MLI Plus

The most informed partwork in UK rail is now even better. From issue 248, Modern Locomotives Illustrated became MLI+ and it’s bigger, brighter, and...

The most informed partwork in UK rail is now even better. From issue 248, Modern Locomotives Illustrated became MLI+ and it’s bigger, brighter, and...

Issue No 266 of MLIPlus includes a further selection of specially researched features:• BR Standard 0-6-0 Class 08-10 shunters• Preserved Standard ...

Issue No 265 of MLIPlus includes a further selection of specially researched features:• Operating with Brake Tenders• A Visit to Swindon Works• Tra...

Issue No 264 of MLIPlus offers a further selection of specially researched features, including:• Blue Pullman From Met-Camm to LSL• Sprinter Expres...

Issue No 263 of MLIPlus includes a further selection of specially researched features:• Class 17 ʻClaytonʼ Bo-Bos• 'Sprinter Express’ Class 155s• R...

Issue No. 262 of MLIPlus includes a further selection of specially researched features:• 1980s SR Modernisation - The Class 455 story• Scottish Rai...

MLIPlus Issue No 261 June-July 2023 includes specially researched features covering:• Trains by Royal Appointment. Locomotives and multiple units c...

Issue No 260 of MLIPlus includes a further selection of specially researched features covering the following, plus much more…• The ‘Dusty Bin’ stor...

Issue No. 259 of MLIPlus includes a further selection of specially researched features covering:• Class 59 Story - Part 2, Class 59/0s in the 2000s...

Issue No 258 of MLIPlus includes a further selection of specially researched features covering:• Western Ranger - D1013 at 60• A half century of Cl...

Issue No 257 of MLI Plus includes specially researched features covering:• 60 Years of the Class 73 ‘Little EDs’• The Chiltern Route from London – ...

Issue No 256 of MLIPlus includes specially researched features covering the following:• Dash of Colour - The GBRf 'Celebrity' 66s• A Bed for the...

Issue No. 255 of MLIPlus includes specially researched features covering:• The original Foster Yeoman Class 59s• Outer-suburban BREL Class 317s• Ra...

Issue No. 254 of MLIPlus includes specially researched features covering the following subjects:• Class 60s at 30• Southern Region Motor Luggage Va...

Modern Locomotives Illustrated No. 244 looks at developments of the main AC locomotive fleets. Since the publication of the original issues coverin...

Modern Locomotives Illustrated No. 243 looks at the new trains which have been introduced over the past few years, mainly multiple unit formations ...

Since the publication in December 2012 of the first edition of Modern Locomotives Illustrated (MLI) covering electro-diesel fleets, a huge amount o...

Following the successful publication in mid-2019 of Modern Locomotives Illustrated (MLI) No. 237 covering preserved diesel locomotives, issue No 24...

Since the publication of the first three editions of Modern Locomotives Illustrated covering the Class 47s and 57s in 2009 and 2010, a huge amount ...

This edition of MLI Class 37s The New Era looks briefly at the history and heritage of the fleet with fresh illustrations but concentrates on the p...

This issue of Modern Locomotives Illustrated brings the story of the UK locomotive fleets bang up to date, covering the most modern diesel and bi-m...

Since the first UK ‘modern traction’ locos were exported during World War 2 for use in Europe, a staggering number, in excess of 300, have been exp...

Issue 234 (December 2018-January 2019) of Modern Locomotives Illustrated focuses on Class 70s. While not the most attractive, the Class 70 is an in...

This edition of Modern Locomotives Illustrated looks at some of the more modern electric multiple unit classes, mainly using AC power supply for pr...

Pendolino Stock The chosen design of the Pendolino tilting train is a very interesting story and one which has attracted huge extra numbers of pas...

Over the years a huge number of ex-revenue earning electric multiple and diesel multiple unit vehicles have entered internal railway operation use....

Over the last 30 years the ‘91s’ have become very popular with enthusiasts and photographers, with the class progressing from the BR InterCity ‘Swa...

London Midland and North West area EMUs Some of the smaller and lesser known fleets of electric multiple unit stock, operated in the North West ar...

Eurostar Stock: Class 373 & 374 When the go-ahead was given for the construction of the Channel Tunnel, linking Mainland Europe with the UK, t...

Scottish & Tyneside Electric Multiple Units Welcome to issue No. 225 of the Modern Locomotives Illustrated part work. In this edition, we cover...

Class 55 ‘Deltic’: The UK’s Number One Modern Traction Partwork

‘Networker’, ‘Juniper’ and ‘Javelin’ Stock

Departmental Locomotives

‘Voyager’, ‘Pioneer’ and ‘Meridian’ – Class 220-222

BR Southern Region Electric Multiple Units

Southern Region DEMUs and Class 210 Class 201-203 (6S, 6L, 6B) ‘Hastings’ stock Technical Data Class 201 (6S) Technical Data Class 202 (6L) Techni...

SR, GW, LNER, LMS & Trial Shunters & Class 03s

Second Generation DMUs Classes 165 – 185

DC Electric Locos

Southern Design Electric Multiple Units

Class 92, BB22200 and EuroTunnel ‘Shuttle’ Locos

Class 35 ‘Hymek’

The Class 60s

Modern Locomotives Illustrated No. 247 brings the UK train story bang up to date, covering the Class 8xx InterCity Express Trains, built by Hitachi...

Issue No 252 of MLIPlus includes specially researched features covering the following, plus much more. • Deltic Racehorses of the East Coast • M...

The new era of Modern Locomotives Illustrated takes to the rails with the publication of the first edition of MLIPlus. Continuing the general theme...

Issue No. 249 of MLIPlus includes specially researched features covering the following: • Warship Hydraulics on the Waterloo-Exeter Route • Small ...