Blood and Custard

What goes around, comes around: how we reported the 125mph handback in the April 1988 issue.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

THIS ITEM from a recent Network Rail press release on the use of Dynamic Track Stabilisers caught the eye of one of our resident ELBOWS. ‘Over Christmas and New Year a number of higher speed handbacks took place. Handing back the railway at 125mph following major plain line renewal works is a first for the modern day railway’.

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