Feature Articles
2012 Diamond Jubilee year - from 70013... to 70013!
1 February 2012
60 years of railways brings us full circle from BR’s Standard Pacific to Freightliner’s ‘Powerhaul’
Smith & Donald - The Dorset Dazzlers - Part 2
4 January 2012.
Last month, Mike Arlett told how legendary Somerset & Dorset footplate crew Donald Beale and Peter Smith, manning a ‘West Country’ Pacific with a 2P pilot, set off from Bath in heroic style to try to make up a three-quarter hour deficit and recounted their storming climb to Masbury summit. In this concluding chapter, Mike relates the exceptional run from there to Bournemouth.
Lychgate Tunnel
7 December 2011.
IT had been the classic ‘railway hotel’ in bygone days, but now it was just a pub. We ordered food and drinks and gathered in a half-circle by the roaring fire.
Ffestiniog/Welsh highland appeal - The final push
2 November 2011.
YOUR CHANCE TO OWN A SHARE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST RAILWAY COMPANY... our May issue told how the last section of the Welsh Highland Railway was built and opened. Now a major appeal has been launched to finish the job off, as Gordon Rushton reports.
DLR ‘Gateway to the Games’ opens
5 October 2011.
THE Docklands Light Railway (DLR) opened its Stratford International extension on August 31, adding four new and three refurbished stations to the network.
If at first you don’t succeed…
7 September 2011.
Former RM editor Pete Kelly recently came across an article he’d written a quarter of a century ago but never published. Better late than never, here is his long-forgotten interview with railway photographer David Canning.
End of the line for Thornaby
3 August 2011.
Thornaby depot, once a mecca on Teesside for railway enthusiasts, has been demolished. The RM provides a tribute to the demise of yet another famous diesel depot.
Timetable review - All change for East Coast
6 July 2011.
The summer timetable began on May 22 and with it a host of changes to timetabled services. Some are large, some just timing tweaks. Chris Milner outlines a selection of the key changes.
Ecclesbourne Valley Railway joins the heritage ‘big league’
4 May 2011.
Railway Magazine sponsored gala sees Derbyshire line link with main network
Current Issue: March 2012
• EXCLUSIVE - MALLARD AND GREEN ARROW TO JOIN
THE ‘BIG FOUR’ GALA AT BARROW HILL
• HS2 GETS THE GO-AHEAD
• BRITANNIA HAULS THE ROYAL TRAIN
• FREIGHT ONLY LINES
Where they are and what they carry
• PLAYING TO THE WHISTLE
Links between railways and football
• TITLED TRAINS
• WORLD GAUGE SURVEY
• DRS ‘CLASS 68s’
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 7 March 2012
