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    Oct 15, 2019 3 minutes

    YELLOW TRAINS Ten Years of Testing

    By Andrew Royle Published by Crecy www.crecy.co.uk160 pages, colour, 280x215mm, hardback. £25

    NETWORK Rail’s fleet of yellow-liveried test trains are a fascinating side of railway operations, being used to record the state of the infrastructure across the network and taking locos to places they are rarely otherwise seen these days. So what better way to learn more about this than from someone who was on the inside.

    The author was previously a computer

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