Green Signals 91. The Royal Train is decommissioned & Derailment causes travel chaos on WCML
The Royal Train is to be decommissioned by 2027 bringing toan end to getting on for 200 years of association.
A derailment at Bletchley and a fallen tree near Beattockcause days of travel chaos on the West Coast Main Line.
And we speak to Stadler about their take on theUK rolling stock market.
In this episode:
(00:00) Intro
(00:33) Royal Train to be decommissioned
(11:39) Derailment at Bletchley
(17:35) Fallen tree at Beattock
(23:40) Class 99s teaser
(28:01) Stadler and the rolling stock market
(36:26) IMechE Railway Challenge
(39:41) Thanks to Supporters
(41:07) Railway News Round-up
(41:11) EDF Renewables deal with Transport for London
(42:15) Project Reach deal
(43:27) Heidelberg Materials Horton Quarry rail link
(44:30) “Network Rail wrongly fells 300 trees”
(48:27) HS2 Northolt Tunnel excavation completed
(49:07) Far North Line reopens
(50:57) The Quiz
(55:02) Great Western Railway FastCharge Battery record
ROYAL TRAIN PHOTOGRAPHY: Thanks to Jack Boskett for kindly allowing us to use his photographs in this episode. You can find more of Jack’s award-winning photography at http://www.jackboskett.co.uk
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