Rail (magazine)

This article is about the English magazine. For the former New Zealand magazine, see Rails (magazine).

Rail
Rail July 2024 cover
Cover of an issue from July 2024
CategoriesRail transport
FrequencyFortnightly
CirculationIncrease 20,063
(January–December 2015)[1]
PublisherBauer Consumer Media
First issue1981; 43 years ago (1981) (as Rail Enthusiast)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inPeterborough
Websitewww.railmagazine.com Edit this at Wikidata
ISSN0953-4563

Rail is a British magazine on the subject of current rail transport in Great Britain. It is published every two weeks by Bauer Consumer Media and can be bought from the travel sections of UK newsstands. It is targeted primarily at the enthusiast market, but also covers issues relating to rail transport.

Rail is more than four decades old, and was called Rail Enthusiast from its launch in 1981 until 1988. It is one of only two railway magazines that increased its circulation. It has roughly the same cover design for several years, with a capitalised italic red RAIL along the top of the front cover.

  1. ^ "RAIL – circulation". ABC. 11 February 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.