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.

The Railway of the Month in the September 2024 issue of Railway Modeller is Slattocks Junction, a 4mm finescale layout by the Manchester Model Railway Society: the group shares the many lessons that it learned from the model's construction, despite which, it provides a superb recreation of Lancashire's Calder Valley line in the late 1950s. 
Other layouts featured include Tregurra Dries, an OO gauge Cornish china clay branch; Cherry Tree Halt, a fictional narrow gauge line in OO9 inspired by the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway; Cobbolds Wharf, a 7mm finescale model based on Ipswich Docks; and Old Parrock, a slice of rural East Sussex in the Edwardian era, in a compact space of just 4' 3" x 1' 6". 
Editor Craig Tiley interviews Rapido Trains UK General Manager Andrew Hardy about the company's developments and plans in the British-outline ready-to-run field, while the Glasgow & South Western Railway Association celebrates its 60th anniversary. Constructional articles include an O gauge Wainwright L Class 4-4-0 (complete with scale drawings), a Fowler 2-6-4T in N gauge, and a typical Yorkshire Dales stone barn in 4mm scale. 
Leading the product reviews is the all-new Class 31 diesel in OO gauge from Bachmann, our sample being the Deluxe Sound Fitted version with the new auto uncoupling system. Other reviews include the Hornby 'Duchess' Pacific in TT:120, the Rails of Sheffield/Sonic Models Great Western Railway large Prairies in N gauge, and BG and GUV parcels vans in O gauge from Heljan. As always, we bring you all the latest news from the model railway world, and a full list of upcoming exhibitions.