This issue is £6.45 because it's the 900th edition. Normally it's £5.95. That's only 20p more than Model Rail, but the quality of the paper is far in excess of the latter. And you don't end up with the ink rubbing off on fingers as you read through it!

Well looking at this from across the pond, I'd be super happy to just pay £6.45 (that's $8.77 USD) for an issue. Railway Modeler was super hard to find where I am until a little less than 2 years ago when the local Barnes & Noble stores started carrying it here and it's double the price at $16.50 USD. Sadly, that's close to the going rate for most magazines state side these days. You guys have it made on magazines. I was taken aback by the sheer number of different magazines and "low" prices when I was in the UK earlier in the year.   

I've pretty much quit buying most magazines but still tend to pick up RM most months but not 100% every time. Doesn't help when for example they never had the July issue. We also get it over a month after you all do. October is out for you but August is what's currently on the news stand here. Should probably have September here next week. I should probably subscribe and get every issue and the archives as it probably works out to about the same as what I spend on the 9 or 10 issues I buy during the year.

There is also the Langley 2251 kit - still available although its a bit dated and needs some work to look nice. I have one I built long ago and with a Farish 0-6-0 chassis and tender pickups its a very nice runner if a little lacking on the visual end of things.

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Quote from: Chris Morris on September 13, 2025, 05:58:46 PMA decent 2251woukd also be most welcome and I think very popular.

Ah. He talks in some code that only GWR cognoscenti will understand 

I assume you mean a Collett Goods 0-6-0 tender loco, of which Peco and UM have both had a stab at, and both are no longer available.

Bob G

I would love one of those. I do keep my eyes peeled on eBay. The sole 1:1 scale survivor lives near me and is a fabulous machine.

I'm pretty sure I saw a Peco 2251 in Footplate models of Kidderminster earlier this week. GWR livery. If it was BR I might well have bought it.
I have actully "driven" 3205, well the driver invited me to open the regulator, which I did. Maybe a little too enthusiastically.

As someone who grew up with RM, to se my own articles in there is something I never expected. It's this whole basis that the articles are written by the modellers themselves and not an editorial team that gives RM the edge for me. When we've had articles on James Street in other mags they send a template which you fill in and they write the article from that, which often loses something in the telling. We've had a number of modellers contact via the RM office, and indeed I've done the same in the opposite direction, so they are good for that. Good value for money if you consider what you'd pay to go to the cinema or some other transaction that is gone once it's over, unlike a mag or book where you have it forever.

Dave

must admit I stopped the RM subscription a number of years ago, preferred the Model Rail format. I tended to still buy the odd one, however I have now found my local library has the subscription and I can read it online through there.
Thanks to another forum member for the recommendation, whom absentmindedly I have forgotten at the moment. apologies to the member.

Quote from: Newportnobby on Yesterday at 11:15:40 AMJust bought the October issue and it's gone up to £6.45

Bargain!  I bought a copy of Continental Modeller a couple of weeks ago in our local  TGJ (ex WHS) and it was £9.75! 

Generally I don't bother with magazines now.  I stopped my subscriptions to CM and N-Bahn Magazine many years ago.  Just occasionally I might pick up a copy if the front cover piques my interest. 

The CM I've just bought, I've read the one article on the N gauge layout and simply not felt like reading the rest yet.  Just goes to show they've lost me as a reader (still proud my layout's been in there back in the late 90s )

I still subscribe as I prefer reading a printed magaine. The archive is a useful resource.

I think an earlier Post said that there were no N gauge layouts in the current edition. There is - it's Claremont which is also Plan of the Month.

Maybe more N gauge modellers should submit articles. I submitted an article in 2022 about my then current layout which, to my great surprise, got photographed & published.

Nurse Nurse!

Sadly the days of buying mags for me are gone, as like has been said, too many useless adverts, self-promoting articles pushing a product, and very little insight. Plus, you can get them online. So what is the point of buying them? WH Smith use to be the biggest newsagent and I can still remember going to its various outlets to buy things....but also, no more.