Welcome to the Preview Issue of ‘The Travellers Fare Magazine’, a new and exciting railway nostalgia digital publication. As our sub-title suggests, we aim to recall the history of British Railways from its formation in 1948 through the Modernisation Plan of the mid-1950s and up until Privatisation in the mid-1990s. This period saw the railways in Britain go through changes that affected the whole country.
Each issue will be packed with feature articles, personal memories and photo features, with contributions from railway staff, passengers, spotters, enthusiasts and railway historians. The railways have always been associated with the social fabric of British society, playing their part in carrying people to work, moving large quantities of freight, distributing goods around the country and being a means of transport for business and leisure travellers. We aim to cover the social history surrounding the railways just as much as the railways themselves, so we hope there will be something for everyone.