The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine has been published since 1897 and is now the UK's best-selling general interest rail title. Every month, The RM provides enthusiasts and professionals with authoritative and informed news coverage of the following: - Network Rail and the train operating companies - Locomotives, multiple units, carriages and wagons - Steam, heritage and the preservation world, inc narrow gauge- Metro and underground systems - In addition, the magazine carries frequent items of overseas interest.

The Railway Magazine is also renowned for its wide-ranging and innovative feature coverage, encompassing up-to-the-minute developments as well as historical, nostalgic and foreign subjects. The magazine is also renowned for its award-winning photographic content.

The Railway Magazine

‘Jacobite’ jostling

POETRY IN MOTION:

‘Jacobite’ resumes – but steam loco stalls on first trip of the year • West Coast’s operation is back – but rival Locomotive Services Group runs crew training trips available to the public on a ‘turn up and go’basis over two days.

Betton Grange steams into action

New train order reprieves Derby factory at the eleventh hour • Additional trains for the Elizabeth Line give Litchurch Lane hope for the future.

Funding confirmed to build new cross-border ‘Enterprise’ fleet

More Class 153s readied for Heart of Wales line • ‘Active Travel’units will be attached to standard classmates on previously single-car services, boosting capacity on the scenic Shrewsbury-Swansea route.

First daylight electric run to Pontypridd • Class 756 test movement is another step towards completion of major modernisation on the‘Core Valley Lines’.

LNER removals container unearthed – in Antwerp! • Pre-Nationalisation Conflat rail-road box discovered buried in earth bank.

SIDELINES

Signalling a digital future with £4 billion investment in control systems

Landslip watch • A round-up of disruption across the network caused by problems with cuttings and embankments.

Heritage line landslip

Memorial Day celebrates the life of RM writer Peter Nicholson • Preservationist and long-time Railway Magazine writer remembered at Somerset museum tribute.

Railways in Parliament

Colne Valley Viaduct crosses the Grand Union Canal • Just over half-a-mile more of high-speed route structure to assemble as it strides out over historic waterway.

SIDELINES

Back in the ring • After a gap of more than seven years, the DTG’s ‘Western’ No. D1015 successfully defended its title as the sole main line diesel-hydraulic, as John Heaton FCILT reports.

Remembering the all-line timetable • To mark the 50th anniversary of British Rail’s first all-line timetable, Dr Joseph Brennan looks back over the history of such guides to services from the earliest Bradshaws to today’s digital offerings.

West Coast wires • Mike Jones reflects on the fortunes of the West Coast Main Line over the five decades since electrified services began running through to Glasgow in May 1974.

Bodmin bouncing back • There is much that is authentically Cornish to discover at the Bodmin Railway, as Paul Bickerdyke finds out.

Yellow Submarines • John Heaton FCILT visits Merseyside to sample the new Class 777 EMUs on third-rail and battery power, whilst looking back to the outgoing Class 507 and earlier Class 502 sets.

Neville Hill 125 years old and still evolving • Two miles east of Leeds station, Northern’s biggest train care centre has played a pivotal role in maintenance since 1899. But, as Graeme Pickering discovered, it is preparing for a period of major transformation.

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