Free Issue!
GREAT NORTHERN NEWS is the GNR Society’s magazine, and is published six times a year. The magazine contains a broad range of historical articles, news about current developments on former GNR lines and Society news.
Click on the GNN cover opposite to download the PDF and read your free issue!
(Requires a PDF reader)
Printed Back Numbers
We have a limited stock of printed back issues available to buy. Just get in touch with our Back Numbers Officer with your list, and we’ll do the rest.
Note that non-members do not have access to issues published in the current membership year, and not all issues are instantly available in print form. We do not have all issues available in print form.
Copies of the current issues can be purchased by members, but it may take a couple of weeks before they can be posted to you.
Members
£1.00 each plus P&P.
Access to all back numbers.
Receive 6 new issues every year.
Latest Editions
GNN 269
Contents
- Editorial
- Membership
- Exhibition News
- Chairman’s Welcome
- Publications & Sales
- Points Arising
- Sandy’s Private Sidings
- Modelling a Wagon in 0 Gauge
- Modern Connections
- Patrick Stirling
GNN 268
Contents
- Chairman’s Welcome
- Editorial
- Membership
- Publications & Sales
- Exhibition News
- Website
- Points Arising
- Features
- A Trip on the GNR Director’s Saloon
- The History of the GNR Director’s Saloon
- The E.F.Howlden Charitable Trust
- On Loan Wartime help from the Great Northern
- The Great Northern Railway and the Louth Navigation
- 2026 Summer Day Out
- Reconstructions of Early GNR Locomotives
- Rapido Trains UK: 8 Ton GNR Covered Van
- Lost Great Northern Signal Boxes
- 1866 The Year of Accidents
- The Royston Accident of 1866
GNN 267
Contents
- Editorial
- Treasurer News
- Chairman’s Welcome
- Publications & Sales
- Exhibition News
- GNN Back Issues Going Online!
- Tingley Station
- Modern Connections
- Joseph Traxler
- GN Wagons
- Postland
- Avonside 0-8-0
- NEW WORKS ON THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY
GNN 266
Contents
- Chairman’s Chat
- Editorial
- Publications & Sales
- Exhibition News
- Photo Collection News
- Reviews
- The Abbots Ripton Accident
- Abbots Ripton: Weather Conditions
- Abbots Ripton: Countdown to Disaster
- Abbots Ripton: Surviving Artefacts
- Special Vehicles of the GN
- Snippets from the Past
- Finsbury Park Bridge Replacement,1898
- The Aylsham Coaches
- Lowesby
- Lost Great Northern Signal Boxes
Digital Back Numbers
If you are a member of the GNRS, you can buy our back issue library up to GNN 225 on three CDs for £10 each! If you’re not a member, you can sign up here first, and then purchase your back numbers.


