04 Jan 2005:
Signalboxes doomed
Arriva Tog, or bringing home the bacon - by Eryl Crump
Loco Haulage continues
Virgin colours from Christmas
08 Jan 2005:
vent in Chester
Weather problems again
A (slightly) new look to the site ... New Year 'resolution'
More about Sandycroft and Mold Junction
To Blaenau by Class 37
Bygone days at Chester
Topical picture views: A selection of pictures from our intray
11 Jan 2005:
Conwy Valley Situation
Bring out the spares...
Mold Junction again
Frustrating Saturday
Bygone days at Chester - the sequel
16 Jan 2005:
See also our supplement 'Rescue at Holyhead 11 January'
That Christmas Puzzle
Three hours late
East Anglian 47s
Floods modern and ancient
Reader queries section
Brush pictorial
Marine doings
Freight Gossip
23 Jan 2005:
Charlie goes to Holyhead, 22 January - report by Charlie Hulme
Train Crazy! Two recent Video / DVD programmes reviewed by Rowan
Crawshaw
Other news in pictures
30 Jan 2005:
Class 47s to continue
Investment? What investment?
Exhibition of Railway Paintings in Shrewsbury
Before Daisy, and after
Timber traffic on the Cambrian line
A day trip south of London, 21 January - with Dave Bramley
Post Mortem
12 Feb 2005:
Extra trains for Wales - the facts
More about the planned Arriva Timetable
Bygone days at The Junction
Spring is approaching?
Hold that Timber Train
Station improvement news - by John Myers
Voyager at Holyhead
Wrong kind of language
18 Feb 2005:
Can this really be the end?*
Thomas at Llangollen - report by Charlie Hulme
The Scotrail 150s in pictures, and other DMU notes
21 Feb 2005:
A week in pictures
Tuesday 15 February
Wednesday 16 February
Thursday 17 February
Friday 18 February
24 Feb 2005:
It's all over now, logo blue (part 1)
Saturday 26 February: the High Peaks Hustler
25 Feb 2005:
It's all over now, logo blue (part 2)
03 Mar 2005:
Timber!
Loco Haulage alive in North Wales - report by Darryl Thomas
Flasks at Bangor
Staffing at Llandudno Junction: a query from a Librarian
Dave Sallery's archive special
Bangor 31s - by Alan Crawshaw
06 Mar 2005:
The High Peaks Hustler
07 Mar 2005:
Conwy Valley re-opens (again)
Hoovers to the fore
Like a rolling stone from Penmaenmawr Quarry
Early days of Bont Y Bermo
Model railway show in Stockport
Llangollen Blues again
16 Mar 2005:
One Anglia Morning - with Ralf Edge
Electrify the Top Line?
The new black
Heritage news
PLUSBUS = "less fuss"
17 Mar 2005:
Steam ahead
Saturday Stone - by Larry Goddard
One Anglia Morning - with Ralf Edge
Electrify the Top Line?
The new black
Heritage news
PLUSBUS = "less fuss"
14 Mar 2005:
33 on the Cambrian, 15-16 March
Changes at Crewe
Chasing the Cambrian timber train, 15 March - by Eryl Crump
Freight in North Wales - by Dave Sallery
Lady of Mann to visit North Wales - report by George Jones
21 Mar 2005:
Rugby Crowd (of pictures)
25 Mar 2005:
More loco-hauled?
Rugby fans return
30 Mar 2005:
A railtour to savour
Cambrian Coast line blocked
Travels with my camera - by 'Concrete Bob'
03 Apr 2005:
The Wedding Belle
No trains (well, not many) on Sunday 3 April (revised 2 April 20:45)
A railtour to savour
06 Apr 2005:
Picture special - Saturday 26 March
Travellers' tale - by Alan and Rowan Crawshaw
08 Apr 2005:
Steam charter times for 9 April
Cambrian news - by Stephen Roberts
Wrexham up for the cup
Wedding postscript
The unofficial 'Diesel Gala'
Class 87s for Bosnia
10 Apr 2005:
Sunday 3 April - Picture report extra
47 815
47 816
47 843
47 847
Virgin Trains
And finally ...
14 Apr 2005:
Large logo 37/4!
Last train to Rossett
Charter trains - on ... and off
Meet the new Boss..
Train-free day
Manchester - Cardiff football reliefs, 16-17 April
Cambrian Coast developments (updated)
87s in action
The Wrexham football special : Report by George Jones
Pictures Galore!
More Class 175 duties
Another award for Helsby - report by Frank Thomas
01 Apr 2005:
Coupling problem solved
In the real world part 1
In the real world part 2
Footnote
10 Apr 2005:
team Special
20 Apr 2005:
Thomas Brassey Bicentenary 1805 - 2005
Tourist trains are no joke
The Barmouth shuttle
Back to normal this Sunday
Virgin holds the fort
Background to the news
25 Apr 2005:
Virgin's summer timetable - report by Phil Atack
Green Express
Football specials 16 April - report by Richard Boyd
Sunday Special
What we didn't get
The trip from Hooton
Regional Railways livery appears ... and disappears
A chance to meet...
Holyhead Sunday
Cambrian nocturne
27 Apr 2005:
Steam Correction ... and Mayday movements
When we was FAB
Mailing List news
How Green was my Express
Friday morning Pendo - by Ivor Bufton
Everything goes in cycles
Blue 37s
03 May 2005:
Notes from 2005:
05 May 2005:
Steam times for 7 May
DRS news
Cambrian Coast line back to Normal
The Two Avons - last chance
Typographical notes, and other 37 gossip.
Steam to Chester, 1 May
Cardiff Class 37 cornucopia - report by John Myers
06 May 2005:
Ffestiniog 50 picture special: Pictures by Eryl Crump and Dave Sallery
08 May 2005:
Appendix
09 May 2005:
In the Air
Three by the Sea
From the RPC
14 May 2005:
150 on driver training duty
Enlightened upgrade at Abergele - report by Larry Goddard
Fun on the Cambrian Coast
More Virgins in North Wales
Early bird visits Llandulas - with Larry Goddard
The end of the RPC Wales - another press release
Holyhead Pending Pendo
Missing coach? Not really.
Loco-hauled Manchester - report by Charlie Hulme
Holyhead Depot
West of Chester - with Geoff Morris
Mid-Cheshire Rail Day - supplementary
In the Dark
Gardening tips - with Charlie Hulme-ock
19 May 2005:
Up for the cup
The early 60s - an appeal by Brian Roberts
Coupling - report by Ian Bowland
North Wales freight notes
Pendolino vs. Cows
Virgin territory
Railtour news
New station for Rhyl - from the Daily Post
Holyhead Thunderbird
Lady of Mann - report by George Jones
The Two Avons - report by Greg Mape
25 May 2005:
Railfan's charter?
Cambrian memories
Testing times
Livery news - pictures by Dave Bramley
Pendolino Pictorial
29 May 2005:
Old friends
Llangollen Railway events - report by John Myers
First Class Voyager
Picture news - with Larry Goddard
Shipping news
12 Jun 2005:
Foreword
Thanks to everyone involved in the operation and planning of these
trains. More please!
16 Jun 2005:
Regional Railways lives (just)
Evening in the Dee Valley with City of Truro
Weekend steam times
Terminus views - by Greg Mape
Freight in pictures
Class 40 encore
18 Jun 2005:
Pendolinos galore
Son of the Flying Banana
Mostyn Moments
From the Rail Passengers' Committee
Cruise News - with 'Corrie'
21 Jun 2005:
Thomas Brassey and the Duchess
26 Jun 2005:
A very strange turn ... followed by a deluge
Three Peaks
With the last Virgin 87
Cambrian railtour farce
Weekly train survives
29 Jun 2005:
Right, so what happened on Saturday 25 June?
The Red Dragon
The wanderer returns
30 Jun 2005:
Cambrian Coast Steam
Northern Belle in the Conwy Valley
Closely-watched freight
Out and about with Tim J. Rogers
The battle of Cardiff
Rail Roving
Airbus notes
04 Jul 2005:
Standard 4 at Shrewsbury
Down the Coast - with David Banasek
About the Standard 4 2-6-0
Typical, or untypical?
The Cambrian steam programme
10 Jul 2005:
5 July at The Junction
Traveller's Tale - by Rob Davies
Cruise news
Passenger Numbers Up Nearly 50% at WHR(P) - by James Hewett, Chairman
Mk2s on the Cambrian - by Laurence Wheeler
Shanks's Pony
Welsh lesson
Cambrian Railways Trust announces opening day
Saturday 2 July: Class 47s re-appear (again)
'Poodles in Cardiff accept all rail cuts'
City of Truro at Llangollen - postscript by Jimmy Johnson
Ornithologists' Corner - with Dave Sallery
21 Jul 2005:
Blue Pullman
14 Jul 2005:
Firefly on the fly
Northern Belle news
Happy days on the Cambrian, then and now
Class 101s in the news
26 Jul 2005:
Daisy rides again (again)
Vegetation Control
Sunday 17 July locos
It's a long way down
Saturday, Mk 3
31 Jul 2005:
To Aberystwyth, 9 July
To Pwllheli, 16 July
Those were the days
Harlech interlude
From the old slide box
02 Aug 2005:
Viva Arriva - 4 August Miscellany by Larry Goddard
Bryn names train
<>Last train from Eastleigh
Weekend events
FR 50 - words and pictures by Eryl Crump
Stones ancient and modern
Shipping news
12 Aug 2005:
Back at the screen - and a Cambrian steam train reminder
Down the Coast by 37 - report by David White
Friday doings
Gardening notes - by Alan Crawshaw
Eisteddfod for sale
Another loco-hauled weekend
More shipping views - by John Eyres
Welsh spelling query #2
21 Aug 2005:
The Last Two Summers of Cambrian Steam - by Andrew Bannister
The Cambrian, a very personal reminiscence - by Charlie Hulme
The loco-hauled timetables, Summer Saturdays 1965-66
03 Sep 2005:
[this page missing due to technical problems]
11 Sep 2005:
Leander's life story
Class 67s in the news
Pendolino Problems
Flasks, Trees, Pink Rolls Royce and steam - report by Eifion Hughes
Welsh signs and other things - a personal view by John Gruffydd
A North Wales Circular, Saturday 27 August 2005 - report by Vince
Chadwick
An exhibition to visit; MIGO + 1
Saturday 3 September - report by Alan Crawshaw
47 841 on Saturday 20 August - report by Paul Harrison
Crewe diesel Saturday variety - 3 September
Photographic treat
28 Sep 2005:
No 37 Railtour to Bidston
Pendolino Points
Autumn draws on
Brassey in Shrewsbury
The Great Gathering
The Last Loco to Pwllheli?
Re-launch of the Chester and North Wales Rail Users’ Association
The Edinburgh Cheshireman - report by Rob York
Two Roses, Three locos - report by David Hennessey
Simulating the Coast Line
04 Oct 2005:
RHTT Time
Newtown to York
‘Have your Say’ - Chester Station Developments Consultation Event
Freight trial to Anglesey Aluminium, 6 October - all pictures by
'Corrie'
Thomas Brassey: The Greatest Cestrian? Press release from Chester City
Council
Farewell to a landmark - report by Alan Roberts
Locos to Pwllheli - the official statement
Shipping news
10 Oct 2005:
Diesels on the Llangollen Railway, 8 October - report by Rowan Crawshaw
Miscellany
Holyhead Sunday - not much to see
Dave Sallery's archive spot
Tales of the Rail Head Treatment Train
19 Oct 2005:
Vintage Ffestiniog - report by Dave Sallery
New ticket news
Class 37 news
Crimewatch
Water cannon morning - report by Gwyn Williams
Aluminium - 'light' engine
Conwy scenes 12 October - with Eifion Hughes
06 Nov 2005:
Thomas Brassey celebrations - latest
Cambrian 37
End of Season Narrow Gauge - report by Larry Goddard
RHTT time
Face to Face, or 'did I Really take this?'
06 Nov 2005:
Ruggex pictorial
Evil sabotage continues
News from the Wrexham Railway Society
Merseyside notes
Chester Gateway project
Cambrian Coast Notes
14 Nov 2005:
14 November - Locomotive miscellany
Conwy Valley back in business
What colour is that 37?
Wet and (almost) Dry
'Money ploughed in to get trains back on track'
19 Nov 2005:
Royal Train makes a brief appearance
Train Service Alterations Between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llandudno
23 Nov 2005:
South Wales Events
Big Blue rides again
Keep on truckin'
More from the National Railway Museum dinner
Chester Miscellany - by Dave Bramley
RHTT in the sunshine
Lots of pictures still in the intray - thanks all - more soon!
27 Nov 2005:
Rugby News - by Mark Riley
Gobowen Saturday
That new Arriva Timetable - a personal view by Charlie Hulme
Red faces at Virgin Trains
3802 steams at Llangollen - report by George Jones
27 Nov 2005:
Arriva Loco-haulage looms
Trouble at Eccles
Autumn tints at Bangor, 6 December - report by Eifion Hughes
Rails to Blaenau - by Larry Goddard
Holyhead water cannon - pictures by 'Corrie'
The Blue Hippo
Loco-hauled update
Blimey, whatever next - or, stop press: The Irish Mancunian Rides Again
Dogbox gets new livery
40% leap in cheap ticket sales follows Virgin Trains' shake up of fares
Other items and pictures held over until later this week due to lack of
time...
09 Dec 2005:
Life's Like That: a compiler's note
The Irish Mancunian and other stories
15 Dec 2005:
News Flash: The Arriva loco-hauled train is running on Saturday 17
December
The Wonder of Digital - with Larry Goddard
The Christmas Chester Chuffer and other steam news
Star of the Show
Autumn extended - official
The Northern Belle in close-up - pictures by Mark Riley
Superfast indeed
20 Dec 2005:
The Christmas Chester Chuffer: Traveller's tale by Laurence Wheeler
Riding the Irish Mancunian - report by Mike Thomas
Another view of the Chester Chuffer - by Richard W. Jones
Shotton Works - a letter from the BBC
Incident at Curzon Park - report by George Jones
Nocturnal Large Logo
More steam at Chester
A day on the Coast - pictures from Monday 12 December by Tim J. Rogers
30 Dec 2005:
Here we are again - compiler's thoughts
The crumbling edge
New Year farce looms
The Christmas Break, and after - in pictures
Another harrassment story
Ho, Ho, Ho
Desiro Début
Dave Sallery's Archive spot
Times are Changing
Scenes from 20 December
Holyhead by night