Features
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It’s our club: Happy birthday, HRCA!
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The Hornby Railway Collector’s Association recently celebrated its 50th anniversary – and marked the occasion with a special weekend event at Stoneleigh Park Lodge in Warwickshire. Ann Evans brings this report, with photos by Rob Tysall. Members of the Hornby Railway Collectors’ Association took a brilliant variety of exhibits spanning the entire range of Hornby…
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Coming up at Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
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Since 1927 the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) has been an integral part of the landscape of the Romney Marsh, and this month the railway is throwing a number of must-see events!
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All aboard for the North Norfolk Railway Autumn Steam Gala!
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Steam, Steam and more Steam! Join North Norfolk Railway for a fantastic Steam Gala weekend.
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From the archive: Restoring Thornbury Castle, no busman’s holiday
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It came as a great surprise to many when The Railway Magazine broke the news last August that unrestored GWR ‘Castle’ No. 7027 Thornbury Castle had been sold to a 32-year-old enthusiast from Weston-super-Mare. Twelve months on and Jonathan Jones-Pratt is about to embark on the loco’s restoration, so Gary Boyd-Hope went to find out what the…
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From the archive: Still growling on – Modern traction preservation
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There is no doubt that diesels are an integral part of railway preservation but this was not always the case. Brian Sharpe delves into the increasingly complex world of British main line diesel preservation. On May 24, 1973, WR Warship B-B diesel-hydraulic D821 Greyhound became the first BR main line diesel locomotive to be purchased…
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Big-chimney ‘Nelsons’ in BR guise
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Hornby’s highly regarded OO-gauge models of the four-cylinder ‘Lord Nelson’ express passenger 4-6-0s have now appeared in British Railways guise, and are reviewed by Nigel Burkin.
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Five things you didn’t know about Apollo 11’s return
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Rail enthusiast or not, it would take a lot to miss all of the coverage in recent news about the celebratory anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
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Isle of Man Railways: Manx on the Up!
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The Isle of Man is a piece of forgotten Britain. Those were the words of an elderly female coach tour passenger I talked to while travelling on the Manx Electric Railway in early April. She’s not wrong either.
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Railtours remembered: The Metropolitan Special
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In the first of an occasional new series, Andrew Royle looks back to a forgotten railtour over London Transport’s Metropolitan line in 1954.
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Retaining heritage skills for the future
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In our latest feature about apprentices at the Severn Valley Railway, The RM visits the loco shed at Bridgnorth to meet 22-year-old Max Green, who started at the SVR when he was just 16. Max graduated from his engineering apprenticeship almost two years ago. “In the six years that I’ve been here, I’ve managed to…
