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.

2025 is set to be a momentous year in railway history, marking the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway – the first public railway to use steam locomotives. To kick off the year's celebrations, Hornby has released its OO gauge model of the first S&DR locomotive, 0-4-0 No.1 Locomotion, which is the lead item in this issue's reviews. Also new from Hornby in OO and reviewed in this issue is the nine-coach London & North Eastern Railway streamlined 'Coronation' express train, complete with 'Beavertail' observation car, while other reviews include the N gauge North British Warship diesel-hydraulic from EFE Rail, the Ffestiniog Railway Passenger Brake Third coach in OO9 from Bachmann, and the BR Pallet Van in OO by Bachmann.
Railway of the Month is Heyside, a superb O gauge model based on the Oldham Loop line between Manchester Victoria and Rochdale, while other layouts include Helston, a slightly modified OO gauge version of the Great Western Railway branch terminus in Cornwall; Paxton Road, a compact N gauge cameo that can represent different locations and periods; Quarry View, an industrial locomotive shed in O; and Back 'ut Shed, a modern diesel depot in OO. 
Also celebrating some significant anniversaries this year is the Ffestiniog Railway, and to mark those occasions, Simon Artymiuk takes the reader on a miniature 'journey' along the famous Welsh narrow gauge line, through some of the many layouts that it has inspired. Callum Willcox builds the latest 7mm narrow gauge kit from Peco – a Penrhyn Quarry workmen's coach – while Garry Hall shows how he constructed several locomotives in the new TT:120 scale, including B12, Lord Nelson and Royal Scot 4-6-0s, and a Britannia Pacific.