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 • Gresley 150

Stoke Canon • Using his memories of growing up in Devon during the last days of main line steam, LAURIE WOOD has designed and built a nostalgic evocation of Western Region steam and diesel-hauled trains winding their way through an idyllic landscape of rolling hills, deep valleys, red cliffs and sparkling estuaries.

Sir Nigel Gresley: his life and work • To mark 150 years since the birth of Sir Nigel Gresley, WILLIAM ASCOUGH offers an appreciation of his prolific and inventive engineering career, with selected drawings at 1:120 scale from the RAILWAY MODELLER archive.

Doncaster • With this June marking 150 years since the birth of Sir Nigel Gresley, what better way to pay tribute to the work of this former Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London & North Eastern Railway, than with a layout scheme based on the South Yorkshire birthplace of his most celebrated locomotives? GRAHAM NICHOLAS describes how he reimagined this vast station and its surroundings as the basis of a twin-level OO gauge system, which makes extensive use of the Peco bullhead track range.

Creating our school in 1:76 scale! • Dr Luke J Harris tells the story of how the students of Wilmington Grammar School for Boys Model Railway Club constructed their entry for the Peco RAIL200 Model Layout Competition.

Bankfield • MICK BRYAN describes the latest Privatisation era exhibition layout constructed by members of BLACKBURN & EAST LANCASHIRE MODEL RAILWAY SOCIETY , which will be making its debut in completed form at this year’s DEMU Showcase event in Sutton Coldfield on 6 & 7 June.

Modelling trees • Master modeller GORDON GRAVETT describes the techniques he has developed over many years to produce realistic trees for use on his award-winning layouts.

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St Jude’s Bay • KEVIN BRUCE explains how members of SPALDING MODEL RAILWAY CLUB extracted a permanent OO and OO9 layout from a loft, and adapted it for exhibition use.

Róisín – an Irish survivor • Most readers will be familiar with Talyllyn Railway 0-4-2T No.7 Tom Rolt, which was extensively rebuilt in 1991 from one of a trio of 0-4-0WTs constructed originally by Andrew Barclay for Bord na Móna (the Irish Turf Board) in 1949. Remarkably, the other two locomotives from the trio also survive, these remaining largely in their original form. GLEN MURPHY explains how he set about creating an OO9 model of the former BnM No.2 in its current Stradbally Woodland Railway condition.

Wessex TMD • DAVID SKUSE has built a layout centred on a Somerset diesel depot, both as a personal challenge to prove he can overcome the effects of a health condition, and to display his wider transport interests.

Stapehill Road • PETER FOWLER explains the reasons why his OO gauge model railway, which is housed in a repurposed building in his garden, features an eclectic array of locomotives and rolling stock.

Constructing a wooden platform halt in O • CALLUM WILLCOX shows you how to assemble the new Peco kit for a wooden platform halt in 7mm scale, which is typical of examples that were once seen on rural branch lines and light railways up and down the country.

Readers’ Letters

LSWR Adams T3 4-4-0 • FROM RAILWAY MODELLER BY OUR EDITORIAL STAFF AND CONTRIBUTING MODELLERS

Minerva reveals plans for ‘1361’ and ‘1366’ in O

Bachmann announces Class 168, 170 and 171 Turbostar DMUs in OO

Heljan unveils LNER Sentinel-Cammell steam railcars...