Industrial Steam
Stephenson Museum acquires two locomotives.
56 Heritage Carriages & Wagons
Spring spruce-up for Beamish vehicles.
58 Narrow Gauge
Talyllyn Railway reworks its plans for Pendre.
64 Miniature
New owners for Eastleigh Lakeside Railway.

Bigger and Better

Part 4 of our Railway 200 series looks at the
amalgamation of smaller lines into larger
conglomerates in the Victorian era.

Practice & Performance

Sampling the Transport for Wales Class 67 and Mk.4
sets along the Welsh Marches route.

Rolt And All The Rest

Where would we be today without the preservation
heroes that helped save the past and keep our
railway history alive for the future?

Steam & Industrial News: ‘Can Pac’due back this month; Tornado to feature in ELR‘Legends of Steam’gala; Darlington RPS opens its new home; Betton Grange to star at Llangollen.
Readers’Platform & Where is it?: Your views on happenings in the railway world, plus test your railway knowledge with our picture puzzle.
Excellence and innovation: The annual Heritage Railway Association awards were held recently in Gateshead. But who won this year’s‘Oscars’of the preservation world?

Ashington reborn... We take a trip on the reopened Northumberland Line.

Bicentennial celebrations begin! - But what railway 'firsts' came before the Stockton & Darlington Railway?

New home for 'Spam Can' - 92 Squadron Moves To ELR.

A 400-year journey! - From first to last, an incredible story of coal by rail.

Tri-modes enter service on Cardiff Valley Lines.

Steam News & Heritage Wagons - Severn Valley gala steams to success; "Crab' appeal launches.

Narrow Gauge - Superpower and heritage showcased...

Miniature - Steam Workshop breaks into battery-electric market.

Narrow Gauge - Palmerston stars in Rheidol Steam Festival...

DRAX AT 50
We’re in the cab on the biomass circuit as power stationmarks half centurywith railtours, namings and photoshoots

‘Super D’ stripemystery
Expansion plan for Irish rail
GBRf acquires four Class 18s

FROM RAILS TO ROAD
CATESBY TUNNEL REBORN AS AUTOMOTIVE TEST TRACK

Steam News & Heritage Wagons
Reunification plan awaits local authority approval; Blue Peter is back on the main line.

Darlington revamped
The 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 locomotives which brought down the curtain on British Rail steam in August 1968, but the only one not to survive into preservation, as Paul Bickerdyke reports..

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

And the winners are…
After sifting through hundreds of images, leading to some tough debate amongst the judging panel, the winners have been chosen for the RCTS/Mortons Media Photographic Competition.

Preserving the past
The digital age makes it simpler to take train photos than in the days of film. A major consideration for both analogue and digital images is how to preserve photo collections for the future. Chris Milner visits photo library The Transport Treasury to find out more..

Steam News & Heritage
Pannier pair now resident at Minehead; ’G5’wheel milestone; Boughton station ceremonially opened.

Back in the ring
After a gap of more than seven years,‘Western’ No. D1015 defended its title as the sole main line diesel-hydraulic, as John Heaton FCILT reports.

Remembering the all-line railway timetable
To mark the 50th anniversary of BR’s first all-line timetable, Dr Joseph Brennan looks back over the history of such guides..

Jacobite' cancelled! West Coast pulls Service in row over door locks  THE 125 ERA | How  HST's transformed the Midland Main Line  REMEMBERING THE GCR AS MARYLEBONE CELEBARTED ITS 125TH ANNIVERSARY

Steam & Heritage News
Auto tank for West Somerset; Leander to see out current boiler ticket in style; Steam gala round-up.

Classic Traction
End of the line for two LMS EMU cars.

Traction & Stock
Class 730 EMU fleet enters service in West Midlands..

Steam & Heritage News
Severn Valley beats January blues; Great Central cuts costs; Nene Valley set for Danish tank and Tornado!

2023 A year of change
Ashley Butlin looks back over the major stock changes that took place in 2023.

Waiting for the Tube
A snapshot from the very early British Railways era in West London shows the local passenger service at Northolt about to give way to an extension of the Underground’s Central Line..

EWR tracks link up at Calvert
East West Rail track laying between Bicester and Bletchley has been completed with the handover of the final section where it crosses the HS2 route. 

Beardmores Both
For a brief period in the early 1920s, Glasgow-based engineering firm William Beardmore and Company had motorcycles and locomotives on its order books, resulting in this recently rediscovered press photo...

Steam News & Heritage Wagons
KESR turned around financially; Further movement at Duffield landslip; Lydham Manor is back.

Britain’s newest steam loco
Double-Fairlie No. 8 James Spooner had its official launch at the Ffestiniog Railway on October 20, as Cliff Thomas reports...

Steam News & Heritage Wagons
Stanier Mogul steams at Severn Valley; Worth Valley gets‘game-changer funding’for bridge work.

Miniature
New owner sought for Leek and Rudyard Railway.

Metro
Trams at last to Wolverhampton station; Nexus explains delayed Class 555 introduction.

Practice & Performance
The final CrossCountry HST ran in mid-September after more than four decades. John Heaton FCILT took one last trip. 

Creating a high-speed diversion
October 1983 saw the opening of a 14-mile deviation of the East Coast Main Line, avoiding Selby. Forty years after the inauguration of the first purpose-built high-speed route in the country, Graeme Pickering speaks to three of the BR team responsible for making it a reality..

Steam News & Heritage Wagons
Severn Valley sells ‘Black Five’; ‘Grange’ steaming set for November; New East Lancs GM;‘T3’tender rewheeled; What next for ‘Patriot’ loco project?

ClassicTraction
Severn Valley all set for diesel gala; Shunters to the
fore at 1940s event; SR vehicles on the move.

The streets of San Francisco
Still climbing ‘halfway to the stars’, San Francisco’s cable cars have survived natural disaster and political animosity to reach their 150th year, as Tom Ingall reports.

On named trains
‘Castles’ are strongly associated with the famous ‘Cheltenham Flyer’ but, being among the most powerful GWR locomotives, they handled many other prestigious trains, as this selection shows..

Corwen’s new station
Gareth Evans reports on the formal opening of the Llangollen Railway’s new western terminus. Reflecting the fact that public trains now connect two local market towns, the Dee Valley line is to be marketed as the Llangollen & Corwen Railway.

A Berlin break
The German capital boasts some fascinating railway architecture, from timbered cottages to cathedralstyle underground stations and ultra-modern designs. Chris Milner paid a visit to seek them out.

Coronation day specials
West Coast Railways train guard Phil Marsh shares his experience of ‘Project Golden Orb’, which saw the largest movement of troops by train since the 1960s for the King’s Coronation.

A Brigg too far
The removal of services from Northern’s summer timetable has left some rural journeys impossible and others increasingly difficult to make by train. Graeme Pickering investigates the changes and scope for their reversal.

Getting ready for the Metro-morphosis
The first of the Tyne & Wear Metro’s new Class 555 units are undergoing testing on the system prior to expected entry into service later this year. Graeme Pickering takes a tour of one of the new trains.

Then & Now: Ryde Pier
Following our article in the January issue about the ongoing refurbishment of Ryde Pier, Peter Simmonds CEng MICE sent in some fabulous photos of similar work done there in 1963/64. So Phil Marsh returned to create these comparison views.

The bad, the ugly and the good
The many miles of line closures were bad, the sweeping changes to a long-established way of life were ugly, but did Dr Richard Beeching’s report of 60 years ago in fact sow the seeds for what’s good in the current railway age? Mike Jones investigates.

Trains of the desert
Saudi Arabia is investing in its railway network with modern passenger trains and the first high speed rail line in the Middle East – and, with an economic plan to move away from solely depending on the oil industry, it is now opening up to tourist visits. Keith Fender reports.

The 50 loco challenge!
Where can you see the most locos at work in one 12-hour session?

THE OVERSEAS RAILROAD
The bizarre tale of how Florida’s Key West became an unlikely railway terminus..

The most famous loco… bar none!
The RM’s longest-serving editor Nick Pigott pays tribute to Flying Scotsman, from his days as a young spotter to covering its many highs and lows in the pages of this magazine.

A Baker’s dozen – ‘Scotsman’ abroad
John Baker presents his pick of images from No. 4472’s trips to the USA at the end of the 1960s, and then 20 years later to Australia.

Pier review
Work is underway to upgrade Ryde Pier to make the Victorian structure good for another 60 years.

The RM’s ‘Big Four’
As Britain’s leading railway journal, it fell to The Railway Magazine to coin the term ‘The Big Four’.

A snapshot of Didcot
A selection of Gwion Clark’s images from Didcot Railway Centre..

The world’s longest passenger train!
We’re on board as Swiss 100-car EMU sets new record.

The world’s longest passenger train
The Rhaetian Railway ran a record-breaking 100-car passenger train on a section of its Albula Line in the Eastern Alps. John Heaton FCILT was aboard.

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