• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Favourite Magazine

What magazines do you get


  • Total voters
    53
  • Poll closed .
Status
Not open for further replies.

Skimble19

Established Member
Joined
12 Dec 2009
Messages
1,508
Location
London
At the moment I buy RAIL every fortnight, but probably gonna stop doing that soon, it's just not worth the cost anymore.. it's turning into a rag and its regularly full of errors. I sometimes wonder if they've actually bothered proof reading some issues..!

Favourite mag at the moment has to be Railway Herald though.
 
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

noddy1878

Established Member
Joined
23 Jun 2010
Messages
1,473
Location
Plymouth
I read Rail every fortnight but do get The Railway Magazine sometimes. Also the railway herald is good.
 

4SRKT

Established Member
Joined
9 Jan 2009
Messages
4,409
I bought another 5 editions of Modern Railways from the 1980s for 20p each at Oxenhope on Monday. Luckily for me it seems someone has just cleared his attic out :)
 

12CSVT

Established Member
Joined
18 Aug 2010
Messages
2,611
Traction and Rail Express are my favourites. I used to read Rail Enthusiast many years ago (until it lost its 'enthusiasm' in 1988) - mainly for David Maxey's railtour reviews.
 

Aictos

Established Member
Joined
28 Apr 2009
Messages
10,403
I mainly read Rail Express as the content is perfect for my needs as well as Railway Herald, I sometimes get Rail once in a blue moon.
 

AndyJB

Member
Joined
3 Sep 2010
Messages
69
I still have a soft-spot for Traction, despite the recent changes.
 

oldrailman

Member
Joined
13 Dec 2009
Messages
71
Location
LINCOLN UK
Of the choices available, I nailed my flag to Traction. None of them are what railway mags once were - anyone remember Modern Railways Pictorial?:cry:

TBH, I read Railway Herald more than anything else now.

I agree with you. I subscribed to Traction ages ago. I'm biased, as I had an article published in the June 2007 issue on my years at New Street 1989-2001. If anyone has back issues, it's the piece by Mal Robinson (shameless plug!). I used to get Rail and Modern Railways, but the modern scene just doesn't do it for me now, must be my age and remembering travelling everywhere on 'proper' trains.:cry:
 

4SRKT

Established Member
Joined
9 Jan 2009
Messages
4,409
Traction and Rail Express are my favourites. I used to read Rail Enthusiast many years ago (until it lost its 'enthusiasm' in 1988) - mainly for David Maxey's railtour reviews.

Yes. He was very funny. I remember Railtour Groupie of the Month. LOL!
 

Any Permitted

Member
Joined
16 May 2010
Messages
174
Location
Southampton
I buy Rail every time I'm at Norwich Station going to London so that's pretty much every week. I really like it. Sometimes I buy Modern Railways.
 

ST PADDY

Member
Joined
6 Sep 2010
Messages
27
I have being buying Traction for a few years now but this change in style is too modern, it no longer has the feel of nostalga about it.
Sure the photos bring back fond memories but the lay out when you open it no longer fills me with the same feeling of tactile contact with the past.
The lay out comes over as bits and pieces of articles, were as before there were two are three lengthy articles side by side.
The worst part though is the front cover, the big cover picture that is supposed to help sell a mag, get you to pick it up in the first place, is ruined by the small insert pictures (whose natural place is at the bottom) cutting down the size of the photo, it just dosn't look right.

It may just be me but the old style was better, a case of a new owner wanting to put his own stamp on a product rather than accepting sombody elses ideas, like a new football manger changing a good team to one of his own and we've all seen what happened there.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top