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.

In the February edition of Railway Modeller, we reveal Hornby′s plans for its 2023 model range, and bring you the award-winning layouts from the recent Warley National Model Railway Exhibition. Railway of the Month is Newton Heath Works – a 7mm scale layout based on the lines serving the ball clay industry on the Isle of Purbeck. ′Might-have-been′ layouts are a recurring theme this issue, with George Woodcock′s OO gauge Ballachulish imagining how this well-known Scottish Highlands branch line could have looked in the late 1980s, had it not closed two decades before. Meanwhile, with his extensive N gauge layout The Northampton Extension, Dan Hull shows what might have happened if the late Victorian ambitions of the Great Central Railway had been fully realised. Modelmaking articles include the construction of Marylebone train shed and a Scottish mill building (both in 4mm scale); while new product reviews include the Class 92 electric locomotive from Accurascale and the Liverpool & Manchester Railway centenary train pack from Hornby, with the famous 0-4-2 Lion.