The Railway Magazine provides the latest news, Steam & Heritage, modern traction and reviews and our brand-new July issue is out now!
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This time…
Golden anniversary gala
Kent & East Sussex Railway marks 50-year preservation milestone as it looks to the future.
Practice & Performance
With a nonstop steam run from Plymouth to Bristol Temple Meads as one possible highlight, John Heaton FCILT joined the two-day ‘Great Western’ railtour from Birmingham to Devon.
Farewell shed, hello works
The once-mothballed Bletchley depot is being transformed into a compact ‘railway works’ facility, as Phil Marsh reports.
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.
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