A list of all available back issues of RAIL EAST can be found [here] — but can you help us fill the gaps (69 of the first 125, dating from 1972-2004, are missing)? if so, please contact us (see bottom of page).
Latest issue (206) published in June 2025 - click on cover below to read it.
A variety of topics
- Railfuture's site visit to Cambridge South station - lots of photos
- What the speakers said at our mini-conference in Peterborough on 15 May
- Time to bring back summer excursion trains?
- Railfuture objects to CSET bus scheme
- Access for all improvements at Biggleswade
- Progress with South Cambs eco tourism project
- Network Rail produces strategic study on routes in Norfolk & East Suffolk
- Recent moves in global shipping strengthen the Ely case
- Behind the scenes at Brett Aggregates at the Port of Ipswich - out site visit to Griffin Wharf
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, one from 2003 and three from 2004). If you have any please get in touch - see RAIL EAST back page.