Rail Express

Rail Express October 2008
No.149
In This Issue
Front Cover Image - Good news for the Class 60s as EWS is to start major overhauls in 2009. This is no. 60048 at Knottingley - James Rose
News
FirstGBRf celebrates the Chinook helicopter and its crews with naming, up to 30 Class 60s to get heavy overhaul in early 2009, Government cuts South Central franchise to five years, new liveries for DRS machines, ATW and Grand Union battle to provide loco-hauled Welsh North-South express service.
News In Pictures
Pioneer Generator Class 47/4 is returned to BR Blue, Network Rail has 3 Class 97/3s on test and Aggregate Industries revises its new livery.
Feature:
With the Virgin 'drags' to Holyhead soon to be cut to just one weekend diagram, RAIL EXPRESS took a ride on a Class 57/3 and 'Pendolino' set over the North Wales Coast Route.
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
Heljans Class 58 in Railfreight Coal livery was a huge disappointment when it was released earlier this year. We give the model the treatment with ten easy upgrade steps as 58020 Doncaster Works. There is also a bumper crop of reviews, with numerous new N gauge items, along with Bachmanns BDA and Dapols Grampus.
50 Pages + 24 Page Modelling Section, 11¾" x 8¼", 260g.