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

Once more into the trough

The RAILWAY Magazine

New contracts awarded to Avanti West Coast and CrossCountry • Government signs up the Avanti joint venture for a further three years, and Arriva for another four.

Mk.5 withdrawal means fewer TPE services

Network Rail fined £6.7 million after prosecution for fatal Carmont crash

Collett’s final wishes revealed • Appeal fund ended after new evidence comes to light.

Darjeeling Tank Locomotive Trust gets charitable status

STEAM SHIP PERFORMANCE

Milestone for MagRail levitating train

CrossCountry HST sets bow out • The final week of workings provided much interest from Devon to Scotland.

MEXICAN HST

WEST SOMERSET‘CASTLE’SETS

SINGLE LINES

Visitors get rare view inside Mersey pumping station • Open weekend gives access to historic building for the first time since 2008.

Railways in Parliament

Countdown to Railway 200 begins • Major celebrations are planned for 2025, to mark 200 years since the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway

Locomotion’s history examined in detail

Train design achieves ‘world first’ • Hitachi claims emissions will be 90% lower per passenger than flying, as new fleet becomes first to be PAS 2080 accredited for carbon footprint standards.

Longest ‘green tunnel’ underway

LU power supply completed

VIADUCT PROGRESS:

Cross purposes • The final CrossCountry HST ran in mid-September after more than four decades. John Heaton FCILT took one last trip.

Pie in the sky? • Many of the major railway companies also operated connecting bus, ferry and ship services – but the 1930s saw the ‘Big Four’ add airline routes to their networks, as Mike Jones describes.

Creating a high-speed diversion • October 1983 saw the opening of the 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 British Rail team responsible for making it a reality.

William Stuart Sellar • Railwayman and renowned photographer William Stuart Sellar passed away on August 1, aged 86. The RM pays tribute with this selection of archive shots he sent to the magazine around the end of steam in the 1960s.

A rail safari • Richard Gennis travels by road from South Africa to Namibia, chasing steam and diesel traction.

Readers’ Platform

MEETINGS

From the archive

The RCTS: then and now • Britain’s leading Railway Society

PANORAMA • A showcase for the best in railway photography

Rother Valley progress • Surveys are already well underway as physical work due to start in spring 2024.

‘Amazing’ Scotsman visit • Celebrity‘A3’hauls sell-out trains at Bluebell Railway.

Court orders Gwili to pay £36k after volunteer breaks...