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Modern Railways 
Categories Rail transport Frequency Monthly Publisher Ian Allan First issue 1962 Country United Kingdom Website http://www.modern-railways.com/ ISSN 0026-8356 Modern Railways is a British monthly magazine covering the rail transport industry published by Ian Allan. It has been published since 1962.
It has always been targeted at both railway professionals and serious amateurs, an aim which derives from its origins as an amalgamation of the enthusiast magazine Trains Illustrated and the industry journal The Locomotive in the hands of its first editor Geoffrey Freeman Allen.
It is currently edited by James Abbott. Regular contributors include Roger Ford, Alan Williams and Tony Miles.
Contents
First Edition
The first edition of Modern Railways was published in January 1962 as Volumue XV, no. 160 in a sequence continuing from Trains Illustrated.[1] It featured a preface letter from Dr Richard Beeching, then Chairman of the British Transport Commission, who wrote presciently: "The thousands who read your journal every month derive from it a great deal of pleasure and useful information about the activities of British Railways. I feel that we share common ground, for your readers are our friends as well as yours, and we are helped by your success in holding and enlarging their interest. In particular we have come to expect from you, and to value, the kind of well-informed comment on our affairs which is the mark of a lively and competent magazine. Like the railways, Trains Illustrated is now moving towards a new era and I think it wholly appropriate that you should choose Modern Railways as your new title. What is merely a new name for you is an eagerly-sought objective for us. May we both go forward to new and rewarding success." A feature article in the edition analysed peak traffic operations at Reading railway station in the days leading up to Christmas 1960, stating: "Reading...has neither a desperate shortage of platforms nor a crippling complication of layout...". Fifty years later, services through Reading were suspended between Christmas 2010 and New Year 2011 to allow installation of a new bridge as one of the first stages of a £850m project to construct new platforms and streamline the track layout to ease a congestion bottleneck.[2]
Bibliography
- Joyce, Antony (1990). "Modern Railways - three decades". Modern Railways 47: 232–3.
- Ian Allan Ltd (1967). Twenty-five years, 1942-1967. Ian Allan.
Gallery
Locomotive 90006 'Modern Railways' 
Nameplate of British Rail Class 90 number 90006
number 90006 passing Marks Tey railway stationSee also
- List of railroad-related periodicals
- Rail (British Railway Magazine)
- Today's Railways (British Railway Magazine)
- Model Rail (British Model Railway Magazine)
- Railways Illustrated (British Railway Magazine)
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