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:<br><br> - Network Rail and the train operating companies<br>- Locomotives, multiple units, carriages and wagons<br>- Steam, heritage and the preservation world, inc narrow gauge<br>- Metro and underground systems<br>- In addition, the magazine carries frequent items of overseas interest.<br><br>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

Things are hotting up

TRACK STRESSING AND EXPANSION

Network Rail launches hot weather resilience task force

Main lines closed as Britain swelters in record temperatures • No trains ran on the East Coast Main Line or Thameslink at the peak of the July heatwave as temperatures reached a new record.

BORIS JOHNSON’S RESIGNATION AS PRIME MINISTER WILL RESET GOVERNMENT TRANSPORT POLICY

Summer weather and industrial relations boil over to affect train operations • Rail reliability nosedives due to strike action and extreme temperatures.

Skelmersdale rail link plan rejected • DfT says report failed to make ‘compelling case’ for West Lancashire line extension and station.

SIDELINES

DRS to sell and lease back Class 37s • Arrangement will allow use of the locomotives to continue on Rail Head Treatment Trains.

Irish Government gives green light to Dublin Metrolink • New line will offer new connections between north and south of the city.

SIDELINES

Contractor announced for Solihull Interchange • Laing O’Rourke wins deal worth up to £370 million for key HS2 station.

Washwood Heath depot

SIDELINES

Railways in Parliament

FROM DERBY TO THE PYRAMIDS • ALSTOM, which bought Bombardier in 2021, is building 70 monorail trains for two monorail routes serving Egypt’s new capital city 45km east of Cairo. The trains are being built in the UK at Derby Litchurch Lane, and Keith Fender went along to view progress.

90 NOT OUT! • This year sees the 90th birthday of a remarkable survivor, the first purpose-built standard gauge diesel to be constructed for a main line railway company, as the Middleton Railway’s vice-president Ian Smith describes.

90TH BIRTHDAY GALA

A BRIEF FLING • The Highland Main Line beckons as John Heaton FCILT heads north to tackle the climbs of Druimuachdar and Slochd by ‘Azuma’ and HST, also looking at the improvements since steam days on the Perth to Stirling section.

ALL CHANGE AT SOUTHEND • New battery-powered trains have taken over from 30-year-old diesels on Southend’s famous Pier Railway, as Simon Murdoch reports.

Looking back at Lion • The BRCW’s experimental Co-Co diesel No. D0260 Lion entered service 60 years ago. Using previously unpublished archive documents and photographs, Andy Flowers looks back at what could have become the standard Type 4.

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