WCR buys Riviera Trains stock to overcome CDL issues

Pip Dunn Contributing Writer rail@bauermedia.co.uk

WEST Coast Railways has purchased all the remaining coaches owned by Riviera Trains, giving it at least three further full sets of coaches fitted with Central Door Locking (CDL). The company has been short of coaching stock for several months, after losing an injunction with the Office of Rail and Road over fitting CDL to its Mk 1 fleet. WCR owner David Smith has refused to fit CDL to the company’s Mk 1 stock and has had to use what few CDL Mk 2s it has, alongside hiring in coaches from Riviera, to run its ‘Jacobite’ steam trips from Fort William to Mallaig and other charters (RAIL 1006). The deal will allow WCR to return to the market for taking on more third-party work. It does not mean the end…

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