There is truly nothing like watching a scaled-down model of beautiful trains rolling across mini tracks through miniature trees, tunnels, and landscapes. Inside each issue can see what other hobbyists are doing with their own model railways, great inspiration for your own. There is also news, product releases, new techniques, advice, and more.
MRJ has arguably had the greatest impact on the magazine world, despite problems with distribution caused by the irrational twitching of the ailing WH Smith organisation. Seen by many as the successor to the late and lamented “Model Railways” it is no over statement to say that it consistently provides the most adult and intelligent reading material for model railway enthusiasts across the whole of the English speaking world. A few years later the “Great Western Railway Journal” was started, which was produced on a regular quarterly basis. Later, coverage was further expanded with the slightly more “bookish” periodicals “Midland Record” and “LMS Journal”. From 2014 both of these were effectively replaced by “LMS Review”. All of these publications are produced to a consistently high standard. For the first time in print, the story of Model Railway Journal’s birth and its subsequent phenomenal success. Illustrated with iconic magazine covers – click here for the full story.
