On the 26th April 2024, 917 years worth of experience (32people) leave my department of Carbodies (welding) at Alstom Derby. This is due to the UK not having a long term rail strategy which has left us without any workload. #alstomderby Alstom UK & Ireland Louise Haigh Mark Harper

A few days ago, the first Ge 4/4 II 611 was given a new retro livery based on the condition in which it was delivered in June 1973

Spring in the air at Goodrington Sands this morning as the LSL Midland Pullman set climbs away from Paignton en route from Penzance to Kingswear.

Apparently, after a few months of delay, Stadler has completed the construction of the first of 56 new trainsets they are building for the meter gauge Circumvesuviana network. They should enter service sometime next year. A much needed overhaul of the fleet.

The first DB Cargo UK regeared 66/6 entered service this week after conversion at Toton. Today ex-works 66651 (the former 66221) approaches Nuneaton Abbey Junction with the diverted 6E03 10.05 Wolverhampton Steel Terminal-Toton steel empties. 📷 John Binch

Former Deutsche Bahn IC 1 coaches now being hold by Vienna Railway Maintenance Support GmbH went into operation today on D 19782 from Wien Meidling to Feldkirch.

Good news for CrossCountry Trains passengers - the operator has secured another five 221s (ex Avanti West Coast ) from Beacon Rail, in addition to the seven already due to transfer from June this year

Here's another sample from our new book on the line west from Waterloo during the years of diesel loco haulage. The photographs, historical information and tales it tells are all from Bernard Mills. You can get £2 off with discount code WACDE at: tinyurl.com/mskt6va3

Class 50s were a big part of the Waterloo to Exeter route's history during the diesel loco-hauled era, along with 47s in its latter years. Our new book explores the line using Bernard Mills' superb photograph collection. Get £2 off it with code WACDE at: tinyurl.com/mskt6va3

ÖBB's new Railjet2 sets enter service today on the Vienna-Innsbruck-Feldkirch route and will be introduced on Munich–Innsbruck–Bologna services from 8 April. ÖBB has also today announced an order with Siemens for 19 additional sets for delivery by autumn 2028.

Our latest book on the Waterloo to Exeter line is now out. It's an absolute feast of diesel haulage, with plenty of diesel-hydraulics, 33s, 50s & 47s. The photos are all colour and go back to the 1960s. You can get £2 off with discount code WACDE at: tinyurl.com/mskt6va3

“This isn’t a postcode lottery any more,” says Eddie Crouch

“It’s the whole phone book.”

We’re seeing horrors that have no place in a wealthy nation.

Government’s unfunded, unambitious plan won’t pull dentistry back from the dark ages.

Sign here: 38d.gs/SaveNHSDentist…

Another shot from my upcoming book on the Cornish Main Line, published on 18 March by Platform 5 Publishing. Colas 70811 crosses St Germans viaduct with 6C35, the 22.30 Aberthaw–Moorswater cement tanks on 27/2/19. The book is available to order now priced £21.95: bit.ly/49RMw16

An image from my new book on the Cornish Main Line, published on 18 March by Platform 5 Publishing. 57605 passes Brea on 8 April 2014 with a Penzance–Plymouth driver training run ahead of the launch of FGW's summer Saturday loco-hauled services on 31 May. bit.ly/49RMw16

🚆🛤️ In 2022, the length of electrified railway lines in the EU reached 115 000 kilometres (km), a 31% increase compared with 1990.

🔹The entire EU railway network had a length of 202 000 km in 2022, a 7.5% decrease since 1990.

Learn more👉 europa.eu/!QBGxbP

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My new book on the Cornish Main Line is now available to preorder from Platform 5 Publishing. Due for publication on 18 March with 96 pages and over 150 images covering a wide variety of traction in the spectacular Cornish landscape. platform5.com/Catalogue/Mode…

The government can't afford to provide me and thousands of other people in my area with a dentist, but it can afford a cut in National Insurance that mostly benefits people with private dental care. #GeneralElectionN0W

In the March issue of Today's Railways Europe OUT NOW: Slovenia's Class 363 electrics, Wien S-Bahn modernisation, rebuilding the Ahrtalbahn, winter in Ukraine, a non-electrified Swiss byway, and 26 pages of news from 24 countries. Subscribe and save: bit.ly/3D9cRcB