Rail Express

  • JULY ISSUE ON SALE NOW!

    JULY ISSUE ON SALE NOW!

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    HS2 unveiled! Azumas start work! Crowds flock to Crewe! The latest issue of Rail Express is packed with modern traction news, nostalgia and modelling.

  • Remembering the ‘Clay Tigers’

    Remembering the ‘Clay Tigers’

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    With the release of the Kernow model, David Ratcliffe profiles a career that spanned two decades.

  • June issue of Rail Express magazine out now!

    June issue of Rail Express magazine out now!

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    Southern Legacy! The ‘Silver Queens’! Long Rock Open Day! The latest issue of Rail Express is packed with modern traction news, nostalgia and modelling.

  • Strangers in town

    Strangers in town

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    A prominent feature of the privatised railway is the rich variety of liveries and colours applied by individual train operators, often at great expense, to its rolling stock.

  • Freight Focus: Fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’

    Freight Focus: Fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’

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    David Ratcliffe reviews the fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’ workings.

  • Future proofing the National Collection

    Future proofing the National Collection

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    How does the National Railway Museum view its diesel and electric vehicles? Paul Bickerdyke finds out.

  • Class 55 ‘Deltics’, the old masters of the East Coast Mainline

    Class 55 ‘Deltics’, the old masters of the East Coast Mainline

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    Here were three large, silent locomotives standing at the quiet country junction railway station…

  • Issue 276 of Rail Express OUT NOW!

    Issue 276 of Rail Express OUT NOW!

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    The latest issue of Rail Express is packed with modern traction news, nostalgia and modelling.

  • Rail Express April 2019

    Rail Express April 2019

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    Network Rail to devolve into regions (again!), Thunderer back on railtour duties, and GWR to host an open day at Long Rock depot.

  • GOS completes ‘ElecLink’ wagon

    GOS completes ‘ElecLink’ wagon

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    AN interesting contract to create a second HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) electrical connection between the UK and France via the Channel Tunnel has required the creation of a battery-powered specialist construction train on behalf of Balfour Beatty. Known as ‘ElecLink’, the 1-Gigawatt connector, comprising two 30-mile cables, will be laid through the North Running…


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