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 * * *