25 years of change
Apr 13, 2021
5 minutes
Brad Joyce
PRODUCING a brand new magazine from scratch is no small undertaking – there is a myriad of matters to finalise, finance and implement.
The introduction of issue No. 1 of Rail Express at the Tinsley Open Day in 1996 was the culmination of months of work, and was not the first issue as that accolade went to issue No. 0.
It may surprise readers to learn that every magazine sold by WH Smith must be to a high standard – and rightly so – which means any budding publisher must produce a dummy issue, replicating to as near as possible what the finished product will look like.
We produced a 64-page dummy issue incorporating eight pages of news, an article and photo spread, and this eight-page
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