Railway Modeller

Published monthly by Peco Publications, Railway Modeller is a guide to creating railscapes of every era of train, from steam to electric, and caters for modellers of all abilities. Each issue features the best from the hobby for those modelling Britain's railways in all the popular scales and offers a unique blend of articles by experts and beginners alike, including a special section for newcomers wanting to learn all about the hobby and model making in general.

Model railway enthusiasts can now subscribe to the complete digital archive of leading magazine Railway Modeller , which stretches back to 1949 and encompasses more than 800 fully-searchable issues. The archive is organised into neat stacks of decades and years, which can be browsed across web, iOS and Android platforms for a flexible reading experience.

Every contents page is fully-linked to facilitate easy navigation to specific articles and features. The archive also benefits from the Exact Editions platform’s advanced search function, which allows readers to search for keywords across individual issues and the complete archive at the touch of a button.

With the April edition of Railway Modeller, we celebrate the centenary of the 1923 Grouping with a free booklet detailing express steam locomotives designed by the largest of the Big Four companies, the London Midland & Scottish Railway. In this issue, we also announce the winner of the 70th annual Railway Modeller Cup competition. Railway of the Month is a feast for fans of the London & North Eastern Railway: an unusual and striking 2mm Finescale model of York station, depicting the scene underneath its instantly recognisable overall roof. Other layouts featured include Nantford Spinney (an N gauge branch line set in the West Country with BR Southern and Western Region motive power), Outhwaite (a OO gauge Pennine branch terminus in BR days) and Holegn Bridge (a narrow gauge light railway in OO9). A bumper ten pages of product reviews include the OO gauge Hunslet 16-inch cylinder 0-6-0ST from Rapido Trains UK, TransPennine Mk.V coaches from Accurascale in OO, and an all-new BR Class 90 in N from Graham Farish.