Our December 2020 edition is now on its way out to subscribers and retail outlets! We have two feature articles for December, from authors well-known to Newsrail readers: John Anderson, who authored one of the main articles in our November 2019 North Melbourne Locomotive Depot edition, has written another nostalgic piece about his days as […]

Our November 2020 edition is now on its way out to subscribers and retail outlets! Our main feature article concerns the construction of the direct, cross-country line between Horsham and Hamilton which opened 100 years ago, on 19 November 1920. Michael Guiney, who previously authored two of the feature articles in our May 2019 Centenary […]

October Newsrail – a special 40-page edition – is now being printed and will be on its way to subscribers and selected retail outlets soon! For advice on subscription options, visit https://www.vicrailpublishing.com.au/subscribe In this edition we have a series of articles concerning the Bendigo Locomotive Depot, including stories from three former employees whose time there […]

September 2020 Newsrail has been printed and is currently on its way to subscribers and retail outlets! It’s been quite a long time since V/Line Orange graced the front cover of Newsrail, but this photograph by Alan Greenhill was an ideal choice for a feature article by Jim Foley, who tells of his long-running connection […]

August 2020 Newsrail is now being printed and will soon be on its way to subscribers and selected retail outlets. Our cover story concerns the recently announced decision by Steamrail to conduct a condition assessment on K183, the locomotive involved in the Benalla level crossing tragedy of October 2002, with a view to potentially restoring […]

Our July is currently being printed and will be on its way to retail outlets and subscribers soon! This edition is a little different from most of our recent editions. There’s no single big feature article, but four “mini” features: The 1920 Royal Tour revisited: Following on from the centenary we noted in our May […]

The June edition of Newsrail is currently being printed and will be on its way to subscribers as well as selected newsagents and retail outlets. We have three feature articles: New long-distance VLocity: with the completion of the North East Line Upgrade by 2021, a new fleet of standard-gauge VLocity carriages will be operating Albury […]

We’re delighted to announce that our May 2020 edition has so much great content, we’ve expanded from 32 to 36 pages to fit it all in. Our cover features The Overland making its final run through Serviceton station and into South Australia just a couple of hours before the border closed at 4pm on 24 […]