October Newsrail has forty pages of great content that starts with an eye-catching image of current and former V/Line passenger power on Ballarat’s Warrenheip Bank, taken by Brenden Schonfelder. Generations of railfans have watched locomotives doing battle with Warrenheip Bank, hauling heavy loads heading east from Ballarat, whether grain trains heading for Geelong, or the […]

September Newsrail, another big 40-page edition, has a major feature article from the renowned author Nick Anchen, and news about the laying of new track through Tarrawarra Tunnel on the Yarra Valley Railway (YVR), part of a wider project to reconstruct the line through to Yarra Glen. Our main feature, by Nick Anchen, is a […]

August Newsrail is high on nostalgia, with an extended feature on rail operations at Hamilton in the 1960s, suburban goods trains on Royal Park Bank in the 1970s, and accounts of driving and firing X and S Class steam locomotives. Our cover features a striking photo, by Braiden Beer, of N451 hauling the first passenger […]

This month’s 40-page edition is packed with great content, starting with our wrap-around cover photo taken by Benjamin Boehle-Mitchell, capturing C501 and N451 returning to Benalla with the first locomotive-hauled passenger train to Yarrawonga in many years. Author Jeff O’Meara has written a wonderful personal history of journeys by rail from Wonthaggi to the lonely […]

June Newsrail celebrates R Class locomotives, starting with a superb photograph, courtesy Matt Oaten, of R761 returning from Ballarat at sunset on the occasion of its first run since being repainted over summer. And doesn’t that paintwork look brilliant in the setting sun! In our June 2021 edition, we had a major feature on the […]

A striking photograph of diesel-electric locomotive A62, now beautifully restored to its original 1984 V/Line livery, introduces the subject of this month’s Tourist and Heritage Rail column. Newsrail spoke to Tom Anderson at heritage group Seven-O-Seven Operations, who gave us the run-down on this exciting project. Two very interesting feature articles are included this month. […]

Buy an individual print copy of April 2024 Newsrail here April Newsrail is yet another big 40-page edition, boasting three feature articles as well as all our regular columns. A beautiful evening photograph (courtesy Matt Oaten) of Y112 steaming through the appropriately-named Lovely Banks towards Ballarat introduces our main feature article, a history of the […]

Buy an individual print copy of March 2024 Newsrail here March Newsrail is another big 40-page edition, packed with great content. Our superb cover photo (by John Kirk, courtesy Journey Beyond) and lead news story concerns the special arrangements that Metro, V/Line, Yarra Trams and Journey Beyond made to ensure that 288,000 “Swifties” (Taylor Swift […]

Buy an individual print copy of February 2024 Newsrail here Our February edition has an exciting mix of present-day and historic articles. This month’s cover photo, by Matt Oaten, leads into a report for our Tourist and Heritage Rail column from Steamrail Victoria’s Noah Clancey. 2024 marks 50 years of restoration of heritage rolling stock […]

Buy an individual print copy of January 2024 Newsrail here For January, we have yet another big 40-page edition jam-packed with great reading. This month’s cover photo, by Scott Gould, introduces our first feature, which marks the end of locomotive-hauled services to Bacchus Marsh. Mark Cauchi has put together an article, and Mark and Scott […]