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 highlight of the new model releases this month is the  Gresley Quad-Art set of suburban coaches from Ellis Clark Trains in OO gauge: as well as reviewing these models, we provide scale drawings and a history of the steam locomotives that regularly hauled these carriages – the Gresley N2 0-6-2Ts – and Callum Willcox shows how the Hornby N2 can be improved with extra detailing and weathering. 
Railway of the Month is Eli Wood, an N gauge exhibition layout designed to run modern passenger and freight trains in a rural landscape, while other layouts featured include an OO9 model of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, imagining how this famous narrow gauge line might have looked if it had not closed in 1935; Shaftesbury, an extensive OO gauge Great Western Railway layout that has been extended and enhanced since it appeared in Railway Modeller in the 1980s; and Turquar 7, a fantasy layout based on the Warhammer 40,000 game.
As a follow-up to Barrihandie, the Railway of the Month last issue, Alisdair Macdonald of the Wirral & North Wales Model Railway Group explains how one of the layout's most remarkable features was achieved: the working Clyde puffer that sails around its harbour. We also bring you all the latest news from the model railway world, including the announcement of an all-new Bulleid light Pacific in OO gauge by Dapol and Rails of Sheffield, plus other new models from Hornby and Bachmann, and events to mark 50 years of the Beer Heights Light Railway at the Peco headquarters in Devon.