CAS Weekly 22/12/15

December 22, 2015August 23, 2016Andy Carter Leave a comment

Seasons Greetings from Calling All Stations!
Time for one last Weekly for 2015 before we starting getting in the festive spirit, (well I’m actually working but anyway…)
Thank you for visiting this year and do come back in 2016 for lots more wonderful content.
Happy Holidays x

Modelling

N Gauge Pannier tank livery samples from Graham Farish.

UK Rail

If you’re feeling peckish this Christmas why not eat the tube map…
The Daily Mail are apparently shocked that engineering work is going to take place over the holidays.
That’s it London Underground ticket offices are closed.
If you were thinking of catching the sleeper up to bonnie Scotland for the holidays… Think again…
Virgin introduce London – Sunderland service…
…and a 3 minute service between London – Shrewsbury.*
*Timelapse Video.
Office of Rail and Road release their 2014-15 station statistics report. Waterloo is the busiest and Shippea Hill is the quietest.
New systems and new rolling stock: How to solve Britain’s congested rail network.
Brand new station opens at Apperley Bridge.
…and TWO more on the way at Old Oak Common.
Farnworth Tunnel reopens!
Look out Lewisham! The Bakerloo Line is coming... In 2030… (Sorry Peckham it’s missing you out…).
It’s barely been open a year but the Borders Railway is already looking to the horizons…
…which is all well and good but they might need some longer trains first.
Tram-Train. It’s a thing and it’s in Sheffield.
Britain’s tilting train that changed the world.

From The CAS Team

Just how far is it theoretically possible to go on one continuous train?

Compiled By Edward Kendall & Andy Carter

CAS Weekly: 02/01/15

January 2, 2015August 23, 2016Andy Carter 1 Comment

Image by Joel Goodman (Manchester Evening News)

UK Rail

A tram delayed the New Year from starting in Manchester by 4 minutes. Watch the full shambles here.
Cock-Ups-a-plenty this week as overrunning engineering works causes festive chaos on the East Coast Mainline…
…Network Rail makes official apology and say their boss will not take a Christmas bonus.
The festive improvement works at London Bridge went much more smoothly. Do you want to see timelapse footage of it? Of course you do.
Fares have gone up 20% under The Coalition…
…but at least train companies will inform you of the cheapest prices in new “code of practice.”
Twitter user @bitoclass creates this Christmas version of the tube map….
London Reconnections explore train frequencies on the tube’s Sub-Surface Lines.
Tottenham Court Road Tube station will be partially closed for a year.
YouTuber, cbalmer001 has decorated his bathroom to mimic a Leslie Green tube station.
An Arriva Trains Wales service was allegedly so crowded, passengers rode in the drivers cab!

World Rail

The Railway Gazette report that the CTA are going Contactless.

Image by Oxyman

CAS Weekly: 26/12/14

December 26, 2014August 23, 2016Andy Carter 1 Comment

Image by Alan Murray-Rust

Modelling

LocoYard has more of the low down of what steam locos are going to be on offer in 2015.

UK Rail

Edward Kendal delves into the unseen world of Nottingham Station.
Ghost Trains and Steam Jets – See how Network Rail will keep us moving during the winter months.
The InterCity 125 and it’s replacement – check out the interactive video from the BBC.
More Crossrail construction exploration from The Londonist, this time at Victoria.
How was your Christmas dinner yesterday? Unless it was cooked by a steam train it wasn’t as good as this…

World Rail

The NBC Supertrain has this week been brought to my attention.
Remember the Chicago Christmas Train from last week? How about Budapest’s Streetcar named Christmas?

Image by Thaler Tamas

CAS Weekly: 19/12/14

December 19, 2014August 23, 2016Andy Carter Leave a comment

Croxley Green Station by Nigel Cox

Modelling

Hornby announce new 2015 range.

UK Rail

Network Rail are offering unique tours to the top of the Forth Rail Bridge next March to mark the bridge’s 125th anniversary.
The Londonist’s Secrets Of The Underground DVD by Geoff Marshall is now shipping.
Derailed train travels at 100mph as passengers report bumpy ride! Network Rail to investigate.
Diamond Geezer takes a trip to abandoned Croxley Green station.
UK Rail Freight is in boom.
Northern Rail’s Guide Bridge station gets major revamp…
…whilst South West Trains’ The Island Line gets a £2million boost to help repair recent storm damage.
Manchester Metrolink trams are to be kitted out with free wifi.
and an impromptu Erasure sing along breaks out at Kentish Town Tube Station.

World Rail

Poland’s first high-speed train, an Alstom Pendolino, entered service on Sunday.
Have you seen CTA Chicago’s Christmas Train? Time Out want TfL to introduce something similar in London.

Image by Douglas Rahden

* * * Merry Christmas from Calling All Stations * * *

CAS Weekly: 12/12/14

December 12, 2014August 23, 2016Andy Carter 1 Comment

It’s my intention to start curating a weekly wrap of interesting railway based news (of a both real and modelling persuasion). So here’s this weeks interesting stories:

Modelling

Pendolino in N have set up a ground funding website to make an N-Gauge model of the Virgin Pendolino 390’s.
Loco Yard are running their traditional Advent Calendar feed…
…as are OO Rail.
A man has created the best (or worst?) Christmas jumper which includes a working model railway as seen in The Metro.

UK Rail

The Londonist have created a Medieval Tube Map of Ye Olde Ancient London destinations.
They’ve also ran a pole on who should get the armrest on trains…
London Bridge Station is to start an extensive 3 year remodeling program over the Christmas period. Expect Disruption.
London Reconnections are running a challenging transport themed Christmas Quiz! Entrants could win limited edition 1:120 models from the Corgi Railways Legends collection.
TfL have announced their ‘Ticket Hall Transformation Schedule.’ (Or job cuts to you and me).
Geoff Marshal takes a sneak peak at the ongoing work to revamp Tottenham Court Road station for Crossrail.
A petition to save Ashburton Station is on 38 Degrees.
The UK Rail network continues to get busier…
…and more expensive.