After a week of many things happening which sadly kept me away from the site, the CAS Weekly is back!

Modelling

• The Bachmann S-stock is finally out! Have you got one yet? What do you think?
• How Hornby re-invented themselves and went after their competitors.
• Dapol make changes to O Gauge Terrier release.

UK Rail

• GWR is back. (It’s First Great Western in disguise).
• A freight derailment in Dundee is causing week long delays.
• Electrification is back on!
• …both up North and out West…
• Chiltern are testing out a shiny new piece of track they’ve built that’ll connect Oxford Parkway and Marylebone.
• Meanwhile, the renovated Manchester Victoria station re-opens. Boy did it need it!
• Lick of paint too for the Class 73’s.
• The Victoria Line was upgraded this summer, here’s what they’ve been doing.
• Tube trains and Underground stations now in environmentally-friendly harmony as regenerative braking is put to recycled use.
• If you’ve been stuck on the never ending delays on The Central Line recently, here’s a headline for you: The Tube is too fast!
• Travel on Virgin services and experienced delays? No problem. You’ll get automatic refunds…
• 66757 gets all tarted up for the West Somerset Railway’s birthday.
• Old Derbyshire industrial railway gets reprieve.
• Are Monorail stories justified in the Weekly? Here’s one anyway: What if London had a Monorail network? It almost did…
• Why not add a Deltic horn to your car?

World Rail

• China encouraged to build HS2. Eventually.
• Rail Life takes a journey on The Coromandel Express.

From The CAS Team

• How to get a train on a boat. Edward has the answers.
• Catch Andy’s interview with London Reconnections Editor John Bull for Underground London Radio.

Compiled by Edward Kendall & Andy Carter