Richard Clinnick

Oct 1, 2024 | therailwayhub.co.uk | Richard Clinnick

Trials using a battery-powered Class 230 on the Greenford branch are under way. Richard Clinnick reports from the formal launch of the project and speaks to those involved in the project. This article first appeared in the May 2024 issue of Rail Express. Keep up with all the latest news by subscribing to the magazine today. The issue of traction power for trains, both existing and new-build, is one that is set to dominate discussions for some time.

Sep 22, 2024 | therailwayhub.co.uk | Richard Clinnick

Varamis Rail aims to serve London terminals with a network of electric freight services. Richard Clinnick talks to Phil Read, the man behind the plans. Less than a year after Class 321s finished serving London Liverpool Street in daily service, a pair of the four-car electric multiple units returned to the station on March 13, to showcase their planned return, which could happen in the very near future. Still carrying National Express East Anglia colours from their days serving the station, Nos.

Sep 12, 2024 | therailwayhub.co.uk | Richard Clinnick

High Speed Trains exported to Central America and West Africa certainly caught the attention last year. Richard Clinnick meets Robert Coleman, the Chairman of Romic Consulting Limited, the company behind these deals, and looks at the potentially interesting future awaiting HSTs (and other fleets). When High Speed Trains were withdrawn, en masse, following the introduction of Hitachi Class 80x fleets between 2017 and 2019, many questions were raised regarding their future.

Sep 4, 2024 | therailwayhub.co.uk | Richard Clinnick

Richard Clinnick visits a small team in Great Yarmouth with a large fleet of coaches and even bigger business plans. Looking across Vauxhall Carriage Sidings, near Great Yarmouth, it’s fair to say that the facility has not been this busy in decades. Over the past four years, an array of coaching stock, mainly Mk.2s and Mk.3s with some Mk.1s as well as a Class 08, a ‘31’ and even a ‘321’, have all been acquired by Eastern Rail Services (ERS), which operates the facility.

May 2, 2024 | therailwayhub.co.uk | Richard Clinnick

Richard Clinnick visits Strawberry Hill, where a small team are returning a Mk.1 slam-door unit to main line condition. “It’s just like Wimbledon,” says Chris Buckland as he walks around 4-VEP No. 423417 Gordon Pettitt at Strawberry Hill on February 21. “Sometimes I just come in here and listen. The unit is cut in and people are working on it… it’s wonderful.”The depot is just that, a working depot, complete with live 750v DC third-rail.