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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.

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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’

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Awards win 100 millionth customer for Eurotunnel shuttle Eurotunnel for customer millionth 100 Chairman and Cheif Executive Eurotunnel Eurotunnel celebrated the 100 IFW Freighting Freightliner Freightliner Group Freightliner Freightliner Ltd, the The Gunnislake The new fueling and servicing servicing and fueling new The line reopens service on 27 June. of Eurotunnel, Jacques Gounon welcomed Mr and Mrs Thynne, millionth customers to travel on board the passenger shuttle Industry Awards were Awards Industry held on the evening of 19 June. Award 2006. The lattrer Award win was the 5th in nine years. (consisting of both the container and bulk freight businesses) also scooped the Rail Freight Business Improvement at the IFW Award Awards. Industry intermodal division of the Freightliner Group, was awarded the for Freightliner for of debris blocking the railway. June after a landslide between Bere Ferrers Alston and resulted Bere in over 1,000 tonnes branch in Devon reopened to passenger services on 26 June. The line was closed on 18 The facility will provide light light provide will facility The fueling and cleaning servicing, deal with the new Class 185 Class new the with deal 'officially' are they when DMUs Trans-Pennine to First introduced shape. is taking July from services point at Cleethorpes, which will will which at Cleethorpes, point Newsdesk should take place in the next few next the in place take should 390 Classnominated be to yet a (MBPS).second permegabytes 49 to up atconnection high-speed continuous a with train moving a to providecoveragenationalcan Wi-Fisatellite,which cellular and VirginTrains WiMAX,combines specificationdeliveredtoThe WiMAX.directionalandsatellite (WAN)bi-technologiesincluding Widemultiple AreaNetwork combining byexperience end-user possible best the deliverssystem Carriage. Connectedcalled system internet multi-bearercreatedwirelessa now has and trainoperation fully a on use wirelessfortechnology developingbeen has which Rail QinetiQ withpartnership tunnels. throughpass trains when lost be Virginnot will signal the say boardwirelesssystems,internet However,on- other some unlike trains.Pendolino 390 Class its of boardone on accessinternet high-speedtrial to is it that Wirelessinternet trials for Virgin Pendolino fleet route 16 when year this earlier began Ferrybridge aroundarea the ValleyAirein signalling close. will box signal Knottingley when Holiday Bank the August over effect into come will scheme resignalling million to Phasetwo of Ferrybridge resignalling approaches ABOVE: 6

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ABOVE: EWS Class 67 No. 67006 Royal Sovereign passes Cow Roast near Tring on the West Coast Main Line with the 14.31 Wembley Yard - Longsight International Depot conveying Class 185 No. 185123. The Siemens 'Desiro' unit had arrived through the Channel Tunnel the previous day. Chris Holt NEWS IN BREIF n The remains of First FTPE Class 158 moves to First Great Western Freightliner Heavy Haul Class 158 No. 158750 is the FTP 158s, which are not being addition, four Class 158s are to Class 66/5 No. 66521, first of four ex-First TransPennine cascaded to South West Trains, move from FGW to Northern Rail withdrawn following Class 158s to move west to will be transferred to First Great by the year end, but these are the tragic Great Heck operate on the FGW franchise. Western. These sets will be likely to be the ex-Central Trains disaster, were finally The set was released in late May inspected and a plan drawn up sets which have the older power moved from Leeds to replace a hired-in ScotRail unit as to which units will be retained units and non-modified air- Midland Road depot to which was sent from Haymarket and funded for refurbishment. conditioning. C F Booths scrapyard on to Exeter in April to help out with A move to standardise all DMU The first refurbished 150 and 24 June. The locomotive a unit shortage at the time of the equipment within the FGW 158 in the new FGW all-over is being disposed of formation of the Greater Western franchise is being made with 'branded' bue is expected to be immediately. Franchise. non-standard sets being returned repainted by Wabtec Doncaster in In the near future the remaining to the Rosco in late summer. In late July. n FM Rail Class 47/3 BELOW: On 28 June Class 158 No. 158750 is seen at Exeter St Davids forming the 14.57 Barnstaple-Exmouth. Colin J. Marsden No. 47355 Avocet suffered a power earth fault that caused a small insulation fire within the main generator on 28 June, while working a departmental service from Lincoln to Derby. The locomotive was on the rear of the consist, which at the time was being powered by No. 47145 Myrddin Emrys. n Two out of the three French based EWS Class 66s have been returned to the UK, with No. 66215 arriving at Toton on 27 June. As Railway Herald went to press, classmate No. 66022 remained at Dollands Moor. Following work and further modifications, both Alstom Class 458 'Juniper' units head for store locomotives are expected The Class 458 Juniper EMUs reliable in service than the new Underground sub-surface East to return to France for have never been popular with Desiros, SWT is determined to London Line. They are not completion of safety case South West Trans since their initial do away with them as soon as suitable for the latter because the assessment. delivery from 1998. possible and the trains are to go DfT has stated that the ‘458s’ do n Wimbledon Depot could not into store until a decision is made not comply with the Disability Class 37/6 No. 37669 seem to come to terms with them, by their owners Porterbrook as to Discrimination Act 2005, and again which has languished at a variety of different faults and what to do with them. However, the cost of retro-modifying them Bescot Depot for several problems arising on individual the costs of converting the units being prohibitably expensive. months, was finally sets that were not consistent with from third-rail to overhead pick- The vast majority of the final moved to Barrow Hill others of the class, the corridor up for use in Scotland has ruled months of their service have on 29 July by HNRC connections not functioning that option out. been spent on South West Train's Class 20s Nos. 20096 and correctly, and the overall Another option that has also Reading - Waterloo service with 20906. The Type 3 is availability being poor. been ruled out being to use very limited work elsewhere on now owned by HNRC. Although they are now more the Class 458s on the London the network.

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Railway Running Daily Enjoy thedelightsof‘seasideexcursion’ ofyearsago Thursday Wednesday Tuesday Monday Saturday on thefollowingdatesinJuly: Steam hauledservicesto Whitby operate Herald and Class 37 No. 37314. No. 37 Class and J ohn W hitehouse - 27th 5th, 12th,19thand26th 4th, 11th, 18thand25th 24th and31st 1st Volume 1 : Issue 42 Preservation View Preservation West Somerset Railway main line connection commissioned The West Somerset Railway's link with Network Rail at Norton Fitzwarren, just west of Taunton, has been upgraded and fully signalled to allow unlimited passenger movements on and off the national network. The work has formed part of a major contract from Network Rail to eliminate the bottle-neck level crossing at Silk Mills and replace it with a bridge. As part of this, new signalling has been introduced, controlled from Exeter power signal box. The work, undertaken by Amey Railways under contract from Network Rail, includes a new LED main line signal on the down relief line close to Silk Mills which now allows movement over the down and up GW main line onto the connection spur to the West Somerset. This signal No. E324 replaces a previous colour light signal. A new running signal No. E627, again a LED unit, has been erected on the branch from the WSR to the main line, previously, this being a shunt signal. This signal when clear ABOVE: Philip Izzard gives authority for a train to travel to the Class 158 No. 158855 arrives at Bishops Lydeard with the return service to Bristol. relief line crossing both the up and down Council and Taunton Deane Borough Taunton, with the railway concentrating on main lines close to Silk Mills. The work has Council. its existing 24-miles, where its operational also seen the up fixed distant on the WSR Somerset County Council and the West experitise lies. moved to the legal distance from the stop Somerset Railway are now in discussions With the previous limit of six through signal. with First Great Western (FGW), to explore trains a year now lifted, the running of The section of line between that of the possibility of operating a regular through charter trains to Bishops Lydeard Network Rail and the WSR is operated on service, enabling more visitors than ever and Minehead is likely to feature in a a ‘one train in steam’ principal, with token before to access West Somerset by train. number of charter companies itineraries slot release instruments located at both Plans are still at a very early stage and one over the coming years. The WSR has Taunton station and Silk Mills. of the key issues is likely to that of rolling confirmed that two charters are already On 28 June, Somerset County Council, stock. One option that is being explored is planned to use the new connection, one in the West Somerset Railway and Network for First Great Western to operate a shuttle October and one in December. Rail celebrated the commissioning of the service between Taunton and Bishops new signalling equipment by operating Lydeard next summer on a Wednesday and a special train, formed of Class 158 No. Sunday, the railway's two busiest days to 3850 officially enters traffic 158855 Exmoor Explorer from Bristol Temple 'test the market'. The railway's newly restored Great Meads to Minehead and return. On arrival Paul Conibear, General Manager of Western 2-8-0 No. 3850 will enter traffic at both Bishops Lydeard and Minehead the the West Somerset Railway is however officially on 15 July and should be in almost train broke a ‘Destination Somerset’ banner. committed to making best use of the continuous service for the next 28 days until The signal and infrastructure upgrade railways resources and management the loco is due its boiler washout. work has cost around £325,000 and was skills. Therefore, the railway intends to Since its return to steam, the locomotive funded by Somerset County Council’s Local let FGW concentrate on the operation of has only operated around five days in traffic Transport Plan, West Somerset District a diesel multiple unit shuttle to and from due to a settling and running in period. ABOVE: Class 158 No. 158855 breaks the 'Destination - Somerset' banner at Minehad station on 28 June as it arrives with the the 09.53 Bristol Temple Meads - Minehead service, the first through train from the National Network to use the newly signalled connection. Colin J. Marsden

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ABOVE: A busy seen at Eastleigh as Freightliner Heavy Haul Class 66/5 No. 66514 departs with the Neasden - Wool sand empties. GBRailfreight Class 66/7 Nos. 66702 and 66706 can be seen stabled in the background while, EWS Class 66/0 No. 66233 awaits the road to depart Eastleigh Yard with an engineers train bound for Hoo Jn! Brian Garrett

RIGHT: The unique Shanks & McEwan liveried Class 66/5 No. 66522 has found work on the Yorkshire coal circuit recently, following its period in Freightliner's Network Rail pool, as signified by the yellow squares on the cabside. No. 66522 approaches Sudforth Lane level crossing on 27 June with empties for Immingham. Ian Broadhead

BELOW: On one of its first revenue earning runs, DRS Class 66/4 No. 66413 passes Winwick Junction on 23 June with a Coatbridge - Daventry intermodal service. Fred Kerr