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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue

FEATURES:
EAST COAST HST FAREWELL - How LN ER saw the end of its HST fleet in style.
GAS GUZZLERS - Full story of the experimental turbine locos.
THE CLASS 314 STORY - Looking back on their 40 years of service.
0-60: CLASS 802/2 - How do TPE’s bi-modes rate?
DERBY TRAINMAN: ‘47S’ R US - Fun and games with Brush Type 4s.

REGULARS:
SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS - The best ways to get Rail Express every month.
TIME TRAVELLER SPECIAL - The end of Woodhead passengers.
LETTERS & REVIEWS - Feedback and modern traction books.
HEADLINE NEWS - ScotRail franchise to end three years early; Harry Needle Class 25s to make main line return; Ex-Sleeper day coach in use with Network Rail; Crewe and Horwich Works demolished; The North and Midlands hope for transport boost following general election result; GWR starts Cardiff electric service; New operator wants to run shorter freights; TfW Mk.4s prepared for service.
LU WORLD - Derogation for 1973 Stock.
RAILTOURS - Repairs for railtour ‘Deltic’.
PRESERVATION - Two Class 142s for Chasewater, one for NRM, and Class 144 for Ruddington; Second HST designated for National Collection; Crewe Group purchases ex-Scottish Mk.3s.
POWER BY THE HOUR - DC Rail unveils third Class 60 in blue.
POWERSCENE - Notable workings, Name Game, and Spectrum.
UNITS - Ex-Anglia units become Class 156/9.
SHUNTERS & INDUSTRIALS - Events organiser PLEG winds down.
COACHES - More rebuilt Mk.3s emerge.
WAGONS - WH David to build new Ecofrets.
IRISH ANGLE - GMs and DMU work ‘Santa Specials’.

MODELLING:
2020 is Hornby’s centenary year, and to mark the occasion it has announced a j' f1 bumper crop of new releases across locomotives, carriages and wagons - we round up the full modern era list, which includes a new APT and Class 91. Our in-depth reviews include a prewar Southern EMU, the diminutive 48DS Ruston shunters, and ‘Rawie’ buffer stops.

Cover Photo: Northern’s No. 142044 (pictured at Meadowhall on November 23, 2017) was scrapped in December 2019, but many ‘Pacers’ and other types of unit around the country have needed special permission from the Department for Transport to continue running in 2020. See page 13 for the full list.

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HST TOUR GOES FORTH: A fantastic shot of specially-repainted HST power cars Nos. 43312 and 43206 (carrying their original identities of E43112 and W43006 respectively) and the seven matching Mk.3s forming LNER’s ‘Let’s Go Round Again’ tour, the four-day marathon send-off to mark the end of regular East Coast Main Line HST operations. This was day one on December 18 as the tour headed north from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Inverness at Burntisland (Fife), with the Forth rail and road bridges in the background. See pages 14-19 for more on the end of East Coast HSTs. 

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Thanks for the memories
THE management and staff at LNER have to be congratulated for organising an outstanding farewell to HST operations on the East Coast route in December, both on the last day of timetabled services and the four-day farewell tour the week after. There was certainly no obligation to do any of it, certainly not for our sake, and yet they did anyway. You could just tell there was a genuine fondness amongst the crew and other staff for these iconic machines that have plied their way north from King’s Cross for more than four decades. The tour set was superbly turned out in original 1970s condition, at considerable expense, just for those four days - again a commendable thing to do. Yes the company gained a great deal of publicity and press around the country, giving them a platform to talk about its new Azuma’ services, but the main reason was to give a fitting send-off, to thank rail staff for their hard work and pride in their jobs, and to give the public - and enthusiasts -something to remember.
While HSTs have now gone from the Western and Eastern main lines, the interesting thing is that - with careful planning - it is still possible to travel all the way from Penzance to Inverness by HST using GWR, CrossCountry and ScotRail. This is proof, if proof were needed, of the enduring usefulness of this design classic.

‘RAT’ ATTACK
To the many Type 2 fans out there, and I’ll admit to being one of them, there is very welcome news that Harry Needle is planning to return a pair of Class 25s to the main line. These Sulzer-powered machines have long been a gaping hole in the list of classes that have returned since British Rail days - so well done Harry, we look forward to seeing and hearing these gutsy machines spluttering their way around the country again soon!

Paul Bickerdyke
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