Features:
Nostalgia - The Rattle & Roll Years
1989... The Berlin wall comes tumbling down

Models:
‘Warship’ ahead! - Bachmann’s Class 42 is a superb runner
Snake charming for beginners - Building Hydra from the DC Models kit

Traction & Rolling Stock:
Powerscene - A comprehensive review of loco workings
Classified Information - Which machines have had major repair work
The Grim Reaper - More ‘old friends’ are switched off for good
Unitary Authority - Unit news plus ScotRail Class 117 diagrams
Saloon Talk - Mk. 1 Generator Vans are spotlighted
Stockfinder - Search out GNER's HSTs with this new column
Shunter Spot - Class 08s under repair and latest movements
World of Wagons - A first glimpse of Hanson colours on JHAs
Irish Angle - Full coverage of the annual beet campaign

Cover Stories:
Time travel is possible - We turn back the clock ten years to 1989
Lost in the Jungle - The story of the five Class 08s sent to Liberia
New look for ARC Class 59 - 59103 and JHAs in new Hanson Group colours
‘Crompton’ & ‘Slug’ farewell - A pictorial reflection for two sidelined classes
New Class 25/3 and 66 models - Model manufacturers announce plans for 1999
Exclusive ‘Bardic’ lamp offer - Own one of the last batch of BR ‘Bardic’ lamps

News:
Sprinter derailed on S&C line - A landslip brings off a Class 156 - again
Laing to control M40 trains - Laing Group seeks control of Chiltern Railways
Deltic ‘Thunderbird’ trips axed - D9000’s Anglia ‘Thunderbird’ duties caped
Motorail to make a comeback - Anglo-Scottish car trains to start this spring
Channel Tunnel Rail Link - A Watford to Paris Eurostar is proposed
Railtour Bazaar - Your full choice for a good tour this spring
Preservation - Doomed Class 31/5 is to be made a ’runner'

Classifieds:
Classified adverts - Products and services

Cover - Remember 1989 with our specially extended 10-page ‘Rattle & Roll Years' feature. Class 37/4s Nos. 37408 and 37429 are pictured leaving Shrewsbury with the 09.40 Euston-Aberystwyth of September 2nd. 
Contents page image: Bowling along the scenic Avon Valley at Claverton is Class 60 No. 60081 Bleaklow Hill with 45 hopper wagons forming the 6Z64 10.45 Avonniouth BHT-Didcot Power Station service on the last day of 1998. Engineering work meant that the Avonmouth to Didcot coal trains were diverted via Dr Days Curve, Bath, Westbury avoiding line and the Berks & Hants line to Reading.