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 forward view

Eli Wood • ERIC FARRAGHER constructed this exhibition layout, designed with a double track continuous run format, to run modern day passenger and freight workings through a rural landscape.

Barrihandie harbour • Following last issue’s Railway of the Month feature on Barrihandie, the Scottish exhibition layout of the Wirral & North Wales Model Railway Group, ALISDAIR MACDONALD explains how the harbour water was modelled – and a working Clyde puffer made to sail around it.

Gresley N2 0-6-2T • The release of the Gresley Quad-Art suburban coaches in OO from Ellis Clark Trains, reviewed in this issue, focuses attention on their staple motive power – the Great Northern Railway-designed N2s. Here, we present 4mm scale drawings from the late IAN BEATTIE archive, with historical notes by TOBY JENNINGS .

A pair of opens • DAVE SPENCER shows how he personalised a pair of Parkside O gauge London & North Eastern Railway wagon kits to create two very different models.

The Lynton & Barnstaple reimagined • After many years modelling American prototypes, lifelong modeller RODNEY COOMBS chose to return to his British narrow gauge roots with his latest layout project, creating an OO9 system that depicts the route of this North Devon line.

Turquar 7 • MELVYN LAYCOCK combined his wargaming and railway modelling interests to create this fantasy-based layout, which has proved to be a huge hit with younger visitors at exhibitions.

FROM THE ARCHIVE • A look back at RAILWAY MODELLER from 75, 50 and 25 years ago…

James Street extended • STEVE WRIGHT explains why he and his team embarked upon a programme of significant alterations to this mammoth N gauge layout, which will be in action at the Chatham exhibition this July.

Yorkshire retailer celebrates 75 years • This year marks 75 years of trading for the retailer that we now know as Frizinghall Models & Railways. Here we look back at the history of this long-established business, ahead of a special anniversary open day that is taking place on 28 June.

Return to Shaftesbury • Now living in the West Highlands of Scotland, modeller DAVID REASON explains how his personal vision of the GWR in 1920s/30s North Dorset and South Wiltshire, which first appeared in RAILWAY MODELLER in the late 1980s, has now been enhanced in a greatly expanded Mk.II version of the layout.

A Plaster Mill • CLIVE BAKER describes this compact EM gauge model, inspired by shunting activities at the plaster mill of J C Staton & Son, at Tutbury in Staffordshire.

Churn Lane • Scenic lighting and sound effects are key features of SHAUN HANNAH ’s compact OO gauge layout, the design of which closely follows the ‘Inglenook’ shunting puzzle concept.

Reviving a Gresley classic: enhancing a Hornby N2 • To complement this month’s Scale Drawings feature on page 527, CALLUM WILLCOX describes how he revitalised and enhanced a venerable ready-to-run Gresley N2 0-6-2T in OO – ideal motive power for the all-new Gresley Quad-Art coaches from Ellis Clark Trains, which are also reviewed in this issue.

Readers’ Letters

Gresley Quad-Art coaches • FROM BY OUR EDITORIAL STAFF AND CONTRIBUTING MODELLERS

New air-smoothed Bulleid light Pacifics from Rails of Sheffield in OO

Rapido Trains UK goes narrow gauge with Kerr Stuart locos and range of wagons in OO9

VE Day 80th anniversary releases from Hornby in...