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LIVE RAIL (Past Editions)


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

June 2010 - Live Rail 234

  • SwaleRail 150
  • Amberley
  • ELLX Opens - Pictorial Survey
  • Ruby Rover Railtour


April 2010 - Live Rail 233

  • 6CIT Workings
  • Portsmouth/Alton in 1939
  • The East London Line
  • SEG's Preservation Strategy and Corporate Plans


February 2010 - Live Rail 232

  • Modelling the Southern Electric
  • Preservation Report, Winter 2009-2010
  • The Summer of 1939
  • Book Review – "Southern Electric – A New History"


December 2009 - Live Rail 231

  • Southeastern's High Speed Timetable
  • Railway Walks
  • Modelling Bevois Park
  • The Brighton Belle Project


October 2009 - Live Rail 230

  • An EE Man at Large - Part 2
  • Preserving a 4BIG unit
  • Memories of "The Drain"
  • What's in a Name?


August 2009 - Live Rail 229

  • An EE Man at Large
  • Eastleigh 100
  • 3142 Update - Summer 2009
  • 20001-3: Definitive Livery Details


June 2009 - Live Rail 228

  • Commuting in the Snow
  • Southern Electric 1933-1934
  • Vinyl Liveries
  • Blackfriars Rebuilding Commences


April 2009 - Live Rail 227

  • "Gordon" Goes to the Bluebell
  • Life at Orpington Running Shed
  • Farewell to Milton Range Halt


February 2009 - Live Rail 226

  • "Plastic Pigs" to "Bacon Belles"
  • Thameslink Project Gathers Pace
  • Preservation Report Winter 2008
  • Angry of North Dulwich


December 2008 - Live Rail 225

  • Class 378 Stock Details
  • How Electric Trains Work - Part ll
  • Ifield and Three Bridges 1968
  • Last Loco-hauled on the Southern


October 2008 - Live Rail 224

  • Lymington 150 report
  • Bring Back the Brighton Belle
  • How Electric Trains Work - part 1
  • Kentish Town to Kentish Town - part 2


August 2008 - Live Rail 223

  • Spotting in the '70s
  • Class 376 Fleet Survey
  • 3142 Preservation Update
  • Wessies come to Sussex


June 2008 - Live Rail 222

  • South London RUS
  • The Thameslink Project
  • Brighton Line Anniversary
  • Mid-Kent Memories


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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