The April 2025 issue of Today's Railways UK is packed with interesting articles and features, plus all the very latest news from across Britain’s railway network. We also include all our regular monthly sections covering light rail, heritage railways, preservation and railtours, with readers’ letters and our grumpy old man also in attendance.
Feature articles this month include:
Greater Anglia Class 745 Train Test: Ian Beardsley visits East Anglia to sample the Greater Anglia Class 745 FLIRT EMUs five years after their introduction.
Westbury Freight Traffic in Focus: Steve Stubbs is our guide to the Westbury area and the extensive freight traffic in the area.
Railway Photography with a Difference: We showcase the winners of the latest 1Z10 Group’s Photo of the Year competition, highlighting some abstract railway photography.
50+ Years of the Western Locomotive Association: Robert Pritchard visits Kidderminster on the Severn Valley Railway to look at the work carried out by the Western Locomotive Association on operating and maintaining its three “Western” locos.
HydroSHUNTER launched at SVR: Gary Essex attends the launch of the hybrid battery-hydrogen shunter at the Severn Valley Railway.
All Change at Crewe: Richard Horner looks at the recently completed Basford Hall and Independent Lines resignalling at Crewe.
News stories this month include:
- Great British Railways consultation sets out plans of how it will work
- DfT shows lack of support for new open access applications
- Avanti RMT strikes back on, then off again
- Strikes loom on Hull Trains
- 30 000 tickets sold in two weeks for August Railway 200 event at Derby
- Wabtec Doncaster site to close
- Portishead reopening on the verge of approval – again
- New Gateway station for Rotherham
- Void in embankment led to Grange-over-Sands derailment
- DB Cargo UK has royal warrant renewed with 67005 set to be renamed
- Network Rail fined following Margam track worker deaths
- HS2 construction in the Midlands now “at a peak”
- Time-lapse footage of longest HS2 viaduct slide to date
- Old Oak Common station foundations complete
- Work at Curzon Street HS2 station steps up
- Two trees on track led to Thetford Class 158 derailment
- New Tempsford Parkway station planned
- Elizabeth Line service to Heathrow Terminal 5 to double?
- Go-ahead for Cardiff Parkway station
- New freight flows for Direct Rail Services
- Derailed Class 395 “Javelin” rerailed at Ramsgate
- TransPennine Express trials movement of parcels on trains
- Walton-on-Thames train derailed by redundant rail left on track
- New wheel lathe at Allerton
- EMR sets out regional timetable improvements for December
- Worcestershire Parkway exceeds 2033 footfall target
- New Tyne & Wear Metro trains enter service on Sunderland route
- Work starts on new Magna tram-train stop in Rotherham
- First Very Light Rail line to serve Coventry Airport?
- Work starts on Brierley Hill tram extension
- All new Glasgow Subway trains accepted
- Rail fares rise by 4.6% in March
- 99001 arrives at Velim
- First TfW active travel Class 153/5 in service
- TfW 197s make Birmingham debut
- Southeastern Class 465 launched in Network SouthEast livery
- Class 379s enter service with Great Northern
- First Southeastern 466s for scrap
- Embankment failure shuts Severn Valley Railway
- North Yorkshire Moors Railway reduces running days
- Doon Valley Railway set to expand
- Trust takes over operations on Bodmin & Wenford Railway
- Class 55 D9015 “Tulyar” moves under its own power for first time since 1997
- New homes found for Clacton EMU 309 624 vehicles
- Brighton Belle on test run from Crewe to Chester
- ORR issues new central door locking exemption for Scottish Railway Preservation Society Railtours
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