Trains and Railways was a British

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 railway magazine that was published for just over two years (three volumes,number three) by the New English Library

New English Library

The New English Library was a United Kingdom book publishing company, which became an imprint of Hodder Headline.- History :New English Library was created in 1961 by the Times Mirror Company of Los Angeles, with the takeover of two small British paperback companies, Ace Books Ltd and Four Square...

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The first issue was released in 1973 .The magazine was monthly from the start and contained many colour pictures compared to many other railway magazines of the time.

Content

Trains and Railways covered many aspects of international railways.
An example of contents from the first issue is below

1. Railway Heraldry and Liveries 1- Great Central Railway
   Great Central Railway
   The Great Central Railway was a railway company in England which came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension . On 1 January 1923, it was grouped into the London and North Eastern...
   
   
2. Great Locomotive Engineers
3. Railway Postcards
4. Cuneo Print Offer ( advert related to publishers)
5. The Lickey Incline
   Lickey Incline
   The Lickey Incline is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain and is situated south of Birmingham, in England. The climb is a gradient of 1-in-37.7 for a continuous distance of two miles ....
   
   
6. The locomotive Club of Great Britain http://www.lcgb.org.uk/
7. The Traveller
8. Picture Gallery
9. Money in Tourist Railways
   Heritage railway
   thumb|right|the Historical [[Khyber train safari|Khyber Railway]] goes through the [[Khyber Pass]], [[Pakistan]]A heritage railway , preserved railway , tourist railway , or tourist railroad is a railway that is run as a tourist attraction, in some cases by volunteers, and...
   
   
10. Picture Quiz

Final Monthly Issue

Trains and Railways ended suddenly in the third issue of volume three.

A black box on the second page explained-
" Sadly, this is the last issue of Trains and Railways in its present form as a monthly magazine. Escalating costs are no strangers these days and this applies to publishing along with most other businesses:the plain fact of the matter is that to keep the price of the magazine within the bounds of reality [it was 35p at the time] colour content would have to be reduced drastically. Rather than cut quality it has been decided to cease monthly publications and concentrate on Trains and Railways special issues similar to the best selling 'Stockton & Darlington Railway

Stockton and Darlington Railway

The Stockton and Darlington Railway , which opened in 1825, was the world's first publicly subscribed passenger railway. It was 26 miles long, and was built in north-eastern England between Witton Park and Stockton-on-Tees via Darlington, and connected to several collieries near Shildon...

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The rest of the final magazine continued in the regular format.