Which Magazine?

Hi Ed, another great topic which will be great to follow and see what members read and subscribe to.
Possibly like many people my tastes have changed as my skill level has moved on. The main stream magazines where all subscribed to but after a few years the same things keep reappearing and so for me, along with the increase in the advertising pages and the excessive cost of buying railway magazines in Australia, I moved on to the following, all shipped direct from the Uk bar Moving the goods, but I did send off for the back issues to complete the set.

Moving The Goods, http://shop.kelsey.co.uk/product/MTG3/moving-the-goods-3-coal-energy-for-the-nation
Great reference magazine, fantastic photos which I personally have not seen in any other magazine or book. Comes out quarterly, some back issues are still available from the above link, well worth buying.
O Gauge Guild - members only receive the "Gazette" A great useful resource for O gauge modellers.http://www.gauge0guild.com/
Model Railway Journal. Lots of excellent layouts, modelling techniques, drawings of prototypes etc. http://titfield.co.uk/Wild-Swan/MRJ-Journal.htm
As to which you should subscribe to, I would suggest that if you have chance to join a club, which has a library, it would give you the opportunity to go through as many different magazine offerings they may have to get a better idea of what best suits your interest in railway modelling (alot cheaper as well)
Kim

 

Hi Ed I used to buy 3 magazines when I came to the hobby (Hornby, BRM, and Railway Modeller) but now some years later and living abroad I just have the one. Like Kimbo I became disillusioned with the amount of pages containing adverts but I suppose that's what keeps them going. Anyway I now only have British Railway Modeller (BRM) in digital format. Is it any better than other mags? I'm not sure. What it does though is give me a reference library and inspiration during my quiet periods (when the tinto's run out), not much help I'm afraid.

Ian vt

 

Thanks Ed,Link works from here in WA ?? any ways I've altered it to yours, so thanks for that.
I would also agree with Ian, re BRM, and also Model Rail (not to much advertising) is worth a look toKim

 

Ed you have started a interesting topic I don't think there is a one Mag suits all answer as interests are so varied in the hobby.

I did have a subscription to Model Rail, but like Steve noted about Hornby Mag, it too went through a period that the quality slipped badly even the quality of the paper used was poor, so I stopped subscribing,
Now I don't subscribe to any of the current crop of mags but I am lucky enough to have a couple of newsagents in the area that gets them all so I will have a flick through to see if any have anything worth while, then only buy that particular issue.
Saves a lot of $$/££. Plus as I'm a member of several Model/Railway groups so I get several Club mags every month, I always have some thing to look at in those.

Now counting the most recent purchases of mags BRM seems to be the one Featured more regularly however the last mag I got was March 2017 Model Rail reason the section on Britain's Best Branch lines 22 locations to inspire you next layout.

Best of luck with your choise Ed

 

StevePower wrote:

I really appreciate your dilemma Ed and it's going to be hard to choose when on the shelves there is a choice of so many mags one of our newsagents has at least 8-10 to choose from depending on what monthly, bi monthly or 1/4ly issues are out

Totally agree with Steve the Dollar is certinaly at the helm of the warner controlled hobby interests and I'm guessing most of the others as well, downunder some of our locally produced mags are still modeller focused, rather than share holder revenue makers.
Narrow Gauge down under is an example. But it also is a bit on the pricy side too account for the small number of adds.

Also agree BRM's. RMWeb was good but it grew too big and advertising took a very prominent position, and IMO the rivet counters that flooded it really killed the atmosphere with their, if your not to my standard you shouldn't be posting on RMWeb opinions.

 

I've previously had digital subscriptions for BRM and Hornby Magazine, but found both have tended to get repetitive after a while, so now don't bother. As so much information is available on the internet nowadays, it seems magazines are not really necessary, rather like newspapers as likewise, news is available 'as it happens' rather than waiting for tomorrows paper. As regards new products, I subscribe to newsletters from the likes of Hattons/Rails/Kernow etc. so know about products often before they appear in print, and the money saved by not taking magazines can go towards 'loco tokens!'

Keith.

 

Has anyone outside the UK got the digital version of Model Rail as I'm having just a little problem/issue sorting it .. I can feel a rant coming on