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

Tough times ahead

SOUTHERN LOCOS UP NORTH

GBR’s first chairman announced • Government appoints city banker and former Treasury civil servant to head Great British Railways.

Extra trains for Northern and CrossCountry • Stored Class 350/2 EMUs and Class 221 ‘Super Voyagers’ to be returned to service.

Another blow to hopes for Cleethorpes–London link

New rules on train cancellation rights

Signal passed at danger before fatal Elstow crash • Investigators are looking at why one train failed to stop at a red signal and then collided with another stopped in front.

ORR dismisses applications for more West Coast Main Line paths • WSMR’s Wrexham-Euston and Lumo’s Rochdale-Euston proposals were rejected, along with Avanti West Coast’s plans for additional services between Blackpool and London.

Dynamic braking isolated on EMR’s Class 810 bi-modes

THE RM CALENDAR IS BACK!

Port expansion supports freight growth target

Final chance to win Santa Special tickets

Railways in Parliament

Engineers put finishing touches to 320m-long HS2 Westbury Viaduct • The structure crosses the floodplain of the Great Ouse near Brackley in Northamptonshire.

Jonathan Jones-Pratt

Donald Heath OBE

Mel Thorley

Double vision • Christopher Westcott spent a day with the Railcam team as they added to its ‘armchair linesiding’ camera network with two new installations at the Epping Ongar Railway.

Bremen driver’s turn 1002 • John Heaton FCILT was invited to North West Germany to observe railway operations between Bremen and the North Sea coast, including single-track running and semaphore signals.

West from Oswestry • Once the headquarters of Cambrian Railways, Oswestry lost its final passenger service 60 years ago after more than a century. Rhys Owen looks at the early years of the Oswestry & Newtown Railway and related lines that went on to form the core of the CR in Mid-Wales.

A final hurrah • The late Gordon Pettitt was one of British Rail’s most respected senior managers, and the final Part 7 of his diary series covers his last BR role in charge of Regional Railways plus post-BR consultancy work.

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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

STEAM NEWS

Repaired Barclay 0-4-0 makes WSR gala guest appearance • The saddle tank, works No. 2315, has returned to action following failure last year.

Extensive repairs required for Composite Lavatory No. E43024 • The team working on the coach estimate that it will take another three to five years to...