The Railway Magazine

The final chapter

LEAF through issues of The Railway Magazine published in the s and you will be treated to an array of offerings from specialist bookshops and publishers. One double-page advert alone in listed no fewer than in-print titles from the likes of David &...

70 years and counting

Photographer and writer John Vaughan looks back over his railway photography career – including his first ever published photo in the November 1965 issue of The RM.

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2025: A year of anniversaries

■ Keith & Dufftown 25 ■ Mid-norfolk 30 ■ DEPG ‘Hymek’ 50 ■ North Norfolk 50 ■ Llangollen 50 ■ NRM 50 ■ Severn Valley 60 ■ Bluebell 65 ■ Middleton 65 ■ Swanage 140 ■ Tanfield 300

ALL YOUR REGULAR NEWS, PHOTOS AND EXPERT INSIGHT

Severn Valley Scotsman

Countdown to the Greatest Gathering!

■ First GBRF Class 99s arrive ■ ’PEP’ EMU preservation ■ Exhibition train launched

VALLEYS TRAMTRAINS

Class 398s start trials

Torpedoed!

Four S160 Class locos were lost at sea in April 1943, while crossing the Atlantic to Britain as part of the war effort. Paul Bickerdyke tells the tale, and presents a first-hand account of the sinking from the captain of the cargo vessel torpedoed by a...

Bigger and Better

WHERE combination is possible, competition is impossible,” Robert Stephenson is believed to have said. It is a dictum that strikes at the heart of how epoch-making railways like the Stockton & Darlington (S&DR) and London & Manchester (L&MR), through...

Excellence and innovation

The annual Heritage Railway Association awards were held recently in Gateshead. But who won this year’s ‘Oscars’ of the preservation world?

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92 SQUADRON MOVES TO ELR

Reviews

Calendars, gifts and a selection of the latest books.

…And the completed projects

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DRAX AT 50

■ ‘Super D’ stripe mystery ■ Expansion plan for Irish rail ■ GBRF acquires four Class 18s

Practice & Performance

The night shift at Leeds City Junction in 1952 was no easy matter, not least when dealing with the four overnight sleepers squeezed into the space of an hour that reversed at the former Wellington station, as John Heaton FCILT describes.

The ‘Liberation’ Locomotives

Robert Humm uncovers the fascinating history of a postwar 2-8-0 freight loco design that failed to find orders in the quantities expected, and subsequently disappeared into obscurity.