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Your new Focus - and more ways to read it

Aug 29, 2025
The latest edition of Focus is available for now for anyone who is currently paying in to the Fund.

The 8-page newsletter includes:

  • Why you need to make your nominations - your pension isn't included in your Will
  • A message from your Trustee Chair, reflecting on the 200th anniversary of the modern railway 
  • Your new-look website
  • A round-up of the latest pension news
  • information on when you can retire 

It’s up to you how you want to read it…

As a direct response to member feedback, this issue of Focus has been given a more modern look, and is available to read in more ways than ever before.  

You can access Focus online in two ways:

Alternatively, you can choose to get a printed copy of Focus by post.

If you’ve already opted in to postal copies, you should see Focus coming through your letterbox soon. If not, and you would like to get Focus by post in future, simply complete the form on the communication preferences page or call on 0800 012 1117.

Getting Focus by post does not stop you from having an online account. You can check and update your communication preferences at any time by logging into your myFund account and selecting ‘Communication preferences’ from the menu.

If you need a large-print version of Focus, please email format@railpen.com

Tell us what you think…

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new-look Focus, and the content inside this issue.

Please take a moment to complete our short survey and you can let us know what you’d like to see in the next one too.