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In This Issue Liverpool South Parkway opens SPECIAL REPORT: York Leeman Road New trains unveiled for Victoria Line 'Javelin' service expands to Dover RailwayThe Herald Issue 45 21 July 2006 Contents

Submissions Newsdesk 3 We welcome Liverpool South Parkway officially opens. Fastline increases freight capacity. New buffet submissions from all vehicles for 'one' Anglia plus a SPECIAL REPORT: Siemens York Leeman Road depot. readers, especially photographs from those Rolling Stock News 11 enthusiasts with a digital North loco-hauled news. Class 37s on Birch Coppice trip and 87022 workes GBRf freight. camera! Pictures should be sent to the editor at Preservation View 12 [email protected] News from the East Lancashire Railway. Mid-Hants Railway announces September gala line up, Isambard Kingdom Good quality scans of saved and a pictorial view of the Mid Norfolk 1970s gala. colour slides and prints Notable Workings Pictorial 14 are also acceptable. A look at some of the rare and notable workings over the past week. Please note that as the Railway Herald is free and compiled on a voluntary basis, we are unable to Jamestown Viaduct nominated for award offer any financial return. Once the 'new-look' 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 ABOVE: Jamestown Viaduct, situated on the climb up to the Forth Bridge from Inverkeithing, has been due to be published nominated for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award. The 101-year-old viaduct, which every Friday and underwent major repairs over eight days last summer to strengthen the structure, is one of 14 nominees is available by e- out of 137 entries. Overlooked by Castlelandhill, at one time the site of a Royal Navy wireless station and mail subscription its attached married quarters, GNER power car No. 43167 Deltic 50 leads the 07.55 Aberdeen - King's Cross from subscriptions@ service over the viaduct on 14 July. Peter Kellett railwayherald.co.uk BREAKING NEWS n BREAKING NEWS n BREAKING NEWS n BREAKING NEWS n BREAKING NEWS E-mail addresses are never given out and should you choose to Late railtour news - A4 charter postponed cease your subscription Notification that the proposed now likely to take place on 23 behind the steam , in the future, please just signallers strike that would September. with No. 71000 being in light have covered this weekend, had At the time of going to press all steam only sufficient to carry its contact us. been cancelled did not come other railtours booked to operate own weight with the diesel being soon enough to save one of this this weekend were scheduled to the prime traction for the train. © Copyright weekend's tours. continue as planned. However, FM Rail was not Railway Herald 2006 Unfortunately, the A1 comfortable with operating in Locomotive Trust had already Fire Risk Problems this manner, whereby the inside FRONT COVER: On a stunning taken the decision to postpone The perceived fire risk due to locomotive would be providing July evening, Class 66/0 its King's Cross very high temperatures and little all the traction, and the decision No. 66125 labours past – Darlington charter, which was rain over recent weeks caused was made to run with a heritage Restormel with the 18.25 Duke of St. Blazey- Riverside scheduled for haulage by A4 No. 71000 to be diesel only. 'Enterprise' service via No. 60009 Union of South Africa, withdrawn from Steam Dreams FM Rail is reviewing its policy Tavistock Junction Yard and until a later date. Re-instatement 20 July ‘Sunny South Special’ of such operations for future Heathfield on 18 July. On was not possible as by the time from Kensington Olympia to tours. Steam Dreams next tour is the rear of the train, out of the strike had been called off the Weymouth. on 26 July from London Victoria sight are empty TTA tanks organisers had gone too far down Originally to Canterbury with Black 5 No. for Fawley. Sam Felce the track of re-arranging the tour, required a diesel to be inserted 45231 the booked traction.

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Liverpool South Parkway opens The new environmentally BBC Radio Merseyside. friendly Liverpool South Parkway Liverpool South Parkway joins station officially opened its doors together the two older stations on 14 July. of Allerton and Garston. Major The focus of the event was on features of the new station include a introducing local people to the single integrated booking office and benefits of their new station and passenger information and enquiry the opening ceremony reflected point for bus, rail and airport this with local schools present. The journeys; a bus station and taxi official opening was carried out by rank; a high frequency 24-hour bus Merseytravel Chairman Councillor shuttle to Liverpool John Lennon Mark Dowd and its Chief Executive Airport; a 240 space Park-and-Ride and Director General Neil Scales car park and secure motor bike and together with Roger Phillips from cycle storage.

ABOVE: The foot passenger entrance is directly at the end of the path, with the bus interchange in a three-quarter circle to the left, the result being that buses and cars are kept separate providing a safer environment. The public car parks are to the rear of the building.

MIDDLE: The spacious entrance foyer in the new station provides an environment more akin to an airport terminal! With the ticket offices to the right, the bus station to the left, the railway platforms are 'around the curve', with the foyer leading directly to Platform 1, with other platforms being accessed via lifts or the footbridge.

RIGHT: The platforms are numbered from No. 1 on the right hand side to No. 4 on the left. In this view looking towards Runcorn, the modern image of the station area can be seen. All: Wilf Smith

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The stock is to be introduced to the stations on the route in late 2009 as part of the Victoria Line upgrade which is part of Transport for in addition to a new testing of the first new ABOVE & LEFT: The exterior and interior views of the life- London’s massive £10 signalling system and train early next year. size mock up of the new Victoria Line trains, located in Both: Brian Morrison billion investment into service control centre. Northumberland Park Euston Square gardens. London’s railways and A total renewal of track depot is also being is due for completion in components in order to by being longer and will also take place with updated to maintain the reduce technical risk, having a greater aisle 2013. the section between new fleet. By this time, the 47 and the design takes width between seating Seven Sisters and Warren The new stock has into consideration bays. Multi-purpose new eight-car trains Street being upgraded been designed based will be in operation the constraints of areas with six tip-up earlier to allow for on existing systems and the Victoria Line seats provide space for infrastructure, the line four wheelchairs or being originally opened buggies and the like; in sections between 1968 the seats are designed and 1971. to suit the shape of Despite this, the the body and provide design allows for a more comfortable smaller wheels to be ride; the larger doors used with existing will be operated Northern Line bogies to electrically rather than give more height inside pneumatically as at the vehicles; average present, and there will journey times will be be additional doors in faster and a smoother the middle cars to allow more comfortable people off and on the ride is promised trains faster. with much improved CCTV cameras will acceleration and braking be in each car recording performance. digital-quality images The power equipment and the windows are will be more reliable to be covered with and energy efficient sacrificial film to reduce and the trains will the severity of scratch have increased capacity graffiti. More Community Extra 'Javelin' trains to be built to Rail lines announced provide Dover high-speed service Rail minister Derek Twigg has announced Transport Minister Stephen Ladyman town. Our contract with southeastern that services between Derby and Matlock and has announced the extension of Channel committed the TOC to run hourly services Grantham and Skegness have been designated Rail Link (CTRL) domestic to Dover if safety concerns could be as Community Rail Services, the former services to Dover. overcome. working with the Derwent Valley Rural Hourly services to London St Pancras The result of this service extension will Transport Partnership and the latter with the will operate from Dover when high speed be a further £8.5 million investment in Poacher Line Partnership. services are introduced on the CTRL in extra 'Javelin' trains, which are being built Both lines are currently operated by Central December 2009. Journey times to London by Hitachi in Japan, to increase the fleet Trains but will become part of the new East will shrink by up to 40 minutes, giving a size to 29. Midlands franchise in November next year. travelling time of about 70 minutes into Andrew Munden, Route Director, The minister commented that designation of St Pancras. Network Rail said: "We are actively the trains on these lines means good news for Network Rail confirmed that it will looking to invest in projects that passengers as it will ensure that management fund the improvements needed to will expand the railway and provide meets local needs at an affordable price, Shakespeare Tunnel, near Dover, which a better service to passengers and encouraging involvement from local will allow new Hitachi trains to run to freight customers alike. This additional stakeholders. Dover on the existing railway network. infrastructure project at Shakespeare The partnerships will also find ways to Stephen Ladyman, Transport Minister Tunnel will make a huge difference in increase passenger numbers and improve the said: "The extension of these services the travel experience to and from this services. to Dover is an important boost for the important area of Kent."

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Wells Class 90 No. 90011 Enterprise! intermodal GBRf operated Class In preparation for Class 37s on 87022 works works 87022 LEFT: 87 No. 87022 was called upon to work 4L22 Hams Hall - Felixstowe intermodal service as far as Ipswich on 20 July, after the booked Class 66/7 locomotive failed. use on this weekend's railtour from Ealing Broadway to the Central Line, Class 37/4s Wales Nos. 37401 and 37405 were moved from Mossend to Bescot in the consist of 6M76 on 19 The following day July. found the pair working the Bescot - Birch Coppice trip working, before heading for London, on dead in tow, 6A42 Bescot - Wembley 'Enterprise' service, hauled by Class 92 No. 92002 on 17 July. on The 17 loco July. was the last of the class to be repainted into 'one' Anglia colours by EWS at Toton TMD. is pictured in the parcels platform at Stafford, while on test from Crewe EMD Following on from our fleet report last issue, the Class 43 No. 43175 which was the Angel first ROLLING STOCK NEWS IN BREIF n number of Class 60s in traffic with EWS is now 28, with the storing of Nos. 60008, 60041 and 60072. n power car to Trains be released from Brush Traction has entered carrying traffic with First Great Western, a base purple colour scheme with FGW branding. hitehouse W ohn J passes EWS Class 66 No. 66171 at the Anglesey Working the coast North loco-hauled Working Wales OW: BELOW: longer will loco-hauled services reign? The Class 66 was bound Arpley for yard. Warrington to cover for the non-availability of Class 175 DMUs, is currently continuing on a week-by-week basis, as Class 175 No. 175103, which had suffered accident damage was returned to Chester depot on How 18 much July. diagram for Arriva Trains Wales Class 57/3 Wales No. diagram 57315 for Arriva Trains The Mole Aluminium Plant on the outskirts of Holyhead. The loco-hauled service, which was originally instigated Preservation Preservation View

ABOVE: The inaugural 'Torbay Express' service from Temple Meads to storms past Lympsham as it accelerates away from Uphill Junction following it's stop at Weston-super-Mare on 16 July. Great Western 'King' 4-6-0 No. 6024 King Edward I is pictured at the helm. Chris Perkins East Lancashire news update Celebrity Class 47 The East Lancashire Railway report the canopy is being undertaken using that its steam gala over the weekend of sections recovered from the canopies at saved for preservation 24/25 June was successful with seven Miles Platting and Blackburn stations The celebrity Class locomotive, which is locomotives in steam, including BR 8P at an estimated cost of £80,000, which 47/4 No. 47484 Isambard currently located at Mr. No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester and LMS has been covered from an members Kingdom Brunel has been Goodman's yard in the Pacific No. 6201 Princess Elizabeth. donation. It is hoped that work on the saved for preservation Midlands, this weekend The railway's next major steam canopy will be completed by the end by Andrew Goodman. with a view to returning event will be the LMS Weekend on of this year. The locomotive, which it to operational 9/10 September which it is hoped will Finally, the famous clock tower at gained celebrity status condition as soon as feature LMS 'Jubilee' No. 5690 Leander, Rawtenstall station has now been following its repaint possible, although there LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44422 and LMS removed and the replacement glass into Brunswick Green is no timescale for the 'Jinty' 0-6-0T No. 47324. re-enforced plastic (GRP) is due to be colours for the Great completion of repairs. A start has been made on a new fitted and completed by the end of this Western 150 celebrations The eventual home canopy for Ramsbottom station. This month. in 1985, has languished for the locomotive, once will be on the 'down' platform and The original had to be replaced at Glasgow Works since operational, is yet to be will be twice the length of the existing because the wooden structure was its purchase by Direct decided. However, the buildings. It will commence near the rotting due to ingress of water and Rail Services and is in loco will definitely not footbridge, and run south for the full condensation. The planning authority a substantially better be returning to the main length of the building, then the same require the new GRP structure to be condition than was first line. distance again. The construction of identical to the one being removed. thought. One of the key Various components questions is what have been carefully livery the locomotive Gala time for Mid-Hants Railway removed during its time will be outshopped in. The Mid-Hants Railway will hold locomotives, SR 'West Country' No. at Glasgow but all can Green is the favoured its Autumn Steam Gala over the 34016 Bodmin, LMS Ivatt 2-6-2T No. be easily refitted. The colour but it is yet to weekend of 22-24 September. 41312, LMS Black 5 No. 45231, BR power unit is believed be decided whether it Visiting locomotives are expeccted Standard 5 No. 73096 and BR 9F 2-10-0 to be substantially will be the original as- to be, GW Hall No. 4936 Kinlet Hall, No. 92212 should all be in traffic. complete and the bogies built two-tone green or recently overhauled GW Large It is also hoped to operate a civil are in good condition. its 1985 Great Western Prairie 2-6-2T No. 4160 and LBSCR engineers train with No. 92212 hauling It is hoped that celebrations Brunswick E4 No. 32473. In addition, resident ballast hoppers and a crane. work will start on the green livery.

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Images of a Cornish branch line Norfolk Blues Norfolk recently returned to traffic, the loco pilots Class 31 No. D5557 towards Dereham with the 15.00 service from Wymondham. Ramilies with the 13.00 service from Dereham on 15 July. BELOW: with the 12.00 Dereham - Wymondham service on 16 July. RIGHT: are conjured up as Class 50 No. 50019 ABOVE: from the late 1970s, Class 31 No. D5557 ambles along the Mid-Norfolk Railway Notable Workings Pictorial wagons off the Parkandillack line at Treviscoe, with Class 66 No. 66195 in charge on 18 July.18 on charge in 66195 Treviscoe,No. at 66 line Class Parkandillack with the off wagons 2006. July 14 on wagons ballast Rail Network low-height empty of rake a with Forders leaving service, Farm Forders-Stud the working pictured is locomotive The branch. Bedford BELOW: ABOVE: After transfer from Dagenham Docks to work off Rugby, it did not take long for 'low emission' Class 66/9 No. 66952 to migrate to the - the to migrate to 66952 No. 66/9 Class emission' 'low for long take Rugby,offnot work did to it Docks Dagenham from transfer After The morning Burngullow - St. Blazey trip working is pictured passing through the attractive surroundings of St. Austell, with the loaded the with Austell, St. of surroundings attractive the through passing pictured is working trip Blazey St. - Burngullow morning The I an

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ABOVE: Previously owned by Harry Needle Railroad Company, Class 37/0 No. 37194 is now part of the expanding DRS fleet. On 17 July, the locomotive is pictured in the company of classmate No. 37029 on a Carlisle Yard-Seaton flask train at Pelaw on Tyneside. Ken Short

BELOW: On a beautiful summer afternoon, Class 37/4 No. 37405 powers the 12.21 Linkswood-Mossend tanks over Jamestown Viaduct on the climb from Inverkeithing to the Forth Bridge. The locomotive was transferred south with classmate No. 37401 later the same day in preparation for working a railtour the following weekend. Peter Kellett Notable Workings Pictorial S rightNos.90009,areto9000890007.and capturedJuly.Norwich15aton Fromleft throughpaintshop,theunified ascene is operatedClasshaving90sbeennow triple-greycolourscheme. Freightlineroperated locosstillcarrythe Felixstoweservice.Anumbertheof whileworking11.55 CreweBasford Hall- 57003 WCML,No.thewithClass57 Parkon 90041No.headsthrough90 Carpenders Intermodal'one'HereClassandAnglia. fleet;Classthe90EWS,Freightlinerof use Norwich-LiverpoolStreetservice. 'one'Angliahiretoworking 15.30 the sticker,picturedJuly,is14 on whileon DistributionliverywithyellowbutEWS stillwearingmodifiedits Railfreight Class 90s at work RIGHT: A BE t BOVE: ua L OW: rt

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ABOVE: On 13 July, Class 67 No. 67006 Royal Sovereign passes Balby on the approaches to Doncaster with the Royal Train, conveying HRH Prince Charles to Hornbeam Park for the Yorkshire Show. Steve Philpott

RIGHT: Class 67s Nos. 67027 and 67023 pass Exminster on 15 July powering the 17.54 Par-Hove charter. The train was running 40 minutes late at this point due to operating problems at St Blazey. The train was routed via Westbury where a run-round took place before heading for Hove via Salisbury and Southampton. Colin J. Marsden

BELOW: Of the three liveries currently carried by the 30-strong Class 67 fleet, probably the most distinctive is the EWS Executive livery currently adorning No. 67029. Here the locomotive is seen on a Serco test train in partnership with classmate No. 67025 passing Abington Loops on 7 July while working from Crewe to Glasgow. Peter Kellett