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Mail’s role in rail freight

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DB: Royal Mail decision highlights threat to rail freight

Class 325s go for scrap, but some will be available for sale

Regulator inundated by track access applications

Go-op’s go-ahead for South West plan

No plans for direct Sunderland train

Rail Partners to be wound up as passenger operations move ‘in-house’

Tyres at GCRE to absorb noise

Restoration of museum gantry

Train operations ‘in-house’ in next three years

Hendy admits Euston station “no longer in a fit condition”

East West Rail consults on moving upgraded Bedford St Johns station

Swanage Railway trials WiFi

Signals training for prison inmates

ORR liaises on Temple Mills depot for Tunnel hopefuls

HS2 progress on ‘green tunnel’ at Burton Green

TVMs’ issue with new bank notes

TPE to double Leeds expresses

£1m on refresh to Harwich station

Trainline rejects RMT’s claims of “profiteering”

Earlier closure at New Street

First TfW Class 153/5 appears

Lincoln-Newark service hinges on ECML timetable recast

Cleaner stations on Southeastern

New warning signs at Banbury after pram rolls into side of a moving train

Rail freight incentive removes six million lorry miles - DP World

Hitachi Rail claims success with inter-city battery trials on Class 802

TfL tenders for LU solar farms

London site earmarked for rail freight campus

New sanders boost braking on SWR passenger units

Freight use considered for converted ‘769’ bi-modes

Freightliner monitors tests on tri-mode Class 93s

Young volunteers make progress on SVR’s HydroShunter project

‘323s’ taken to store at Long Marston

Class 379 electrics being readied for Thameslink

Next GBRf ‘69’ nearly complete

DB introduces latest Class 66/6

More new trains enter traffic across the network

News In Brief

“Constructive discussions” over Chiltern Mk 5 deal

Class 171/2 stays with Thameslink

‘90’ name recalls its InterCity past

Rail 200 tour train to use Mk 3s

Speculation over reuse of Class 350

SVR to celebrate 65 years of ‘37s’

News In Brief

New Welsh ‘756’ tri-modes begin passenger duties

Regional News

Milford Haven transport hub

Iconic railway bookshop to close

News in pictures • If you have taken a photograph that tells a railway story, please send it to rail@bauermedia.co.uk.

Keeping the wheels turning on Elizabeth line Class 345s • PHILIP HAIGH visits Alstom’s Old Oak Common depot, to gain an insight into the work that goes to maintaining a modern train fleet

Testing trains, tracks and systems • Gaining authorisation for new trains is a lengthy and complex process. In recent years, intensive prototype testing has increasingly moved away from the main line network towards specialist test centres scattered across Europe, as BEN JONES discovers

£100m bat tunnel illustrates HS2’s fundamental...