Railways Illustrated - 3 Jun 2025
Oban and out
BR blue Western returns to Plymouth
Greatest Gathering interview: More exhibits announced
Deltics around York in the BR blue era
PLUS
Welcome
KEEP IN TOUCH
Why not take out a subscription?
Identity parade
Deltics around York
10 Pictures: Chris Perkins
Great things ahead
Still going strong, 40 years on
Latest Greatest Gathering guests announced… and more to come
Moors adds two more to diesel gala line-up
Arriva submits Newcastle to Brighton open access application
Swietelsky hires 20s to RAUK
IN BRIEF
Four more Class 93s arrive in the UK
More loco haulage for Chiltern as Mk. 5 deal nears completion
NR signs RHTT deals with GBRF, BB and Colas
Britannic Explorer to have two dedicated locos
Commemorative 47 charter in memory of Mark Hare
Last summer of Castle HSTS starts in Cornwall
Electric conversion for more Positive Traction 08s
Hitachi plans Co. Durham open day
Owen sells 20s to Romic – which then ‘sells them on’
GBRF unveils two more special Class 69 liveries
More HSTS move to new careers; WCR to take a set?
GBRF locos at Severn Valley
More units enter traffic
LNWR Class 730/2 EMUS launched
GBRF regears more Class 66s
67005 renamed
Colas 56s for RHTTS
Coaching Stock News
Shunter News
Unit News
Unit Focus
Liveries
Wagon News
Naming Update
Crowds flock to May big diesel events
DBC Type 5 traction to work trains at Butterley
Rare shunter haulage on offer at at Tyneside gala
Rare Scottish 03 run planned
Hymek to star at GCR September diesel event
Western Region Type 4s for Mid-hants diesel gala
Class 37 trio at GWR as pioneer 37 set to visit
Buoyant DPS as D9015 edges closer to return
Lymington CEP moves to Cumbria
Class 108 DMU set for restoration
LSL 57/0 steps in as extra Lancs guest
Heritage coach developments
Vintage coach for Belmond
DFR welcomes first-ever Class 55
Great things ahead
Great things ahead
The industry partners
Dos and Don’ts
What's happening to...
What's happening to...
No promoter cuts itineraries for the fun of it
No promoter cuts itineraries for the fun of it
Gala highlights aplenty
Gala highlights aplenty
Still going strong, 40 years on
Still going strong, 40 years on
Identity parade
Identity parade
Chris Gee recounts his experiences in pursuit of recreating typical railway scenes from a bygone era but using a presentday setting – and no digital trickery – for his inspiration.
WELCOME ABOARD THE BIGGEST RAILWAY COMMUNITY
John Whiteley remembers… Deltics around York
John Whiteley remembers… Deltics around York
Chris Perkins
Freightliner 66518 hauls an empty stone hopper train through Wolfhall Junction on April 22, 2021.
First Great Western HST, worked by Class 43 power cars 43151 and 43198 Oxfordshire 2007, work the 10.55 Cardiff-paddington through Pilning on October 20, 2015.
Still wearing Railfreight Distribution colours, 90021 heads a North Berwick branch train towards Drem Junction on February 21, 2005.
56069 Wolverhampton Steel Terminal heads a loaded MGR train through New Barnetby on September 17, 2003.
Monochrome memories as 31211 heads through Kings Norton with a train of empty steel coil carriers on February 24, 1978.
GB Railfreight 66728 Institution of Railway Operators heads a coal train through Hatfield and Stainforth on September 27, 2012.
DB Schenker 60019 Port of Grimsby & Immingham approaches Bishton Flyover as a Paddington-bound HST rushes by on February 11, 2016.
GB Railfreight Belmond Royal Scotsman maroon 66743 and 66746 head the Royal Scotsman through Cogload Junction on July 10, 2018.
Freightliner 70007 heads a container train along the West Coast Main Line through Standon Bridge at Coates Heath, Staffordshire, on July 19, 2016.
Former Fastline Freight 56302 and 47375 head through Flax Bourton with a train of redundant china clay wagons on March 8, 2012.
10 Do you have PICTURES?
Two by two
Two by two
Heljan delivers Southern stalwarts
Ruston Way
Benelux Railways
Railways Remembered
Boxebrbreasterneasternsignalsignalboxes
BR Departmental Coaching Stock Disposals
Railwayana upcoming auctions
When Scotland had coal trains
at PressDisplay
Newspapers from United Kingdom
Newspapers in English