Rail (Enthusiast) Magazine - No.314 Sep 1997

Rail (Enthusiast) September 1997. Issue No.314

- Front Cover:  GNER Class 91 No.91014 passesAppleton Roebuck, near York, with a northbound train on June 8.

- Comment:  Appalling 'phone enquiry service needs bigger fines.

- Lead News:  GNER orders 'Pendolino' tilt trains for service in 2000.

- News:  Great Western to buy new trains?

- Around the Regions:  A facelift for Harrow & Wealdstone station.

- Wolmar:  Calls for the RUCCs to change their culture, quickly!

- Welsh Coal - on the Way Back:  Coal used to be king in South Wales. Paul Shannon investigates how EWS Market Manager David Israel is reclaiming 'King Coal's' throne.

- Loyalty Card:  The first offer is First Class upgrades on Virgin's trains.

- Open Access:  Praise for Virgin and Great Western.

- PDQ:  'Claytons', Presflo wagons and the naming of Ellington Colliery.

- Insider:  Fears the lack of freight competition on the railways.

- What Future for humble 'Pacer'?  The much-maligned early replacements for 'heritage' DNUs come under the spotlight in Tom Reeve's profile of the four-wheel 'nodding donkeys'.

- Modern Images:  RAIL presents another selection of the very best of modern traction photography with a sunlit HST and a Pacer and a very wet '90' on the West Coast.

- Fleet News:  Trainload liveries' end is closer and the '89' hits trouble.

- We Take Good Care of You:  Customer care at Birmingham New Street is something Virgin takes very seriously. Steve Cox spends a long, hot and tough day as a 'care bear' helping passengers before he sinks gratefully into the seat of his train home.

- Heritage News:  D8000 recommissioned at National Railway Museum.

- Railtours:  The end for the '31s' approaches amid general railtour gloom.

- Stop and Examine:  Light freight use for derelict stations?