Rail (Enthusiast) Magazine - No.223 Apr 1994

Rail (Enthusiast) April 1994. Issue No.223

Main features:

- Class 47 Freightliner Trials:  As exclusively revealed in RAIL No.222, Railfreight Distribution has now begun trials between Ipswich and Felixstowe with pairs of Class 47 locomotives, in multiple, on Freightliner trains as a replacement for the Class 37s which are currently used. Trials started using Nos.47150 and 47152 on March 14 and the pair was photographed at Westerfield Junction two days later working the 1322 Freightliner service from Ipswich to Felixstowe North FLT. The modification to allow multiple operation was carried out at Tinsley depot and the multiple working connector between locomotives is situated in the former headcode box. A further two Class 47 locomotives have also been multiple-working modified - Nos.47303 and 47328. Renumbering has recently been effected viz: 47150(47399),47152(47398), 47303(47397) and 47328(47396), with six more locos to follow.

- News:  Names announced for the first twenty Class 92s; Class 150 'Sprinters' in head-on collision in Birmingham; Easter engineering works at Carlisle and Birmingham; National Power's Class 59/2 successfully completes its test programme; Class 50 Glorious prepares to join the National Collection; coal moves from the Vale of Neath; book published to mark the end of InterCity as a business; Meldon Quarry is sold to English China Clay and full listing of rolling stock company assets.

- Highland Lifeline:  Brian Perren looks at ScotRail's lifeline for many residents of remote parts of Scotland and explains how these raillinks can only be retainedif a significant subsidy is paid by the Government.

- Channel Tunnel News

- Preservation Progress

- The Human Revolution - part 7

- Ashford's High Speed Link

- Railway Jigsaw - Manchester Victoria-Standedge

- South West Trains- Ready for Business

- Freight Facts: Aggregates South East

- BR's Safety Clothing

- Around The Regions

- Open Lines

- Departmental Developments

- Traction News

- All Change