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By enthusiasts, for enthusiasts: TRACKSIDE is the in-depth, must-have railway preservation magazine.

22/07/2025

How about a quick gander inside the latest edition of TRACKSIDE?

Head over to tracksidemag.co.uk to order your copy of issue 49 - to save money on the high street price and get it delivered to your door, post-free!

16/07/2025

The exciting scheme to create an 18-mile Great Central main line has the go-ahead...

The Reunification project's Tom Ingall brings us up to speed in a six-page focus inside the new issue of TRACKSIDE - on sale now!

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12/07/2025

The latest issue of TRACKSIDE is here!

Some of what’s inside issue 49…

- ‘Greatest Gathering’ preview – and we find out why the Midland Compound might be the newest 4-4-0 in preservation.
- Reunification of the Great Central Railway has taken a giant stride closer to becoming reality. With planning permission granted, Tom Ingall brings us up to speed with progress.
- Scenery is the big sell for the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, but it is a special place at night too, as our photo-special reveals
- West Coast Railways’ David Smith says it’s time to drastically scale back operations – including the ‘Jacobite’.
- After more than 50 years as custodian, 5305LA takes ownership of its namesake ‘Black Five’.
- The future of NINE Metropolitan Railway carriage bodies finally seems secure – after a century at the seaside.
- Ffestiniog 70 – we bring you the best pictures of this once in a lifetime show
- Steam Dreams might be under new management, but founder Marcus Robertson is still running trains… with an oil-fired ‘Pacific’
- Sir Lamiel is 100 – but there’s still work to do before it can run again. We get the lowdown from Loughborough.
- It’s a small railway with big plans – how the delightful Corris Railway is progressing on several fronts
- It’s taken 32 years to create a four coach Maunsell set at the Bluebell Railway, but the wait has been worth it. What’s next for the Southern Railway Coach Group?
- Five locomotives and a DEMU come together for the Spa Valley Railway’s biggest ever gala, inspired by the Cuckoo Line…

Plus lots more!

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21/06/2025

Another cracking day underway at the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways! It’s been great to see so many readers already.

06/06/2025

TRACKSIDE issue 48 is out now!

EXCLUSIVE: ‘A1’/‘A2’/‘A3’/‘A4’ plan for Derby’s Greatest Gathering

EXCLUSIVE: Somerset & Dorset’s Midsomer Norton invites ‘Spam Can’ for closure anniversary

15 PAGE SPECIAL: Behind-the-scenes coverage of the ‘Great Britain’ as we travel from Wick to London by steam

‘Duke’-Britannia reunion on the cards as 71000 returns to Crewe in steam

Chalet style signalboxes are common… But what about flat rooved wartime ones? Welcome to Hotchley signalbox on the old Great Central (Nottingham)

The West Somerset Railway's newly restored Collett coach has a colourful preservation history… in North America

First main line tour for ‘West Country’ Eddystone revealed – and it’s on home ground

Down the ‘Tube’: A peek inside the London Transport Museum’s amazing Acton store – but will it survive a new housing scheme?

The Tanfield Railway turns the clock back 162 years... to celebrate its 300th!

How railway bric-a-brac is helping to fund a new Standard ‘3MT’

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25/05/2025

Off duty for the day at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s fab steam gala. See you tomorrow?!
Pic: Ian Crowder

09/05/2025

Issue 47 is out now!

A taste of what's inside...

- Peterborough’s Nene Valley terminus will soon finally have an historic building to welcome visitors. Transported piece-by-piece, the old Wansford Road station building hasn’t seen passengers since 1929.

- TRACKSIDE catches up with the group returning steam to the former Royal Naval Depot at Lathalmond – once a key part of the great facility at Rosyth.

- A pair of 'Peaks' have made preservation history at Peak Rail – and the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway has been part of things too, with its ‘Derby Lightweight’.

- The last North Eastern Railway 'J21' is on its way back, but it won't be a 'J21'... or run with its original frames. Richard Foster gets the low-down.

- 1938 Underground trains finally retired from the Isle of Wight in 2021... but one continues to run - on original London rails. But can it continue in the age of modern signalling systems?

- Rebuilding the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway may not be easy, but that’s not putting off the recently-established Yeo Valley Trust

- How should railways react to climate change? New ‘GlosWarks’ chairman Prof John Dora explains.

- Nunney Castle is back on the main line and has returned to Dawlish – its debut was a private charter for Jeremy Hosking.

Plus…
Isle of Wight buys Ashey, Acton’s classic ‘38 Stock’, Conqueror donated to Welshpool, Quainton Road’s plans, ‘Grange’ returns to Wales, two 4-4-0s on main line, Flaman speed recorder for Sir Nigel Gresley – and Bleath Gill ‘Mogul’ to visit Kirkby Stephen.

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18/04/2025

We’re enjoying the action at Kidderminster for the first of four busy days at the Severn Valley Railway gala. We’re here with the stand all weekend so come and say hello!

12/04/2025

Issue 46 is out now!

Inside the new issue…

- Canadian Pacific is back after 19 years - we tell the story of the ‘Merchant’s’ massive rebuild
- Mallard appears at Grosmont, but it’s not all that it seems!
- He guarded N**i prisoners and fired ‘Duchesses’. This is the life of Great Central volunteer Bill Gwilt
- Fancy a ride in a clerestory coach in the heart of London? Find out how the London Transport Museum’s ‘Q’ stock project is making history
- Great British Railways is coming, it’s time for the railtour market to stake its claim
- Gwili reprises Aberystwyth to Carmarthen locals with a very special visitor…
- Keighley stages the biggest gala of Rail 200 - so far.
- Even after 1968, there was still plentiful standard gauge steam to be enjoyed, as master photographer Harvey Scowcroft discovered
- and much more!

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