British Railway Modelling (BRM)

British Railway Modelling (BRM) magazine provides exceptional coverage of the UK model railway hobby. We cover all eras and scales, giving readers quality content with superb photography. Practical 'How to' articles by our team of modelling experts. Product news and in-depth reviews. The best inspirational model railway layouts. Historical resources and helpful information. Plus much, much more.

LOADING COAL • A new clubroom sparked the beginnings of this all-action layout, which includes a split-level design and a fully functioning coal loader.

Loading coal

About the club

COMMUNITY

Inspirational modelling with RMweb

TT:120 LAYOUT PROJECT • BRM partners with Market Deeping Model Railway Club to build an innovative exhibition layout. In this latest update, Richard Elms talks about how he upgraded existing signals for TT:120, plus Brian Norris tells us how he constructed the sea wall.

PLANNING AND MAKING THE SEA WALL

TRAVELLING WEST • Finally getting his hands on the Class 390 Pendolino was the trigger for David Lund to create this fantastic N gauge layout, which depicts a small slice of the busy West Coast Main Line.

Getting Practical with…

Modelling 2mm scale deck chairs

Model a single track rail bridge

Diary with a 3D printer: Klipper with Sonic Pad

Weather a Class 08 shunter

Building an 0 gauge water tower

Detailing Rapido’s LNER Dynamometer Car

Build a Sludge Gulper

Building a modern station platform

How to Build a Goods Shed Part 1

Change for the better

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East of Doncaster in the 1980s

The Train That Just Keeps Going - Even on One Engine • As the iconic Inter-City 125 High Speed Train winds down from front line service after half a century, former Fleet Engineer Roy Kethro reflects on the reliability issues that plagued the power cars at various times during their lifespan and how they were mitigated.

Class 60 livery variety

The 1994 West Highland Centenary Celebrations

The Life and Times of D1746 • The Brush Type 4s of Classes 47 and 48 eventually totalled 512 units, although due to accident damage, the whole class was never on BR’s books at any one time. The locomotives originally carried the numbers D1500- D1999 and D1100-D1111. Except for the last few class members, all were new in two-tone green with yellow panels. Western Region locomotives also carried the red route disc under the number.

GOLDEN HAY • We wind the clocks back to the mid-1930s and visit this ’might have been’ station, inspired by a Golden Valley Railway terminus that never was.

About the modeller

The Railway Water Tower • Examining varieties of a structure that once graced the railway landscape.

Styles of Water Tower

TESTING EVOLUTION • Father and son teamed up to create this fun dual-track layout, which started life as a test track for locomotives.

About the modellers

Dapol reviews new Class 59 production samples

Accurascale introduces a new Lifetime Warranty

Revolution and Trains4U announce new Class 66

WORLD OF RAILWAYS

Samples arrive for Limited Edition National Coal Board wagons

Special 90th anniversary wagons to commemorate the Gresford Disaster

Avanti welcomes Revolution Trains to Crewe in support of Railway Children

New 9-car Class 800 announced

HRCA announce anniversary celebration

The latest arrivals from Hornby

Revolution reveals limited edition 59101

Osborns Models launches wartime ambulance in N

Fire Queen arrives at the Vale of Rheidol Railway

Warley NEC cancelled

‘Ready to plant’ lineside accessories from Peco

Kernow GWR...