railway news
May 2021
18 April 2021
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Operator
Number
Detail
Avanti West Coast
221104
This Voyager is now sporting the AWC Green vinyls having previously been in the ex VTWC red colours
Avanti West Coast
221105 / 221116
These 2 Voyagers have snuck past us and have now been out for a couple of weeks in their new AWC Green and Silver livery
Avanti West Coast
390136
Another Pendolino goes full colour as this is the latest of the fleet to receive the AWC vinyl's throughout the train
East Midlands Railway / West Midlands Railway
170532
This unit has now transferred across from Tyseley TMD to Crewe Arriva Traincare for a repaint into EMR colours. Time will tell as to whether this unit stays in the East Midlands after it's repaint or whether it returns back to WMR for a short period of time the same as 170503
Severn Valley Railway
D8568
This Class 17 shunter, the only surviving example of the fleet, has received a new livery of BR Blue at Kidderminster TMD having previously been in BR Green
Southern Railway
313220
Slightly late with this as I think it happened a couple of weeks back but this unit has been repaired follwoing a fire in November 2020 and is now back in service
West Coast Railway Company
47812 / 47813 / 47815 / 47848
These ex ROG loco's have been de-branded at Derby RTC and are today heading north to their new home at Carnforth for WCRC
West Midlands Railway
196001
Number 1 of the new Class 196 fleet is now in the UK and has been transferred to the Telford International Railfreight Terminal at Donnington in Shropshire. It will remain in store here until it enters a period of testing