Rail Express

  • September 2022

    September 2022

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    Rail Express is essential reading for today’s rail enthusiasts and photographers; and the September issue brings you the latest news, headlines, images and features from across the entire rail network.

  • Model railway enthusiasts are all over TikTok

    Model railway enthusiasts are all over TikTok

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    Have you entered the world of TikTok? Well, we’ve found lots of model railway themed videos there, which provide plenty of tips and ideas for your model railway.

  • Bank holiday train services to be disrupted because of engineering work

    Bank holiday train services to be disrupted because of engineering work

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    Train services on some key routes will be disrupted during the August bank holiday weekend due to engineering work.

  • Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2022

    Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2022

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    Third rail DC electric railways featured prominently in the winning portfolios submitted in the inaugural competition organised by the Railway Photographic Society.

  • Green machines at sixty

    Green machines at sixty

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    Following the pictorial celebration of 60 years of British Railways’ Brush Type 4 , we once more delve into the Mortons Archive for a selection of images of the locos in their original two-tone BR green liveries.

  • Hitachi: We have contingency plans to deal with strike by RMT staff

    Hitachi: We have contingency plans to deal with strike by RMT staff

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    Rail firm Hitachi says it has contingency plans in place to deal with a strike by some of its workers.

  • Nothing duff about these Co-Cos

    Nothing duff about these Co-Cos

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    To celebrate 60 years of British Railways’ Brush Type 4 diesel electric locos (later designated Class 47), we present a small selection of images from the Mortons Archive.

  • Drivers’ strike to cause severe disruption to rail services

    Drivers’ strike to cause severe disruption to rail services

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    Rail services will be severely disrupted on Saturday because of a strike by train drivers in the latest outbreak of industrial unrest in the industry.

  • Network Rail begins consultation process with unions on maintenance reforms

    Network Rail begins consultation process with unions on maintenance reforms

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    Network Rail has formally started the legal consultation process with unions on the maintenance reforms it says are needed to modernise and improve productivity and efficiency, one of the issues at the centre of the current wave of strikes.

  • Rail plans for North should be reconsidered to avoid missed opportunity, say MPs

    Rail plans for North should be reconsidered to avoid missed opportunity, say MPs

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    A controversial Government plan for rail schemes in the North and Midlands should be “reconsidered” to avoid a “missed opportunity”, MPs have warned.

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