Feature Articles
A fireman’s tale - Life on the footplate
2 May 2012
As an ex-steam man, Brian Bell smiles every time he hears someone mention “the fascination of the footplate”. Here he tells what it was really like.
A dream come true
4 April 2012.
When the last passenger train ambled along the branch west of Carrog in 1965, who in their wildest dreams could have imagined that the next trains to venture along that section of line would be hauled by Pacifics? David Wilcock reports
Resurrection of the Mountsorrel branch
7 March 2012.
For years, many passengers travelling on the Great Central Railway have seen an overgrown trackbed curving away at Swithland and assumed it to be little more than an old industrial siding.
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.
Current Issue: June 2012
• BARROW HILL SMASHES RECORD
• FLYING SCOTSMAN 150
Celebration of a world-famous train
• CATHEDRALS OF STEAM
Rare loco shed views
• TRAIN PATH AUCTION THREATENS OPEN ACCESS
• WIMBLEDON DEPOT
Keeping SWT on the move
• MOVE TO PROTECT BRUNEL’S GWR
• FRANCHISE BID TRIO
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 6 June 2012
