So, after a few weeks of comings and goings, a deal has been struck between Alstom and General Electric, with the French government taking a stake in the alliance to safeguard French interests.
Iran shows interest in South Korean high speed rail technology..
India faces up to substantial fare increases...
And Christian Wolmar presents his lecture at the recent Hay Festival on the Trans Siberian Railway..an epic engineering triumph, and a trip to take.... but not by the regular tourist trains.....!!
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Headlines
Alstom board votes to accept General Electric bid. (BBC News)
According to a BBC report, the board of French rail and energy group Alstom has unanimously voted to accept a $17bn (£10bn) offer for Alstom's energy business from General Electric, although the deal still needs regulators' and Alstom staff representatives' approval.
The French government will buy a 20% stake in Alstom, and take other steps to protect French interests.
A rival offer from Siemens-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was rejected.
India
Rail fare raised by 14.2 per cent.(India Post)
Rail fare hike was inevitable: Ravi Shankar Prasad (dayafterindia)
Iran
Iran Eyes Import of High-Speed Train Technology from S. Korea .(Tasnim News Agency).
Japan
Series W7 Hokuriku shinkansen unveiled.(Japan Times).
UK
HS2 'should be made for passengers, not engineers’.(The Telegraph).
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Monday 23rd June 2014
Saltburn Tours: Return Of The Clansman: Day 4 (To Be Confirmed)
- WCRC tbc Inverness (pu) - Middlesbrough (sd) - Saltburn
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
The Jacobite (Afternoon Train) (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Tuesday 24th June 2014
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
The Jacobite (Afternoon Train) (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Wednesday 25th June 2014
The Fellsman (Statesman Rail)
- WCRC Pool Lancaster (pu) - Preston (pu) - Blackburn (pu) - Clitheroe (pu) - Long Preston (pu) - Settle - Appleby - Carlisle (break) and return
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
The Jacobite (Afternoon Train) (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Thursday 26th June 2014
Cathedrals Express (Steam Dreams)
- 34046 London Waterloo (pu) - Woking (pu) - Southampton - Weymouth (pu) and return
The Yorkshire Detour & Fountains Abbey (UK Railtours)
- DBS Class 90/92 London Finsbury Park (pu) - Potters Bar (pu) - Hitchin (pu) - York
- DBS Class 60 York - Milford Junction - Ferrybridge - Knottingley - Askern - Doncaster North Curve - Stainforth - Goole -Gilberdyke - Springbank North- West parade North & Anlaby Road Junctions - Goole - Snaith - Knottingley - Castleford - Milford Junction - York
- DBS Class 90/92 York - Hitchin (sd) - Potters Bar (sd) - London Kings Cross
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
The Jacobite (Afternoon Train) (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Friday 27th June 2014
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
The Jacobite (Afternoon Train) (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Saturday 28th June 2014
The VSOE British Pullman Surrey Hills Luncheon Train (Belmond (British Pullman))
- 35028 London Victoria (pu) - Staines - Woking - Guildford - Shalford - Reigate - Redhill - East Croydon - London Victoria
Chester & North Wales Explorer Plus Anglesey & Holyhead Express (Compass Tours)
- To be confirmed Ayr (pu) - Prestwick Town (pu) - Troon (pu) - Kilmarnock (pu) - Auchinleck (pu) - Dumfries (pu) - Annan (pu) - Gretna Green (pu) - Carlisle (pu) - Penrith (pu) - Chester b
- To be confirmed Chester - Rhyl -Llandudno Junction - Penmaenmawr - Bangor - Holyhead (break/rev) - Holyhead - Bangor - Penmaenmawr - Llandudno Junction - Rhyl - Chester
- To be confirmed Chester - Penrith (sd) - Carlisle (sd) - Gretna Green (sd) - Annan (sd) - Dumfries (sd) - Auchinleck (sd) - Kilmarnock (sd) - Troon (sd) - Prestwick Town (sd) - Ayr
Chester & Shrewsbury (North East Railtours)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Alnmouth (pu) - Morpeth (pu) - Cramlington (pu) - Newcastle upon Tyne (pu) - Hexham (pu) - Chester (sd) - Shrewsbury (break/rev) & return
The Mazey Day Cornishman (Pathfinder Tours)
- D1015 Tame Bridge Parkway (pu) - Rowley Regis (pu) - Stourbridge Junction (pu) - Kidderminster (pu) - Worcester Shrub Hill (pu) - Cheltenham Spa (pu) - Cam & Dursley (pu) - Bristol Parkway (pu) - Bristol Temple Meads (pu) - Taunton - Exeter St. Davids - Newton Abbot - Totnes - Plymouth - Liskeard - Truro - St.Erth s- Penzance (break/rev) & return
The East Riding (Railway Touring Company)
- 70013 London Kings Cross (pu) - Potters Bar (pu) - Stevenage (pu) - Peterborough (pu) - Grantham (pu) - Doncaster - Goole - Brough - Anlaby Junction - Beverley - Bridlington - Seamer - Scarborough
- 70013 Scarborough - Malton - York - Doncaster - Grantham (sd) - Peterborough (sd) - Stevenage (sd) - Potters Bar (sd) - London Kings Cross (sd)
The Retro Electric Scot (Retro Railtours)
- DBS Class 66 x 2 tnt Crewe (pu) - Stockport (pu) - Reddish South (pu) - Stalybridge (pu) - Huddersfield (pu) - Brighouse (pu) - Sowerby Bridge (pu) - Burnley Manchester Road (pu) - Preston (pu) -
- DBS Class 92 Preston -Edinburgh Waverley (break/rev) & return
- DBS Class 66 Preston (sd) - Burnley Manchester Road (sd) - Sowerby Bridge (sd) - Brighouse (sd) - Huddersfield (sd) - Stalybridge (sd) - Reddish South (sd) - Stockport (sd) - Crewe
The Beamish & Durham Statesman (Statesman Rail)
- WCRC 47/57 Bangor (pu) - Penmaenmawr (pu) - Llandudno Junction (pu) - Colwyn Bay (pu) - Rhyl (pu) - Prestatyn (pu) - Flint (pu) - Shotton (pu) - Chester (pu) - Frodsham (pu) - Warrington Bank Quay (pu) - Newton-le-Willows (pu) - Manchester Victoria (pu) - Durham (break/rev) & return
Cathedrals Express (Steam Dreams)
- Black 5 tbc Ipswich (pu) - Colchester (pu) - Shenfield (pu) - Kensington Olympia (pu) - Bromley South (pu) - Canterbury West and return
The Torbay And Dart (UK Railtours)
- SWT Class 159 London Waterloo (pu) - Woking (pu) - Basingstoke (pu) - Salisbury (pu) - Honiton - Exeter St. Davids - Teignmouth - Newton Abbot - Torquay - Paignton (sd) - Kingswear (break/rev) & return
The Midlander (Vintage Trains)
- 47773 and 46233 tnt Tyseley Warwick Road (pu) - Birmingham New Street (pu)
- 46233 Birmingham New Street - Coventry - Rugby - Milton Keynes Central - Watford Junction - London Euston
- 46233 London Euston (pu) - Watford Junction - Milton Keynes Central - Rugby - Nuneaton (sd) - Coleshill Parkway (sd) - Tyseley Warwick Road
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Sunday 29th June 2014
The Royal Duchy (Railway Touring Company)
- 5029 or 34067 or 70013 Bristol Temple Meads (pu) - Yatton (pu) - Taunton (pu) - Exeter St Davids (pu) - Plymouth (sd) - Par (sd) and return
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Great British Railway Journeys.Series 2: 18. Canterbury to Margate.(BBC iPlayer) .
(3 days left!)
Michael Portillo takes to the tracks with a copy of George Bradshaw's Victorian Railway Guidebook. Portillo travels the length and breadth of the country to see how the railways changed us, and what of Bradshaw's Britain remains, as his journey goes through Kent, from London Bridge around the scenic south coast to Hastings.
Michael finds out how Canterbury Cathedral was saved during the Baedeker raids of World War II, goes whelk fishing in Whitstable and explores the origins of a seaside swim in Margate.
Christian Wolmar - To The Edge of The World at the Hay Festival
It is the world’s longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of the vastness of our world and hints at the hardships that were endured in its construction.
To the Edge of the World tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the crazy northern extension, the Baikal Amur Mainline, the world’s costliest rail project, ordered by Brezhnev The Transsiberian may have been an overambitious project, but today it is a vital artery for Siberia and its construction changed history. The book also explores the crucial role the line played in both the Russian Civil War -Trotsky famously used an armoured carriage as his command post – and the Second World War, during which the railway saved the country from certain defeat.
Like the author’s previous railway histories, it focuses on the personalities, as well as the political and economic events, that lay behind one of the most extraordinary engineering triumphs of the nineteenth century. For anyone interested in Russian history, or who is planning to travel on the Trans-Siberian, this is an essential read.
Obtain your copy.....HERE
..and access the Podcast: in conversation with Christian Wolmar
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