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News - Top stories this month: Sea Containers boss seeks rail cut-backs; Out with the old units, in with the new at SWT; Freight prospers but only in Scotland; c2c marks LTS j^Oth anniversary; Prospects brighten for rural routes. Mess room - Take a break with RAIL EXPRESS' light-hearted page. This month, a RPC survey reveals trains are most associated with Victor Meldrew! Summer loco-haulage guide - David Russell presents our annual summary of locomotive-hauled passenger trains to be found in the summer timetable. He looks at each operator in turn providing times, headcodes and details of booked motive power. Time traveller special - Railway headlines from this month 5,10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Plus an additional look at the XP64 train, introduced exactly 40 years ago. Black country freight - David J Hayes concludes his authoritative series of articles on West Midlands freight workings with a second and final examination of through traffic. Traction & Rolling Stock - Thirteen pages of traction news together with the best rail photography around: Power by the hour (p.26), Power scene (p28), Shed talk (p.28), Spectrum (p.32), Classified information (p.33), Name game (p.34), Shunter spot (p.36), Unitary authority (p.38), Wagons (p.40) and Irish (p.41). Pictorial - First Great Western and Porterbrook have joined forces to mark the end of Class 47s on the former WR. Superbly repainted D1748 is the result. Railtours - Gary Thornton calls for more tours using 'preserved' traction as well as providing the usual round-up of forthcoming tours. Preservation - Mid Hants Railway gets its Thumper'; More Class 73s are saved from the scrapyard and green 'Hoover' returns to traffic after four years. Models - All the latest news including a new '0' Gauge 'Peak' kit (p.47); Upgraded Grafar Class 33 review "(P.48); Showcase pictorial (p.49); Improving Bachmann's Class 44 (p.50) plus the Mostyn serial (p.55) and Q&A (p.57). Cover: Freshly repainted Fragonset Class 31 No. 31601 leaves Frome with the 2086 08.28 Bristol Temple Meads-Weymouth on its first day in service with Wessex Trains - May 27th.
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