A look ahead to the week's mainline rail excursions... a look at the Crossrail project(delivering and building a sustainable railway)... and a small operational defect at Mile End (masonry falling in a Tube station tunnel).
A look ahead also to the BBC2 "Railways at War" series with Michael Portillo... but why wait till then when you can hear and see Christian Wolmar's presentation of the key points in his well researched book on the role of railways in warfare....
As ever, click on the links.....
Headlines
UK
Masonry falls in Tube station tunnel at Mile End.(BBC News)
Ilkeston railway station: Plans delayed by great crested newts.(BBC News)
Crossrail is one of the most ambitious transport construction projects undertaken in a generation. As Europe's largest construction project, Crossrail's legacy will be more than just the delivery of a world-class railway; sustainability has been at the heart of the project since its inception.From Reading and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, the Crossrail route covers over 110km of track. It includes 21km of new twin-bore tunnels, 10 new stations and will serve a total of 40 stations. Crossrail will, for the first time, deliver a direct connection between all of London's biggest employment centres linking Heathrow with the West End, the City and Canary Wharf. The new railway will increase rail capacity in London by 10%, reduce journey times, ease congestion and improve connections. Services start running in the central, tunnelled section in 2018 and Crossrail will be fully operational in 2019.The principal reason for building the railway is to secure London's competitiveness as a world city. This requires an efficient and reliable transport system that keeps people moving and supports the future population and economic growth. The challenge is to achieve this responsibly and sustainably, with the minimum environmental impact.A total of £14.8bn of funding is available for the delivery of Crossrail. The new railway will support regeneration across the capital and benefits the UK as a whole. Crossrail is estimated to generate at least £42bn for the UK economy.
Crossrail's intention is to lead the way in constructing and delivering a sustainable and energy efficient railway fit for the future. Crossrail will have a long-lasting impact on how people travel around London and the South East.
Mainline Steam Schedule
Railway Herald - Railtours
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Monday 28th July 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
Tuesday 29th July 2014
The Welsh Mountaineer (Railway Touring Company)
- 45305 or 61994 Preston (pu) - Warrington Bank Quay (pu) - Frodsham (pu) - Chester (pu) - Rhyl - Llandudno Junction (run-round) - Blaenau Ffestiniog 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
The Scarborough Spa Express (West Coast Railway Company)
- WCRC Steam pool York (pu) - Normanton (pu) - Wakefield Kirkgate (pu) - Wakefield Westgate (pu) - Woodlesford (pu) - Castleford (pu) - York (pu) - Scarborough
- WCRC Steam Pool Scarborough (pu) - York (sd) - Normanton (sd) - Wakefield Kirkgate (sd) - Wakefield Westgate (sd) - Woodlesford (sd) - Castleford (sd) - York
Wednesday 30th July 2014
The Dorset Coast Express (Railway Touring Company)
- 34046 or 34067 or 70000 London Victoria (pu) - Barnes Bridge - Staines (pu) - Woking (pu) - Winchfield (water) - Basingstoke (pu) - Worting Junction - Winchester - Southampton - Bournemouth (sd) - Weymouth and return
- 34046 or 34067 or 70000 Weymouth - Upwey Bank - Dorchester South (detach banker) - Bournemouth - Basingstoke (sd/water) - Woking (sd) - London Waterloo (sd)
The Fellsman (Statesman Rail)
- WCRC Steam 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
The Scarborough Spa Express (West Coast Railway Company)
- WCRC Steam pool York (pu) - Normanton (pu) - Wakefield Kirkgate (pu) - Wakefield Westgate (pu) - Woodlesford (pu) - Castleford (pu) - York (pu) - Scarborough
- WCRC Steam Pool Scarborough (pu) - York (sd) - Normanton (sd) - Wakefield Kirkgate (sd) - Wakefield Westgate (sd) - Woodlesford (sd) - Castleford (sd) - York
Thursday 31st July 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
The Scarborough Spa Express (West Coast Railway Company)
- WCRC Steam pool York (pu) - Normanton (pu) - Wakefield Kirkgate (pu) - Wakefield Westgate (pu) - Woodlesford (pu) - Castleford (pu) - York (pu) - Scarborough
- WCRC Steam Pool Scarborough (pu) - York (sd) - Normanton (sd) - Wakefield Kirkgate (sd) - Wakefield Westgate (sd) - Woodlesford (sd) - Castleford (sd) - York
Friday 1st August 2014
The Scarborough Flyer (Railway Touring Company)
- 46233 Crewe (pu) - Wilmslow (pu) - Stockport (pu) - Stalybridge - Huddersfield - Mirfield - Wakefield Kirkgate - Castleford - York (sd) - Malton - Scarborough (sd) 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
Saturday 2nd August 2014
BLS/Chiltern Railways Semaphore & Sidings Tracker (Branch Line Society)
- Chiltern Class 168 Birmingham Moor Street (pu) - Rowley Regis - Stourbridge Junction (rev) - Rowley Regis - Birmingham Snow Hill - Solihull - Banbury - Fenny Compton - Kineton Branch (to MOD gates) - Fenny Compton - Leamington Spa - Dorridge - Solihull - Birmingham Snow Hill (rev) - Birmingham Moor Street
The Forth & Tay Bridge Explorer (Compass Tours)
- WCRC Class 47 (Pair) Scarborough (pu) - Seamer (pu) - Malton (pu) - York (pu) - Thirsk (pu) - Northallerton (pu) - Darlington (pu) - Newcastle upon Tyne - Berwick upon Tweed - Dunbar - Edinburgh (route tbc) Dalmeny - Forth Bridge - inverkeithing - Kirkcaldy - Cupar - Leuchars - Tay Bridge - Dundee (break/rev) & return
The Dorset Coast Statesman (Statesman Rail)
- WCRC 47/57 Wolverhampton (pu) - Tame Bridge Parkway (pu) - Rowley regis (pu) - Stourbridge Junction (pu) - Kidderminster (pu) - Droitwich Spa (pu) - Worcester Shrub Hill (pu) - Cheltenham Spa (pu) - Stonehouse (pu) - Stroud (pu) - Kemble (pu) - Brockenhurst (sd) - Bournemouth (sd) - Poole (sd) - Weymouth (break/rev) & return
(Steam Dreams)
- 60009 London Kings Cross (pu) - Potters Bar (pu) - Stevenage (pu) - Arlesey (pu) - Peterborough (pu) - Retford (pu) - York (sd) - Scarborough (break/rev) & return
Locomotion And The Weardale Railway (UK Railtours)
- tbc London Kings Cross (pu) - Potters Bar (pu) - Stevenage (pu) - Peterborough (pu) - Darlington (pu) - Shildon (break) - Bishop Auckland - Stanhope (break/rev) & return
Cancelled Additional Tour Information
Train cancelled due to a landslip on the Weardale Railway
Added 11:05 on Tuesday 22nd July 2014The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
Sunday 3rd August 2014
Weymouth Seaside Express (Railway Touring Company)
- 5029 or 34046 Bristol Temple Meads (pu) - Keynsham (pu) - Bath (pu) - Trowbridge (pu) - Westbury (pu) - Weymouth and return
North Wales Coast Express (Railway Touring Company)
- WCRC Class 47 Crewe (pu) - Wilmslow (pu) - Stockport (pu) - Manchester Piccadilly
- 45305 Manchester Piccadilly (pu) - Altrincham (pu) - Chester (pu) - Rhyl - Llandudno Junction -
North Wales Coast Express (Railway Touring Company)
- WCR 47 Crewe (pu) - Wilmslow (pu) - Stockport (pu) - Manchester Piccadilly
- 45305 Manchester Piccadilly (pu) - Altrincham (pu) - Chester (pu) - Rhyl - Llandudno Junction - Bangor (sd) - Holyhead
- 45305 Holyhead (pu) - Bangor (pu) - Llandudno Junction (pu) - Rhyl - Chester (sd) - Altrincham (sd) - Manchester Piccadilly (sd)
- WCR 47 Manchester Piccadilly - Stockport (sd) - Wilmslow (sd) - Crewe (sd)
Torbay Express (Torbay Express Ltd)
- To be confirmed Bristol Temple Meads (pu) - Weston-super-Mare (pu) - Taunton (pu) - Exeter St Davids - Dawlish - Paignton - Kingswear and return
Shakespeare Express (Vintage Trains)
- 4965 or 5043 Birmingham Snow Hill (pu) - Birmingham Moor Street (pu) - Tyseley (pu) - Henley-in-Arden - Stratford-upon-Avon (break) - Hatton - Tyseley (sd) - Birmingham Moor Street (sd) - Birmingham Snow Hill (sd) (two trips)
The Jacobite (West Coast Railway Company)
- To be confirmed Fort William - Glenfinnan - Mallaig (break) - Glenfinnan - Fort William
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NYMR – Railway in Wartime
Railway in Wartime
10th – 12th October 2014
Relive the amazing spirit and camaraderie of World War II and enjoy the various re-enactments, entertainment, street parades and vehicle displays along the line at Pickering, Le Visham, Goathland and Grosmont Stations.
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Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo.(BBC2)
(C) Boundless Productions
Starting Monday 4th August 2014 at 1800.
A Railway War Begins
Episode 1 of 5
Duration: 30 minutes
World War I was a railway war. Michael Portillo finds out how the railways
helped to precipitate a mechanised war, shaped how it was fought, conveyed
millions to the trenches and bore witness to its end. He takes to historic
tracks to rediscover the locomotives and wagons of the war that was supposed to
end all war and hears the stories of the gallant men and women who used them in
life and in death.
Michael travels through Britain and northern Europe uncovering railway stories from the Great War. He begins his quest in the French city of Metz on European tracks built with war in mind, charts the birth of the railway war at a small station in Luxembourg and discovers how Britain's railways coped with the challenge of sending thousands of troops to join the conflict from Southampton. Finally, he returns to France to learn how the early war of movement gave way to the stalemate of the trenches.
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Christian Wolmar - Engines of War
After being asked to film this By Peter Lewis from Steamtube for Christian Wolmar, its a great insight into the book
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but also massively increased the power and the deadliness of the weaponry available to them. Christian Wolmar's epic account - of how an invention that brought prosperity in peace-time metamorphosed in time of war into a weapon of death - is counterpointed by a wealth of human stories of personal endeavour and private tragedy. Embracing every major conflict in which railways have played a part - the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the First and Second Boer Wars, the two World Wars, the Korean War and the Cold War, Engines of War is awe-inspiring tale of industrial might and the transformative power of machinery.
Get Your Copy..... HERE
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Michael travels through Britain and northern Europe uncovering railway stories from the Great War. He begins his quest in the French city of Metz on European tracks built with war in mind, charts the birth of the railway war at a small station in Luxembourg and discovers how Britain's railways coped with the challenge of sending thousands of troops to join the conflict from Southampton. Finally, he returns to France to learn how the early war of movement gave way to the stalemate of the trenches.
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Christian Wolmar - Engines of War
After being asked to film this By Peter Lewis from Steamtube for Christian Wolmar, its a great insight into the book
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but also massively increased the power and the deadliness of the weaponry available to them. Christian Wolmar's epic account - of how an invention that brought prosperity in peace-time metamorphosed in time of war into a weapon of death - is counterpointed by a wealth of human stories of personal endeavour and private tragedy. Embracing every major conflict in which railways have played a part - the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the First and Second Boer Wars, the two World Wars, the Korean War and the Cold War, Engines of War is awe-inspiring tale of industrial might and the transformative power of machinery.
Get Your Copy..... HERE
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International
Australia
6029 On A Special In 1980 (C) John Gaydon.
India
Morocco
JV Thales/Huawei/Imet wins High Speed Rail Telecom project(MenaRail Post)
South Korea
Turkey
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