The Railway Magazine - 29 Sep 2025
2025: A year of anniversaries
BEYOND THE BUFFER STOPS
THE STYLE AND GLAMOUR OF THE BRITISH PULLMAN
■ CORKICKLE CLOSURE Cumbrian line severed until spring 2026
‘WIZZO’ ON TOUR
■ FREIGHT GLOOM Rail losing out to road
Next stop Hawick
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Steam News
Practice & Performance
Heritage milestones
The Long View: The NRM
The Greatest Arrival
Headline News
Years apart… Cheadle Heath
Reviews
Readers’ Platform & Where is it?
Years Ago
Crossword & Next Month
Irish
Meetings
Narrow Gauge
World
Industrial
Heritage Carriages & Wagons
Classic Traction
Metro
Miniature
Traction & Stock
Freight
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Stock Update
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Panorama
Heritage Trams
Operations News
Ready for the off !
NEWQUAY DOUBLES UP:
NEWQUAY DOUBLES UP:
Bransty Tunnel repairs ‘could cost up to £40 million’
HEATON OPEN DAY:
Engine Shed Society saved from closure
Scotrail gets the go-ahead for new suburban trains
Rail freight loses market share to road with drop in steel, oil and coal traffic
RAILWAY STAMPS:
Prototype T&W ‘Metrocar’ enters preservation
FAR FROM HOME
Extra funding needed to open the Northumberland Line in full
Gordon Pettitt remembered
Railway holidays brochure 2026
Ireland’s first Us-built loco returns to service
Railways in Parliament
Blackpool heritage trams confirmed
Civil engineering work completed on the Colne Valley Viaduct
Bridge positioned over Lawley Middleway
Fossils on display
Chiltern habitat ‘developing well’
Anne brought back to ground level
Next stop Hawick?
Heritage milestones
Wandering ‘Wizzo’ and friends
The Greatest Arrival
THE DETAILS
THE CARRIAGES
THE FOOD
Years apart… Cheadle Heath
Stockton & Darlington 200
In and around ‘The Greatest Gathering’
Where is it?
MEETINGS
From the archive
The RCTS: then and now
PANORAMA
PANORAMA
MINIATURE
RAILTOURS
NETWORK
FREIGHT
WORLD
METRO
STEAM
IRISH
LOCO SWAP
CARRIAGES & WAGONS
TRACTION & STOCK
CLASSIC TRACTION
HERITAGE TRAMS
NARROW GAUGE
OPERATIONS
INDUSTRIAL
EPPING GIANTS
Appeal launched to restore ‘Caprotti Five’
Eddystone back on the main line
Sir Nigel Gresley to offer unique Mid Hants experiences
New-look Wightwick goes public
Two ‘Castles’ and a ‘Jubilee’ make the grade
STAINMORE CELEBRATION:
Stanier Mogul for ELR gala
SWANAGE SUNSHINE:
Death of GWS pioneer
Rother Valley Railway appoints fundraising trustee
DIARY
Green Knight overhaul appeal passes £21k
Port Talbot tank runs in
Steam Portfolio
Neilson 0-4-0ST No. 11 makes public return at Chasewater gala
BREWERY TANK:
King George stars at Ribble Steam Railway’s 20th anniversary event
Ex-ashington Peckett steams again at the NTSR
Bringing a Stockton & Darlington Railway design back to life in Cumbria
LMS Third Open No. 27162 returns to service
LNERCA looks to complete restoration of carriage converted for Cold War mobile control train
L&BR announces results of members’ consultation
NAKLO ON DUTY:
Boiler testing delivers good news for team working on restoration of Mountaineer
SINGLE LINES
CCLR buys Bonnie Dundee and Flower of the Forest
DIARY
Seven locomotives in action at Westonzoyland
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION:
Vale of Rheidol No. 9 Prince of Wales going back into British Rail blue
LOCOMOTIVES REUNITED:
Escucha to be restored to steam at ‘Workshop X’
Project aims to bring Fancott Miniature Railway stalwart Pippa back to life
Truck installation is next target for Chester No. 4 restoration team
Internal fitout of Blackpool 298 continues
WESTERN DUO TAKES CENTRE STAGE AT GCR GALA:
Half century ‘Hymeks’ on the WSR…
…and a beery Maybach weekend event at Embsay
Severn Valley GBRF weekend sees last-completed Class 69 on show
DIARY
Weardale Class 108 back in traffic
UK Railtours remains committed to serving the enthusiast market
'West Country' Eddystone lined-up for ‘Exe-parrett’
Colas hires motive power for Rail Head Treatment Train preparations
Cemex aims to increase movements by rail
Public views sought on proposed new tram line in Edinburgh
Greater Manchester tram route extension plans receive £6 million boost
Preparations for £1.75 billion Midlands rail upgrade take a step forward
Funding awarded for 26 ‘First of a Kind’ projects
Major work planned for Dartford area in 2026
Autumn closures are scheduled for Island Line
Deal could bring freight back to East Kent Railway
Ticketing trial starts in East Midlands
Borders extension study consultants appointed
Full service planned for Cambridge South
£15m upgrade for West Highland line
Reliability improves on Heart of Wales line
New Mills landslip secured by piles
Waterbeach station to move in rebuild plan
Newquay second platform approved
Scotrail scraps all peak fares
Great Western Railway’s battery-powered Class 230 is a world record breaker
Ben More Assynt rises again with Dcrail
Alstom secures £75 million maintenance contract for Class 175s
Virgin due to finalise agreement with Alstom for 12 Channel Tunnel trains later this year
RAILFREIGHT – WITH WHISKERS:
Final Akiem ‘Euroshed’ is accepted by GB Railfreight
SWR ‘Arterios’ take on further diagrams
Wagon Report
The network’s notable moves
Connemara Railway Project acquires sole surviving ‘Sparrow’
OCTOBER DUALLING WORK:
New stations planned for Moyross and Kylemore
Consultation on resilience projects
Green light for DART to Drogheda
New NTA chief executive
‘New Acela’ high speed train enters service with Amtrak
Angolan lines modernised by Chinese contractors
Colorado steam veterans celebrate centenary
Preserved Swiss Sulzer diesel locomotive employed on heritage trains
The Railways of North & East Lincolnshire Days of Diesels Passed
Joint railways Eastern and Southern England
Rails to the Forest The Severn & Wye Joint Railway from Berkeley Road to Norchard since 1945
The Engine Driver’s Manual How to prepare, fire, and drive a steam locomotive
The NRM at 50
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