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

An incredible achievement

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‘Compelling’ case for £745 million Metro extension to Washington • Local authority members give go-ahead for development of plans for loop line as first phase of proposed Leamside route revival.

Porterbrook sponsors NRM’s new Futures Gallery

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Government funding of rail projects set to continue… but so is industrial unrest • Rail projects escaped major cuts in the Government’s Autumn Statement, but negotiations with unions to resolve industrial action in England are at stalemate as new strike dates are announced.

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Planning consent given for Portishead route • Order granted gives ‘leap’ towards delivery phase of Bristol’s MetroWest route.

Unearthing the past for the future in Huddersfield

Britain’s most bashed bridge revealed

GWR supports Veterans Charity with ‘Poppies to Paddington’ operation

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Second Northolt TBM gets underway in West London • Caroline begins its five-mile underground drive from West Ruislip to Greenford.

‘Earth Friendly’ concrete base is poured at Euston

Work begins on digging HS2’s longest cutting

Railways in Parliament

10 MINUTES 10 QUESTIONS • Steven Knight’s latest industry interview puts Hunslet the Bear, a railway safety ambassador at Soho depot, under the spotlight.

The world’s longest passenger train • As part of celebrations to mark 175 years of Swiss railways, the country’s Rhaetian Railway ran a record-breaking 100-car passenger train on a section of its Albula Line in the Eastern Alps. John Heaton FCILT was aboard.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS • Construction of the Very Light Rail National Innovation Centre in Dudley has been completed and it is now ready to begin its role as a collaborative rail research facility, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.

The professional • Arianne Davey speaks to TikTok star Francis Bourgeois at the launch of his debut book, The Trainspotter’s Notebook, and uncovers a more traditional side to his rail enthusiasm.

QUEEN OF PULLMANS • John Heaton FCILT looks at the testing Leeds Northern route between the Yorkshire city and Northallerton via Harrogate, and its most prestigious service the ‘Queen of Scots’ Pullman.

Boston Lodge bounty • The doors of the Ffestiniog Railway’s engineering headquarters at Boston Lodge sit at the southern end of Porthmadog’s famous Cob. Earlier this year, John Heaton FCILT was able to visit to see the wealth of engineering history that demonstrates narrow gauge railway construction, repair and modification across three centuries from 1864 to 2022.

Not this one sir… • A missed train leads to an unexpected journey. By David Bott

IT’S ALL IN CODE • The railway telegraphic code book was once a vital tool for effective communications, as John Heaton FCILT describes.

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