New products with a bright future

Coming soon to a railway near you… CHRIS HOWE selects his top 20 innovative products that will improve railway safety, accessibility and efficiency

After a chance encounter with a laser-cut depot kit, Paul Gosden set about building a fictional contemporary engineering facility, where green technology is embraced.

This issue’s 10 Pictures comes from railfreight follower and photographer Paul Shannon. Having spent his early childhood in Gloucestershire, Paul lived on the outskirts of Manchester from 1963 until 1

Railway photography for me is about two things: a record for capturing a point in time to preserve a memory and an art form to create a great-looking image. Sometimes for me that is to recreate an ess

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

Network Rail plans to introduce new drones this year that can fly beyond the line of sight of an operator. PAUL CLIFTON finds out why that could revolutionise the way the railway is managed