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.

A big year ahead

The Railway Magazine

Boost for Bideford rail plan

Flying Scotsman ready for its 2023 centenary celebrations • The NRM has launched a year-long programme of events to celebrate 100 years of ‘A3’ Pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman, which left Doncaster Works in February 1923.

Derailed freight closes two key routes • Pointwork ripped up and cement wagon lands in river near Carlisle.

Deadline set for infill removal

Crimean rail link damaged • Bridges used to supply Russian troops is hit by explosions.

Talyllyn awarded £110,000 National Lottery development grant

Green light given for Greenford trial

The more things change… • The prime minister may have changed (again), but rail’s problems stay the same with strikes to be resolved, the future of the GBR project to be decided, and decisions to be made about fare rises against a backdrop of high inflation.

Class 196 DMUs enter service • West Midlands Trains’ Class 170 replacements start work on the Birmingham to Shrewsbury route.

Hope of ‘Darlington-Dales’ plan progress by year end • Through Weardale services, a light-rail link to Crook and a new suburban station for Darlington are all included in proposals to the DfT.

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‘Significant moment’ for HS2 as London tunnelling begins • First machine starts the five-mile underground journey from West Ruislip towards Greenford.

Florence and Cecilia are four miles in on Chiltern dig

Railways in Parliament

10 MINUTES 10 QUESTIONS • Steven Knight’s latest industry interview puts recently-retired Jonathan ‘Gus’ Dunster under the spotlight.

ALL’S NOT RIGHT ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT • A year after the Island Line’s much-delayed reopening with new trains and upgraded infrastructure, its passengers still await the promised four-car trains, 30-minute service frequency and reliable connections with mainland ferries, as Phil Marsh discovers.

Reinventing Rigby Road • Plans are being developed for a £12 million transformation of the building that is home to Blackpool’s heritage tram fleet. Graeme Pickering takes a look at the history of the town’s tramway and the proposals for a Blackpool Tramtown visitor attraction.

In the footsteps of Colonel Cobb • John Heaton FCILT details a recently rediscovered account from 1934 of a journey from Rye to Glasgow via the West Coast Main Line, and then compares it to the equivalent modern day trip.

ON SHED AT LLAN • Gareth Evans visits the Llangollen Railway’s motive power depot and learns about the latest developments with the facilities and the fleet of steam and diesel locomotives.

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