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 […]