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 […]

Buy an individual print copy of December 2023 Newsrail here For December, we have another big 40-page edition jam-packed with great reading. Our cover features a beautiful photo by Rebekah Hamilton of steam locomotive J549 at work on the Victorian Goldfields Railway. We feature a special report this month on the tremendous work that the […]

Buy an individual print copy of November 2023 Newsrail here Our November edition, another 40-page special, celebrates the 150th anniversary of the opening of the North East Line to Wodonga with a wonderful cover photo by Vicki Wangman of the SRHC-operated commemorative special. We mark the sesquicentenary of the line with an article on a […]

Buy an individual print copy of October 2023 Newsrail here For October, we have another big 40-page Newsrail that we’re calling our special Electric Edition. Mark Cauchi, Ray Ryan and Des Jowett have produced perhaps the definitive work on the E trains. A once-familiar sight to Melbourne commuters, the E trains were pairs of Swing […]

Buy an individual print copy of September 2023 Newsrail here For September we have a 40-page edition packed full with interesting content. Our front cover headlines the news that V/Line is looking to repurpose the N Class locomotive fleet for broad gauge freight use. Our News and announcements section has details of the current EOI […]

Buy an individual print copy of August 2023 Newsrail here Our cover story for August concerns the recent reactivation of A62 by Seven-O-Seven Operations. We’ve been following this project at Newsrail for a while, and had previously reported on the prime mover being started, and the locomotive then moving under its own power for the […]

Buy an individual print copy of July 2023 Newsrail here Our cover photo (taken by Scott Gould) accompanies the news that, with 23 additional VLocity sets funded in the 2023/24 State Budget, the H sets are expected to be withdrawn from service over the next couple of years. Our News section includes details of other […]