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    • New Year’s Honours List recognises Network Rail employees

    Three Network Rail employees have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list 2020, published on 30 December.
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    New photos

    Photo by Lance CASTLE
    Queensland Rail locomotoive 2471, Ipswich Queensland.
    Photo by Crewcastrian
    BR Class 47 47118 Ipswich
    Photo by peter_schoeber
    05887109-18167 Coevorden BE 29 april 1996
    Photo by Brians Railway, Bus and Shipping Collection
    IMG_5998 SSR102 SSR102 G514 Black Creek 1541 9.1.21_1
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    Thameslink Class 387 Unit 387110, Mill Hill, 19th. May 2015.

    HS2 celebrates end of successful 2020 with new images showing forward progress on Europe’s biggest infrastructure project

     UK
    The images show the extent to which work has progressed at some of the project’s biggest sites on the route between London and the West Midlands.

    Grade II-listed Station Hall to undergo £500,000 refurbishment

     UK
    The National Railway Museum’s Station Hall is set to receive a £500,000 refurbishment, thanks to the Friends of the National Railway Museum.

    HS2 freight deliveries to a town without a railway station

     UK
    The first freight rail trains for HS2’s construction site in Buckinghamshire have started delivering aggregate to support the construction of a temporary railhead at the town of Calvert.

    170 people prosecuted for not wearing a face mask on London transport

     UK
    So far, since the regulations came into effect about wearing a face covering on public transport, 170 people have been prosecuted in court for non-compliance.

    Prototype Profile: Espee’s 100-plus C44-9Ws

     Model Railways
    Among Southern Pacific’s (SP) last new motive power acquisitions was a collection of 101 examples of General Electric’s (GE) C44-9W.

    Policy: Passenger rail in the age of coronavirus

     Coronavirus Transport News
    The rail sector continues to grapple with the implications of a drastic drop in ridership and the need to deploy extensive Covid-19 mitigation measures.

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