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March 09, 2014

International & UK Railway News Sunday 9th March 2014

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High Speed Rail is in the news again.... what a surprise! 
If the UK  thinks that the estimated cost (how many billions?) is a price worth paying, then HS2's chief executive's comment that it had better be done quickly, or costs will spiral (out of control?) is obviously meant as a hurry up to the waverers...
But there are those who still think that the money could be better spent on the regions...
In the south west,, the electrification of the Great Western mainline will mean that faster Hitachi built trains will reach Bristol in 2018.... 
In the US, one point of view suggests that money for high speed rail should be spent on truck dedicated highways....
And there are those groups (consortia) who want a piece of the action...at least on the proposed Moscow-Kazan line. ...


Please take a look at The Skibbereen Eagle's piece on the Euston Arch.. and savour the Think Railway's recent articles...


Read On.....










Scrap HS2 and use the money to improve life in the regions.(The Guardian)


The Success of Japanese High Speed Rail. (Gas2)



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Thursday 13th March 2014

Cathedrals Express (Steam Dreams)

  • WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Oxford (pu) - Banbury (pu) - Leamington Spa (pu) - Coventry (pu) - Nuneaton (pu) - Lichfield Trent Valley (pu) - Stafford - Preston
  • 46115 Preston - Shap - Carlisle - Appleby - Settle - Blackburn
  • WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Preston - Crewe - Lichfield Trent Valley (sd) - Nuneaton (sd) - Coventry (sd) - Leamington Spa (sd) - Banbury (sd) - Oxford (sd)
Postponed

Additional Tour Information

5/3: postponed until 3rd July due to anticipated problems with flooding in the Thames Valley.

Added 16:41 on Wednesday 5th March 2014


Saturday 15th March 2014

Heart Of Wales Explorer (Pathfinder Tours)

  • DRS Class 20 (Pair) Derby (pu) - East Midlands Parkway (pu) - Loughborough (pu) - Leicester (pu) - Narborough (pu) - Nuneaton (pu) - Coleshill Parkway (pu) - Birmingham New Street (pu) - Cardiff - Llandelio - Llandrindod Wells - Craven Arms - Shrewsbury - Wellington - Birmingham New Street (sd) - Coleshill Parkway (sd) - Nuneaton (sd) - Narborough (sd) - Leicester (sd) - Loughborough (sd) - East Midlands Parkway (sd) - Derby (sd)
Postponed

The Buxton Spa Express (Railway Touring Company)

  • 44871 and 45231 Ealing Broadway - Acton Wells Jn - St Albans - Bedford - Kettering - Melton Mowbray - Toton Centre - Chesterfield - Edale - Romiley - Guide Bridge - Stockport - Furness Vale - Buxton
  • WCRC Class 47 Stockport - Route to be confirmed - Chesterfield - Toton Centre - Melton Mowbray (sd) - Kettering (sd) - Bedford (sd) - Bletchley (sd) - Watford Junction (sd) - London Euston

Additional Tour Information

Change of route, with return working now believed to be diesel-hauled throughout, although exact routing of the return leg is to be confirmed.

Added 21:55 on Tuesday 25th February 2014

Cathedrals Express (Steam Dreams)

  • 70000 Southend Airport - Wickford - Shenfield - North London Line - Salisbury

Cumbrian Ranger (Vintage Trains)

  • 47773 Tyseley Warwick Road (pu) - Birmingham New Street (pu) - Wolverhampton (pu) - Stafford (pu) - Crewe (pu) - Warrington Bank Quay - Blackburn - Hellifield - S&C - Carlisle
  • 4464 (60019) Crewe - Warrington Bank Quay - Blackburn - Hellifield - S&C - Appleby - Carlisle
  • 4464 (60019) Carlisle - Shap - Carnforth - Preston - Warrington Bank Quay - Crewe (sd)
  • 47773 Crewe - Stafford (sd) - Wolverhampton (sd) - Birmingham New Street (sd) - Tyseley Warwick Road



Steam Tube Highlights for the last week....



46115 Storms Wilpshire Bank on The WCME 8/3/14The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express-- Saturday 8th March, 201446115 massive slip on Shap on The WCME 22/2/14.45699 Storms over the S&C with the Cathedrals Express 5/3/14.


With thanks to Stephen G Thompson, Brian Hopwood,981smithy....




The Skibbereen Eagle





Euston we have a problem 



The Eagle has long supported the campaign to rebuild the Euston Arch as part of the reconstruction of Euston Station, the first great gateway station to London on the line built byRobert Stephenson, the “Father of the Railway” whose statue is in front of the station. The demolition of the Euston Arch along with the rest of Euston Station was regarded as one of the greatest acts of Post-War architectural vandalism in Britain, the campaign to save it lead to the foundation of the Victorian Society and involved the indomitable Sir John Betjeman. Its full story is told by The Eagle here.


http://www.skibbereeneagle.ie/?p=448



Think Railways

Latest News.........

DB Schenker Rail Polska have won a tender for coal transports to Power Plant Kozienice 

Russian Railways partner Singapore’s Eurasia Infrastructure for Indonesia railway project 

Budapest Transport Authority and CAF signed HUF 27 billion contract 

National Express Group PLC wants to enter Czech railway passenger market






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