The Railway Magazine

  • August 2024

    August 2024

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     The Railway Magazine provides the latest news, Steam & Heritage, modern traction and reviews and our brand-new August issue is out now! This time… Darlington revamped The relaunched Hopetown museum celebrates the history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, as Paul Bickerdyke reports. The one that got away! New pictures have emerged of the fate…

  • Britain’s biggest train firm warns of disruption due to ‘widespread IT issues’

    Britain’s biggest train firm warns of disruption due to ‘widespread IT issues’

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    Britain’s biggest train company has warned passengers to expect disruption due to “widespread IT issues”.

  • Public ownership of rail takes centre stage as government plans radical overhaul of transport

    Public ownership of rail takes centre stage as government plans radical overhaul of transport

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    Press release issued by: Department for Transport The Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill has been introduced to Parliament today (18 July 2024). After years of unacceptably low performance, the bill is a landmark change that will allow the government to bring rail passenger services back into public ownership, amending legislation to make appointing a…

  • July 2024

    July 2024

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    The Railway Magazine provides the latest news, Steam & Heritage, modern traction and reviews and our brand-new July issue is out now!

  • Introducing The Railway Magazine monthly subscriptions

    Introducing The Railway Magazine monthly subscriptions

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    Pay as you go and get Britain’s best-selling rail title delivered to your door each month. And we’ve thrown in access to the 120-year archive too! We get it, paying for an annual subscription all at once is a big commitment. That’s why we’re rolling out our new monthly subscriptions, which gives you all the…

  • Motorcycles and locomotives both from Beardmore

    Motorcycles and locomotives both from Beardmore

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    For a brief period in the early 1920s, Glasgow-based engineering firm William Beardmore and Company had motorcycles and locomotives on its order books, resulting in this recently rediscovered press photo. This fascinating photograph (above) was passed to us by James Robinson, editor of our sister title The Classic Motor Cycle, a publication that can trace…

  • June 2024

    June 2024

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     The Railway Magazine provides the latest news, Steam & Heritage, modern traction and reviews and our brand-new June issue is out now!

  • May 2024

    May 2024

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     The Railway Magazine provides the latest news, Steam & Heritage, modern traction and reviews and our brand-new May issue is out now!

  • Are we heading for a rolling stock crisis?

    Are we heading for a rolling stock crisis?

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    Despite the rapid return to almost pre-Covid passenger numbers, 2023 saw several fleets of trains withdrawn and placed in store. Chris Milner casts an eye over the current rolling stock situation.

  • April 2024

    April 2024

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     The Railway Magazine provides the latest news, Steam & Heritage, modern traction and reviews and our brand-new April issue is out now!

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