Steam Railway

Steam Railway magazine is the fastest growing Steam magazine and is the ultimate celebration of the world of steam. Each issue contains the latest steam news via a variety of informative and probing features together with historical and archive material, whether it's happening on the main line or on preserved railways. We also bring you fascinating features exploring the past, present and future of our railway scene, all backed by stunning photography and incisive comment and analysis. No railway magazine gets to the heart of a story like Steam Railway. Steam Railway magazine is the only magazine you'll want to keep and refer back to again and again. Whether you’re looking for the latest digital edition or a monthly subscription to keep you in the know, Steam Railway is the ideal magazine for you.

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Steam Railway

LOCOS ON LOAN PART ONE • Managing the National Collection’s locomotives is no easy task, especially when so many are on loan away from the National Railway Museum and its outposts. Steam Railway sits down with the people responsible for making sure the nation’s engines are well cared-for.

Six locomotives re‑homed in Penrhyn museum reshuffle

ORR revokes West Coast Mk 1 exemption

Great Central seeks staff reductions

News In Brief

‘Pig’ flies for last time at Severn Valley winter gala

Helston launches appeal to raise £350,000 for extension

New ‘Scotsman’ custodian to be appointed in the spring

Cash crisis forces Bodmin to consider tank and stock sale

It’s all over – last load of coal leaves Ffos-y-Fran

Betton Grange society postpones 6880 launch

‘Castle’ and ‘Hall’ for Worth Valley gala

Third time’s a charm for South Devon winter gala

‘Pendennis’ and 75014 to visit Churnet Valley

Peckett pretender moves from Middleton to Ribble

‘T3’ breaks new ground at Swanage ‘Winter Warm-Up’

‘No case’ for closing part of Isle of Man Steam Railway

News In Brief

Welshpool ‘Dougal’ to return to steam at Sittingbourne

Boiler and cylinders for Gowrie in 2024

Golden Valley launches £120,000 carriage shed appeal

‘Caledonia’ boiler delivered to Hollycombe

‘The Duke’ does a star turn at Ecclesbourne winter gala

Plym Valley buys ‘Albert’

Loaned Barclay No. 1219 takes over from Wissington at Mid‑Suffolk

Bucks Peckett for Whitwell & Reepham

WHERE’S YOUR SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE? • YOUNGER GENERATIONS WILL BRING NEW IDEAS TO PRESERVATION, AND THE WORST THING WE COULD DO IS TRY TO STOP THEM.

THE OFFICIAL VOICE OF PRESERVATION • HERITAGE RAILWAY ASSOCIATION CHIEF EXEC STEVE OATES TACKLES STEAM’S BURNING ISSUES

Model Shop with George Dent • Model Rail magazine’s editor rounds up the latest modelling news

Collectors’ Corner with David Brown • Railwayana gems to pique any collector’s interest – David scours the classifieds so you don’t have to...

The Roster • Overhauls, restorations and running notes

West Coast Railways loses door battle • EXPERT ANALYSIS OF THE ISSUES AFFECTING TODAY’S MAIN LINE CHARTER SCENE

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David Elliott Following in Peppercorn and Gresley’s footsteps. • Paying tribute to the man who engineered Tornado and Prince of Wales.

Gallery • The best in steam photography

FAST TRACK TO TRAFFIC • With a long pedigree in preservation, ‘Black Five’ No. 44806 was the perfect engine to try out a new overhaul process on at the NYMR. Steam Railway took a look.

LEISTON: GAINING TRACTION • Preservation’s newest (and currently shortest) standard gauge heritage railway – the Leiston Works Railway – celebrates the special relationship between steam on rails and steam on the road....