Buy an individual print copy of August 2024 Newsrail here August Newsrail is high on nostalgia, with an extended feature on rail operations at Hamilton in the 1960s, suburban goods trains on Royal Park Bank in the 1970s, and accounts of driving and firing X and S Class steam locomotives. Our cover features a striking […]

Buy an individual print copy of July 2024 Newsrail here This month’s 40-page edition is packed with great content, starting with our wrap-around cover photo taken by Benjamin Boehle-Mitchell, capturing C501 and N451 returning to Benalla with the first locomotive-hauled passenger train to Yarrawonga in many years. Author Jeff O’Meara has written a wonderful personal […]

Buy an individual print copy of June 2024 Newsrail here June Newsrail celebrates R Class locomotives, starting with a superb photograph, courtesy Matt Oaten, of R761 returning from Ballarat at sunset on the occasion of its first run since being repainted over summer. And doesn’t that paintwork look brilliant in the setting sun! In our […]

Buy an individual print copy of May 2024 Newsrail here A striking photograph of diesel-electric locomotive A62, now beautifully restored to its original 1984 V/Line livery, introduces the subject of this month’s Tourist and Heritage Rail column. Newsrail spoke to Tom Anderson at heritage group Seven-O-Seven Operations, who gave us the run-down on this exciting […]

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 […]