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.

Free with the June issue of Railway Modeller is the 16-page booklet 'Britain's Railway Pioneers', celebrating this year's 200th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, with a series of features on our early railways and how to model them, including a layout set on the S&DR in 1830. 
In the magazine itself, Railway of the Month is Barrihandie, an OO gauge layout depicting a fictional terminus station on the west coast of Scotland – complete with a working Clyde puffer that sails around the harbour. Other layouts featured include Warmsley, an N gauge branch terminus set in 1950s Kent; Feorag, an OO9 layout with a backscene generated by Artificial Intelligence; and Penny Lane, an OO gauge Beatles-themed diorama with references to no fewer than 17 Beatles song titles. We also return to Georgemas Junction, an OO gauge model of the Far North line in Scotland, whose new owners have enhanced and extended it. 
Callum Willcox shows how to build the baseboard kit for the RAIL200 layout competition launched in the May issue, James Makin weathers an Accurascale Class 37 diesel, and Victor Hall scratch-builds a London Midland & Scottish Railway parcels van in 3mm scale. 
New products reviewed include the Class 755 'FLIRT' bi-mode multiple units in OO gauge from Hornby; the Class 02 diesel shunter in OO and Southern Railway Covered Carriage Truck in O from Heljan; and N gauge Cartic-4 car transporters and IHA-F steel wagons in OO from Revolution Trains. News stories include announcements of locomotives and rolling stock in the new TT:120 scale from Hornby and Heljan, and a plan to take a model railway to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro!