Railway Modeller

Still Britain's most popular model railway monthly magazine with over 800 issues published since it was launched. Always at the very heart of the hobby, and justly proud of its policy to cover all the scales and gauges and topics of interest to both ready-to-run enthusiasts and kit and scratchbuilders alike.

Railway Modeller

Welcome • A fantastic response

Barrihandie • Inspired by the late Iain Rice’s layout plan Gairloch, the Wirral & North Wales Model Railway Group created this fictional fishing port on the west coast of Scotland – complete with a boat that sails around the harbour. ALISDAIR MACDONALD tells its story.

Leominster signal box • JOHN TREAYS presents drawings of this impressive elevated structure (reproduced here at 1:148 scale for N gauge) and explains how he created them by using known dimensions to take measurements from archive photographs.

Warmsley • PETER JOHNSTON describes his latest N gauge exhibition layout, set in the picturesque England of Agatha Christie…

Weathering an Accurascale Class 37 • JAMES MAKIN enhances and weathers the new OO gauge Class 37 diesel from Accurascale, for his planned layout representing Didcot Parkway in the late 1990s.

Scenic features on Borrington-by-the-Sea • Various constructional aspects of this O gauge layout by ANDY HUDSON have been chronicled in recent editions of RAILWAY MODELLER. Andy brings this coverage up to date by describing how he created some of the model’s other key scenic items.

Constructing an LMS 42' parcels van in 3mm • Looking to expand his fleet of parcels vehicles, VICTOR HALL decided that the LMS 42' General Utility Van, with its flat bodysides, was an ideal candidate.

Feòrag • CHRIS ODELL presents his imagined narrow gauge railway system, which can be operated independently or as part of the Dartmoor OO9 Group modular system (see the December 2023 issue). A notable feature of Chris’s layout is the backscene, which was created using Artificial Intelligence…

Help – I’ve lost my railway modelling mojo! • Many modellers will have experienced periods of time when enthusiasm for a layout project has waned, or momentum has been lost. When Carol Flavin was faced with this situation following a recent house move, she sought advice from others to help restore her interest in the hobby.

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A new 3F for Dentdale • IAN NUTTALL adds another Midland Railway Johnson 0-6-0 to the locomotive fleet on his OO gauge Settle & Carlisle layout, constructing it from a venerable MPD kit.

Gill Sands • Quickly and at low cost to fulfil a one-off exhibition appearance, CHRIS FORD designed and built this compact 7mm scale narrow gauge cameo so that it could be stowed in a 22-litre Really Useful Box.

The Brontë House School model railway • PETER KERR describes this long-established OO gauge layout, which continues to capture the imaginations of school pupils more than six decades after it was created.

Whatever happened to ... Georgemas Junction • This OO gauge model of the Far North line, built by the late George Woodcock, is now owned and operated by SPIKE TAYLOR and his son Lucas, who have enhanced and partially rebuilt it.

PENNY LANE • A Beatles-themed OO gauge diorama by PHIL KEMPSEY , featuring cameos referring to no fewer than 17 Beatles song titles!

How to build your Peco RAIL200 Model Layout Competition baseboard • Launched in the May issue, the Peco RAIL200 Model Layout Competition is an exciting opportunity for individual modellers or groups to get creative, with awards and more than £2,000 worth of prizes up for grabs! Each module needs to be constructed using a specially commissioned laser-cut baseboard kit, which is supplied by Peco upon entering.

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