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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Different owners, different procurement exercises. Just because they are the same class number doesn’t make them a tag on order.
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    Passport Rules

    Given the number of people at airport security who are still to grasp the rules about liquids (17 years after they were introduced) and spend a considerable period rooting around in their bags for assorted liquids, lotions and potions, I'm far from convinced repeating the warnings has any...
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    Class 701 'Aventra' trains for South Western Railway

    It has been stated before that SWR drivers accepted DOO as part of driver restructuring back in the late 1990s. If - and I stress the "if" - that is the case then they need to get on with it, with no additional payment, as they have been paid to do it for the last 25 years or so.
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    Which would have been mitigated by CDL - under the control of the guard. Assuming that the guard realised they had stopped short.
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    I assume that's a typo for 707s?
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    82. 5847 went in the bin.
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    Class 507 preservation society.

    That hotbed of PEP derivative knowledge…
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    Of course they are talking about the Jacobite, because that's the highest profile bit of the operation. It's also the most profitable - and the profits accrued over the last several years could easily pay for CDL fitting several times over.
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    WCRC loses judicial review in High Court

    It bears repeating that this is not just about the "Harry Potter train" trundling around at 40mph in the Scottish highlands, but also their other charters, running at up to 100mph on main lines.
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    458420 was released from conversion on 26 February. 458428 came out on 7 November last year. 458521 is the only set at Widnes currently, until 501 comes north to join it.
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    Very Light Rail stock ordered for passenger trials

    If the Marston Vale is anything to go by, it’ll go back to 153s!
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    The only thing I can see is that the yaw dampers have been refitted as maximum speed is back to 100mph. But they were present on the 458/0s.
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    Potential up to 2,000 job losses at Alstom Derby

    Belgium has train building capability- Alstom in Brugge.
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    Great Northern to get some Class 379's

    Plenty of opinions in the existing thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/great-northern-fleet-tender.247756/
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    SWR Class 458 to be retained

    How do they differ from the 458/0s? In original form the 458/0 fleet ran on that route.

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