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Friday 1st November 2013

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 November 2013

The Blue Bell Explorer (Railway Touring Company)

• 70013 Bridgnorth (pu) - Bewdley (pu) - Kidderminster (pu) - Stourbridge Junction (pu) - Birmingham New Street (pu) - Birmingham International (pu) - Coventry - Rugby - Watford Junction - East Croydon - Oxted - East Grinstead - Horsted Keynes - Sheffield Park
• WCRC Class 47 Sheffield Park - Horsted Keynes - East Grinstead - Oxted - East Croydon - Watford Junction - Rugby - Coventry - Birmingham International (sd) - Birmingham New Street (sd) - Stourbridge Junction (sd) - Kidderminster (sd) - Bewdley (sd) - Bridgnorth

Saturday 9th November 2013

The Blue Bell Explorer (Railway Touring Company)

• 34067 and 34046 London Victoria (pu) - Oxted - Uckfield
• 34046 and 34067 Uckfield - Hurst Green
• 34067 and 34046 Hurst Green - East Grinstead - Horsted Keynes - Sheffield Park
• 34046 and 34067 Sheffield Park - Horsted Keynes - Oxted - London Victoria

Additional Tour Information

Starting point amended to be London Victoria, rather than London Charing Cross/London Bridge.

Added 14:26 on Tuesday 22nd October 2013

The Cumbrian Jubilee (Vintage Trains)

• 47773 Tyseley Warwick Road (pu) -Birmingham New Street (pu) - Wolverhampton (pu) - Stafford (pu) - Crewe (pu) - Preston - Carnforth
• 45699 Carnforth - Shap - Penrith - Carlisle
• 45699 Carlisle - Appleby - S&C - Hellifield
• 47773 Hellifield - Blackburn - Warrington Bank Quay - Crewe (sd) - Stafford (sd) - Wolverhampton (sd) - Birmingham New Street (sd) - Tyseley Warwick Road

 

 

 

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Oct 18, 2013

Directorate of Railway Stations signs agreements to raise more than 262 billion roubles in extra-budgetary investment for infrastructure projects in Moscow and regions Sergei Abramov, the head of the Directorate of Railway Stations, a branch of Russian Railways, has signed a number of cooperation agreements on the development of Russian station complexes and transport interchange hubs. The documents were signed at Moscow's Kazan station on 17 October 2013 during the IV international conference on railways stations "Next Station 2013", which was organised by Russian Railways in partnership with the International Union of Railways. The cooperation agreement concluded with the Inter-Regional Association of Socio-Economic Cooperation, the "Central Federal District", envisages the establishment of targeted programmes financed from budgets at different levels, as well as cooperation in attracting private investors, investment funds and banks to projects to develop transport interchange hubs in Moscow. The Agreement on Strategic Cooperation signed with the Group of Companies "Corporation GazEnergoStroy" by the company President Sergey Chernin provides for the signatories to modernise infrastructure and energy supplies at Russian Railways' station complexes, including the introduction of innovative triple generation technologies (heat, electricity and cold supplies) and the parallel recycling of biological and solid waste. Under the Agreement, a pilot project will be implemented to construct a triple generation unit with an estimated capacity of 12.9 MW on the site of the existing boiler house on Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow. The Memorandum of Cooperation concluded with Gaztechleasing provides for the implementation of a set of measures necessary to realise joint investment projects using financial leases. According to a memorandum from the Trinity Development Group Inc. (Canada) which was signed by Dominic Gualtieri, a member of Trinity's Board of Directors, Canadian partners will invest in projects to develop transport hubs at commercial real estate properties in Moscow and regions of Russia.