Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
News:
Headline News - Revamp plans for Birmingham New Street; Fragonset and Merlin merge to form FM Rail; Central Trains hit by industrial unrest; Big job losses on the cards at Virgin; Potters Bar report slams Jarvis; John Bunch bounces back to become co-owner of Tangmere.
Features
'All Change' Freight Special: Leicestershire - Paul Shannon takes a look at some of the major changes in the Leicestershire freight scene over the past 20 years with a selection of 'then' and 'now' images.
Anything but Standard! - A surprising number of people do appreciate that BR built far more locos of 'Big Four' designs than Standards - and, even stranger, continued to build them for FIVE years after that! The RM tells the story in full for the first time.
Winston Churchill's Funeral train - To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train. John Bird tracks down the man who fired that 'special of all specials'.
The Summer of 67s: Virgin Holidaymakers
In Practice & Performance, John Heaton analyses the Class 67-hauled trains used on last year's Summer Saturday trains to the West.
Rails in Paradise Award-winning photographer Mike Maloney - winner of the OBE in the New Year Honours - reports on the recently-opened passenger railway on the sun-drenched island of St Kitts.
South Devon Railway - In the latest of our Heritage Line Profiles, Cliff Thomas takes an in-depth look at the beautiful South Devon Railway and reveals how far it has come since its Dart Valley Railway days.
Panorama People - Just for a change, our pictorial showcase this month is dedicated to human beings, without whom there would be no railways, of course.
Oh Happy Days - Kirk Martm recalls life as a young railwayman in the early diesel years at Stratford depot.
A new railway - exclusive - An exclusive report on the Difflin Lake Railway, a ma|or 15-rÃ
Headline News - Revamp plans for Birmingham New Street; Fragonset and Merlin merge to form FM Rail; Central Trains hit by industrial unrest; Big job losses on the cards at Virgin; Potters Bar report slams Jarvis; John Bunch bounces back to become co-owner of Tangmere.
Features
'All Change' Freight Special: Leicestershire - Paul Shannon takes a look at some of the major changes in the Leicestershire freight scene over the past 20 years with a selection of 'then' and 'now' images.
Anything but Standard! - A surprising number of people do appreciate that BR built far more locos of 'Big Four' designs than Standards - and, even stranger, continued to build them for FIVE years after that! The RM tells the story in full for the first time.
Winston Churchill's Funeral train - To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train. John Bird tracks down the man who fired that 'special of all specials'.
The Summer of 67s: Virgin Holidaymakers
In Practice & Performance, John Heaton analyses the Class 67-hauled trains used on last year's Summer Saturday trains to the West.
Rails in Paradise Award-winning photographer Mike Maloney - winner of the OBE in the New Year Honours - reports on the recently-opened passenger railway on the sun-drenched island of St Kitts.
South Devon Railway - In the latest of our Heritage Line Profiles, Cliff Thomas takes an in-depth look at the beautiful South Devon Railway and reveals how far it has come since its Dart Valley Railway days.
Panorama People - Just for a change, our pictorial showcase this month is dedicated to human beings, without whom there would be no railways, of course.
Oh Happy Days - Kirk Martm recalls life as a young railwayman in the early diesel years at Stratford depot.
A new railway - exclusive - An exclusive report on the Difflin Lake Railway, a ma|or 15-rÃ
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