[2] Regular contributors include Roger Ford, Ian Walmsley,[3] Alan Williams and Tony Miles.

[4] It featured a preface letter from Dr Richard Beeching, then Chairman of the British Transport Commission, who wrote: "The thousands who read your journal every month derive from it a great deal of pleasure and useful information about the activities of British Railways.

I feel that we share common ground, for your readers are our friends as well as yours, and we are helped by your success in holding and enlarging their interest.

In particular we have come to expect from you, and to value, the kind of well-informed comment on our affairs which is the mark of a lively and competent magazine.

"A feature article in the edition analysed peak traffic operations at Reading railway station in the days leading up to Christmas 1960, stating: "Reading…has neither a desperate shortage of platforms nor a crippling complication of layout…"