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

Farewell to arms

The RAILWAY Magazine

Draft Rail Reform Bill published • In a surprise move ahead of the next general election, plans for creating Great British Railways have been published for parliamentary scrutiny.

Avanti to axe through Shrewsbury-Euston service

Fleet changes at Tyseley • Kolhapur to be sold as Vintage Trains brand becomes GWR focussed.

The final train of Welsh mined coal

Rochdale to Ribblehead DalesRail service this summer

SIDELINES

‘Shenfield Shark’ scrapped on site • Legendary brake van broken up after no safe method found to remove it in one piece for preservation.

Fallen tree derails Class 158

Crewe home for Duke of Gloucester

An East Coast digital milestone • Welwyn to Hitchin section of East Coast route on course to become Britain’s inaugural‘no signals’intercity mainline.

HIGHLAND WHISTLING

Full service returns to Marston Vale Line using Class 150 DMUs

New ‘Clayton’ trialled by British Steel • Tests seek to establish if a Class 18 hybrid shunter is the‘correct solution’for rail movements at Scunthorpe Works.

Railways in Parliament

SIDELINES

Breakthrough with London logistics tunnel • Tunnel boring machine Lydia completes its drive into the Old Oak Common station box.

SHARING THE SPOILS:

Report says Phase 2 cancellation makes HS2 ‘poor value’

Brighton’s peers • It was a bumper night in Brighton for narrow gauge railways and Severn Valley Railway diesels as the HRA announced its 2024 award winners, reports Paul Bickerdyke.

Railway of the Year! • Ahead of becoming the HRA’s ‘Railway of the Year’, the Volk’s Electric Railway offered awards attendees a behind-the-scenes tour of its workshop and offices, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.

Mainly ‘B1s’ • John Heaton FCILT looks at some examples of everyday performance in the 1950s, away from the glamour of the era’s high-profile expresses.

Signalling change in Cornwall • Three iconic manual signalboxes have closed in Mid-Cornwall as part of an upgrade that will allow more services to run, as Network Rail’s Craig Munday reports.

A Buxton ‘Crompton’ • Thirty years ago, No. 33116 made the only known visit by the class to Buxton in the British Rail era.

PANORAMA • A showcase for the best in railway photography

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MEETINGS

From the archive • Subscribe and read previous issues at www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/archive

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

Auto tank for the ‘Wizzer’ • ‘64XX’Pannier to join Minehead’s roster – and agreement in place for‘Hall’to operate on the West Somerset...