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World Heritage & Railway News
Planning a visit to the National Railway Museuem, or the North Yorkshire Moors Railway?
From the nrm.org.uk ...have some big fun with little trains!!
From the nymr.co.uk - Book and pay in full for a Pullman Dining Train for 2nd, 3rd, 9th or 16th March 2013 and quote “Cheers13“ to receive a complimentary bottle of quality NYMR wine with your meal.
www.railway-technology.com Feature Articles....
A fare deal? Investigating Network Rail's £37.5bn upgrade package.
Network Rail has announced a five-year, £37.5bn investment in UK rail, which includes 355,000 more trains in service and 225 million additional passengers a year. Julian Turner talks to Mike Hewitson, of consumer watchdog Passenger Focus, about why passengers face inflation-busting fare rises until 2015, cuts to customer-facing staff and why the UK network compares favourably with European counterparts.
Read the conversation HERE
Christian Wolmar
Wifi is not an add-on
One of the stupidest things that TOCs are doing is charging for internet use. That’s rather like asking for money for the lighting or the toilet. They should, instead, be looking at the competition. The car manufacturers are turning their product into mobile communication zones that have instant access to the internet and easy hands free mobile phone use.
Quite apart from the fact that this poses a danger to other road users – my only accident in 40 years driving was caused by me adjusting my radio and hitting the Jaguar in front – it is a real incentive to stay in the car rather than use public transport, as pointed out by Simon Johnston in the latest edition of Tramways and Urban Transit. Therefore while fitting wifi is an expense, so is providing toilets, seats, lights, doors – whatever. Train operators have to learn that wifi has to be included in the price of a ticket.
Hotels have begun to realise this. Oddly, having stayed in countless hotels across Italy, France, Belgium, the US and Russia last year, I found that it was the cheaper two and three star ones that tended to offer free wifi, whereas irritatingly the four star ones would charge, except, oddly, in the lobby. Cue dozens of business people sitting in the lobby lap top on lap.
Eurostar is about to get wifi belatedly. Let’s hope it is sensible enough to realise that it is not an optional extra. It’s the future. And hopefully whoever wins the West Coast franchise will realise that, too, unlike Virgin which charges.
Railway Herald - Railtours
Friday 1st March 2013
Winter West Highland Wonderland: Day 1 (Statesman Rail)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Worcester Shrub Hill (pu) - Droitwich Spa (pu) - Kidderminster (pu) - Stourbridge Junction (pu) - Tame Bridge Parkway (pu) - Wolverhampton (pu) - Telford Central (pu) - Wellington (pu) - Shrewsbury (pu) - Whitchurch (pu) - Crewe (pu) - Warrington Bank Quay (pu) - Wigan North Western (pu) - Preston (pu) - Fort William
The British Pullman Circular Luncheon Train (VSOE)
- 35028 London Victoria (pu) - Barnes - Staines - Virginia Water - Woking - Guildford - Shalford - Reigate - Redhill - East Croydon - Selhurst - Clapham Junction - London Victoria
Saturday 2nd March 2013
The BLS East Midlands Depot Tracker (postponed From 29th December 2012) (Branch Line Society)
- EMT 156 x 2 Crewe (pu) - Alsager - Stoke on Trent (pu) - Uttoxeter (pu) - Derby - Chaddesdon (rev) - Derby Etches Park - Beeston - Nottingham - Eastcroft Depot - Nottingham - Derby (rev) - Uttoxeter (sd) - Stoke on Trent (sd) - Alsager - Crewe
Additional Tour Information
28/12: BLS say it is probable that Class 08 No. 08899 will be attached for the moves around Derby Etches Park Depot.
Added 14:25 on Friday 28th December 2012Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express 2 (Railway Touring Company)
- 86259 London Euston (pu) - Watford Junction (pu) - Milton Keynes Central (pu) - (*Northampton u) - Weedon - Rugby (pu) m- Nuneaton (pu) - Crewe (pu) - Preston (pu) - Carnforth ampton (pu) - Nuneaton (pu) - Crewe (pu) -
- 60009 Carnforth - Preston - Blackburn - Hellifield - S&C - Carlisle (break/rev) - Carlisle - Shap - Carnforth
- 86259 Carnforth - Preston (sd) - Crewe (sd) - Nuneaton (sd) - Rugby (sd) - (*Northampton (sd) - ) Milton Keynes Central (sd) - Watford Junction (sd) - London Euston
The Winter West Highland Statesman: Day 2 (Statesman Rail)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Fort William (pu) - Preston (sd) - Wigan North Western (sd) - Warrington Bank Quay (sd) - Crewe (sd) - Whitchurch (sd) - Shrewsbury (sd) - Wellington (sd) - Telford Central (sd) - Wolverhampton (sd) - Tame Bridge Parkway (sd) - Stourbridge Junction (sd) - Kidderminster (sd) - Droitwich Spa (sd) - Worcester Shrub Hill
Cumbrian Guardsman (Vintage Trains)
- 47773 Tyseley Warwick Road (pu) - Birmingham New Street (pu) - Wolverhampton (pu) - Stafford (pu) - Crewe (pu) - Preston - Carnforth
- 70000 Carnforth - Shap - Carlisle (break/rev) - Carlisle - Appleby - S&C - Hellifield - Blackburn - Preston (sd) -
- 47773 Preston - Crewe (sd) - Stafford (sd) - Wolverhampton (sd) - BIrmingham New Street (sd) - Tyseley Warwick Road.
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