91. The Royal Train is decommissioned & Derailment causes travel chaos on WCML
Green Signals3 Juli 2025

91. The Royal Train is decommissioned & Derailment causes travel chaos on WCML

The Royal Train is to be decommissioned by 2027 bringing toan end to getting on for 200 years of association.

A derailment at Bletchley and a fallen tree near Beattockcause days of travel chaos on the West Coast Main Line.

And we speak to Stadler about their take on theUK rolling stock market.

In this episode:

(00:00) Intro

(00:33) Royal Train to be decommissioned

(11:39) Derailment at Bletchley

(17:35) Fallen tree at Beattock

(23:40) Class 99s teaser

(28:01) Stadler and the rolling stock market

(36:26) IMechE Railway Challenge

(39:41) Thanks to Supporters

(41:07) Railway News Round-up

(41:11) EDF Renewables deal with Transport for London

(42:15) Project Reach deal

(43:27) Heidelberg Materials Horton Quarry rail link

(44:30) “Network Rail wrongly fells 300 trees”

(48:27) HS2 Northolt Tunnel excavation completed

(49:07) Far North Line reopens

(50:57) The Quiz

(55:02) Great Western Railway FastCharge Battery record

ROYAL TRAIN PHOTOGRAPHY: Thanks to Jack Boskett for kindly allowing us to use his photographs in this episode. You can find more of Jack’s award-winning photography at http://www.jackboskett.co.uk

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