Railways Illustrated - 30 Sep 2025
Hymek heaven!
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Bachmann updates Class 08
Co-bo progress: Work starts on Class 28 engine rebuild
Nostalgia: PRE-TOPS Class 47s in colour
Preserved shunters: The state of play
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Early days of the Class 47s
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Living Life in the Past Lane
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A spot in the sun
DC Rail unveils first overhauled 60
Alstom to hold Polmadie depot open day
IN BRIEF
Major milestone for return of C37LG loco to traffic
Statesman comeback
New trains and more electrification in Scotland
Multi-million-pound upgrade completed at Bletchley depot
Belmond’s Britannic Explorer back in business
Wagons and locos moved for start of RHTT season
GBRF renumbers another regeared Class 66/6
Freightliner tinkers with its loco pool codes
More Crosscountry trains timetabled from December
More locos confirmed for SVR gala
Romic offers all Class 18s for sale
Last Class 69 released – in Red Stripe Railfreight
Avanti introduces enhanced September timetable
Peak District viaduct major repairs completed
More GWR diesel running
No Deltic – but IC multi traction heritage tour is a success
66316 is final ‘new to UK’ Class 66
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Shunter News
Double-headed Class 27 first at Great Central
HNRL boosts collection as it buys Waterman locos
Class 35 stars at North Yorkshire diesel gala
Retro sector looks for shunter
GCR Hymek running day prior to Kidderminster move
Running days a step nearer at Shillingstone
Severn Valley confirms December diesel gala
Class 03 to return to Isle of Wight
NRM removes asbestos from EM1 Class 76
Lancs dates for 2026
43091 for sale?
More cancellations leaves Pathfinder in trouble
More cancellations leaves Pathfinder in trouble
The Preservation Files: the shunters
The Preservation Files: the shunters
LIVING LIFE IN THE PAST LANE
A spot in the sun?
A spot in the sun?
Changes in a decade
What’s happening to…
What’s happening to…
Early days of the Class 47s
Early days of the Class 47s
Richard Hargreaves
40145 powers away from Sutton Bridge Junction with Pathfinder Railtours’ Leeds to Aberystwyth ‘Cambrian Coast Express’ on June 2, 2007
A favourite shot of 48305, renumbered as 48476, on January 30, 2010, at the GCR’S winter gala.
On July 9, 2011, 55022 Royal Scots Grey arrives in Birmingham New Street from Doncaster.
Stock being shunted out of Penzance on September 17, 2016, by D1015 having worked the Pathfinder Railtours ‘Cornishman’ from Tame Bridge Parkway.
43135/146 passing on a Paddington to Penzance train on July 24, 2008, in unusual weather conditions.
31285 and 31271 cross the river at Wansford, on October 14, 2017.
RSH 7063 and Bagnall 2842 get into their stride at Foxfield Bank on July 15, 2017.
67012 passing Marston Green with an afternoon train to the capital on March 8, 2010.
Exeter heads a GBRF staff special from Cardiff to Paignton on July 21, 2012.
LSLS ‘Bubble Car’ 55022 Flora passes Wellington on a test run on January 22, 2024.
67012 passing Marston Green with an afternoon train to the capital on March 8, 2010.
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