CAS Weekly 10/08/15

August 10, 2015August 23, 2016KendalDrac 1 Comment

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Modelling

Southern Railway Region modelling news: from GrahamMuz.
3mm show in Wells: sometimes words are not needed…

UK Rail

As London deals with another Tube Strike, Geoff Marshall ask what it would be like if the Tube was on strike permanently… I don’t like this alternative world.
Engineering work commences on the Victoria Line, closing part of the line for nearly a month. But why are the works so important and why do they necessitate the full closure?
Eurostar to start rolling out new Class 374’s.
New Podcast launched, UndergrndLondon dedicated to Tube commuters.
New TOC, GNWR, to rival Virgin up the West Coast.
Great Northern bunks up with Northern Rail.
Although all that Franchising might be for nothing – British Rail Comeback?
Remember the freight derailment that looked like a model? It’s going to take a while to clean up…
Woops… “Waltamstow” TfL Contractors do it again…
It turns out the Waterloo & City Line is an introvert…
First Great Western staff are to strike over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
Carlisle gets a roof upgrade…
…whilst Manchester Victoria’s transformation is nearly complete.
LocoYard ponders HSTs v Pannier Tanks at the South Devon Railway.
Mid Hants Railway complete restoration of 1947 Bulleid brake coach.
Southgate Station: A wonderful study of Art-Deco design by TheBeautyOfTransport.

World Rail

Horrific scenes as trains collide passing over flooded river in India.
The Londonist put the Underground and the Tokyo Metro to battle.

From The CAS Team

Edward has been investigating the mothballed Oxcroft Coal Disposal Point.
Gallery: Nottingham Victoria’s Final Years.

Compiled by Edward Kendall & Andy Carter

CAS Weekly 29/07/15

July 29, 2015August 23, 2016KendalDrac 2 Comments

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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