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.

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The RAILWAY Magazine

Bransty Tunnel repairs ‘could cost up to £40 million’ • Cumbrian Coast line severed south of Whitehaven until spring 2026.

ScotRail gets the go-ahead for new suburban trains

Engine Shed Society saved from closure

Rail freight loses market share to road with drop in steel, oil and coal traffic • Rail’s freight market share is now half what it was in 2013.

Gordon Pettitt remembered

Railway holidays brochure 2026

Prototype T&W ‘Metrocar’ enters preservation • No. 4001 returns to its 1970s North Tyneside base.

Extra funding needed to open the Northumberland Line in full

Blackpool heritage trams confirmed

Ireland’s first US-built loco returns to service • 121 Class loco revived at Downpatrick.

Railways in Parliament

Civil engineering work completed on the Colne Valley Viaduct • HS2 Ltd releases images showing the finishing touches made to the 2.1 mile-long structure.

Bridge positioned over Lawley Middleway

SIDELINES

Next stop Hawick? • Ashley and Iona Butlin mark the tenth anniversary of the Borders Railway with a look at a possible extension to Hawick and beyond.

Heritage milestones • While the Stockton & Darlington’s 200th anniversary has been the main focus of this Railway 200 year, a number of standard gauge heritage lines have also reached significant milestones, as Chris Eden-Green describes.

Wandering ‘Wizzo’ and friends • Three heritage locos were on top form as they took turns to haul the ‘Wandering Western’ tour at the end of August, as John Heaton FCILT describes.

The Greatest Arrival • What better way to visit August’s ‘Greatest Gathering’ in Derby than by British Pullman, as Karen Richardson reports.

Years apart… Cheadle Heath • Our occasional series looking at past and present scenes visits the Stockport suburb.

Readers’ Platform • Send your letters to: The Railway Magazine, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR. Email: railway@mortons.co.uk

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

Eddystone back on the main line • ‘West Country’hauls passenger train on the national network for the first time since the end of BR steam.

Two ‘Castles’ and a ‘Jubilee’ make the grade • ‘Odd couple’tackle Devon banks.

Death of GWS pioneer • Didcot centre mourns loss of founding member.

STEAM PORTFOLIO

Neilson 0-4-0ST No. 11 makes public return at Chasewater gala • The locomotive has been restored to working order following decades of static display.

Bringing a Stockton & Darlington Railway design back to life in...