Creating a business converting former BR Mark 1 coaches for residential and leisure purposes was always going to be a challenge, but Armin Obrecht has almost completed his first conversion. Andy Coward met the Iconic Railway Coaches founder to find out more.
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Rail services connecting parts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex with London are severely disrupted due to damaged overhead electric wires.
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Grab the brand new October issue of Railways Illustrated magazine for the best coverage of today’s railway scene.
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David Lindsell returns with final instalment of his three-part series covering the history of the Ludgershall branch. This covers other special trains, engineering trains and maintenance specials, redundant stock storage, and preservation, along with a report on a depot visit that took place in 1998.
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Grab the brand new September issue of Railways Illustrated magazine for the best coverage of today’s railway scene.
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Rail firm Hitachi says it has contingency plans in place to deal with a strike by some of its workers.
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Rail services will be severely disrupted on Saturday because of a strike by train drivers in the latest outbreak of industrial unrest in the industry.
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Network Rail has formally started the legal consultation process with unions on the maintenance reforms it says are needed to modernise and improve productivity and efficiency, one of the issues at the centre of the current wave of strikes.
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One of the giant machines digging the tunnels for HS2 has become the first on the project to complete the full journey underground.
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was questioned on whether he still intended to take railways back into public ownership.
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