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SOUTHERN
LEGACY
Examining BR’s third-rail EMU fleet
CEMENT WAGON
FLEET FOCUS
Detailing the PCA and PCV types
Essential reading for today’s rail enthusiast
CORNISH
CREAM
RAIL EXPRESS No. 277
JUNE 2019
£4.40
LONG ROCK
OPEN DAY SEES NEW
LOOK FOR PET ‘GRONK’
MODELLING
SECTION
■
DAPOL ‘WESTERN’
Special edition NRM loco
‘ED’ joins
Locomotive Services fleet
■
RHTT IN FOCUS
Hattons’ new model reviewed
■
‘TRACTOR’ BOGIES
Improving Bachmann’s ‘37’
Issue No. 277 June
2019
CONTENTS
The welcome return of a diesel gala to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway over the early May Bank Holiday resulted in a number of unusual combinations amongst the visiting
locos, which included Nos. 31163, 50007, 50031, 88009 plus this lash-up of No. 47727, prototype HST No. 41001 and home fleet ‘Rat’ No. 25059 – pictured at Mytholmes
Viaduct on May 6.
Peter Laithwaite
FEATURES
16
SOUTHERN LEGACY
We conclude our look at BR’s first generation
units with a focus on its third-rail fleet.
NEWS
6
HEADLINE NEWS
Full round-up from Long Rock open day; Abellio
takes over East Midlands; Final GWR HSTs; LSL
acquires electro-diesels; Two-year delay to full
Crossrail start; DC ‘Grids’ power stone traffic;
Extension for Southeastern; Inverness gains
wheel lathe; ‘Leg up’ for Bletchley flyover; First
‘D-Train’ enters service; Lakeside diesels return.
22
24
‘POWDERJETS’ IN PROFILE
Detailing the PCA fleet of cement wagons.
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THE ‘SILVER QUEENS’
Continuing the cement wagon theme with a
look at the PCV fleet.
73
74
LU WORLD
Return of No. 12
Sarah Siddons
imminent.
28
0-60: CLASS 379
Timing ‘Electrostars’ on the Stansted line.
RAILTOURS
Farewell trip planned to Cottam Power
Station.
REGULARS
31
32
33
80
TIME TRAVELLER
June headlines from the past five decades.
76
PRESERVATION
‘Slugs’ move to Battlefield Line; NER Autocar in
action; Great Central ‘101’ back in traffic; Garw
Valley holds open day; HNRC ‘20’ and ‘47’ for
East Lancs summer gala.
REVIEWS
A selection of modern traction books.
EXPRESS MAILBAG
Elusive locos; Shirebrook VOP; Bruton station.
79
POWER BY THE HOUR
First bodyshell for the Class 56 to 69 conversion
programme goes for painting.
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90
93
94
95
96
POWERSCENE
Notable workings, Name Game, and Spectrum.
MODELLING
There’s a focus on RHTT
and cement wagons
this month, as Hattons
and Accurascale release
new ‘OO’ gauge models
that are reviewed in
depth. We also have
part one of a project
to rebuild a Bachmann
Class 37’s bogies, while
there’s news of a special edition model of
the NRM’s ‘Western’ No. D1023.
UNITS
Eversholt begins Class 313 disposals.
SHUNTERS
Clayton Bo-Bo for Tata.
COACHES
More HST stock goes into store.
WAGONS
Snowploughs head for new homes.
IRISH ANGLE
New transport hub for Belfast.
One highlight of GWR’s successful open day
at Long Rock, Penzance, on April 13 was the
unveiling of ‘pet’ shunter No. 08645 in the striking
colours of the Cornish flag and named
St Piran
after the county’s patron saint.
Editor’s Comment
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This issue
May 17, 2019
Next issue
June 21, 2019
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June 7, 2019
ISSN No 1362 234X
Paul
Bickerdyke
Rail Express
Editor
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Long Rock: long way, but worth it
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MUST begin this month with thanks to Great
Western Railway, Network Rail, GBRf and
everyone else involved with staging the open
day at Long Rock depot, Penzance, in mid-April.
Travelling down by train, and taking the
opportunity to catch as many of GWR’s last
remaining full-length HST diagrams as possible
before they end in May (but more of that next
month), I was reminded just how far away
Penzance can feel – not least because the
near 80 miles from Plymouth still take around
two hours to cover by rail.
But that is not meant to be a negative
in any way. It is a fantastic journey, one well
worth making, travelling through stunning
scenery and with much to savour from a
rail enthusiast’s point of view – such as
the substantial engineering, the remaining
sections of traditional lower-quadrant
semaphore signalling, and the ‘true’ branchline
stations where one or two-car DMUs wait to
connect with main line arrivals.
For the event itself, although the recently-
enlarged Long Rock depot is still fairly
compact, it o ered the rare chance to see
behind the scenes at this most westerly of
facilities on Britain’s main line network, and
included the claimed first visit of a Class 73
electro-diesel to the town, while the first ‘88’
this far west passed by on railtour duties (see
pages 12, 13 and 74 for more details). So it
was pleasing to see so many make the journey,
not least on the overnight sleeper from
London, which was rammed with enthusiasts.
All in all it was a fitting tribute to the depot
– which has taken on more importance now as
the home of the ‘Night Riviera’ fleet – as well
as marking the end of top-link HST duties on
GWR and the full transition to IETs.
Paul Bickerdyke
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