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

What’s in store for ’24?

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DB Cargo no longer dominant • Latest industry figures reveal that Freightliner and GBRf are now the top two rail freight companies.

Photoshoot raises £3000 for charity

Funding promised to improve connectivity

DB Cargo lists further Class 60, 67 and 90 locomotives for sale

Clayton’s Class 18 hybrid loco fleet is ready for use • After an initial trial with GBRf in 2022, this year should see more of the diesel-battery hybrids brought into use.

‘Goyle’ sent for scrap is another Covid ‘victim’

ORR warning over fees

BEATTIE IS BACK IN BODMIN

SIDELINES

SIDELINES

‘Jacobite’ hangs in the balance • Central door locking issue impacts on the future of two players in the railtour market.

NEW ‘BRANCH LINE’ OPENS

Heritage Railway Association awards shortlist revealed

Infrastructure failures leave passengers stranded • Great Western and East Coast main lines were badly hit by a series of de-wirements in the run up to Christmas.

Another delay in reopening the Northumberland Line expected

Will 2024 be a year of railway reckoning, wrecking or renaissance? • Career railwayman Phil Marsh describes the main challenges currently facing our railways as we head into an election year.

Liverpool Street now Britain’s busiest

SIDE LINES

Striding out with spans on major Midlands bridges • All beams are in place at Highfurlong Brook in Northamptonshire, and concrete is poured for the structure of Curzon Viaduct No. 3 in Birmingham.

Railways in Parliament

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 at Calvert, as Phil Marsh reports.

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.

Names reunited • Steve Morris tells the story of how one man set about renaming Class 40s for their final years in service.

‘The Surrey’ • John Heaton FCILT details the history of a lesser-known through working that took the long way round from the Kent Coast to London via Redhill.

If anyone can, Gus can • Gareth Evans talks to Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster, managing director of the Severn Valley Railway, about the line’s challenges... and how they are being overcome.

Years apart… Stockton • Our occasional series looking at past and present scenes takes a trip to historic Stockton-on-Tees.

Readers’ Platform

MEETINGS

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