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.

How many layouts do you see that include a lighthouse? The Railway of the Month in the April 2025 edition of Railway Modeller – Annerley in N gauge, set in the steam to diesel transition era of the early 1960s – has just that, imagining that the Hull to Scarborough line took a different route along the Yorkshire coast past Flamborough Head. 
Other layouts featured in this issue include Wheal Ponder (a compact narrow gauge scene in O-16.5, depicting a china clay works in Cornwall), Fenaghy Junction in OO (representing a line in Northern Ireland that was proposed but never built), and Five Mile House in OO, recreating a long-gone London & North Eastern Railway country station in Lincolnshire, as well as the second half of Stephen Williams' feature on his P4 model of Faringdon. The Plan of the Month features a large model of Leominster station in N gauge, which is under construction and due to be displayed for the first time in April.
Chris Burnage explains the extensive work that he undertook to model the new Class 69 diesels in OO gauge, combining parts of Hornby Class 56s and Bachmann Class 66s, while Peter Dawson describes how he modelled the station buildings at Newton Abbot in 4mm scale. 
The issue includes a preview of the York Model Railway Show, which is being held for the 60th occasion this year, while new products reviewed include the Great Western Railway '5600' 0-6-2T in O gauge from Minerva Model Railways, GWR 'B' set coaches and the Stirling Single with Sturrock tender in OO from Rapido Trains UK, N gauge china clay hood wagons and an OO bullhead rail Y-point from Peco, and O gauge K-type Pullmans by Darstaed for Ellis Clark Trains in O.