In 1910, following a dispute with the proprietors, Nokes resigned and started a rival, very similar, magazine, "Railway and Travel Monthly". Both this and "The Railway Magazine" in 1916 were purchased by John Aiton Kay (1883-1949), proprietor of the "Railway Gazette", and Nokes's title was renamed "Transport and Travel Monthly" in 1920 before being amalgamated with "The Railway Magazine" from January 1923. Apart from this episode, "The Railway Magazine" had no serious commercial rival in its field until the 1940s. Kay himself served as editor after his predecessor had left for service in World War II. For many years the magazine shared editorial direction with the "Railway Gazette", and for periods had officially no editor of its own. From May 1942 to the end of 1949, paper shortages compelled bi-monthly publication; in January 1942 there had been a reduction of the page size by a half-inch in both dimensions down to (which lasted until October 1963), though it continued to use art paper for a centre section of photographs, which had begun in January 1934.