‘WARSHIP’ IN KENT:The SpaValleyRailway’s dieselgala on August 2-4 included visiting diesel-hydraulic No. 821Greyhound,which is quite possiblythe first of the class
to visitKent (unless anyreader knows differently?), but certainlythe first to run on the SpaValley. The Type 4isp ictured passingForgeFarm with the 17.00 EridgetoTunbridge
Wells on the first day. The oast houses in the background provide proof it is inKent.PhilBarnes.
FEATURES
14 WHENSATURDAY CAME
Looking back to the heyday of diesel-hauled
holidaytrainstoPaignton andTorbay.22 INSIDE THE NOC
NetworkRail’s National Operations Centrein
MiltonKeynes –what is it and what does it do?26 0-60: CLASS 331
The CAF-built EMUs arenew to Northern, but
howdotheyrate performance-wise?28 THEN&NOW:DONCASTER
Alook at the station in the 1970s and now.7 HEADLINE NEWS
Government makes commitment toregions;
DRSopen dayraises £10,000; Morefreight from
Felixstowe;Leeds gets high speedrail research
centre; Steam legends help launch Scottish
‘Azumas’; ‘Deltic’repairs to begin; ‘Ironing board’
seatsfail newcomfort standards; GWR prepares
for‘biggest timetable changesince 1970s’; NR
launches trackworker safety taskforce.71 LU WORLD
Private salefor‘Gree n’ 1986 Stock.72 RAILTOURS
Charity tour to coverDartmouth lines.74 PRESERVATION
SecondFrench ‘Chopper’scrapped ;Mangapps
celebrates 30years; ‘BubbleCar’ return sto
Swanage; G-WR ‘Hoover’ first; VintageTrains hires
Class 20; Newengine blockforearly‘37’.78 POWERBY THE HOUR
LNER stands down Class 91; Class 70 trialled on
stone train; Final GBRf ‘92’ outshopped.80 POWERSCENE
Notableworkings, Name Game, and Spectrum.88 UNITS
Northern ‘144s’ to beretained into 2020.93 SHUNTERS
Twomove to Avon ValleyRailway.94 COACHES
Stored ArrivaMk.3s go forscrap.95 WAGONS
Newfleet of stonewagons ordered.96 IRISH ANGLE
IntensiveserviceforPortrush Opengolf.REGULARS
12 SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS
The bestwaystogetRail Expressevery month.29 TIME TRAVELLER
Headlines from Septembers past.30 REVIEWS
Aselectionofnew railway books.31 EXPRESS MAILBAG
Gala gripes;Youngestreader;Police and tram.NEWS
Part of theremitofNetwork Rail’s National Operations
Centreistooversee railtours tomakesurethey
do not interferewithregular services. On June 29,
Nos. 37218+37059 powerPathfinder’s ‘Mazey Day
Cornishman’ atPowderham, Devon, while heading
the 1Z80/05.39Tame Bridge Parkway to Penzance.
Stephen GinnMODELLING
Heljanhas announced it
is retooling its ‘OO’gauge
Class 47 to produceanew
model, while others are
launchingamix of wagons
including china clayand
timber types.We then
showhow to producesteel
strip coils inaweekend
modelling job, beforereviewing Hornby’s
‘Castle’ class HSTpowercarsand more.Issue No. 280 September 2019 CONTENTS
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