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.

Latest issue

The December issue of Railway Modeller spans over 100 years of railway history beginning with a model set on the lonely heights of the North Yorkshire Moors in late Victorian times and ending with a superb N gauge layout depicting late BR diesel operations in the 1980s. In between those dates, newcomer Ian Smith shows us around his amazing BR Western region room filling OO gauge line, whilst in contrast to main line operations, Mick Payne describes how he developed the locomotive stock on his East Derbyshire Mineral Railway. Construction features include a method for making lightweight portable baseboards and a quick guide to applying static grass. There′s an exclusive interview with the builder of the Britain′s biggest model railway, Simon George, as he prepares to embark on his countrywide tour starting in Wakefield. In the reviews section the brand new Kato/Peco model of the Small England 0-4-0 is reviewed just prior to its arrival in the shops.