Model Rail

Model Rail magazine is the UK's biggest-selling magazine dedicated to railway modelling. Every issue is packed with the country’s finest home and club layouts, stunning photography, unbiased and in-depth product reviews, expert tips, layout plans and step-by-step articles that really show you how. In our unique ‘Workbench’ section, we tackle a wide range of modeling skills and projects. Our expert writers and model-makers will help you to get the most from your hobby and build the layout of your dreams. Model Rail is published 13 times a year, every four weeks.

Welcome

GRAB A BARGAIN 'PWM'!

MODEL RAIL VISITS: DEMU SHOWCASE

BACHMANN ANNOUNCES ALL-NEW 'GRONKS'

HYBRID CLAYTONS REACH DECO STAGE

HORNBY'S MID-YEAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE 'YANKEES' ARE COMING!

ON THE WORKBENCH • This month, we look at what new tools have landed on George Dent’s workbench…

EXHIBITION DIARY - JULY-AUGUST 2024

Unusual scenes captured by the lens of Chris Nevard

News Real • Our full-size railways are constantly evolving, providing fresh inspiration for modelling projects. BEN JONES looks at a few of the latest developments that could soon be appearing on our layouts.

Staff Show & Tell LOGGING ON • The KR Models ‘HO’ skeleton logging cars have fired Chris Leigh’s imagination, and he eagerly awaits the forthcoming Shay locomotives.

Sound sleepers

Off-season progress • Chris Gadsby has recently found time to tinker with his ongoing layout project.

Inside track with Ben Ando • Ben Ando is the founder of Revolution Trains and a regular contributor to Model Rail.

Minding the generation gap • Lockdown brought father and son Richard and Ollie Keep together to build their first proper layout.

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Keep On Running: Class 150 'Sprinters' at 40 • The ‘Sprinter’ DMU revolution of the 1980s reaches its 40th anniversary in 2024. Ben Jones celebrates the units that transformed regional services across Britain and are still going strong today.

Yellow special

Heavyweight contender: Class 210

Private competitor: Class 151

HOW TO SPRUCE UP A 'SPRINTER' • Aiming to recreate the early days of the Class 150s, George Dent makes a few modifications to a pair of Bachmann models.

Three-car hybrid set

Workbench • Inspirational projects, advice and top tips that show you how

BUILDING CULMSTOCK • With the main station structures complete, Chris Nevard turns his attention to creating the platform and cattle dock, before ballasting the track.

HOW TO CREATE A MODERN PATIO GARDEN • While tending his real garden this spring, Steve Nall was inspired to recreate similar scenes in miniature, experimenting with a few different approaches.

HOW TO BUILD A LIFEBOAT KIT • To mark the 200th anniversary of the RNLI, Chris Leigh builds the lifeboat and boathouse kits, claimed to be the most complex so far created by Scalescenes.

HOW TO CREATE A WOODLAND BACKDROP • A wood or forest provides an ideal backdrop for a rural scene but, rather than simply planting a row of trees, Peter Marriott suggests a simple addition to create a greater sense of depth.

Grime spree • Harking back to a bygone era, and a place he remembers exploring when he was a boy, George Murray got his hands dirty modelling this highly detailed industrial layout.

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Accurascale Class 66

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Factfile: Class 66

Bachmann 'NG7' 'Quarry Hunslet'

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Bachmann 'NG7' slate and coal wagons

Peco/Kato 'Small/Large England'

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Hornby 'TT:120' BR Class 50

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