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.

MODEL RAIL

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Modeller’s Bookshelf • Four more new titles that have provided Model Rail’s editor with plenty of inspiration.

ON THE WORKBENCH • George Dent looks at the new products to land on his workbench this month

EXHIBITION DIARY – JUNE – JULY 2022

…and finally • Unusual scenes captured by the lens of Chris Nevard…

Staff Show & Tell • George Dent has been busy building an entire rake of china clay wagons, while still squeezing in a little progress on his new layout.

Show & Tell • The place to share your projects with the Model Rail community.

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

Peaky blinder • Keen to rekindle a passion for modelling picked up in his younger years, Sam Jones set about recreating this depiction of the last days of the LMS.

Crash Corner

Workbench • 18 pages of projects, advice and top tips that show you how

HOW TO BUILD A GASWORKS PART ONE • Richard Simpson converts a lineside warehouse into a gasworks retort house.

How ‘town’ gas was produced

HOW TO FIT DCC SOUND IN A ‘OO9’ STEAM LOCOMOTIVE • Chris Bone explains how he installed digital sound into Heljan’s L&B Lyn, while George Dent follows his instructions and treats his own Baldwin 2-4-2T.

Editor’s note

HOW TO RECREATE MODERN CAFÉ CULTURE • Peter Marriott employs several new scenic products to create a contemporary town scene.

HOW TO BUILD A TIMBER PLATFORM • Architectural modelmaker Paul Braithwaite shares his method for building timber platform extensions to his model of Foleshill station.

ROCKET RAILWAYS • Chris Gadsby visits Rocket Railways, which has taken a novel approach to selling – and recycling – second-hand modelling items.

Something for another time

HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN WAGON MARKINGS • This is where our team of experienced modellers answer YOUR questions. Email your queries about railways – real or model – to modelrail@bauermedia.co.uk

KNOW YOUR... LIVERIES • Paul Chancellor examines the colour schemes carried by British Rail’s Southern Region DEMUs.

ILLUMINATE LOW-RELIEF BUILDINGS

HOW TO RECREATE TREE STUMPS

A little piece of Devon • Rather than begin with a large, ambitious layout, Chris Bone took the modular approach, building his own miniature world one section at a time.

BUFFER STOPS • One of the must humble items of railway infrastructure holds an endless amount of modelling potential. Paul A. Lunn takes a look at the real thing and improves a pair of venerable Hornby bufferstops.

What’s in the rule book?

A PROTOTYPE LOCATION

Reviews • In-depth and unbiased reviews of the latest products

Accurascale Class 55 ‘Deltic’

Factfile: BR Class 55 ‘Deltic’

System builder • Other items to complement this model...

Hornby Class 91

Factfile: Class 91

System builder

Accurascale HAA hopper wagons

Ellis Clark Trains...