Exactly forty years ago, the cover of the September 1986 edition of Newsrail dazzled the eyes of its readers with a lurid pink T334 beneath a brilliant blue sky, and the Newsrail masthead and cover text specially coloured in magenta. As readers were to discover, T334 had been painted into the livery of fictional rail […]

For August, we turn our attention to Victoria’s high country, and the former Cudgewa railway line. In January this year, a terrible bushfire swept through Victoria’s High Country and burned down 14 historic timber railway bridges along the former Cudgewa Line. Some of the structures destroyed in the blaze were listed on the Victorian Heritage […]

Our July edition features a gleaming K160 on the cover, hauling its first passenger train since 2012.The photo was taken by Lynley Quedley, who is also one of the hard-working volunteers who assisted Steamrail and VGR staff in overhauling the locomotive. Our Tourist and heritage rail column has a brief update on the project, as […]

Buy an individual print copy of June 2026 Newsrail here The covers of our June edition are all about G Classes. On our front cover is a 1961 photograph of narrow-gauge steam locomotive G42, which entered service 100 years ago this month, rumbling across the Gellibrand River in the final months of the Beech Forest […]

Buy an individual print copy of May 2026 Newsrail here May 2026 Newsrail features a great mix of latest news and historic feature articles. The cover of our May edition features a photo (by Bernie Kelly, courtesy Nick Anchen) of C504 powering up the Great Dividing Range with a freight train on the North East […]

Buy an individual print copy of April 2026 Newsrail here Our cover image, featuring Bellarine Railway’s Klondyke being delivered to Newport Workshops ahead of the three-day Newport Workshops Open Days event, leads into an extended Tourist and heritage rail column for our April Edition. A total 13,112 visitors attended this year’s event, and we take […]

Buy an individual print copy of March 2026 Newsrail here This month we have a special edition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the introduction of the Harris trains; a train that dominated the suburban scene for three decades, and then remained a part of the interurban fleet for a further four decades. We have three […]

Buy an individual print copy of February 2026 Newsrail here Our February edition features a photo of R711 in brown primer as the locomotive receives its first complete repaint in 19 years. This project by our friends at Steamrail Victoria is one of the many projects that the four rail heritage groups at Newport are […]

Buy an individual print copy of January 2026 Newsrail here Our big feature article for January sees us travel to Wonthaggi in 1976 when local boy Andy Main, recently qualified as a rail motor driver, got a transfer back to his hometown to drive the Walker rail motor. Andy’s joy at this posting was short-lived; […]

Buy an individual print copy of December 2025 Newsrail here Once again 22RM graces our cover, as our Tourist and Heritage Rail column covers the exciting news from Yarra Valley Railway of the establishment of their mechanical branch.. With a new, modern shed having recently been built at Healesville, the railway is now turning its […]