RAILWAY MODELLER - OCTOBER 2023 ISSUE - ON SALE NOW!

Featuring...

Westcliff GWR Terminus and a surprise visit from online sensation, Francis Bourgeois.

New Product Reviews

Leading the reviews this month are the LNER Gresley P2 2-8-2 from new tooling in 00 gauge by Hornby (with both original and A4-style front ends, as well as new-build No.2007 Prince of Wales) and the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 0-4-2 Lion from Rapido Trains UK, also in 00. We also look at the upgraded BR Class 40 (English Electric Type 4) diesel in 00 from Bachmann; the BR Class 58 diesel in O from Heljan; MXA Lobster bogie box wagons and BR Mk. I coaches in N from Graham Farish; FNA-D 'New Generation· nuclear flask wagons in 00 by Accurascale; a 3mm scale kit for a Bedford OB bus from Brynkits; new figures, animals and accessories from Modelu; and an all-new starter digital set from Lenz..

News

Rapido Trains UK announces US Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 and Manning Wardle L Class 0-6-0 saddle tank in 00 gauge; Heljan launches Class 153 railcar in O gauge and receives decorated samples of its Class 37 /0 diesels; Francis Bourgeois visits Pecorama; new N gauge wagons, palisade fencing and O gauge concrete-sleepered track from Peco; livery artwork revealed for Kato/Peco Large England locomotives in 009; beginner's guide to Digital Command Control at Pecorama; 00 gauge Tyne Dock 9Fs, N gauge Austerity 0-6-0STs, 4mm scale Burnham-on-Sea resin station structures and 00 gauge LSWR-liveried coaches in Bachmann autumn announcements; Great Central, Great Eastern and Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway liveries for Hattons Genesis coaches; IHA-F steel carrier wagons from Revolution Trains in 00 and N; engineering prototypes of Darstaed/Ellis Clark Trains K-type Pullmans for O gauge; previews of Rail-Ex Taunton show. Uckfield Model Railway Exhibition and the O Gauge Get Together at the Severn Valley Railway in October; model retailer and weathering workshop The Model Centre celebrates 25th anniversary; Accurascale Exclusive Class 66 model to raise funds for Prostate Cancer UK;