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.

For our traditional summer garden railway feature, we visit the Dial Hill Railway, a remarkable SM32 system based on the famous Lynton & Barnstaple Railway – complete with a scale replica of the line's Chelfham Viaduct measuring over 18 feet long and more than five feet high! Simon Artymiuk also provides a history of the real Chelfham Viaduct and station, which have been restored in preparation for the eventual return of trains on the preserved L&B project.
Further garden railways appear in the form of the Cleobury Castle Light Railway, also in SM32, and a special Milepost feature to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beer Heights Light Railway, the miniature line at the Peco headquarters, while other layouts include a model of a Burton-on-Trent brewery inside a beer barrel, and Bishops Lydeard, an OO gauge recreation of the preserved station on the West Somerset Railway. 
The Scale Drawings feature turns the spotlight on the Great Eastern Railway 'Coffee Pot' 0-4-0 saddle tanks, while Paul Rhodes describes how he built one of these locomotives from a 4mm scale etched kit. Other construction features include the use of everyday items to detail buildings, and making a World War II pillbox.
New products reviewed this month include the Class 50 diesel in OO gauge from Accurascale; the OO9 Ffestiniog Railway 'Curly Roof Van', the all-new OO Class 08 diesel shunter, and the OO London & North Western Railway coaches, from Bachmann; and the N gauge Class 44 'Peak' diesel from Rapido Trains UK.