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

Summertime specials

Railway 200 exhibition train launched • More than 200,000 visitors expected to visit‘Inspiration’over its 12-month tour.

SWR taken into public ownership • The Nationalisation of South Western Railway gives an insight into the challenges faced by a Government-run railway.

Rail enhancements and TfL settlement

City Region funding earmarked for tram and Metro routes across the North and Midlands • West Yorkshire’s Mass Transit system and new Tyne & Wear and West Midlands Metro routes are among the schemes which are set to go ahead.

Flying Scotsman to officially reopen Severn Valley Railway • Completed landslip repairs will see the full route between Kidderminster and Bridgnorth reopen on July 25.

Coventry VLR vehicle completes first public demonstration

TfW looks at more train orders • Range of options being considered for Welsh fleet.

Alstom to reconfigure and refurbish Class 222s for Lumo West Coast • After release by East Midlands Railway, five units will be formed into six-car sets for Lumo services between Stirling and Euston.

Railways in Parliament

First slide completed

First platform sections put into place at Old Oak Common station • The three underground islands will be served by HS2’s fleet of 400 metre-long trains.

DIARY

Hopetown announces ‘Titans of steam’ event • Autumn event will gather six steam locos with North East connections.

More than 80 locos and units confirmed for Alstom’s Greatest Gathering

Sir Bob Reid remembered • Sir Bob Reid, BR’s chairman in the run up to Privatisation, passed away on May 28 aged 91. Mike Jones FRSA FCILT looks back to the 1990s and the challenges faced by this intelligent and empathetic leader.

From Beeching to Sectors • In Part 7 of our series covering the past 200 years of railway history, Mike Jones FRSA FCILT looks at the British Railways Board era from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s.

Exhibitionists! • Next month’s ‘Greatest Gathering’ event in Derby will be a highlight of the Railway 200 year. John Heaton FCILT picks out some of the more noteworthy exhibits due to appear and explains just what makes them so special.

Preserving the first of the ‘PEPs’ • Ryan Hall describes the work of the 400 Series Preservation Group in saving third-rail EMU No. 313201.

The spark that lit the flame • We present a further selection of your first railway memories to mark the Railway 200 anniversary year.

‘Big Four’ omissions

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

The RCTS: then and now

PANORAMA • A showcase for the best in railway photography

TRACK RECORD • The Railway Magazine new digest

‘4MT’ displayed at Toddington • Funds still needed to complete boiler repair.

Bluebell to stage a major celebration of railway heritage • Heritage line to mark its 65th...