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 lack of electrification is becoming an embarrassment

The Railway Magazine

Wabtec to close Brush Traction

Delayed review becomes the Williams-Shapps Plan For Rail

Signalling fault caused Dalwhinnie HST derailment

RailAdventure launches British operation with modified HST power cars

Summer ‘Staycation Express’ timings released

£50 million R&D innovation hub for Goole

DfT drops calls for driverless trains in London

New-build CAF units hit by yaw damper mounting bracket failures

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Busy year for the RAIB

Carmont interim report raises questions over drainage and maintenenace database

Cracks now appearing on GWR Hitachi Class 800 units

Pressure mounts on Government over future electrification

Visitor experience at iconic Forth Bridge is ‘put on hold’

GBRf Class 66 naming marks PSB closure

Severn Valley involved in Class 08 hydrogen conversion

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Taiwan suffers worst rail accident in modern times

New service proposal plus a connection for West Somerset

MD appointed for TfW Rail

NYMR hosts Tom Cruise for Mission: Impossible 7 filming

Rail vouchers redemption is extended, but not railcards

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SCOTS GUARDSMAN ATTACKS SHAP • In this instalment of Practice & Performance, John Heaton FCILT analyses preserved steam on the main line, looking at ex-LMS locos on the ascent of Shap and Ais Gill summits.

A Master Remembered HERBERT NIGEL GRESLEY • April 5 marked the 80th anniversary of the death of revered engineer Sir Nigel Gresley. Tim Hillier-Graves reviews his career.

TRAINS, TURMOIL & IRISH PARTITION • A century ago this month, Ireland was partitioned. With it came new rules requiring passenger luggage and goods traffic to be inspected at 21 stations along the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. Robin Morton takes up the story.

THE ORANGE & BLACK YEARS • Gary Boyd-Hope takes apictorial look back at the Irish Rail network between 1987 and 2009, when the railway still carried a wide range of freight and most trains were hauled by locomotives carrying the distinctive orange and black ‘White Stripe’ livery.

THE FIFTY FUND / CLASS 50 ALLIANCE AT 30 A PRESERVATION ODYSSEY • Active preservation of Class 50 locomotives reaches a significant milestone in 2021, which sees the 30th year of their ownership in private hands. The Fifty Fund purchased the first machine to enter preservation – No. 50035 Ark Royal – in April 1991 and one of the founding members of the group, Jonathan Dunster, outlines what, by any measure, is a remarkable story.

Preserving Britain’s Railway Heritage • Lord Faulkner of Worcester, co-chairman of the Railway Heritage Designation Advisory Board, provides an update about new items of interest which have been designated for preservation.

TALYLLYN THE ROOT OF RAIL PRESERVATION • It is 70 years ago this...