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The delayed CAS Weekly has finally arrived!

Modelling

• Grasslands on Converting a Class 04 into a Tramway shunter.
• ESNGBlog ponder on some of The Internet’s reviews and comments at Exhibitions.

UK Rail

• Sad news as the owner of Britain’s smallest railway museum, John Rathmell, dies at the age of 63.
• The talks to avert the next round of Tube Strikes is going badly with fresh accusations that TfL are not maintaining their trains to proper safety standards.
• The government announcent that electrification of the TransPennine Route would be shelved/delayed… yet work is continuing anyway…
• Southern and GatEx join Great Northern and Thameslink to become UK’s biggest franchise… Hmm, I’d say that’s starting to look a lot like Network SouthEast.
• ER20 Locos coming to the UK.
• The Eurostar 373 units get an interior make-over.
• On board catering. Is it dead?
• Essex heritage line saved from the axe.
• 1970’s London Underground seriel killer – truth or urban myth?
• Geoff Marshall has been inside some more Crossrail. This time Farringdon.
• Preserving steam and diesel locomotives is all well and good but what about those neglected wagons?
• What’s the new Hackney Overground interchange like?

From The CAS Team

• An interesting report from Edward detailing the proposed Strategic Rail Freight Interchange in the East Midlands.

– Compiled by Edward Kendall & Andy Carter