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

A sobering thought

The RAILWAY Magazine

Journeys rise but revenue stalls • Total passengers journeys have reached 93% of pre-pandemic levels, but income from fares lags behind at 78%.

Scottish society signs deal with LSL Group for locomotives and stock • Bo’ness-based group forms partnership with Royal Scot & General Trust

More action needed if targets are to be met

‘Surprise and pride’ as passenger services begin on Levenmouth Line

Low-key launch for Avanti’s ‘Evero’ • First of operator’s £350 million Hitachi-built fleet enter traffic.

Brief return for CrossCountry shops

Steam powered ‘Tug’ for freight trains?

Class 47 reaches Ukraine border • Hungarian railtour takes Brush Type 4 the furthest east the class has ever been.

First vehicles for Eastriggs storage site

RVLR AT THE GCR:

All’s still not right on the Isle of Wight • Our November 2022 issue reported on the much-troubled Island Line upgrade programme, but almost two years on problems still persist.

Andania digs in for a great cause • ‘Bucket & Spade’special hauled by Class 40 raised £40,000 for Railway Benefit Fund.

Railways in Parliament

Work on Thame Valley Viaduct building passes halfway point • Forty-four precast beams and 66 piers for the 962-yard structure put in place within a year.

Former London Underground and Crossrail boss to lead HS2 Ltd

Golden anniversary gala • Kent & East Sussex marks 50-year preservation milestone as it looks to the future.

Zulu Forty Eight • With a nonstop steam run from Plymouth to Bristol Temple Meads as one possible highlight, John Heaton FCILT joined the two-day ‘Great Western’ railtour from Birmingham to Devon.

Farewell shed, hello works • The once-mothballed Bletchley depot is being transformed into a compact ‘railway works’ facility, as Phil Marsh reports.

The ‘Liberation’ Locomotives • Robert Humm uncovers the fascinating history of a postwar 2-8-0 freight loco design that failed to find orders in the quantities expected, and subsequently disappeared into obscurity.

‘Trubble at t’Tunnel’ • With the Transpennine Route Upgrade in full swing, John Heaton FCILT examines five rail accidents from earlier times centred on Standedge Tunnel.

Readers’ Platform • Send your letters to: The Railway Magazine, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR. Email: railway@mortons.co.uk

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From the archive • Subscribe and read previous issues at www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/archive

The RCTS: then and now

West Somerset is putting the ‘torrid times’ behind it • “We are now in a good place,”insists West Somerset Railway plc chairman.

‘Strictly’ stars attract the crowds for Bulleid gala • Swanage’s superb long weekend celebrates Bulleid 4-6-2s

Toddington’s ‘long forgotten’ BR...