First, a confession…
PAUL BICKERDYKE, Editor
Where the seed was sown: ex-Longmoor'Austerity' No. 118 engulfs the footbridge at Haworth (KWVR) in the mid-1970s.
EAGLE-eyed readers will notice a new headshot on this page this month, while those with even keener eyesight might recognise it as a less-youthful version of the one that's appeared on the Metro News pages since 2010.
But my journey aboard Tbe Railway Magazine goes back even further, beginning with my time as a teenage reader in the early 1980s, during the exciting period when British Rail's regional structure was giving way to Sectorisation, and the many loco-hauled services were being lost to a new generation of diesel and electric units.