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LIVE RAIL

In addition to regular features recent past editions of Live Rail have contained:

April 2008 - Live Rail 221

  • Return to Durnsford Road
  • Diary of a Travelling Nobody
  • Class 450/5s Arrive
  • Railtour Timing

February 2008 - Live Rail 220

  • Musings on Cross London Links & HS1
  • A Day Out - 50s style
  • 3142 update
  • SEG Visit to Selhurst

December 2007 - Live Rail 219

  • An Interview with Vic Mitchell
  • The Class 508s - Potted Histories
  • The Class 395 "Javelin" units
  • Final 3rd Rail Eurostars

October 2007 - Live Rail 218

  • Class 508 Fleet Survey
  • A Heathrow-Ebbsfleet Service?
  • Crossrail South Proposal
  • The South London RUS

August 2007 - Live Rail 217

  • Gordon's Holiday in Swanage
  • The Return of E5001
  • 40th Anniversary of the Bournemouth Electrification
  • Progress on 3142

June 2007 - Live Rail 216

  • LED Signals - Part 1
  • Days out with DaySave
  • The Durnsford Road Shunter(s)
  • Latest Class 442 News

April 2007 - Live Rail 215

A second special issue saying Farewell to the Class 442s on SWT
  • A History of the Class 442s - Part 2
  • Class 442 Performance
  • CTRL Focus on Stratford
  • Durnsford Road Memories
  • Gangways

February 2007 - Live Rail 214

A special issue saying Farewell to the Class 442s on SWT
  • A History of the Class 442s - Part 1
  • Wessex Memories
  • Preservation Report

December 2006 - Live Rail 213

A second issue focusing on EMU Preservation
  • The NRM's EMU Preservation Policy
  • Surviving 4 Rep Vehicles
  • East Kent Railway Gala Day Report
  • The Great SWT Stock Reshuffle
  • No Farewell to the 458s

October 2006 - Live Rail 212

  • Farewell to the 458s?
  • The Reading-Tonbridge Line
  • Stations
  • Conductor Rail De-Icing

August 2006 - Live Rail 211

An issue concentrating on Preservation
  • The SEG's Preservation Vision
  • Our 4 Cors in London, Sussex and Kent
  • Update on ex-Bel and Pul Pullman Cars
  • Preserved EMUs in Berlin

June 2006 - Live Rail 210

  • A Muddle of Acronyms
  • An Interview with Michael Welch
  • Rail Development in Kent
  • Civil Engineering - Routes and Earthworks
  • Railtour Timings - Blueberry Fool Railtour
 

April 2006 - Live Rail 209

  • More on Brighton Line RUS
  • By Turbostar to Paris
  • Kingswood & the EPBs
  • Thameslink 2? - Cross London Analysis
 

February 2006 - Live Rail 208

  • Farewell to St Leonards - Preservation Report
  • Another Cross London Alternative?
  • One man's View of the Sussex Slammer
  • Masterminded on the BBC Quiz Show

December 2005 - Live Rail 207

  • London to Brighton High Speed Runs
  • Loughborough Junction – A Signalling Mystery Solved
  • Slam Door Swansong
  • Review of DC Kits' new Class 74 kit
  • Cab It 2005 Report
  • Curiouser and Curiouser – power upgrade inadequate?
  • South West Main Line RUS

October 2005 - Live Rail 206

  • A personal perspective on working in 11201
  • Southern Belle Railtour Report
  • Third Rail Amps still in short supply
  • A tale of two (historic) journeys
  • Customer Information
  • Timings – Last scheduled slam door working from Victoria

August 2005 - Live Rail 205

  • Shared Stations
  • Level Crossings
  • What Price the CTRL – 2?
  • Class 71 on the Golden Arrow

June 2005 - Live Rail 204

  • A Look at Dover Marine Station in 2004
  • Class 71 - A Southern Enigma and Lost Opportunity
  • Home Thoughts from Abroad - An Expat's View
  • The Ramsgate Tunnel Railway

April 2005 - Live Rail 203

  • Today's Spartan Seating
  • Southern in 2005
  • Cab Front Design
  • a bumper Members' Queries section

February 2005 - Live Rail 202

  • The Suburban 2 Coach Trailer Sets part 2
  • The Cep Tribute Railtour Report
  • NFRIP'S 2004 Train Performance
  • SET & SWT Timetable Changes

December 2004 - Live Rail 201

  • The suburban 2 Coach Trailer Sets
  • Farewell to the Ceps – A Personal View
  • A 4 Cor Mystery from 1952/3
  • SWT anticipated Mk1 withdrawals

October 2004 - Live Rail 200

  • Working on the "Southern"
  • South West Trains Slam Door Gala
  • A Modelling Retrospective
  • Mk1 hauled stock exchanges for EMU construction
  • LSWR Electric Locos 74s and 75s
  • SR trailer bogies
  • LR 200 Supplement – Southern Electrics 2004
  • Mk1 stock in remaining service mid September 2004

August 2004 - Live Rail 199

  • Electric Services on the Brighton Main Line Winter 1934/35
  • New Train Deficiencies
  • Mk1 storings and withdrawals May-July 2004

June 2004 - Live Rail 198

  • SR Rolling stock – Dennis Hooker's opinion
  • The Southern Railway and Periscopes

April 2004 - Live Rail 197

  • Too Tight? (thoughts about seating)
  • Southern Railway Electric Unit Numbering
  • Class 483 unit returns to service in historic livery
  • Integrated Kent Franchise trains per hour plans

February 2004 - Live Rail 196

  • Trying to Make the Grade (new units vs old)
  • Higham Tunnel closes for re-lining
  • Networker performance
  • Power Supplies and Substations
  • New stock samples
  • Class 442 Power bogies

December 2003 - Live Rail 195

  • SEG Museum West Worthing, update
  • SR Electrification "Not Quite as Planned" part 3
  • SC suburban slam door workings
  • End of Connex franchise
  • Integrated Kent franchise – latest

October 2003 - Live Rail 194

  • New Stations For The Southern
  • SR Electrification "Not Quite as Planned" part 2
  • New Home for 3142 Progress Report

 

 
 
 

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