Rail Express
- Rail Express August 2008
- No.147
- In This Issue
- Front Cover Image - The first of CrossCountry's overhauled HST power cars for NESW services is rolls out at Brush on June 16th. This is 43301 rebuilt from the wreck that was 43101, Arriva Cross Country
- News
- Stobart Rail pulls the plug on its Pullman charter train operation after less than a year of operation. DRS Crewe Gresty Bridge open day success. Hitachi unveils its IEP contender - the SuperExpress, Siemens to build new Class 380 EMUs for Strathclyde services, while the DfT receives four bidders for the new Thameslink fleet replacement contract. Finally, the new owner of 55016 Gordon Highlander, HNRC, says the 'Deltic' may go for scrap
- News In Pictures
- Time Traveller
- 'Warships' remembered
- Fifty years ago, the D800 'Warship' diesel hydraulics were put into service on the Western Region. Hugh Dady, an acknowledged expert on the class provides a history of the well loved class and explains why they had only a short working life on BR.
- Columns
- Your favourite in-depth monthly reading - Railtours, Preservation, Traction & Rolling Stock, Unitary Authority, Irish Angle, complete with superb supporting photography. Some columns feature expanded pictorial coverage.
- Centre RAIL EXPRESS Modeller
- All the latest news from the world of diesel and electric era modelling including in-depth coverage of the new items on display at the Bachmann Trade Open Day. We review the brand new Hornby Tope, Rudd and Clam wagons. The Mostyn team take a look at Class 25s, while Ronald Turner models a Network Rail generator fitted BG.
- 58 Pages + 24 Page Modelling Section, 11¾" x 8¼", 270g.
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