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Monday 6th May 2013
(North East Railtours)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Newcastle Central (pu) - Cramlington (pu) - Morpeth (pu) - Alnmouth (pu) - Berwick upon Tweed (pu) - Fort William (break/rev) & return
The Mayday Highlander: Day 4 - Combined Train (UK Railtours)
- To be confirmed Dumbarton - Edinburgh (break) - Berwick upon Tweed - Newcastle upon Tyne - Durham - York - Doncaster (sd) - Peterborough (sd) - Stevenage (sd) - London Kings Cross
Thursday 9th May 2013
The Canterbury Belle (Railway Touring Company)
- 34067 London Victoria (pu) - East Croydon (pu) - Redhill (pu) - Tonbridge - Paddock Wood - Ashford International - Canterbury West (break) - Canterbury West (pu) - Minster - Deal - Dover Priory - Folkestone Central - Ashford International - Redhill (sd) - East Croydon (sd) - London Victoria-
The Cathedrals Explorer: Day 1 (Steam Dreams)
- DBS Class 67 Faversham (pu) - Margate (pu) - Redhill (pu) - Bromley (pu) - London Victoria
- DBS Class 67 Southend (pu) - Upminster (pu) - London Victoria
- 35028 London Victoria (pu) - Woking - Basingstoke - Salisbury - Honiton - Exeter St. Davids
- 35028 Exeter St. Davids - Crediton - Okehampton
Friday 10th May 2013
The Lakeland Moorlander (Compass Tours)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Peterborough (pu) - Stamford (pu) - Oakham (pu) - Melton Mowbray (pu) - Leicester (pu) - South Wigston - Hinckley - Nuneaton (pu) - Tamworth Low Level (pu) - Lichfield Trent Valley Low Level (pu) - Stafford - Crewe - Blackburn - Hellifield - S&C - Carlilse (break/rev) - Carlisle - Maryport - Workington - Sellafield - Ulverston - Carnforth - Preston - Crewe - Stafford - Lichfield Trent Valley Low Level (sd) - Tamworth Low Level (sd) - Nuneaton (sd) - Hinckley (sd) - South Wigston (sd) - Leicester (sd) - Melton Mowbray (sd) - Oakham (sd) - Stamford (sd) - Peterborough
Additional Tour Information
12/3: redated from 11 May due to engineering work. Will not now be able to pick up at South Wigston and Hinckley
Added 18:20 on Wednesday 13th March 2013The Cathedrals Explorer: Day 2 (Steam Dreams)
- 35028 Exeter St. Davids - Taunton - Castle Cary - Westbury - Bath Spa - Bristol Temple Meads
- 60009 Bristol Temple Meads - Severn Tunnel - Abergavenny - Hereford - Ludlow - Craven Arms - Shrewsbury
Saturday 11th May 2013
The Yorkshire Coronation (PMR Tours)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Kettering (pu) - Leicester (pu) - Loughborough (pu) - East Midlands Parkway (pu) - Derby (pu) -
- 46233 Derby - Chesterfield (pu) - York (sd) - Scarborough (break/rev) - Scarborough - York (pu) - Chesterfield (sd) - Derby (sd) -
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Derby - East Midlands Parkway (sd) - Loughborough (sd) - Leicester (sd) - Kettering
Cornish Riviera Statesman (Statesman Rail)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Crewe (pu) - Whitchurch (pu) - Shrewsbury (pu) - Church Stretton (pu) - Craven Arms (pu) - Ludlow (pu) - Leominster (pu) - Hereford (pu) - Abergavenney (pu) - Cwmbran (pu) - Severn Tunnel Junction (pu) - Filton Abbey Wood (pu) - Bristol Temple Meads (pu) - Taunton - Exeter St. Davids - Plymouth - Par (sd) - Truro (sd) - St. Erth (sd) - Penzance (break/rev) & return
The Cathedrals Explorer: Day 3 (Steam Dreams)
- NR Class 97/3 (Pair) Shrewsbury (pu) - Welshpool - Machynlleth - Barmouth - Porthmadog
- WHR steam Porthmadog - Caernarfon
The City Of Durham & Beamish Open Air Museum (UK Railtours)
- DBS 90 or DBS 67 Kondon Kings Cross (pu) - Potters Bar (pu) - Stevenage (pu) - Huntingdon (pu) - Peterborough - Grantham - Doncaster - York - Durham (break/rev) & return
The Cheltenham Flyer (Virgin Trains)
- 47773 Tyseley Warwick Road (pu) - Birmingham Snow Hill (pu) - Worcester Shrub Hill (pu) - Cheltenham Spa (pu) -
- 5043 Gloucester - Stroud - Kemble - Swindon - Didcot - Reading - London Paddington
- 5043 London Paddington (pu) - Reading - Didcot - Swindon - Kemble - Stroud - Gloucester
- 47773 Gloucester - Cheltenham Spa (sd) - Worcester Shrub Hill (sd) - Birmingham Snow Hill (sd) - Tyseley Warwick Road
The Channel Coast Express (West Coast Railway Company)
- DRS Class 47 (Pair) Doncaster (pu) - Retford (pu) - Newark Northgate (pu) - Grantham (pu) - Peterborough (pu) - Huntingdon (pu) - Finsbury Park (pu) - Kensington Olympia - Clapham Junction - East Croydon - Prley - Three Bridges - Brighton (break/rev) & return
www.networkrail.co.uk
National train performance for period 1 is 93.0%
Punctuality on the railways reached 93.0% during period 1, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail
The data for Britain's train services covers the period from 01 April 2013 - 27 April 2013. This compares to 93.3% for the same period last year. The moving annual average is now at 90.9%.
| Franchise |
Punctuality %
Period 1, 2013/14 |
Punctuality %
Period 1, 2012/13 |
Moving annual
average (MAA) |
| Arriva Trains Wales |
96.0
|
95.2
|
93.3
|
| c2c Rail |
94.2
|
97.9
|
97.3
|
| Chiltern |
96.1
|
95.2
|
95.0
|
| Crosscountry |
91.9
|
89.9
|
87.0
|
| East Coast |
85.1
|
84.3
|
83.9
|
| East Midlands Trains |
93.8
|
95.3
|
92.4
|
| First Capital Connect |
89.7
|
90.1
|
88.3
|
| First Great Western |
90.5
|
92.9
|
88.9
|
| First Scotrail |
94.0
|
94.8
|
92.9
|
| First Transpennine Express |
95.2
|
95.2
|
91.8
|
| Greater Anglia |
94.1
|
92.3
|
92.4
|
| London Midland |
90.2
|
92.6
|
85.8
|
| London Overground |
96.4
|
96.9
|
96.6
|
| Merseyrail |
96.4
|
95.5
|
95.5
|
| Northern Rail |
93.5
|
93.8
|
90.7
|
| Southeastern |
93.5
|
93.5
|
91.1
|
| Southern |
90.3
|
91.7
|
87.9
|
| South West Trains |
94.6
|
93.1
|
91.5
|
| Virgin Trains |
86.0
|
87.3
|
83.5
|
| Total national performance |
93.0
|
93.3
|
90.9
|
Notes:
- Services on the East Coast Main Line were impacted by two overhead line incidents near Potters Bar and Grantham, a signalling fault at Sandy and a fatality near Berwick upon Tweed
- Arrived on time - the measure of train punctuality also known as PPM (public performance measure) means trains arriving at their destinations within five minutes for commuter services and within 10 minutes for long distance services.
- This measure of punctuality is commonly used throughout Europe
- National train punctuality is measured for all trains across the whole network, including cancelled services and delays caused by external factors (such as vandalism, extreme weather, suicides etc).
- Punctuality did not start to be recorded in this vigorous and thorough way until 1997. Before then Railtrack, and BR before, did not measure all services and also excluded external factors and other items from their numbers
- These figures represent provisional data for the period and individual operators' performance data may vary lightly from the full period performance report that
- Network Rail publishes on its website every month
- Network Rail and the train operators run more trains across Great Britain than are run in most European countries - almost 20% more than in France and 60% more than in Italy.
- Great Britain's 24,000 trains per-day is also more than Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Norway combined
- Right time train performance data (% of trains arriving within 59 seconds of schedule) both for period 10 and for the year to the end of period 10 are also available by using this link http://www.networkrail.co.uk/about/performance/
Burnley and Todmorden rail users urged to find out more about Holme Tunnel upgrade
Local people in Burnley and Todmorden will have the chance to find out more about the planned refurbishment of Holme Tunnel at a public information event on Saturday 11th May.
Network Rail needs to carry out a programme of work to repair and strengthen the 250m long Holme Tunnel near the village of Holme Chapel. The work will result in the closure of the railway between Burnley Manchester Road and Todmorden for 20 weeks between November 2013 and March 2014.
Over time, movement of the ground around the tunnel has led to the tunnel lining becoming severely distorted. A 20mph speed restriction is currently in place for trains running through the tunnel, but remedial work is needed to make sure trains can continue to use the tunnel in future.
As well as relining and strengthening sections of the tunnel, allowing the speed limit to be raised to 45mph, Network Rail will also be laying new track, installing improved drainage and rebuilding the severely damaged Todmorden Portal.
Rhiannon Price, scheme project manager, said: “The work planned for Holme Tunnel will speed up journeys on this part of the railway and provide a more reliable railway for local people. Anyone who wants to find out more about the work and how it may affect them is welcome to come to our information event to speak to us in person.”
Network Rail’s contractors will set up a site compound in Holme Chapel starting on Monday 20 May to allow for the enabling works, which are scheduled to run from July to November.
The main tunnel blockade will run from Saturday 9 November 2013 to Sunday 30 March 2014, during which time a replacement bus service will operate between Burnley Manchester Road and Todmorden and Burnley Manchester Road and Hebden Bridge.
For further information, please come along to our public information session from 11am-3pm on Saturday 11 May at Cliviger Village Hall, Holme Chapel, Burnley, BB10 4SU.
International awareness day to help make level crossings across the south and south west of England safer.
Over time, movement of the ground around the tunnel has led to the tunnel lining becoming severely distorted. A 20mph speed restriction is currently in place for trains running through the tunnel, but remedial work is needed to make sure trains can continue to use the tunnel in future.
As well as relining and strengthening sections of the tunnel, allowing the speed limit to be raised to 45mph, Network Rail will also be laying new track, installing improved drainage and rebuilding the severely damaged Todmorden Portal.
Rhiannon Price, scheme project manager, said: “The work planned for Holme Tunnel will speed up journeys on this part of the railway and provide a more reliable railway for local people. Anyone who wants to find out more about the work and how it may affect them is welcome to come to our information event to speak to us in person.”
Network Rail’s contractors will set up a site compound in Holme Chapel starting on Monday 20 May to allow for the enabling works, which are scheduled to run from July to November.
The main tunnel blockade will run from Saturday 9 November 2013 to Sunday 30 March 2014, during which time a replacement bus service will operate between Burnley Manchester Road and Todmorden and Burnley Manchester Road and Hebden Bridge.
For further information, please come along to our public information session from 11am-3pm on Saturday 11 May at Cliviger Village Hall, Holme Chapel, Burnley, BB10 4SU.
International awareness day to help make level crossings across the south and south west of England safer.
Level crossings across the south and south west of England are being targeted this week to raise public awareness about the importance of using them safely and correctly.
Across Britain, rail safety teams are hosting more than 100 awareness events to help educate people as part of International Level Crossing Awareness Day.
On the Wessex route, which runs from London Waterloo across the south and south west of England, between April 2012 and March 2013 there were 34 near misses, three incidents of a vehicle being damaged and one injury as a result of people misusing level crossings.
The new figures have been published by the Network Rail and South West Trains Alliance which is one of 45 worldwide organisations supporting International Level Crossing Awareness Day on Tuesday 7 May 2013.
Safety teams will be at level crossings in Feniton between 7.15am and noon; Poole High Street between 8.30am and noon; Gramshaw Road, Salisbury between 8am and noon; Mount Pleasant, Southampton between 8.30am and noon; and Farnborough North between 7.30m and 10.30am on Tuesday 7 May.
They will be speaking to crossing users about the importance of using level crossings safely and the potential consequences of misusing crossings. Safety leaflets will be handed out BTP will have the option of taking enforcement action against those who misuse the crossings.
Martin Gallagher, head of level crossings at Network Rail said: “Where a road or footpath meets the railway there will always be a risk – tragically, for a few people every year, this results in injury or loss of life. We want to reduce the chances of this happening as much as possible. The surest way to reduce risk at a level crossing is to close it and under our current safety programme we have successfully closed more than 600 nationally in the last three years.
“If we’re not able to close a crossing, we want to raise awareness of how to use crossings safely and the risks associated with getting distracted or ignoring warning signs. That’s why our safety teams are out across the country as part of International Level Crossing Awareness Day to talk to people who use the crossings, listen to any questions they may have and help them better understand what we’re doing to improve safety for them and everyone around the railway.”
Superintendent Phil Trendall of British Transport Police said: “BTP works closely with all our rail industry partners and other police forces to educate users of level crossings as well as enforce road traffic legislation. International Level Crossing Awareness Day remains a key event in our calendar and BTP officers will be out and about at crossings around the country to promote that all-important safety message. Safety remains our primary concern and we will do all we can to contribute to the proper use of crossings, which must be treated with respect. However, the law related to crossings will be enforced and where necessary drivers prosecuted.”
For more information on how to safely use level crossings visit www.networkrail.co.uk/level-crossings/types-of-level-crossing/footpath-crossings/
International Level Crossing Day of Action involves a number of partners from the road sector, local authorities, railway partners, British Transport Police, local police forces, the European Transport Safety Council, European Railway Agency, Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM), European Level Crossing Forum (ELCF) and International Union of Railways.
Network Rail has a dedicated youth initiative called Rail Life. Created in partnership with young people it aims to raise awareness of level crossing safety and other rail safety issues. The initiative will provide a wide range of resources, ranging from assembly kits to lesson plans, for use in schools and youth clubs.
The high impact youth website www.rail-life.co.uk contains facts, videos, advice and lots of content on rail safety for teenagers (11-17 year olds).
The vision for the campaign is that it will become the main place that young people (and the professionals who work with them) will go to for insights and information on many aspects of the railway – from safety, to careers, to general information about Britain’s transforming rail network.
Other news...
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Includes news of Indian Railways engines on UK lines!!
Two of India’s historic steam locomotives will run during the “Indian Extravaganza” this weekend on the Leighton Buzzard Railway, one of England’s finest narrow gauge lines.
Engine No 19 (no name!), the only steam locomotive from the famous Darjeeling Himalayan Railway to have left India, and No 778, which was built in the USA for the First World War battlefields, and then spent over 60 years working in sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh on secondary railways in India. The two historic engines, now in working order are scheduled to haul passenger trains on both days, with departures every 50 minutes from 10.40am to 3.40pm.
World Heritage & Railway News
NYMR, WSR and NRM news.....!!
Crossrail is inviting you to submit suggestions of ‘modern day heroes’ as part of our competition to name the final two tunnelling machines that will be used to build the new rail tunnels beneath London.
A total of eight Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will be used to build 26 miles (42km) of tunnels beneath London to form the central section of the Crossrail route.
The names of the first six tunnelling giants were announced ahead of the launch of tunnelling last year and we currently have five machines – Phyllis, Ada, Elizabeth, Victoria and Sophia – busy at work beneath the city. Together they have already completed over 9 kilometres of new tunnels.
Crossrail’s final two tunnelling machines will be launched from Pudding Mill Lane close to the Olympic Park site in east London. The machines will create 2.7km of tunnels beneath east London to Stepney Green, helping link the surface railway into the central tunnelled section of the new Crossrail route.
The winning names last time featured ideas inspired by British heritage, literature, London life, transport and engineering, as well as famous Britons.
This year, the competition is open to a range of suggestions but names for the tunnelling machines must follow two specific criteria:
Fill out the form HERE
On the Wessex route, which runs from London Waterloo across the south and south west of England, between April 2012 and March 2013 there were 34 near misses, three incidents of a vehicle being damaged and one injury as a result of people misusing level crossings.
The new figures have been published by the Network Rail and South West Trains Alliance which is one of 45 worldwide organisations supporting International Level Crossing Awareness Day on Tuesday 7 May 2013.
Safety teams will be at level crossings in Feniton between 7.15am and noon; Poole High Street between 8.30am and noon; Gramshaw Road, Salisbury between 8am and noon; Mount Pleasant, Southampton between 8.30am and noon; and Farnborough North between 7.30m and 10.30am on Tuesday 7 May.
They will be speaking to crossing users about the importance of using level crossings safely and the potential consequences of misusing crossings. Safety leaflets will be handed out BTP will have the option of taking enforcement action against those who misuse the crossings.
Martin Gallagher, head of level crossings at Network Rail said: “Where a road or footpath meets the railway there will always be a risk – tragically, for a few people every year, this results in injury or loss of life. We want to reduce the chances of this happening as much as possible. The surest way to reduce risk at a level crossing is to close it and under our current safety programme we have successfully closed more than 600 nationally in the last three years.
“If we’re not able to close a crossing, we want to raise awareness of how to use crossings safely and the risks associated with getting distracted or ignoring warning signs. That’s why our safety teams are out across the country as part of International Level Crossing Awareness Day to talk to people who use the crossings, listen to any questions they may have and help them better understand what we’re doing to improve safety for them and everyone around the railway.”
Superintendent Phil Trendall of British Transport Police said: “BTP works closely with all our rail industry partners and other police forces to educate users of level crossings as well as enforce road traffic legislation. International Level Crossing Awareness Day remains a key event in our calendar and BTP officers will be out and about at crossings around the country to promote that all-important safety message. Safety remains our primary concern and we will do all we can to contribute to the proper use of crossings, which must be treated with respect. However, the law related to crossings will be enforced and where necessary drivers prosecuted.”
For more information on how to safely use level crossings visit www.networkrail.co.uk/level-crossings/types-of-level-crossing/footpath-crossings/
Notes:
Network Rail is investing £130m to make level crossings safer by building footbridges, adding new barriers and new technology. In 2009 the company committed to closing 750 by spring 2014 and is well on the way to achieving that goal. A national television advertising campaign, based around the childhood game I Spy, will run from Sunday 5 May for three weeks across terrestrial, satellite and digital channels.International Level Crossing Day of Action involves a number of partners from the road sector, local authorities, railway partners, British Transport Police, local police forces, the European Transport Safety Council, European Railway Agency, Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM), European Level Crossing Forum (ELCF) and International Union of Railways.
Network Rail has a dedicated youth initiative called Rail Life. Created in partnership with young people it aims to raise awareness of level crossing safety and other rail safety issues. The initiative will provide a wide range of resources, ranging from assembly kits to lesson plans, for use in schools and youth clubs.
The high impact youth website www.rail-life.co.uk contains facts, videos, advice and lots of content on rail safety for teenagers (11-17 year olds).
The vision for the campaign is that it will become the main place that young people (and the professionals who work with them) will go to for insights and information on many aspects of the railway – from safety, to careers, to general information about Britain’s transforming rail network.
Other news...
Shedmaster Railway News
Includes news of Indian Railways engines on UK lines!!
Two of India’s historic steam locomotives will run during the “Indian Extravaganza” this weekend on the Leighton Buzzard Railway, one of England’s finest narrow gauge lines.
Engine No 19 (no name!), the only steam locomotive from the famous Darjeeling Himalayan Railway to have left India, and No 778, which was built in the USA for the First World War battlefields, and then spent over 60 years working in sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh on secondary railways in India. The two historic engines, now in working order are scheduled to haul passenger trains on both days, with departures every 50 minutes from 10.40am to 3.40pm.
World Heritage & Railway News
NYMR, WSR and NRM news.....!!
A total of eight Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) will be used to build 26 miles (42km) of tunnels beneath London to form the central section of the Crossrail route.
The names of the first six tunnelling giants were announced ahead of the launch of tunnelling last year and we currently have five machines – Phyllis, Ada, Elizabeth, Victoria and Sophia – busy at work beneath the city. Together they have already completed over 9 kilometres of new tunnels.
Crossrail’s final two tunnelling machines will be launched from Pudding Mill Lane close to the Olympic Park site in east London. The machines will create 2.7km of tunnels beneath east London to Stepney Green, helping link the surface railway into the central tunnelled section of the new Crossrail route.
The naming competition
The tunnelling machine naming competition is now open for you to submit your nominations for the names of Crossrail’s TBMs 7&8. The public nomination process will run for 5 weeks, closing on Friday 31st May.The winning names last time featured ideas inspired by British heritage, literature, London life, transport and engineering, as well as famous Britons.
This year, the competition is open to a range of suggestions but names for the tunnelling machines must follow two specific criteria:
- In line with tradition, the tunnelling machines must be named after female figures, not males
- The names must be real-life female figures, not fictional characters
Fill out the form HERE
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