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.

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Railway Magazine

Okehampton to regain regular passenger trains after 50 years

ScotRail follows TfW into state ownership

GBRf wins deal to operate Melton test centre

Dark days ahead at Llangollen Railway as operating company calls in the receivers

Driver escapes serious injury in buffer stop collision at Kirkby station

First Class 91 locomotive is sent for scrap

Grain branch to reopen for commuters?

Cambridge area resignalling plan

Work starts on HS2’s 2.1-mile long Colne Valley Viaduct

Are timber trains set to come for West Highland line?

DfT due to open new offices in Birmingham and Leeds

Final funding agreed for Camp Hill line

Freightliner ‘Jumbo Train’ trial declared successful

More can be done to handle extreme weather, says taskforces report

GBRf reprises Trainload Freight livery on a ‘66’

SIDELINES

Rail devolution leads priorities in North East Transport Plan

New carriages delivered to Northern Ireland Railways

DfT backs Hope Valley capacity upgrade

Canada to Mexico with one railroad – Canadian Pacific to buy Kansas City Southern in deal worth $29 billion

More emergency financial support for TfL and metros

Crewe pool steam back in action for testing

HST and new livery for ‘Staycation Express’ in 2021

Steam’s Covid outpost, but footplate experience to end

Faulty fastenings blamed for Eastleigh derailment

Government challenges industry to cut upgrade costs

THE RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHY OF TOM WILLIAMS • Tom Williams’ passion for trains and photography led to a collection of superb images spanning three decades following the Second World War. Fraser Pithie meets up and reflects with his schoolfriend, Phil Williams, who has been painstakingly restoring his late father’s colour photographs.

RESTORING OLD IMAGES • PhilWilliams outlines his experience and views when it come to restoring images

OLD SCHOOLFRIENDS

EASTERN EXPECTATIONS AND EXCEPTIONS • John Heaton FCILT analyses the impact of LNER’s Hitachi ‘Azuma’ trains on East Coast Main Line schedules.

AN UPHILL STRUGGLE • For the Bowes Railway, dealing with the impact of Covid-19 has been the latest of several challenges in recent years. Graeme Pickering looks at how this unique standard gauge preserved rope-hauled railway is hoping for a resurgence as a visitor attraction.

Thompson Revisited • Former wartime CME of the LNER, Edward Thompson, was often viewed as intolerant and having a hatred of Gresley, yet others recalled his kindness and courteousness. What was the truth? Nicola Fox presents the evidence.

SWINDON’S ANNUAL TRAIN TRIP • Dene Bebbington recalls how the annual works staff trips began and how popular they became – at their height, taking 29,000 people on a seaside...