Railways Illustrated - 2 Sep 2025
SVR’S ‘Tractor’ pulling festival!
40,000 visitors: Greatest Gathering lives up to its name!
Striking new livery unveiled on Europhoenix Class 37/4
Accurascale’s
Chiltern Railways takes new Class 68s and coaches
Chasing those seven rare Class 26s for haulage
Remembering BR blue in the ‘80s
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3 Welcome 6 News 16 Rumours and Gossip 18 Fleet Review 22 Heritage News 28 What’s Happening To…? 40 Living Life in the Past Lane 42 Pictorial 54 From the Front Coach 72 Model Spot 78 Reviews 80 Railwayana 82 Next issue
The magnificent seven
Living up to its name
32 Living up to its name
64 10 Pictures: John Stretton
48 The magnificent seven
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Rail blue remembered
Rail blue remembered
Nemesis Rail to revive locos for charter work
New look for Europhoenix Rail Class 37
IN BRIEF
Ex-network Rail Cambrian Class 37 set for reprieve
Second Swietelsky Class 37/4 outshopped
First Class 158 refurbished for East Midlands Railway
Virgin plans new Channel Tunnel operations
Class 20 the star as Severn Valley reopens
LNER Mk. 4 sets to be shortened?
The Rumour Mill
Coaches
Liveries
De-named
Units
Unit News
Shunter News
Severn Valley plans big Class 37 celebration
Main line return for HST Power car
First Class 150 for preservation moves to Mid Hants
‘B&G’ plan for GWR
Two Class 47s for Chinnor
Class 26 returns to use at GWR gala
Class 73 leaves Spa Valley, and moves to Isfield
Welsh Class 143s for sale
Another MLV for EPB group
SVR Class 14 special running day announced
Shed appeal for Mid-hants diesels
What’s happening to…
What’s happening to…
Living up to its name
Living up to its name
Namings at The Greatest Gathering
The steam exhibits
The full list of exhibits
Main line charters
Returning to Scotland, Chris Gee recalls those early days of lass 37/4s north of the border in ‘large logo’ blue and recreates the ‘under the trainshed roof at Wick’ scene that was a daily occurrence from 1986 to 1989.
The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven
Time to take stock on the stock…
Time to take stock on the stock…
Rail blue remembered
John Stretton
On April 11, 1960, ‘Scot’ 46123 Royal Irish Fusilier drifts past Thurmaston with a rake of coaches from Syston carriage sidings to Leicester.
The southern approach to Leicester station on May 28, 1986, not long before the track rationalisation, removal of semaphores and signalbox.
The ‘Berry stack’ with about 40 locos on September 26, 1987, with 25285, 25042 and 25089, together with other 25s, plus 27s.
Demolishing overhead line stanchions during an overnight possession at Willesden, November 12, 2000.
66141isgentlyloweredonto the new track at Ardley on June 30, 2002, to act as a ‘tamper’ to fettle the route for 100mph on opening.
The collapsed tunnels at Gerrards Cross, as seen from the station platform, on July 3, 2005.
The Welsh Highland Railway recreates Cae Pawb crossing, Porthmadog, for a rare re-laying of narrow gauge and Network Rail’s standard gauge on November 1, 2006.
43092 leads the 06.43 Hereford-paddington ‘Cathedrals Express’ on August 22, 2011 – the first HST into the new platform at Honeybourne.
66035 waits patiently before leaving Box Tunnel with 6W33, a train of ballast empties to go to Westbury, on July 29, 2015.
A Cross Country Class 170 calls at Burton-on-trent on April 14, 2015, seen through the archway of the road overbridge.
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The age of mountains
The age of mountains
The Beaten Track; Volume 5
The Twilight of the Peaks
Young Railway Photographer of the Year
CFPS calendar
Diesel and Electric Motive Power of the Southern
Class 314 EMUS in Scotland
Railwayana upcoming auctions
The state of preservation
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