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Category: Features

Our Black Friday magazine subscription sale is now on!

26th November 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, News
Black Friday Classic Magazines

Black Friday is here and we’ve been busy driving down the prices on some of our favourite products for a limited time only.

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Spooktacular savings on your favourite titles!

21st October 2020 Shannon Butcher Advertisement Feature, Features

Trick and treat yourself this Halloween with our spookily good subscription offers on a selection of your favourite Railway titles.

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Dinmore and more and more!

20th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

The locomotives owned by Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd have earned themselves a reputation for reliability and good performance during their various spells in traffic. Yet their owning group retains a relatively low profile, conducting impressive

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Centenarian cameraman: Ron Buckley – Britain’s Oldest Railway Photographer: Part Two

13th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Chris Milner concludes his interview with 100-year-old photographer Ron Buckley, who returned from wartime military service to a railway preparing for Nationalisation. AFTER leaving England in 1940 and serving with the Worcestershire Regiment, Ron returned

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Delivering a bigger, better railway for Scotland

6th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

With new and refurbished trains on the way, a rolling programme of electrification, and a devolved Government committed to further expansion, Scotland is showing other regions of the UK how to deliver a better railway.

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Switzerland’s mountain railways keeping communities alive

21st September 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive, World

Every year millions of people from all over the world squeeze into little trains in Switzerland, hoping to experience unforgettable mountain vistas and clean Alpine air.

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The Aln Valley Railway – then and now

14th September 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Alan Barnes is a regular visitor to the North East. Here, he takes a look at the history of the Aln Valley Railway and its progress in extending one of Britain’s newest heritage lines, a

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PREVIEW | Darlington: Home of Rail Engineering in the North-East

28th August 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, Steam
Darlington

For a limited time only, you can read the digital version of Darlington, The Home of Rail Engineering in the North-East for just 99p.

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Trips with a difference: 40 years of rail ale rambles

28th August 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Dave Richardson recalls more than 40 years of connecting railways with beer festivals and brewery visits, organised by former Salisbury area BR manager Gerald Daniels. REAL ale and rail travel somehow go together, especially with

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Remembering Richard Hardy

21st August 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Richard Hardy, who died on February 18 2018, aged 94, was one of the last remaining professional links with the ‘Big Four’ and a railwayman who commanded as much respect in the preservation era as

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