The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine has been published since 1897 and is now the UK's best-selling general interest rail title. Every month, The RM provides enthusiasts and professionals with authoritative and informed news coverage of the following: - Network Rail and the train operating companies - Locomotives, multiple units, carriages and wagons - Steam, heritage and the preservation world, inc narrow gauge- Metro and underground systems - In addition, the magazine carries frequent items of overseas interest.

The Railway Magazine is also renowned for its wide-ranging and innovative feature coverage, encompassing up-to-the-minute developments as well as historical, nostalgic and foreign subjects. The magazine is also renowned for its award-winning photographic content.

The Railway Magazine

Fires, power cuts, and derailments

Power outage closes Manchester ROC • Ninety-second power cut leads to a day of extensive disruption.

Lumo and Alstom work to address Class 222 issues • A series of problems have affected the operator’s new West Coast open access service.

ORR confirms Class 810 issues are the subject of ongoing enquiries • The rail regulator says it is focused on ensuring defects are subject to monitoring and remedial action.

Failure scuppers return of Avocet • Disappointment as Class 89 has a technical hitch on its first public train for 25 years.

Railways in Parliament

Platforms for high-speed services completed at Old Oak Common • All six are ready to be fitted out as the rest of the station takes shape around them.

125 years of Practice & Performance • Introduced just four years after the launch of The Railway Magazine, our record-breaking Practice & Performance series has been a regular feature ever since. To mark its 125th anniversary this month, John Heaton FCILT imagines a journey through time with original writer Charles Rous-Marten.

All change on the Western • Following his article last month examining why the North West was last to eliminate steam, Mike Jones looks at the rundown on the Western Region, which was the first to go all diesel more than a year before any other region.

Sectors and Southern • The late Gordon Pettitt was one of British Rail’s most respected senior managers, and Part 5 of his diaries sees him promoted to be general manager of the Southern Region.

From spotter to photter • John Stretton looks back on his seven decades as a railway photographer.

Years apart… Alston • Our occasional series looking at past and present scenes visits the eastern edge of Cumbria.

Readers’ Platform • Send your letters to: The Railway Magazine, Media Centre, Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincs LN9 6JR. Email: railway@mortons.co.uk

MEETINGS

From the archive • Subscribe and read previous issues at www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/archive

The RCTS: then and now

PANORAMA • A showcase for the best in railway photography

STEAM NEWS

Slough Estates No. 3 donated to the Middleton Railway Trust • Handover of the Leeds-built locomotive took place in a ceremony during August.

Great Eastern Railway No. 853 ready for action after exterior ‘refresh’ • The Brake Third returns to traffic on the North Norfolk Railway after body repairs and a full repaint.

Historic Douglas Bay Horse Tramway to be reinstated • Tynwald approves up to £3 million of funding for the project.

Structure of WMR’s new signal box is on course for completion this autumn • Members of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Model Engineering Society have been working on its construction over the last two years.

Trams set to finally return to action at Summerlee Museum • A new tramway technician has been recruited at the site and funding has been...