A list of all available back issues of RAIL EAST can be found [here] — but can you help us fill the gaps (65 of the first 125, dating from 1972-1998, are missing)? if so, please contact us (see bottom of page).
Latest issue (207) published in September 2025 - click on cover below to read it.
A variety of topics
- Railfuture's thinking about multiple stations serving Waterbeach
- Network Rail's latest ideas about improving services on the East Suffolk line
- The challenge around increasing capacity at Westerfield - part 1
- Current housing expansion in Baldock & Hitchin and the need to ensure effective links to rail hubs
- Is it time to bring back excursion trains?
- Newmarket - past, present & future
- The case for speeding up freight services
- Some recent enhancements for active travel in Bury St Edmunds
- Visit to the Cambridge Power Signal Box
- Charter train trip on East West Rail western section
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.