Featured on the cover of the October 2026 Railway Modeller (photographed in natural light and NOT using AI!) is the new US Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 in OO gauge from Rapido Trains UK, which is reviewed inside. Other new model reviews include Great Eastern Railway and London, Brighton & South Coast Railway wagons, also in OO from Rapido Trains UK; Great Western Railway Hall and Modified Hall 4-6-0s in N gauge from Graham Farish/Bachmann; and Coras Iompair Eireann Park Royal coaches in OO from Irish Railway Models.

Railway of the Month is Fairwood Junction, an OO gauge exhibition model of a busy location on the Great Western main line near Westbury in Wiltshire. Other layouts featured include Oldbury (Pearsall Street), the new O gauge exhibition layout by Warley Model Railway Club, whose 60th anniversary is also celebrated in this issue; Compass Point, an OO9 model that has also inspired a series of detective novels; and Penrhyn Quarries, a Welsh narrow gauge winter scene in 10mm scale. 

Modelling features include the construction of a turntable for an N gauge model of Leominster, by cutting down and modifying a Peco kit; building a Class 66 diesel in 3mm scale from 3D-printed parts; and how to fit hands-free Sprat & Winkle autocouplings to locomotives and rolling stock in the new TT:120 scale.

We also bring you all the latest news from the model railway world, including the autumn announcements from Bachmann, Sentinel shunters in OO and a Fowler narrow gauge diesel in OO9 from Rapido Trains UK, and a range of laser-cut bridge kits in TT:120 by Peco.

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