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 Line. On the rear cover, we have a superb image […]

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 Line. This image leads into our feature article by Roydon […]

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 a look at the flurry of activity to prepare and […]

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 […]

Buy an individual print copy of November 2025 Newsrail here Newsrail’s November 2025 edition is packed with three feature articles. Our striking cover image of a brand new X Class locomotive X39 sets the scene for our first feature, which is the recollections of engineman Fred Rochow of working on the mighty X Class steam […]

Buy an individual print copy of October 2025 Newsrail here Newsrail’s October 2025 edition features a blue Harris train on the cover, a perfect choice for our main feature article by Grraham Bishop on his career as a suburban train driver from the mid 1960s to early 1990s. We went back through the files to see when […]

Buy an individual print copy of September 2025 Newsrail here For September, we’re heading west, all the way to Serviceton! Our cover photo, showing a brand-new C510 and its classmate readying 9194 express goods train for departure to Melbourne in 1978, perfectly transports us to the time and place for our main feature article by […]