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

Prepare for GBR

Great British Railways plan is go • New Government wastes no time publishing public ownership bill.

Industry bodies react to Labour’s railway plans

A‘TEDDY BEAR’S’FEAST:

ORR issues ‘Evero’ improvement notice • Avanti West Coast lodges appeal regarding regulator’s stance on automatic speed supervision system for Class 805 and 807 trains.

Class 769s for parcels work • Handover expected in September.

BEHIND THE SCENES AT KINGMOOR:

Royal Mail to withdraw its Class 325s EMU fleet

SIDELINES

RPSI locomotive steamed for first time in 20 years • The restoration of S Class No. 171 nears completion.

Thousands of fare dodging convictions could be quashed

SIDELINES

Northampton Gateway takes shape • New logistics terminal connected to the Northampton loop.

Leeds City uncovered • Work to build a new‘gateway to the city’at Leeds station has uncovered underground structures hidden from view for decades.

New lines open for Paris Olympics • Capacity added in time for the Games.

Railways in Parliament

SIDELINES

Excavation of station box at Old Oak Common completed • The process has taken three years and required the extraction of 1.3 million tonnes of London Clay.

LIFTING OPERATIONS:

‘Tin can’ built to extract Northolt TBMs • A high water-table around Greenford means special arrangements are needed to remove four tunnel boring machines when their work is done.

Darlington revamped • Relaunched Hopetown museum celebrates the history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.

The one that got away! • New pictures have emerged of the fate of ‘Black Five’ No. 44781, one of the four locos that brought down the curtain on British Rail steam in August 1968, but the only one not to survive into preservation, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.

‘Our’ loco at 25 • July marked the 25th anniversary of ‘our loco’, Freightliner’s No. 66503, entering service. Chris Milner looks at the background to the Class 66 order and how the loco got The Railway Magazine name.

On the Night shift • The night shift at Leeds City Junction in 1952 was no easy matter, not least when dealing with the four overnight sleepers that reversed at the former Wellington station in the space of an hour, as John Heaton FCILT describes.

Years apart… Leeds • Our occasional series looking at past and present scenes.

The last gasp for working steam • Paul Stanford FCIRO visits Bosnia to see steam-powered coal operations around Tuzla.

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