Thanks for your patience, I’ve been on holiday and then had an extremely busy week at work, but the Weekly now returns!…

Image By Ben Elias

Modelling

• Hornby OO Light Pacifics are coming…
• Dapol N Gauge A4’s also on their way to stores.

UK Rail

• UK to get state of the art Pantograph monitoring system.
• 30% rise in Signals passed at danger.
• Network Rail privatisation still on the cards.
• Surprise, surprise… The sale of Eurostar was a bad idea…
• TfL forced to take over Croxley Rail Link project from Hertfordshire County Council.
• Essex gets free contactless payment wristbands on c2c…
• …and Gatwick gets Oyster.
• Thameslink to be bolstered by more Class 387’s.
• WiFi now available at over 250 of the 270 Underground Stations. (Yes, even Roding Valley!).
• The S-Stock is turning heads and has already been voted a design classic.
• Tim O’Toole of First Group thinks wholesale changes to the rail network wouldn’t solve anything.
• …whilst commuters in Scotland are told overcrowding isn’t going to be fixed any-time soon.
• Overcrowding out of Paddington isn’t set to get any better either, with more delays and cutbacks to improvement schemes.
• UK station staff to get vulnerable children training.
• Birmingham New Street tram extension delayed.
• Farnworth Tunnel work nears completion.
• Yorkshire councils want new Leeds-Ripon rail connection.
• How smartphones are making Network Rail maintenance easier.
• Velocipede (people powered rail vehicles) rally at the NYMR.
• Bluebell Railway need £400,000 for western extension with Tunnel leasing dictating the pace of the project.
• As the restoration of Flying Scotsman nears completion, check out some of the greatest images ever captured of the old girl.

World Rail

• You may often wonder what’s at the end of your local line, but what’s at the end of one of the world’s remotest railways?
• A train that got stuck in the Egyptian desert 9 years ago will finally complete it’s journey… Talk about Severe Delays…

From The CAS Team

• Edward asks, How steep is Britain’s toughest incline?
• Central Line wins the speed race.
• Catch up with Andy’s 100 Journeys.

Compiled By Edward Kendal & Andy Carter