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CLASS 68s START WORK
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COME TO DERBY OPEN DAY
Essential reading for today’s rail enthusiast
RETRO
fREighT
Charting the changing
fortunes of freight traffic
to the humber port
from the 1970s
and back!
To Hull
RAIL EXPRESS No. 220
SEPTEMBER 2014
£4.25
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MODELLING
OF NEWS, TIPS,
REVIEWS AND
LAYOUTS.
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ELR
40 PAGES
CLASS 14 GALA
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50026
THEN & NOW
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HITACHI
‘CONCEPTS’
Issue No. 220 September
2014
CONTENTS
The highlight of the East Lancashire Railway’s ‘14s@50’ event,
celebrating 50 years of the Class 14s diesel-hydraulics, was this
unprecedented nine-headed working, which should have been 10
but for the earlier failure of No. D9523. The train was the evening
‘Beerex’ on July 26, the 19.00 from Bury to Rawtenstall, which is
pictured soon after departure at Burrs with Nos. D9531, D9520,
D9513, D9555, D9521, D9526, D9539, 14901 and D9537. See
pages 16-17 for a full round-up of the event.
Martyn Tattam
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NEWS
MTR wins Crossrail franchise, HS3 could link
Northern cities, London Underground celebrates
Hammersmith & City 150, September open day
for Derby Etches Park, Hitachi launches train
concepts, second coming for DRS Class 68s.
16
A FEAST OF ‘TEDDY BEARS’
Ten Class 14s gathered at the East Lancashire
Railway to celebrate 50 years of the type.
18
TO HULL AND BACK
Charting the changing fortunes of freight traffic
from Hull Docks and surrounding terminals.
The heyday of
the Railfreight
sector in ‘00’,
plus Bachmann
LMS saloon,
Graham Farish
retooled Class
25, the Anglia
Class 153
‘Sprinter’ from
Hornby, and our
Elcot Road serial comes to an end!
MODELLING
15
18
24
A SECOND CHANCE TO SAVOUR...
Riding with Class 50 No. 50026
Indomitable
in
preservation and in its BR heyday.
40
POWER BY THE HOUR
First of the last batch of ‘66s’ arrive for GBRf,
Class 56 comes back to life with UK Rail .
27
TIME TRAVELLER
28
REVIEWS
42
POWERSCENE
September’s headlines from the past 50 years.
Key workings from the past month.
50
UNITARY AUTHORITY
53
SHUNTER SPOT
Books covering London Underground history,
the South Wales Main Line, and Britain’s shunters.
TPE hires in Class 350/3s from London Midland.
29
EXPRESS MAILBAG
30
LU WORLD
A selection of reader comments and feedback.
Boost to Freightliner fleet, DBS finds a
replacement for Margam duties.
The changing face of LU’s track monitoring.
54
COACH COMPARTMENT
55
WAGONS ROLL
56
IRISH ANGLE
Virgin’s ‘Pretendolino’ Mk.3 set to go off-lease.
16
12
31
RAILTOURS
Including an update on Class 60 workings.
Last vehicles arrive for GW electrification train.
34
PRESERVATION
Class 56 Group sends ‘Grid’ to Leicester,
Rodney
sold, ‘Goyle’ moves after changing hands.
Railtour covers two threatened lines, plus a full
round-up of news north and south of the border.
The ebb and flow (but mostly ebb!) of freight traffic in
the Hull area is the subject of our main feature this
month on page 18. In happier times on July 19, 1995,
two tone grey-liveried Type 3 No. 37358 passes
Hessle Road Junction with the 6V14/07.30 Hull
Saltend-Baglan Bay acid tanks.
Tony Buckton
Editor’s comment
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This issue
August 21, 2014
Next issue
September 18, 2014
Advertising deadline
September 5, 2014
ISSN No 1362 234X
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Paul
Bickerdyke
Rail Express
Editor
HERE’S a retro feel to this month’s issue as we
look back to Hull freight from the 1970s, take
a ride with Class 50 No. 50026 in BR times and
preservation, and visit the East Lancashire Railway
for its Class 14s at 50 celebration.
The 1970s-90s provided a rich variety of
traction and traffic from Hull Docks and surrounding
freight terminals, not to mention numerous trip and
pilot workings. It is perhaps easy to forget just how
many classes could be seen in use each day,
especially during the days of the Speedlink and
Enterprise workings, so our main feature on page 18
provides a full round-up of the area’s changing
fortunes. Although much of the traffic has now
gone, all is not total gloom, and we will be covering
the rise of coal and biomass traffic in a future issue.
Our correspondent Neville Hill has a wealth of
experience with Class 50s from his days with British
Rail, and a second chance to savour a trip with
preserved No. 50026
Indomitable
on the Severn
Valley Railway was too good to miss. In his article on
page 24, Neville describes his run there and recalls
just how good the ‘50s’ could be when let loose on
the main line.
July marked the 50th anniversary of the diesel-
hydraulic Class 14s, and to mark the occasion the
East Lancs staged a major gala with no fewer than
10 examples of the class attending. These versatile
machines are sometimes overlooked by
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Welcome...
enthusiasts, perhaps because of their short-lived
BR careers (less than six years). But they went on to
prove their worth with new owners, and now in
preservation they are very rateable when thrashing
away at the head of a passenger working, especially
when paired up.
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Stepping back into the present, there is a lot going
on in the contemporary scene too.
Deliveries of the DRS Class 68s fleet had
reached No. 68011 by the end of July, the latter two
being delivered in Chiltern Railway’s silver livery. This
coincided with the locos finally being able to get
down to work after teething trouble, said to be due
to an issue with the internal cabling, had been fixed.
‘68s’ have now gone for driver training in London,
Norwich and the North East, while they have also
been used on the Mossend to Inverness intermodal
workings. All we need now is that elusive first
passenger turn!
The first of the final Class 66s for GBRf were
also delivered in July, while Hitachi has launched
new concept trains, and over at UK Rail in Leicester
they are busy bringing ‘56s’ back to traffic.
Things may not be quite like the 1970s any
more, but there is still much variety and
interest to be had.
Paul Bickerdyke
Present day developments
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