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.

Action needed, not just words

Railway Magzine

Government urged to commit to hydrogen train fleets • Outline strategy is welcomed by RIA, but gives little detail on the way forward for rail.

GWSR seeks trackbed assurances • Heritage line wants to secure possible future northbound extension to Honeybourne.

Floods cause further setback to Island Line revamp progress • IoW system expected to remain closed into the autumn.

Ticket machines back online after suspected cyber attack

150th anniversary for Sutherland’s railway

Llangollen Railway services steam back to Carrog

Another call for Midlands Hub investment

SIDELINES

Higher inflation threatens a large increase in fares... • But no increase could be as bad with revenues still below pre-Covid levels.

...but final decision on 2022 rail fares deferred

Competition seeks best young photographers

Second Calvert railhead opens for HS2 materials • An additional 150 aggregate trains expected to run over two-month period.

Tunnel segment contract awarded

3D concrete printing

Carbon-cutting trial gets certification

Chiltern tunnel vent shaft excavation gets underway

Coroner to adjudicate on Iron Age hoard

Railways in Parliament

INSIDE THE BEATING HEART • The ‘Voyager’ fleet has clocked up almost 400 million miles in 20 years of service, supported in that time by the team at Central Rivers depot – which, as Paul Bickerdyke discovers, can see up to half the fleet pass through in a typical day.

Didcot Railway Centre – HOW IT ALL BEGAN • A letter in the August 1961 issue of The Railway Magazine appealing to save an ex-GWR ‘14XX’ loco proved to be the catalyst to creating Didcot Railway Centre. Chris Milner shares some of the early founders’ memories and looks at some of their achievements.

Travelling more in hope • John Heaton FCILT uncovers the fascinating tale of a notorious Leeds to York stopper in the late 1950s that had a particularly poor reputation for punctuality... unless the locomotive inspector was aboard.

B1’s TODAY

Getting a bird’s eye view • Phil Marsh meets Network Rail’s Air Operations team, which provides aunique view of the network from above using helicopters and drones.

Minehead revisited • John Heaton FCILT experiences the literary ‘twitch upon the thread’ and returns to the West Somerset Railway to see how it is recovering from the Covid-19 lockdowns and other challenges to running a successful heritage railway operation.

Ex-LT Pannier preservation

Readers’ Platform

MEETINGS

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FROM THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE ARCHIVES

The RCTS: then and now

Aviemore shed on the up! • ‘Black Five’ relaunched, while ‘2MTs’ both step closer to returning to action

SIDELINES

LSWR ‘T3’ boiler overhaul on course at the Flour...