Activate your digital edition

Railway Modeller & Continental Modeller

Digital editions of Railway Modeller and Continental Modeller are now published through our digital partner, Pocketmags. New issues arrive on your device on the day of release, the full archive is searchable, and every link in the magazine is live.

If you subscribe to the printed magazine, digital access is included at no extra cost. You need to activate it once. It takes a couple of minutes and you will not need to do it again.

Activate your access

Choose your title below. If you take both magazines, activate them one at a time using the same email address.

What happens when you click through

1. Enter your email address. If you already have a Pocketmags account, log in with it. If you do not, you will be asked to choose a password and an account will be created for you.
2. Enter your Subscriber Number and surname when prompted. This is how Pocketmags matches your digital access to your PECO subscription.
3. That is all that is needed. Your archive and every future issue will appear in your Pocketmags library for the duration of your subscription.

Read the digital edition

Once you have completed activation, your archive and every new issue are ready to read straight away.

Sign in and open My Library at Pocketmags ↗ opens in a new tab in any web browser, on a computer, laptop or tablet.

If you take both magazines

Railway Modeller and Continental Modeller are separate subscriptions, so each one has to be activated separately using its own Subscriber Number. You can check which titles you currently hold on your subscriptions page.

Use the same Pocketmags email address and password for both. The two libraries will then sit together in a single account and you will only ever have one login to remember.

Digital only, without the printed magazine

If you would rather read the magazine on screen and take up less space on your shelves, a digital only subscription can be bought directly from Pocketmags. The digital edition contains everything the printed version does, including the advertising pages.

• Available to view or download on the day of publication, with no wait for the post.
• Each new issue delivered to your device on the day of release for the duration of your subscription.
• Fully searchable, with live website and email links throughout.
• Readable in any web browser, on a computer, laptop or tablet.

You can preview the latest edition before you buy: Railway Modeller ↗ opens in a new tab or Continental Modeller ↗ opens in a new tab.

If something does not work

Your email address is not recognised

That is normal if you have not used Pocketmags before. You will be asked to choose a password, and an account will be created for you as part of activation.

Your Subscriber Number is not accepted

Check it against the address sheet that came with your most recent issue. Enter only the part before the forward slash, and make sure the surname you enter matches the one we hold. If it still will not go through, email subscriptions@peco.co and we will confirm your details.

Your archive has not appeared

Sign out of your Pocketmags account and sign back in. Make sure you are using the same account you used to activate, as a second account created by mistake will look empty.

You previously read the magazine through another provider

Please contact the subscriptions team before activating. We will make sure your access is transferred across correctly rather than duplicated.

Who to contact