The Railway Magazine - April 2020

£1.4M GRANT FOR LEEK EXTENSION ■ CHARITY BUYS WEARDALE LINE

BRITAIN’S BEST-SELLING RAIL TITLE

RAIL HIT BY

April 2020 • £4.50

COVID19 CO D 1 PANDEMIC

■ Passenger numbers down 70% ■ DfT suspends franchising ■ Heritage sector

decimated by cancellations

■ Boiler fitted

to new ‘Grange’

£500M FOR RAIL REOPENING PLANS

‘NUCKLE’: A LINE OF TWO HALVES

HULL TRAINS: 20 YEARS OF OPEN ACCESS

UK Off-sale date - 06/05/2020

PRINTED IN THE UK

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