A list of all available back issues of RAIL EAST can be found [here] — but can you help us fill the gaps (54 of the first 125, dating from 1972-1998, are missing)? if so, please contact us (see bottom of page).
Latest issue (208) published in December 2025 - click on cover below to read it.
A variety of topics
- Beaulieu Park station opens — does it set new standards? We compare it to Cambridge North and South
- Greater Anglia in public sector
- Cambridge trams? What can we learn from Railfuture's vist to the NET depot?
- East West Rail eastern section
- Peterborough-Norwich Rail Users — an introduction from the new chair
- Norfolk Rail Group meeting
- What is the future for the Sub-National Transport Bodies?
- Westerfield station issues (part 2)
- Train services: 2025 and 1983 compared
- Train tickets wall display at Northampton station
- Rail news round-up including FLUA's 40th aniversary and why the Fen Line suffers so badly
Recent issues of RAIL EAST - click on the cover to view the PDF
Where a production problem originally occurred, the back issues on the website have the corrected issue number and date. Issue '123 June 2004' had been mistitled as '122', '126 January 2005' was '122 January 2004' and '127 May 2005' was '127 May 2004'.
Please see Newsletters for RAIL EAST highlights with descriptions of the content of each issue, click FULL LIST for a link to ecery issue available online and Snippets for the East Anglia branch news e-bulletins dating back to 1999.
We are looking for copies of issues (every issue from the first in 1972 up to early 1986, one from 1987/88/89/91/98. Everything from 102 is online.). If you have any please get in touch - see RAIL EAST back page.