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Headline News
Stagecoach loses SWT after 21 years; four generations of ECML traction to side-by-side in Yorkshire this month; Public Accounts Committee criticises Network Rail and DfT handling of GW route modernisation; work starts on GCR bridge link; GWR Railmotor to work on Chinnor branch.
Track Record
Steam & Heritage
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Severn Valley targets 2020 comeback for Hagley Hall; Wootton Hall restoration progressing well at Ribble Steam Railway; British India Line is back – and in black; Gloucs-Warks will open to Broadway next year; Clan Line boiler signed off.
Industrial Steam
Steam Portfolio
Irish News
Narrow Gauge
Metro
Classic Traction
Restoration of rare Cravens DMU nears completion at ELR; GCR-based ’37/7′ outshopped in Railfreight sector colours; ex-DRS No. 37688 to join Mid-Norfolk fleet and regain its Buxton identity.
Traction & Stock
More Class 88s land in UK and main line test running starts; withdrawal dates for Northern ‘Pacers’ confirmed; first TPE Mk5a under construction; Colas Class 67s start work; next Class 70/8 lands in Liverpool.
Stock Update
Traction Portfolio
World
Railtours
Network
Network Rail sets out options for dealing with expected growth on SE London and Kent routes, collapsed wall closes Lime Street for a week, new station for Inverness Airport, northern England falls well behind in transport infrastructure spending.
Freight
Operations
News from the train- and freight-operating companies.
Regulars
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Multiple Aspects
With Lord Berkeley.
Railways in Parliament
Panorama
Our monthly gallery of the best railway photography.
From The RM Archives
Find out what The RM was reporting 20, 50 and 100 years ago.
Meetings
Railway society meetings near you – all the details.
Heritage Diary
Details of when heritage railways and centres are open.
Prize Crossword and Where Is It?
On the Cover
MAIN IMAGE:
Air-smoothed ‘Battle of Britain’ 4-6-2 No. 34081 92 Squadron returned to steam in December and was one of the star guests at the Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Gala on March 17-19. BOB GREEN
Inset 1: One of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s legendary ‘GG-1s’.
Inset 2: Colas Rail D6757 on an NR test train at Ferme Park.
Jim Scott
Inset 3: John Stretton looks back on his first 30 years of trainspotting.
John Stretton
