NEW MARCH 2025. The Railway World first appeared during 1952. It was not a new publication, but instead was the magazine 'Railways' (which had been founded by G H Lake in 1939, all copies of which are included in our package GHL.DL), given a new name.

It came out each month, and you will get the issues from 1952 to the end of 1971 - two hundred and forty copies in total. The official indexes for the volumes are included where available - eighteen of the twenty here. We have compiled a 33-page list of the main contents of every issue, to help with browsing – you can see this HERE. We have also organised a facility to carry out a speedy word-search which trawls through every copy of the magazine plus some extra bonus files.

Those extra files include a complete Railway World Annual, summer timetables for the preserved railways of the UK, an outline history of the Railway World and information about a little-known magazine which bore the same title back in the 1890s.

It is hoped that a Part 2 will be issued eventually covering the years 1972 to 1991. If you would like a no-obligation e-mail message when this comes out, register your interest at sales@gersociety.org.uk.

The identical set of files, around 1.8 GB, is also available as a direct download. This will be available as soon as the order is placed, with no contribution towards postage to add on. You order that HERE.

We very much regret that this DVD can be posted only to UK addresses owing to difficulties we have experienced with customs duties. Overseas customers are of course still more than welcome to purchase the download version – you will receive the same files without incurring the inevitable considerable delay. If you have serious misgivings as to whether your local internet will be up to the task, please feel free to consult us at sales@gersociety.org.uk.