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

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The RAILWAY Magazine

Electric trains start in Cardiff Valleys • History made as wires energised and Stadler tri-modes enter service for South Wales Metro.

ORR gives approval for Go-op open access services between Taunton and Swindon • The cooperative plans direct trains between Taunton and Swindon, but first must prove it can finance the operations.

First IÉ BEMU unveiled at Dublin’s Inchicore Works

Station help points must improve says Office of Rail and Road

Inquiry launched into operators’ revenue protection practices • Operators have been using a law not intended for use in fare evasion cases.

Active Travel unit trials

Darlington’s new Eastern Concourse takes shape • Fit-out will be finished over the next year, in time for opening in late 2025.

New prizes announced in Young Photographer competition

SIDELINES

Harz Mountain steam railway set to be ‘decarbonised’ by 2030 • Funding deal demands‘major change’to existing coal-fired operations.

Railways in Parliament

Halfway point reached with Warwickshire ‘green tunnel’ • 150 people will work to complete its excavation, roof, base and internal structure over the next two years.

West Midlands concrete milestone

SIDELINES

Coal trains, first and last? • The final delivery to Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station in June ended a 400-year history of coal by rail that began just a few miles away on the edge of Nottingham, as Bob Gwynne describes.

STEAM AT RATCLIFFE

Open for business • Siemens’ new factory in Goole is ramping up production of its first order of trains for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.

Pennine ‘Peak’ • Class 45s were common on trans-Pennine services in the 1980s, so surely a railtour run in 2024 couldn’t set a new record time? Or maybe it could, as John Heaton FCILT finds out.

Mongolian diesel odyssey • Steve Morris recounts a two-week trip around Mongolia, the landlocked East Asian country sandwiched between northern China and Russia.

The Misery Train • Richard Simmons tells the chilling tale of a wartime naval officer’s return from Scapa Flow.

From the archive

The RCTS: Then and now

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

MEETINGS

PANORAMA • A showcase for the best in railway photography

Main line partners confirmed • Preparations underway for Bulleid Pacific to return to the national network.

Maintaining ‘Manors’ on the rosters • Agreements in place for‘namer’GWR 4-6-0s to run at two key heritage lines for the foreseeable future.

Bury Standards on the up • Dedicated team members take care of owning group’s locomotives.

Celebrating heritage wagons • Restorers and members of the public come together at Nene...