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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