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Railway Magazine 2002 June Desert Island Mobile power stations Monarchs of the r
The Railway Magazine 2002 June
News
4 Headline News
First pictures from Germany of South West Trains' new `Desiro' stock; Virgin to fund restoration of APT; Class 377 handover; Railtrack sues Great Heck crash motorist; Waterman Trust gets Scots Guardsman; Steam for Weymouth Quay? Australia starts completing the 'missing link' - PLUS a special report on the Wildenrath test track and its British rolling stock.
Features
14 UK trains in Germany
As part of the new South West Trains order, Siemens is testing Desiro' units at Wildenrath, Germany. Our man Colin Marsden was given exclusive access.
20 Monarchs of the Rails
To mark the 75th anniversary of the GWR 'King' 4-6-0 class, Keith Farr tells the story of these fine locomotives in the first of a two-part feature.
28 Gone but not Forgotten
Gordon Wright concludes the story of the diesel and electric locomotives built by the North British Loco Co. for
British Railways
34 WyvernRail
Left to nature for well over a decade, an eight-mile Derbyshire branch line is poised for a revival as a community railway as Chris Milner reports
40 Desert Island Halts
Which are Britain's least-used stations? R.S. Hemstock undertakes a mammoth research task to find the 50 halts with the worst service.
48 Slow train to Ramsbottom
This month's Practice & Performance takes a nostalgic journey across the Pennines from Teesside to Lancashire
54 Panorama
Top-quality photographs in our monthly picture showcase, sponsored by Fuji Sensia II film
56 Mobile Power Stations
Further to our two Practice & Performance articles on turbomotives, John Slater completes the story by unearthing the weird and wonderful contraptions which constitute this rare genre.
Track Record
THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE'S MONTHLY NEWS DIGEST
68 Traction Et Stock
FGW 'Adelante' enters service; Chiltern Railways launches pioneering Taxibus' service; Plain clothes fraud squad joins Thameslink fares crackdown; Eurostar launches Avignon service; FGW unveils safety video.
72 Network News 15 Steam News ,000 Lottery award for Lord
Nelson; Two Stanier Pacific's for Severn Valley gala; Last ditch bid to save Welsh line; plus Steam News Portfolio
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