|
| 15/03/2010 | Fast train to open a year ahead of schedule [China Daily] |
| The highly anticipated Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway will begin operation next year, and is expected to cut travel time from 10 to four hours. |
High-speed trains wait for departure at one of Asia^s biggest railway stations, the new South station at Guangzhou, capital of south China^s Guangdong Province, on 30 January 2010.
[Courtesy eastday.com 30/01/2010] |
|
| China Daily | |
|
| 13/03/2010 | Strike 'will not hit rugby fans' [BBC News Article] |
| Rugby fans travelling to the Scotland v England match at Murrayfield stadium should not be affected by the rail strike, First ScotRail says. |
Murrayfield stadium is on the left and Edinburgh Castle on the horizon as two trains head west in parallel shortly after leaving Haymarket station (centre background) on a November afternoon in 2006. The train on the left is on the line to the Forth Bridge with that on the right heading for Glasgow Queen Street.
[John Furnevel /11/2006] |
|
| BBC News Article | |
|
| 13/03/2010 | China plans bullet trains to 17 nations [Hindustan Times] |
| China is in global negotiations to spread its high-speed railway network to reach 17 nations and possibly India. By 2013, China will have the world’s biggest high-speed railway network and 800 bullet trains, compared to none until 2008. |
|
| Hindustan Times | |
|
| 13/03/2010 | Rail unions claim strike has solid support [BBC News] |
| Leaders of the RMT union have claimed there is 'rock solid' support for a 24-hour walkout by rail workers. |
|
| BBC News | |
|
| 12/03/2010 | Flying Scotsman tested on East Lancs Railway [BBC News] |
| One of Britain's most iconic steam trains will return to the rails with the help of Greater Manchester heritage railway enthusiasts |
4472 Flying Scotsman on the turntable at Ferryhill shed in May 1964.
[John Robin 16/05/1964] | 
Preserved Gresley ex-LNER A3 Pacific no 4472 Flying Scotsman stands at Carlisle platform 4 in the 1960s with a southbound special.
[Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] //] | 
4472 Flying Scotsman runs north through Tweedmouth station on 9 May 1964 with Pegler^s Pullman en route from Doncaster to Edinburgh. Tweeedmouth shed (52D) can be seen in the rear right of the photograph. The locomotive spent the following 9 days in Scotland on railtour duty and returned south light engine on 18 May. It was during this visit that the initial work on the Terence Cuneo painting of 4472 on the Forth Bridge was undertaken.
[Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 09/05/1964] |
|
| BBC News | |
|
| 12/03/2010 | Rail maintenance workers vote to strike [libcom.org] |
| RMT members have voted strongly for strike action, in what stands to be the first national strike of rail workers in 16 years. Other workers including signallers and electrical supply controllers may also strike following their ballots in the coming weeks.
|
|
| libcom.org | |
|
| 11/03/2010 | 8 of the world's most popular high speed trains [Huffington Post] |
| The Obama Administration recently allocated money for high-speed train projects across the nation. Here at HuffPost Green, we think high speed rail is totally awesome, and we hope to see many great rail projects across the country. |
|
| Huffington Post | |
|
| 11/03/2010 | New high speed rail plan unveiled [BBC News] |
| Network Rail has proposed a new £34bn ($55bn) high-speed railway line linking Scotland and London by 2030. |
|
| BBC News | |
| BBC Scotland | |
| BBC Scotland | |
|
| 11/03/2010 | Train warning for football fans [BBC News Article] |
| Tayside football fans now risk losing their season tickets if they are involved in trouble anywhere on Scotland's rail network. |
A football match....really....step this way please... Quiet Saturday afternoon in Dundee in the 1990s on the occasion of a Dundee United v Aberdeen game.
[John Furnevel //] |
|
| BBC News Article | |
|
| 11/03/2010 | Preston station receives a £1m makeover [Network Rail Article] |
| Work is progressing well on two Network Rail schemes at Preston station worth over £1m that will make the station much more pleasant for passengers using the lifts and subways. |
A TransPennine Express Blackpool North - Manchester Airport class 185 service departs from Preston on 6 April.
[John McIntyre 06/04/2007] | 
DRS class 47 no 47501 creates a bit of a stir at Preston
[Michael Gibb 03/08/2007] | 
A busy Preston station looking South on 7th January 2009, with 156472 on a local service sandwiched between two Pendolinos, one Northbound and one Southbound
[Graham Morgan 07/01/2009] |
|
| Network Rail Article | |
|
| 10/03/2010 | Biggest rail strike since 1990s looms [Independent] |
| The threat of a national rail strike at Easter came closer yesterday as Network Rail revealed it had drawn up contingency plans to deal with a walk-out by thousands of workers. |
|
| Independent | |
|
| 10/03/2010 | Near Misses : Warnings over deadly crossings [Sky News] |
| The deadly dangers of rail crossings should be part of the theory test for learner drivers, rail bosses have said. [From Ken Strachan]
|
EWS 66086 makes its way over the Level Crossing at the village of Gatehead, Ayrshire, on 12 June 2009. Located on the single line section between Kilmarnock and Barassie, Gatehead station closed in March 1969.
[David Forbes 12/06/2009] | 
The Jacobite crosses the level crossing by Corpach station on its return to Fort William.
[Ewan Crawford 28/09/2009] | 
158708 on the level crossing over the A835 about to run into Garve station during a downpour on 1 October 2009. The train is the 1443 Kyle of Lochalsh – Inverness service.
[John Furnevel 01/10/2009] |
|
| Sky News | |
|
| 10/03/2010 | Crisis talks over trams project [BBC News] |
| Talks are to be held over Edinburgh's trams project in a bid to end a stalemate which has brought work on key sections of the route to a standstill. |
The Mound tram stop, Princes Street, view east, 23 February 2010.
[Bill Roberton 23/02/2010] | 
Looking west along the former guided busway at Saughton on 21 February 2010, with track laying for the new tram system well underway.
[Bill Roberton 21/02/2010] |
|
| BBC News | |
|
| 09/03/2010 | High Speed rail link plans to be announced [The Telegraph] |
| They will include the exact proposed route between London and Birmingham and options on how to extend into the north of England and Scotland.
The network could enable trains to reach Birmingham from London in 47 minutes and Glasgow in two hours and 40 minutes
|
|
| The Telegraph | |
|
| 09/03/2010 | China builds railway to Europe [Independent] |
| Railway passengers will be able to travel from King's Cross in London to Beijing in just two days on a journey that would be almost as fast as by aeroplane under ambitious new plans from the Chinese.
|
High-speed trains wait for departure at one of Asia^s biggest railway stations, the new South station at Guangzhou, capital of south China^s Guangdong Province, on 30 January 2010.
[Courtesy eastday.com 30/01/2010] |
|
| Independent | |
| London Daily News | |
| Daily Mail | |
|
| 09/03/2010 | First class on trains - what's the point? [BBC News] |
| MPs may no longer be allowed to claim first class rail journeys on expenses - to the disgust of some. But are those in standard class really any different to travellers who have paid a premium, as one suggests? |
See you pal - get lost! One of the highly trained and extremely courteous Pullman car attendants on the Orient Express, alongside a close-up of the logo on the coach side. St Anton, July 1997.
[John Furnevel /07/1997] |
|
| BBC News | |
|
| 09/03/2010 | Avalanche [blocked] West Highland Line reopened [BBC News] |
| Debris from four avalanches which closed the West Highland Line for almost two weeks has been cleared and the track reopened for rail services. |
A rail mounted crane and inspection party take a look at one of the avalanches onto the West Highland Railway.
[Ewan Crawford 08/03/2010] | 
Scorch marks high on Beinn Odhar far above the West Highland Railway. Apparently James Bond had been up the mountain with explosives by helicopter the night before to see if he could make the hillside safe.
[Ewan Crawford 08/03/2010] | 
Beinn Dorain (left), Beinn Odhar (right) and three avalanches which blocked the West Highland Railway.
[Ewan Crawford 08/03/2010] |
|
| BBC News item | |
|
| 08/03/2010 | Disputed rail link making tracks [BBC News] |
| The first length of new tracks are laid on the controversial £330m Glasgow to Edinburgh, via Airdrie and Bathgate, rail route. |
Progress at Bathgate looking west towards Airdrie - sleepers laid out on the morning of 20 February 2010.
[Bill Roberton 20/02/2010] |
|
| BBC News | |
| Network Rail | |
|
| 06/03/2010 | Mallard to leave York NRM after 35 years [The Press] |
| ONE of the world’s most iconic steam locomotives is to leave York after 35 years at the National Railway Museum.
|
The crew of A4 Pacific no 60022 Mallard awaiting the right away with the 4pm Kings Cross service at Wakefield Westgate in 1959
[David Pesterfield //1959] | 
Record-breaking A4 Pacific no 60022 Mallard heads west after passing Drem on Monday 30 June 1958 carrying the headboard of the non-stop London - Edinburgh Elizabethan.
[A Snapper [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 30/06/1958] | 
View southeast from Spout Lane road bridge on 4 November showing the main NRM Shildon exhibition hall and sidings as a class 142 runs past to the left on a Saltburn - Bishop Auckland service.
[John Furnevel 04/11/2007] |
|
| The Press | |
|
| 05/03/2010 | First ScotRail Insight - March 2010 |
| First ScotRail News sheet - March 2010. Station investment, progress on new class 380s, accesss improvements at Queen Street [With thanks to David Panton] |
March 2010 pt2
[ /03/2010] | 
March 2010
[ /03/2010] |
|
|
| 04/03/2010 | In pictures: railway's golden age [BBC News] |
| The second of three auctions of vintage railway art from a collection described as the most important of its kind, is getting under way. Malcolm Guest's posters advertising trips to UK holiday resorts could make his family £1m.
|
|
| BBC News | |
|
| 04/03/2010 | Damaged locomotive arrives at Inverness [Railscot News] |
| Following recovery from the crash site at Carrbridge, 66048 has arrived at Inverness on a low-loader. The locomotive is to be partially stripped down here prior to being transported to Derby for major repairs. [All photographs kindly supplied by Keir Hardie.] |
66048 at Inverness depot on 3 March following arrival from Carrbridge on a low-loader. Photographed looking east from Longman Road with Stobart containers being trans-shipped in the background.
[Keir Hardie 03/03/2010] | 
66048 stands on a low-loader at Inverness depot on 3 March 2010 following recovery from the Carrbridge crash site.
[Keir Hardie 03/03/2010] | 
Damaged class 66 locomotive no 66048 on a low loader at Inverness where it will be partially stripped down before being taken to Derby for further attention.
[Keir Hardie 03/03/2010] |
|
|
| 03/03/2010 | China to form world's largest high speed rail network by 2012 [SIFY News] |
| The Chinese Railways Ministry has said the operating length of the country's high-speed railway will reach 13,000 km by the end of 2012, forming the world's largest high-speed railway network.
|
|
| SIFY News | |
|
| 03/03/2010 | Borders railway project gets underway [BBC News] |
| The project to reopen a rail line between Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders has officially started. |
60031 Golden Plover stands at Galashiels on 18 April 1965 with BLS Scottish Rambler No 4 during the Glasgow Queen Street – Edinburgh Waverley – Carlisle leg of the railtour.
[Robin Barbour Collection [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 18/04/1965] | 
Having passed Carlisle no 3 box and crossed the River Caldew, a Waverley route service for Edinburgh veers west away from the WCML at Port Carlisle Junction in December 1968. The train is crossing the goods lines on its way to Canal Junction, where it will eventually turn north. [See image 26254]
[Bruce McCartney /12/1968] | 
The old Eskbank station on the Waverley route looking south in March 2005. The proposed new station will be half a mile further south behind the Tesco Superstore car park near the A7 roundabout.
[John Furnevel 02/03/2005] |
|
| BBC News | |
| New Civil Engineer | |
|
| 03/03/2010 | Work begins on new Gourock station [Network Rail] |
| Network Rail has today (March 3) begun construction work on the site of the new £5m Gourock station. Scheduled for completion in November 2010, the new station will greatly improve facilities for passengers at Gourock and allow for better integration of road, rail and ferry links.
|
A sad and neglected looking Gourock station, seen from an approaching ferry in 1985. [Railscot note: After many false starts, the agreement by Inverclyde Council’s Regeneration Committee to sell a triangle of land here to Network Rail in late 2009, paved the way for work on a much-needed new station and associated infrastructure to finally get underway at Gourock.]
[Colin Miller //1985] | 
A busy scene at Gourock on Friday 4 September 1959, with a pair of steamers berthed at the pier alongside the station and Caley Jumbo 0-6-0 no 57416 off Ladyburn shed moving a train of empty stock. Meantime, one of Polmadie^s Standard class 4 2-6-4Ts no 80058 reverses towards the station, where it will take out the next train to Glasgow.
[A Snapper [Courtesy Bruce McCartney] 04/09/1959] | 
External view of Gourock station on 18 June 2008, with a temporary entrance and booking office in operation pending the planned development of a modern rail/bus/ferry interchange.
[Veronica Inglis 14/06/2008] |
|
| Network Rail | |
|
| 03/03/2010 | Fire causes London train chaos [Guardian] |
| Hundreds of thousands of London commuters faced delays this morning as three mainline train stations were closed due to a fire |
The southside trainshed at London Bridge in July 2005.
[John Furnevel /07/2005] | 
Not quite the width of the Thames - a lengthy Southern Trains service leaves Cannon Street in July 2005
[John Furnevel /07/2005] | 
You get an unbeatable view of railway landmarks from The London Eye. View north across the Thames towards Charing Cross station in August 2009.
[Alistair MacKenzie 23/08/2009] |
|
| Guardian | |
|
| 03/03/2010 | Image reveals avalanched railway [BBC News] |
| A picture showing a slide of snow that has closed the West Highland Line is released by Network Rail. |
Royal Scotsman heading north from County March Summit into the Horseshoe Curve.
[Ewan Crawford 01/07/2006] | 
Scene approximately two miles north of Tyndrum Upper station on the West Highland Line on Sunday 8 February 2009. View is north towards Ben Dorain.
[Norman Bews 08/02/2009] |
|
| BBC News | |
|
| 02/03/2010 | Commuter safety scare as trackside doors unlocked in error [Scotsman] |
| THE main rail union has raised safety fears after a stand-in ScotRail conductor unlocked doors on the wrong side of a train during yesterday's one-day strike. |
Sunshine breaks into the train shed at Glasgow Queen Street and illuminates SPT and First ScotRail liveried Turbostars on platform 5 on 25 July 2009. Another Turbostar hides in the shadows on platform 6.
[John McIntyre 25/07/2009] | 
A view across the buffers at Queen Street on 28 October (Platform 1 is much shorter so deeply reset). Between Platforms 2 and 3 stands the preserved 1842 Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway 1842 milepost - easily dateable as they show the distance to Haymarket (then called Edinburgh) which is one and a quarter miles short of Waverley and was the terminus for only two years. At least 3 of these are still in situ; remarkable to
think they have been there since Queen Victoria was only 23 years old and have been wrong since she was 25! [See image 5245]
[David Panton 28/10/2009] |
|
| Scotsman Item | |
|
| 02/03/2010 | Cairngorms funucular costs criticised [BBC News] |
| A public agency's failure to take account of risks to the running of a mountain railway led to 'spiralling' costs, MSPs have said. |
Railcars about to pass on the scenic Cairngorm Mountain Funicular Railway on a crisp and pleasant day in the Autumn of 2001.
[John Furnevel //2001] |
|
| BBC News | |
|
| 01/03/2010 | Rail strike 'business as usual' [BBC News] |
| Train operator First Scotrail claims it will operate nine out 10 trains during a strike by RMT union members |
Building site with trains. Scene at Livingston North station on 29 January 2009 as 158 739 leaves on a Waverley - Bathgate sevice
[David Panton 29/01/2009] | 
Emus stabled in the siding and bay platform at Airdrie on Sunday 11 June 2006.
[John Furnevel 11/06/2006] |
Progress at Bathgate looking west towards Airdrie - sleepers laid out on the morning of 20 February 2010.
[Bill Roberton 20/02/2010] |
|
| BBC News | |
|
of the 10 latest new items.
RSS Feed of news items.
Just for fun: a KML version of the 10 latest new items.