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In This Issue RailwayThe Herald 30 June 2006 No. 42 TheThe complimentarycomplimentary UKUK railwayrailway journaljournal forfor thethe railwayrailway enthusiastenthusiast In This Issue Kings Health train facility opens Deltic event moves to Barrow Hill! Fire shuts King's Cross station Weardale Railway to reopen this summer RailwayThe Herald Issue 42 30 June 2006 Contents Submissions Newsdesk 3 We welcome New £31 million Kings Heath depot opens at Northampton. Cleethorpes fueling point. submissions from all Gunnislake branch reopens. Internet trials for Pendolino and Ferrybridge Resignalling. readers, especially photographs from those Rolling Stock News 7 enthusiasts with a digital Class 458 'Junipers' into store. Another Class 185 delivered. First Great Western Class 158 fleet camera! Pictures should news update and locomotive news in breif.. be sent to the editor at [email protected] Preservation View 8 Good quality scans of West Somerset commissions new link with National Network. Successful gala for Midland Railway. Weardale Railway to re-open and Deltic event moves to Barrow Hill. colour slides and prints are also acceptable. Notable Workings Pictorial 11 Please note that as the A look at some of the rare and notable workings over the past week. Railway Herald is free and compiled on a voluntary BELOW: Star attraction of the Churnet Valley Railway steam gala over the weekend of 23-25 June was the appearance of basis, we are unable to ex-Southern Railway Merchant Navy No. 35005 Canadian Pacific making a rare appearance away from its base at the offer any financial return. Mid-Hants Railway. The Pacific was in action on all three days, sharing services with ex-GWR ‘Manor’ No. 7821 Ditcheat Once the 'new-look' Manor, BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T No. 80098 and USA Class S160 No. 5197 on Saturday and Sunday. Here Canadian Pacific pulls away from Consall with the 14.15 Froghall-Cheddleton on 24 June. JOHN WHITEHOUSE Railway Herald is launched, a reproduction fee will be paid to photographers. Where possible we always try to use photographs taken within the production week (i.e. the next issue will, where possible, only include images taken between the publication date of this issue and the following Friday. Publication The Railway Herald is due to be published every Friday and is available by e- mail subscription from subscriptions@ railwayherald.co.uk E-mail addresses are never given out and should you choose to cease your subscription in the future, please just contact us. © Copyright Railway Herald 2006 FRONT COVER: In full sun, one of the Mendip Rail fleet of Class 59/0s No. 59002 Alan J Day powers through the 's' bends at Woolhampton on 24 June with a rake of empty Yeoman-liveried JHA hoppers in tow from Theale, bound for Merehead. MARK CHANDLER 2 Railway Herald - Volume 1 : Issue 42 New £31M Desiro depot opens at Kings Heath Northampton Newsdesk All photographs by Colin J. Marsden unless otherwise stated Siemens officially opened the new state-of-the-art train maintenance facility near Northampton on 27 June. The large complex has been constructed on what was previously spare railway land. The depot, named Kings Heath, is the fourth Siemens-owned maintenance depot in the UK, the others being located at Ardwick in Manchester, Northam near Southampton and at Old Oak Common, London, known as Siemens Acton. Kings Heath has been purpose-built for the recently introduced 30-strong Class 350 Desiro four-car EMU fleet, now used by Silverlink and Central Trains on outer suburban and main line services, working in an area bounded by Preston, Liverpool, Birmingham and London Euston. The depot has a 7,500 square metre, five road single-ended workshop and inspection shed, together with more TOP: Class 350/1 No. 350127 departs from Kings Heath depot with the 14.30 shuttle to Northampton station on opening day. ABOVE MIDDLE: Class 350 No. 350127 is seen inside the new depot. The building itself provides high-level walkways to access the roofs and pantograph areas in safety, while at the same time has a very bright and open atmosphere. BRIAN MORRISON RIGHT: Class 350/1 'Desiro' 350101 is pictured inside Kings Heath depot. BRIAN MORRISON BELOW: Rail Minister, Derek Twigg MP unveils the opening plaque watched by Christian Roth, Managing Director of Siemens Transportation Systems. Railway Herald - Volume 1 : Issue 42 3 than a dozen open-air berthing driver takes the train into the protection is of importance, are owned by Angel Trains sidings, able to accommodate fully protected depot, either and to this end one of the and were the original second the entire West Coast Desiro stabling it on an outside road or latest depot management tranche order for Class 450/1 fleet with room to spare. entering the main workshop. systems is incorporated, with Desiro stock for South West Part of the reason for the The five track workshop has interlocking ‘gates’ and access Trains, which was cancelled vast amount of space is that side and roof level inspection keys preventing staff entering by the Government and the site will also become the platforms, with one road an unsafe locality where 25kV diverted to the West Coast headquarters for Siemens housing a bogie drop table could be switched on, or an modernisation project. Newsdesk rolling stock maintenance in and lifting jacks. The bogie area where trains are operating. Siemens has confirmed that the UK, bringing together the drop table enables wheelsets or Opening of the site was the present light maintenance management and operational complete bogies to be lowered performed by Rail Minister facility operated by LNWR at teams of this growing UK and removed to a stores or Derek Twigg MP at the Crewe will continue to provide operation. The Northampton workshop area. Virtually invitation of Christian Roth, maintenance for the northern site also provides room for any level of repair can be Managing Director of Siemens end of the fleets operating area. expansion, should longer undertaken at the depot, except Transportation Systems. The The first trains arrived for trains or additional Siemens the most serious collision media and invited guests were maintenance at the new Kings products be ordered. Building damage. The workshop area, transported from Northampton Heath facility on the day of the of the Kings Heath facility has as well as housing the usual station to Kings Heath Depot official opening, with the result generated over 100 jobs in the array of machine tools, also on board Desiro No. 350127. that the present maintaining Northampton area. has a twin-headed wheel lathe, The 30 Class 350 Desiro units of sets at Bletchley depot will The majority of work at capable of turning the wheels of now operating on the West now cease with the work the depot will be undertaken an entire train in one shift. Coast under the Silverlink transferred to the new depot at at night when sets are Depot safety and staff and Central Trains banner, Northampton. not working, with only programmed maintenance on BELOW: A 'close-up' view of the new wheel lathe at Kings Heath depot. BOTTOM: them being undertaken during The wheel lathe seen from a distance, including the wheel lathe 'donkey'. The latter device will daytime hours. All Class 350s automatically position vehicles on the lathe so that they are precisely in the correct place. arriving at the new facility enter via a depot length (one mile) interface line between Network Rail and Siemens, with sets passing through an advanced fully enclosed washing plant, which recycles some 75 per cent of the water used. The plant includes full pre-wash, side and roof cleaning brushes together with an underside wash system. To ensure trains do not freeze up in sub-zero temperatures, blowers ‘dry’ them after washing. Each of the five roads inside the depot can hold two four-car units and have full toilet discharge and watering equipment, enabling the units to be cleaned on each depot visit. Once trains arrive through the washing area, a Siemens’ 4 Railway Herald - Volume 1 : Issue 40 Newsdesk Cleethorpes fueling point makes progress Telephone contract awarded Network Rail has awarded Siemens a contract to renew the SPT (Signal Post Telephone) system at London King's Cross. The contract, which is valued at approximately £2 million, is designed to provide an increase the reliability of communications between train drivers, trackside workers and signallers at King’s Cross. The scope comprises the replacement of the The new fueling and servicing for the units, which will have transferred to the new Siemens existing life expired point at Cleethorpes, which will heavier maintenance undertaken units later in the month once the concentrator in King's deal with the new Class 185 at the main Ardwick depot in fueling point is fully opened. Cross Power Signal Box DMUs when they are 'officially' Manchester or at York. The official and approximately 600 introduced to First Trans-Pennine introduction of units onto the ABOVE: The new facility for the trackside telephones, services from July is taking shape. Cleethorpes route will take place Siemens built Class 185 'Desiros' at over approximately The facility will provide light in early July, with the remainder Cleethorpes is pictured on 25 June. 90 miles of route, servicing, cleaning and fueling of Class 158 diagrams being NEIL HANSON between King's Cross, Biggleswade and Royston. 100 millionth customer for Eurotunnel shuttle When the project Eurotunnel celebrated the 100 from Eastbourne in Sussex when Passenger Terminal to celebrate is completed in mid- millionth customers to travel they arrived at the Folkestone and Jacques Gounon presented 2007, signallers at on board the passenger shuttle terminal at the beginning of the them with a year’s worth of King's Cross will be service on 27 June.
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