The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) has announced it is to re-open its refreshment kiosk at Overton station this coming weekend – Saturday and Sunday May 23/24. The intermediate station, which is located between Peterborough and Wansford, serves the popular Ferry Meadows country park. Trains services on the line remain suspended. <img

Britain’s best-selling rail title The Railway Magazine is back for another month of award-winning photos, news, features and exclusives from the rail industry, past and present. This month’s The Railway Magazine covers the devastating news about the COVID-19 pandemic as the rail industry is hit hard, as train companies thank the

A LIST of the 20 busiest stations on London Underground and suburban National Rail lines has been published by Transport for London, but some media sources seem to have misunderstood the details. Many reports are claiming that TfL simply wants passengers to avoid the stations on its ‘busy list’ between 05.45

York railway station in 1903 The latest episode of a new television series, The Architecture The Railways Built, examines York railway station and its amazing history that helped to change the face of the city forever. At one time, the biggest station in the world, the programme reveals that the station that

There has to be social distancing on trains, writes Sim Harris. Neither they nor the wider railway system were designed to allow for it indefinitely, but there could be some gleams of hope as well. THE passenger railway industry has an unusual target at the moment – to keep people off

AN updated HS2 report from the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts which is seriously critical of the project has been welcomed by critics. The review by the committee of MPs from all sides of the House says the programme has ‘gone badly off-course and is now estimated to cost

More trains, but distancing concerns remain THE number of trains running on many lines has been increased in England, but warnings remain about the need for social distancing. Train companies have been working to tape off some seats to maintain space between passengers, while social distancing markers have been installed at

The Market Deeping Model Railway Club (MDMRC), which organises the Stamford model railway show, has gone ‘virtual’ this year with an online exhibition. <img data-attachment-id="14753" data-permalink="https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/14749/video-stamford-model-railway-show-goes-virtual/img_1045/" data-orig-file="https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2020/05/IMG_1045.png" data-orig-size="2048,1536" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="IMG_1045" data-image-description="Beal Street OO gauge model layout" data-medium-file="https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2020/05/IMG_1045-300x225.png" data-large-file="http://en.railsistem.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/video-stamford-model-railway-show-goes-virtual.png" src="http://en.railsistem.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/video-stamford-model-railway-show-goes-virtual.png" alt="Beal Street OO gauge model layout" class="wp-image-14753" srcset="http://en.railsistem.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/video-stamford-model-railway-show-goes-virtual.png 1024w, https://www.railwaymagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2020/05/IMG_1045-300x225.png 300w,

MORE details have emerged of the terms of the Government’s £1.9 billion rescue deal for Transport for London. The RMT has been angered by the implications, and is threatening industrial action. The Department for Transport yielded just before the Mayior of London Sadiq Khan would have started to withdraw services, and

On May 14, nine-car Pendolino No. 390008 passes the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal with the 10.15 Manchester Piccadilly-Euston train, diverted via Northampton because of engineering work on the direct route via Kilsby Tunnel. Photo: Chris Milner Rail passengers have been told not to turn up at stations without an advance