Parcel plan offers new life for Intercity 125 trains [Financial Times]



08/02/2017
Ceremony marks rebuilding of Ballater Station after fire [BBC News]
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09/02/2017
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Date: 08/02/2017

The train is promising to take the strain of some of the booming market in ecommerce deliveries, after a rail freight operator revealed plans to use old Intercity 125 trains to whisk parcels from Yorkshire to north London.


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