Milepost Magazine

'Milepost' is the quarterly magazine of The Railway Performance Society, issued in January, April, July and October every year.

It is published in A5 format and usually runs to 72 pages of news and articles. See below for the contents of our last three issues.

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Browse below to see a summary of articles published in the last few editions of Milepost.

Fastest times update - Latest fast times from around the UK Royal Flush - Sprinter and Class 67 Performance between Weymouth and Frome 67’s East of Westbury – Class 67 ‘Six Nations Special’ Performance from Paddington to Westbury	Gainsborough to Doncaster – Analysis of Class 67 vs HST vs 153 Sprinters 86101 on ECML – High-speed Class 86 run from Doncaster to Kings Cross Hatton Bank – Review of traction performance up Hatton Bank from 1962 to date – Class 35 Hymek, 43 Warship’s 47, 50 and 52’s compared with today’s Voyagers Crewe North’s Pacifics – 1950’s steam on the WCML The More Times Change – Diverted WCML 1967 steam runs over the Settle and Carlisle Historical Log Analysis: Midland Compound – Analysing the claimed speed feats of midland steam. Wagga Wagga Express – HST Australian style - XPT logs from Melbourne to Wagga Wagga
	Fastest times update A Run on the banks – Class 142 return run from Dawlish to Plymouth over Dainton Banks 21st Century Cheshire Trains – Cheshire day rover – timing Pendolino’s Voyagers, 175, 185 and 350’s on a day trip around Cheshire A Class 40 round – Account and log of a Scottish Class 40 railtour in September 2007 To Uckfield: The Steam Era - 1960’s steam logs and analysis - London to Uckfield In quest of 280 km/h – Travelling French TGV Est on the world’s fastest train Eurostar arrives at St Pancras – First Eurostar logs over the full length of High Speed One – Lille to St Pancras return run.
	Fastest times update WCML Diversions – Performance of Voyagers and Class 47/57 hauled Pendolino’s over WCML diversionary routes The Magic Hour – Attempts to get from Grantham to Kings Cross in less than one hour aboard Hull Trains 125mph Class 222 Pioneer Endangered/Extinct Species – Memories of first generation EMU’s in the SouthEast and Cross Country 47’s 50 Years Ago – The Dunkley Years – 1957 Steam runs – London to Bournemouth , London to Bristol and London to Margate Berlin High Speed Line – 200km/h (124mph) German Loco-hauled and 250km/h (155mph) ICE performance comparison in the former East Germany