One of the most exciting new-build steam locomotive projects is that to recreate a BR ‘Clan’. Robert Ife, commercial director of the Standard Steam Locomotive Company, brings readers up to speed with progress, and the
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Many RM readers will have seen the yellow Network Rail trains around the country, but what do they do and why are they operated? Andrew Royle, who was a technician on the trains, explains their
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This year sees the 150th anniversary since the ‘Pacific Railroad’ was finished, which linked the existing eastern US network with the Pacific coast at Omaha, Nebraska.
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Picture the scene. You are standing in a Staffordshire field beneath an almost cloudless blue sky.
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Keith Farr analyses steam-hauled journeys over this scenic and demanding route.
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Late August saw the final regular workings of France’s most powerful diesel locomotives. Ben Jones looks back at their varied career. AFTER the devastation of the Second World War, the railways of France recovered quickly
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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.
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As long ago as 1845 Benjamin Disraeli wrote in his novel Sybil: ‘The railways will do as much for mankind as the monasteries did’
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In the June 1980 issue of The Railway Magazine, Mike Arlett recalled the history of The Midland Station at Bath (renamed by BR as Bath Green Park in June 1951). All these years later it
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This month’s feature about apprentices at the Severn Valley Railway focuses on Richard Davis, who first joined the railway as a cleaner, but has since moved into the carriage & wagon workshop to hone his
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