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Modelling

• Hornby release Black Friday deals.
• Oxford Adams Radial tank loco in OO now on sale.
• Warley National Model Railway show this weekend at the NEC.
• How about a Wooden London Underground set for the wee nippers this Christmas?

UK Rail

• London Underground offer unions new deal in night tube row.
• Merseyrail to run Boxing Day service for first time since, well, ever.
• TRAMTRAIN. The future is here. Or in Sheffield at least.
• Manchester is also enjoying a tram…
• …and Edinburgh and Birmingham eye up more trams.
• Virgin are to overhaul their East Coast fleet.
• …and ScotRail are doing the same with their Class 334’s.
• London Reconnections takes a look at Crossrail’s new rolling stock.
• You know how the revamped Birmingham New Street opened a few weeks back? Well now it’s getting opened properly.
• It turns out HS2 is going to be appalling value for money. Who knew?
• Wrong leaves causing damage to Greater Anglia services.
• Thameslink scores worst punctuality record in a decade.
• DRS have put two of their Class 47’s to bed.
• Did you know BR once trialled Doubled Decker trains in the UK? Naturally the prototype failed, but are plans afoot to bring the double decker train idea back?
• How stations need to be improved to help deaf people.
• Diamond Geezer goes visiting one of London’s least used stations…
• …and Geoff Marshall has been having a look at the abandoned Croxley Green Branch. Or abandoned for not much longer…

World Rail

• Room for expansion in Australia.

From The CAS Team

• The roundels have been going back up at Tottenham Court Road meaning it’s Crossrail transformation is nearly complete!
• Long Eaton’s lost curve.

Compiled by Edward Kendall & Andy Carter