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: - Network Rail and the train operating companies - Locomotives, multiple units, carriages and wagons - Steam, heritage and the preservation world, inc narrow gauge- Metro and underground systems - In addition, the magazine carries frequent items of overseas interest.

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

Memories are made of this

Then & Now… Skerne Bridge • Our occasional series looking at past and present scenes takes a trip to Darlington.

Birth pains evident for GBR • As Greater Anglia becomes the latest operator to be nationalised, there are still many questions about the future Great British Railways organisation.

Spring return for ‘225s’ to Newcastle • One diagram to be introduced from revised ECML timetable in December.

HS2 link work deferred • Construction of the section to the West Coast Main Line near Lichfield has been put back four more years.

CAF seeks judicial review after announcement of new Irish stock

Blyth Bebside open for business • The fourth station to be completed as part of the £336.4 million Northumberland Line project welcomes its first passengers.

Railways in Parliament

Final breakthrough at Bromford Tunnel • The emergence of boring machine Elizabeth at Washwood Heath marked the completion of the 3.5-mile twin bores and major tunnelling work between Old Oak Common and the West Midlands.

Locomotion commotion • John Heaton FCILT describes the remarkable three-day journey of replica Locomotion No. 1 and train to mark 200 years of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

‘Gannin canny’ for a century and a half • Depot facilities at Heaton in Newcastle have been vital to meeting railway maintenance needs for 150 years, dealing during that time with everything from steam locomotives and early third-rail electric trains to HSTs and ‘Azumas’. Graeme Pickering finds out more about the site’s history and tours the current traincare centre which is operated by Northern.

M&GNJR reborn • A group of East Anglian railfans has launched a project to build a new Midland & Great Northern C Class 4-4-0 from the 1890s, as Chris Eden-Green reports.

The genesis of a painting • Artist Philip D Hawkins FGRA describes the commissioning process behind his latest painting, ‘Fifties at Tiverton Junction’.

First with the news • W H Smith may have disappeared from the high street, but its travel stores are thriving. Robert Humm tells the story of the company and the key role it played in the development of railway bookstalls.

Cheadle Heath tour remembered

MEETINGS • Please check with organisers before travelling to events.

From the archive • Subscribe and read previous issues at www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/archive

The RCTS: then and now • Britain’s leading Railway Society

PANORAMA • A showcase for the best in railway photography

Duke of Gloucester back on the main line after 13-year wait • Unique BR Standard 8P has been under restoration since 2012.

Tornado homecoming uses new main line link to A1SLT workshop • ‘A1’loco is first to use new main line connection to its Darlington base.

Danish tank gets dual braking • Nene Valley adds vacuum brakes to tank engine to improve operating...