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

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Controversy over proposed fate of Thornbury Castle • Partially restored ‘Castle’ set to yield components for new-build ‘Night Owl’ and ‘Star’ locomotive projects.

Bowes Railway makes volunteer plea

Mayors’ anger as Avanti slashes West Coast services from Euston • A dispute means staff are refusing to work rest days, so the operator can only guarantee four services an hour to the North.

Locomotive Services runs extra Friday Euston charter

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DfT confirms £78m for Oxford • Station to be redeveloped ahead of East West Rail services starting in 2024.

First of ScotRail’s request-stop kiosks goes live

Management buys out Abellio UK from Dutch • East Midlands Railway and shares in Greater Anglia, WMT, and Merseyrail to be transferred to new UK company.

Tornado out until 2023 • More work found to be required than expected during overhaul.

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New Government faces tough decisions over rail’s future • The new Conservative Government is faced with resolving a £2 billion hole in the rail budget, ongoing industrial action and deciding just what sort of railway we need post-pandemic.

Prison for protesters

Footbridge design

Problems found in tunnel’s concrete segments • ‘Quality issues’ have been identified with some of the precast pieces for the first of HS2’s ‘green tunnels’, and remedial work may be required.

Railways in Parliament

We’re honoured! • Freightliner ‘66’ rededicated to mark our 125th anniversary.

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Inside Leeds Midland Road • After No. 66503’s rededication ceremony (see previous page), Freightliner offered The RM team a tour of its Leeds servicing and repair facility, which features a maintenance shed, bogie shop, wheel lathe, fuelling shed, and sidings.

A CENTURY OF MET ELECTRIC LOCOS • Exactly 100 years after The Railway Magazine’s first article about the Metropolitan Railway’s rebuilt Metropolitan-Vickers electric locomotives, Christopher Westcott looks back over their service career and the status of the two surviving examples.

A Single from The Cross • Using some recently rediscovered logs, John Heaton FCILT looks back to the three specials trips in 1938 that featured the reactivated Stirling Single No. 1 on runs from King’s Cross to Stevenage, Cambridge and Peterborough.

ALL ABOARD FOR ASHINGTON • A 15-mile stretch of freight railway linking south east Northumberland with Newcastle is being transformed into a route with six stations and a half-hourly train service. The Northumberland Line will be the second reopening to passenger services as part of the Department for Transport’s ‘Restoring Your Railway’ programme, as Graeme Pickering reports.

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