The Railway Magazine

Five things you may not know about the Big Boy

Here’s five things you perhaps didn’t know about the Union Pacific Railroad Big Boy 4-8-8-4…
The Lasting Legacy of Preservation’s ‘Mystery’ Man

Robert Gambrill provides a tribute to Peter Rampton – a man who spent a lifetime saving locomotives and reviving railways, but who remained an enigma
UK’s oldest train fleet to be replaced

The UK’s oldest train fleet is to be replaced through a £26 million investment into the Isle of Wight’s railway, the Government has announced.
Operation ‘Javelin’

Class 395 ‘Javelin’ charter trains have raised more than £125,000 for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. With this year’s Remembrance Day only two months
Country Railway Routes: Ambergate to Buxton

By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith MIDDLETON’S ever-expanding library of regional railway histories has found its way to the much-loved – and much-missed – Midland
Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled

Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.
Dinmore Manor makes it a Western 4-6-0 pair for Battlefield Line’s October gala

LEICESTERSHIRE’S Battlefield Line has further cemented its reputation as an unofficial GWR outpost by securing a return visit from No. 7820 Dinmore Manor for its
UK railway news round-up

Welcome to The Railway Hub’s weekly round-up of the latest railway news. It has been another week dominated by Brexit, Boris and HS2, all with

Archive: Open day at Barrow Hill

20th August 2019 Sam Hewitt

As printed from the January 1972 edition of The Railway Magazine, take a look at this story by Peter A Hogarth about the Barrow Hill roundhouse.

The death of Sir Nigel Gresley

15th July 2019 Sam Hewitt

The death of Sir Nigel Gresley at Hertford on April 5, deprived the railway mechanical engineering profession of one of its most distinguished personalities.