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 RAILWAY MAGAZINE

The not-so-permanent way

Crumbling Thames bridge severs busy main line for two months • Route south of Oxford closed until June after major river crossing fails.

Partial reprieve for GWR HST sets

Severn Valley faces existential crisis • Enthusiasts remain important, but new boss says the heritage line must diversify to survive as a £1.5 million emergency appeal is launched.

ARISE SIR BERKELEY:

Transport & Works application system to be modernised

SIDELINES

SIDELINES

Steam loco back in Dublin after gap of 60 years • Ex-GNR(I) 4-4-0 steam loco hauls RPSI tour south from Dundalk.

LONDON ‘BUGFRIARS’:

WCR steam drivers retire

Air tax cut makes rail travel a less attractive alternative • The Government has surprisingly announced a cut in air passenger duty for domestic flights.

Prospects increase for more electric haulage of rail freight

RSG makes East Coast return

Join The RM team on the ‘Tees-Tyne Commemorative’ • Celebrate the titled train’s 75th anniversary with over 500 miles of ‘Deltic’ haulage.

Railways in Parliament

10 MINUTES 10 QUESTIONS • This month Steven Knight puts his former boss Chris Green into the hot seat.

TBM Dorothy makes a second breakthrough • Long Itchington Wood Tunnel in Warwickshire becomes the first completed twin-bore tunnel on HS2 as tunnel boring machine finishes its work.

GETTING READY FOR THE METRO-MORPHOSIS • The first of the Tyne & Wear Metro’s new Class 555 units are undergoing testing on the system prior to expected entry into service later this year. Graeme Pickering takes a tour of one of the new trains and looks at the difference the new fleet will make.

50 YEARS OF THE NYMR • To celebrate the North Yorkshire Moors Railway reaching a half century of public operation, Nick Carter recalls the historic first few weeks in an extract from a fascinating new book by John Hunt about the line and its people.

Kind hearts and coronations • Well-wishers are expected to flock to the capital by rail for the Coronation of King Charles III on May 6, but we won’t see the plethora of special trains that ran on previous such occasions. Peter Adds offers a snapshot of the past.

CROWNING GLORY • John Heaton FCILT delves into the archives to uncover workings from the previous two Coronation Days in 1953 and 1937, then takes look at the preview specials run by the LMS and LNER for their Coronation-themed titled trains.

BRIDGING THE PAST AND PRESENT • Gareth Evans looks at how the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway overcame challenges in its formative years – and how it is now facing having to tackle the renovation of a crucial piece of infrastructure to help secure the line’s future.

THEN & NOW: RYDE PIER • Following our article in the January issue, about the ongoing refurbishment of Ryde Pier, Peter Simmonds CEng...