Rail (Enthusiast) Magazine - No.55 Apr 1986

Rail (Enthusiast) April 1986. Issue No.55.

Main features:

- Southern Regional Railfreight - the current scene: whilst the Southern Region is noted for its outstanding EMU commuter services, there is also a wealth of thriving freight traffics embracing all of the freight business sectors. A.A.J.Procter reviews the present position.

- The Leaders have arrived: Foster Yeoman's Class 59s are the talk of the town, and they are breaking records already

- Railway Development: How to travel back to the future!

- Railtour Review: Points of view

- Works Report

- Model Rail: The 1986 Toy Fair - a report on new releases

- News Lines: Railfreight gains its own pedigree;Mersey Railway is 100 yrs old; new line to be built in Far North?

- Colour Centrepiece: Well done Willsden - the surviving Class 82s and 83s

- Birkenhead Mollington St.Requiem: David Rapson relates the life and times of this hundred-year-old depot which closed last November.

- Signalling Aspects: look, no hands! it's automatic

- Reviews

- Rail Mail

- Traction Talk

- Departmental Developments: More good things come to an end - Roger Butcher details more recent Departmental disposals

- Wagons Roll

- Around the Regions