Latest Issue

News Headline News National Collection GWR heavy freight locomotive gifted to Swindon’s STEAM museum; North Yorkshire Moors gets £4.6 million Lottery cash; main line-bound Swanage mogul saves summer steam timetable after collision and council backs Churnet Valley Leek extension. Win Tickets for Barrow Hill grand reopening gala. News Severn Valley spends £1 million on stopping…

Continue reading »

NEWS Headline News National Railway Museum head Paul Kirkman steps down; investigation launched after child nearly falls through hole in moving carriage floor on South Devon Railway; shock death of auction house boss rocks railwayana movement and Wolverton Works demolition begins. News Flying Scotsman and Tornado for big Barrow Hill September reopening; royal visit for…

Continue reading »

NEWS Headline News Lottery awards close to a million pounds for the restoration of NER J21; Great Central needs another £100K for Loughborough bridge project; royal approval for Post Office heritage railway project; Edinburgh plaque tribute to Sir Nigel Gresley and encouraging figures for first week of Swanage Railway’s Wareham services. News British Empire Medal…

Continue reading »

Headline News Two Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacifics return to the main line on the same day; Flying Scotsman to appear at Didcot over August bank holiday weekend; more trackbed bought for Kent & East Sussex extension to join Rother Valley Railway and Great Central Railway’s CEO leaves after just 10 months. News Llangollen Railway’s Corwen…

Continue reading »

CURRENT ISSUE: 228 – NEXT ISSUE: 229 – on sale June 2, 2017 News Headline News Peppercorn A1 Pacific Tornado hits 101mph in ‘secret’ overnight test run; Flying Scotsman stars in unique world-first four-train parallel running over the East Coast Main Line; debut Swanage-Wareham services to be locomotive hauled and Scots Guardsman’s ‘Cumbrian Mountain Express’…

Continue reading »

NEWS Headline News Flying Scotsman to appear in unique quadruple running event on East Coast Main Line; Kent & East Sussex and Rother Valley railways given green light to link up; building of Great Central’s new Loughborough bridge now under way and £30 million plans for new heritage railway over Manchester Ship Canal unveiled. News Royal…

Continue reading »

NEWS Headline News        David Smith’s Bulleid Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35018 British India Line to become next main line star; Lynton & Barnstaple turn a major obstruction into profit; ‘Great Britain X’ line-up revised; Carnforth’s iconic Brief Encounter clock stops following a ‘race row’ and Bala Lake gets its first foothold in Bala.…

Continue reading »