian Sleeper

Mk5 stock.PAUL SMITH

INSET 3: Preservation progress in Wensleydale.

GBRf Class 66 No. 66749 passesWorksop East Signalbox with

the 09.22 Ferme Park-Worksop DownYard on June 4, taking

LNER Mk4 stock for secure storage.ROBIN STEWARTSMITH

Contents

July 2019. No. 1,420. Vol 165. A journal of record since 1897.

Regulars

Track RecordThe Railway Magazine’smonthly news digest

Headline News On the cover

10 Railways in Parliament

54 Readers’Platform

60 Subscription Offer

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62 Meetings

63 Reviews

64 Panorama

Our regular gallery of the best railway photography from

around the world.

68 FromThe RMArchives

Crewe‘All Change’open day raises £70,000, bidders reveal

HS2 train designs, debut for UK's first hydrogen-powered

main line train, Abellio sets out East Midlands plans, EMT

passengers marooned after Corby flood, A1Trust orders two

new boilers from Germany, Scottish Government considers

Borders electrification.

116 Heritage Diary

129 Reader Services

130 Crossword and Where Is It?

70 Steam & Heritage

‘Saint’rolled out in full GWR livery, RPSISlieve Gullion

appeal, Dartmouth hires Churnet Valley‘S160’, NYMR

‘S160’unveiled for D-Day anniversary,Invictamoves to

Whitstable,‘J21’to be restored at Loughborough,

15 locos for NYMR autumn gala.

76 Industrial

79 Steam Portfolio

80 Irish

82 Narrow Gauge

84 Miniature

86 Metro

88 Network 90 Freight

92 Classic Traction

96 World

100 Railtours

104 Traction & Stock

LNER starts to sideline IC225 sets, ScotRail reduces

Class 314 diagrams, ORR approves TPE‘802s’and Anglia

‘FLIRT’bi-modes for passenger operation, GBRf acquires

Swedish‘66’trio.

107 Stock Update

108 Traction Portfolio

110 Operations

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