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.

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The RAILWAY Magazine

Government says that rail is key to its national growth strategy • East West Rail to Cambridge, Portishead reopening, and completion of the Mid Cornwall Metro have all been given Government backing.

Severn Valley appeals for funds after line washout

No decision yet on TfW Class 231 conversion programme

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Green Line launch for ‘555s’ • New Tyne & Wear Metro units spread their wings despite Sunderland track-height issue.

Closure threat for Doncaster Works

SPA VALLEY FUNDING WALK

Class 08 converted for hydrogen fuel • Shunter is powered by batteries charged by an onbaord hydrogen fuel cell.

Hopetown stages line-up of early locomotives • Historic engines come together in free exhibition at Darlington museum.

Public to vote for favourite UK railway artworks

GTR offers 9000 train tickets

Industry veteran takes train down memory lane

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DIARY

It’s a full house for Derby event! • This summer’s three-day‘Greatest Gathering’event sold out within days, following unprecedent demand for tickets.

Railways in Parliament

First of 13 viaducts completed for West Midlands Delta Junction • HS2 Ltd shows off the finished River Tame West structure, one of 13 structures that will form the triangular Delta Junction connecting the HS2 main line and the spurs linking it with Birmingham.

POMA and Dopplemayer invited to tender to supply and operate APM

Excellence and innovation • This year’s Heritage Railway Association annual awards were held in Gateshead on February 8, recognising excellence and innovation in almost every aspect of heritage railway and tramway restoration, preservation and operation.

The heroic age • In Part 3 of our Railway 200 series examining key periods in rail history, Dr Joseph Brennan looks at the mania and monuments of 1840s railway expansion.

Talking ’bout my ‘G-G-Generators’ • Trials on the East Coast Main Line in 1962 pitched a brand-new Brush Type 4 against a one-year-old ‘Deltic’. Who better to sift through the results than John Heaton FCILT.

A man of many parts • Robert Humm reviews the life of George Behrend – a notable travel writer, contributor to The Railway Magazine, and leading authority on luxury trains.

Readers’ Platform • Send your letters to: The Railway Magazine, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR. Email: railway@mortons.co.uk

MEETINGS

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

‘Can Pac’ to return this month • Bulleid Pacific No. 35005 Canadian Pacific set for mid-March return to traffic.

Tornado to feature in ELR ‘Legends of Steam’ • ‘A1’Pacific to star alongside‘Black Five’and two‘Spam Cans’.

Darlington RPS opens its new home •...