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Modelling

• An easier way to Ballast track?
• Wagons, wagons everywhere.

UK Rail

• Is Network Rail running out of money as government ask for private infrastructure investors?
• Are Red Star and other mail/freight services going to make a comeback?
• The Night Tube Map is with us, although it doesn’t show us anything we don’t already know. In fact all that’s changed is it’s now an amusing colour…
• Resignalling the Metropolitan, Circle and District Lines. Round 3.
• Diamond Geezer has the yearly station usage stats up for you.
• London commuters are owed a whopping £56m in journey refunds.
• Bombardier to build new Overground trains.
• Where do Tube trains go to retire?
• Work presses on at new Thameslink Bermondsey underpass.
• Railway worker survives being hit by an 80mph train. Don’t try this at home kids.
• Plans to re-open the Portishead line are released to the public.
• Important new timetable gives Bicester commuters 3 trains to London in the morning rush.
• How railways influenced The Battle of Waterloo, and how The Battle of Waterloo influenced the railways.
• Saddle Tank Engine is making it’s way home.
• Tornado is also back on the rails.
• Do you want to live in a 100 year old GWR coach? Of course you do.
• Win an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour at the Severn Valley Railway.
• Heli-pads at stations, and other mad London based transport schemes that never got built.
• Ffestiniog Railway launches a new super-observation coach.

World Rail

• Sleeper service cutbacks in Europe.
• Russia to invest in High-Speed Indian Railways. (Expect it to be completed before HS2…)
• The Transport Overture by The Beauty of Transport, but where and what does it depict?

From The CAS Team

• Chiltern Railways & Project Evergreen 3 by Edward Kendall

Compiled by Edward Kendall & Andy Carter
Cover Image from TfL