Next time you're in the shop at Toddington or indeed anywhere that railway magazines are sold, pick up a copy of the current The Railway Magazine.  For inside is a feature by their correspondent Cliff Thomas that includes a wealth of information about our railway along with a truly magnificent double-page photograph of Foremarke Hall emerging from the northern portal of Greet tunnel.

The RM, apart from being the longest-lived railway publication, is also the most widely purchased, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation figures. It also has its own website and you can visit it by clicking here.

The online magazine, Railway Herald, also has a couple of fine photographs of our Eastern visitor at large on the GWR including the full back page.  Photographed during a recent freight photo-charter during magnificent weather a couple of weekends ago, the pictures are perhaps evocative of when a similar locomotive,  a class J25, was allocated to Cheltenham Malvern Road for a time when the GWR was desperately short of its own 0-6-0 tender locomotives. Most of the GWR's Dean Goods class locomotives were assisting with the post-war effort in Europe so the GWR had to borrow some locomotives from elsewhere. The J25 is known to have worked freight trains over our line to Honeybourne and perhaps beyond, maybe with half a dozen or so mixed freight wagons as the pictures illustrate!

You can see Railway Herald by clicking here where you can sign up to their alerts.  The magazine is weekly and contains a wealth of information on current railway practice as well news on the heritage sector and historic stories.