Rail (Enthusiast) Magazine - No.243 Jan 1995

Rail (Enthusiast) January 1995. Issue No.243

Main features:

- Front Cover:  Safely back after a whole afternoon in the hands of our Editor, the Type One Locomotive Association's Class 20 No. D8098 stands at Loughborough Central Station, Great Central Railway, on December 13.

- News:  Two Class 314s sunk in Scotland; 'Deltic' nameplate goes for £6,300; Class 20s to work on Rail Link construction?; Thames Trains looks again at Reading-Gatwick service; Orient Express name and logo unveiled on res Class 47; RfD moves containers from MoD Bicester to Dulmen; Cambtian Line improvements.

- Driving a Class 20:  A dream comes true for our Editor when he learns to drive aClass 20 locomotive at the Great Central Railway.

- Off the Rails:  Read all about what the media, and BR, didn't mean to say.

- Open Lines: The Railway Development Society sets out its minimum standards for train services levels in Devon and Cornwall and gets to the bottom of a peculiar dispute between Railtrack and a TOU.

- Freight Facts:  In the second part of his review of Freightliner operations, Paul Shannon provides a detailed look at inland container terminals and non-maritime traffic flows.

- Preserved v Private:  What's the difference between privately-owned locomotives and rolling stock and the preserved versions? Is there a difference? Howard Johnston attempts to find out.

- RAIL Mail:  Chocolate and cream livery the natural only choice for Great Western Trains; Why a Class 101 DMU must be  preserved; Can anyone confirm the naming of HST power car 43141 in 1985? Why BR should buy RAIL for all its staff!

- Those Versatile Class 313s:  The Class 313 dual-voltage EMUs might not be the best looking multiple unit on the rails of Britain, but they are certainly the most versatile - as Quentin Williamson reports.

- Railway Jigsaw:  Join Gavin Morrison on a photographic journey between Taunton and Exeter St. Davids, as he completes another piece in his Railway Jigsaw.

- What Might Have Been:  The Br Special Trans unit will pass into the ownership of Pete Waterman on April 1, but had it remained part of BR it might have had its own locomotive identity. Larry Goddard suggests a startling livery.

- All Night Long:  Railways take on a completely different appearance at night, as RAIL's selection of photographs shows.

- The Waterman Fleet:  Waterman Railways will inherit around 280 coaches and six locomotives on April 1, to add to the already-growing collection of locomotives and rolling stock owned by supremo Pete. In the first of a two-part feature, Howard Johnston lists the locomotives and rolling stock already under Pete's wing.

- In Control:  Steve Knight visits Regional Railways Central's Operations and Retail Control Room in Birmingham, where everyone's attention is focused on train service running and what to do when, inevitably, things go wrong.

- Gone But Not Forgotten:  The last decade has seen many British Rail locomotives and multiple units meet their fate at scrapyards around Britain. Richard K. Lillie provides memories of days gone by with his selection of scrapyard pictures.

- Traction Review of the Year 1994:  RAIL provides an eight-page review of the main traction events of 1994. This is the place to discover whether your favourite locomotive was in the news.

- The State of the Art:  This is RAIL's comprehensive guide to the liveries carried by every diesel and electric locomotive on BR.

- Rolling Stock News:  In his regular Departmental Developments column, Roger Butcher lists the allocations of BR's heavy-duty diesel electric cranes, while in Multiple Matters, David Russell reports on the December 3,1994 railtour which took three Class 309 units from Preston to London Euston.

- Model RAIL:  In the main ModelRAIL feature, Arrochar & Tarbert, Dennis and Dave Prior describe their third 4mm scale model railway layout which recreates the West Highland Line in the late 1980's and early 1990's.