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Australian Model Railway Magazine, Hillsdale (2026)

15/07/2026

The August 2026 issue of the AMRM, is now available on line, hard copies are available in store.

Feature articles are:

Otham Road
Brett Kavanagh describes
Adamstown Model Railway Club’s
exhibition layout, Otham Road

The Murray Railway Modellers 2026
Albury Exhibition gallery
Scott Fitzgerald presents a gallery
of the layouts attending the Murray
Railway Modellers 2026 Albury
Exhibition.

Koolyanobbing, Western Australia
Scott Fitzgerald presents a location
to model, servicing an iron ore
mine in Western Australia

Building a Queensland Government Railways
B18¼ class steam locomotive
Ian Renshaw builds a Sn3½ B18¼
class steam locomotive in brass.

Make your own back scenes
Les Fordham outlines how to make your own backscenes

Introducing working timetables on your layout
Phil Nadin outlines the operating
system he developed for his layout
Northmeadow Lines, based on
published working timetables.

Historical buildings of Ganmain NSW
Scott Fitzgerald presents some
historical buildings and
advertising that can be added
to your layout regardless of era.

Making large rolling stock boxes 2.0
Scott Fitzgerald shares his
techniques for building high
capacity transit boxes for your
rolling stock.

Brett Watson Weathering Part Three
Brett Watson displays a selection of his collection.

Adelaide Model Railway Exhibition 2026
Scott Fitzgerald presents a gallery
of layouts attending the 2026
Adelaide Model Railway Exhibition

02/07/2026

The AMRM team is saddened by the passing of the Australian railway personality Bernie Baker on the 30th of June 2026 RIP.
Our condolences go out to the Baker family in this time of sorrow.
Here is Bernie posing in front of one of his favourite locomotive builders (EMD) in the form of Santa Fe FP45 No. 45 at Barstow California on the 2nd of September 2006. Photo Scott Fitzgerald.

13/05/2026

The June 2026 issue of the AMRM, is now available on line, hard copies are available in store.

Feature articles are:

The Northmeadow Lines
Phil Nadin describes his substantial
NSWGR layout set in the late 1960s.

Location to model: North Gawler, SA
Keith Pennington presents
North Gawler, A South Australian
Railways station on the fringe
of the Adelaide suburban system
and the Barossa Valley railway
lines

Amby West Operations
Arthur Hayes outlines card operations for his Queensland Railways
inspired layout Amby West

The 2026 Sydney Railroad Prototype
Modellers event
Ben Gray reports on the first
Sydney Railroad Prototype Modellers event

Putting the O into Casterton – Part Sixteen
Scott Whitaker describes his epic layout build.

Layout design and presentations ideas from the UK
Scott Fitzgerald shares layout design examples,
presentation and operational observations
from a recent visit to
two exhibitions in the United Kingdom

Glendale’s buildings
Bob Comerford presents a selection of buildings
scratch-built by Dale Dawson for his New
England based NSWGR layout ‘Glendale’.

A Broadford Retrospective
Iain Hunter closes the final chapter
on his Australian exhibition layout
‘Broadford’ and shares his
experiences of exhibiting in the UK

For Reader’s Gallery, if you want your layout or modelling project published, email: [email protected]

15/03/2026

The April 2026 issue of the AMRM, is now available on line, hard copies are available in store.

Feature articles are:

Amby West
Arthur Hayes builds
a Queensland Railways
prototype shunting layout.

Henley Beach debut
Rodney Barrington reports
on the progress of Henley Beach,
a group layout build

Prototype Modellers Forum 2025
John McCallum reports
on the Victorian Model Railway
Society’s Prototype Modellers
Forum 2025

Location to model: Kelso, NSW
Scott Fitzgerald outlines
a modern location to model
with two ‘dust bowl’ intermodal
terminals.

Phillip Island Exhibition gallery
Mark Jesser presents a gallery
of layouts at the 2026 Phillip Island
and District Railway Modellers
exhibition.

90 years of the Sydney Model Railway Club
Alan Smith looks back
at 90 years of the Sydney
Model Railway Club.

Dungog – The prequel
Andrew King describes
the development of the layout
Dungog by the North Shore
Railway Modellers Association.

Wagon profile: SSR BGIH 100t hopper
Chris Jones outlines SSR and
Arrow Commodities new grain
hopper wagons

For Reader’s Gallery, if you want your layout or modelling project published, email: [email protected]

21/01/2026

The February 2026 issue of the AMRM, is now available on line, hard copies are available in store.

Feature articles are:

Dungog NSW
Brett Watson describes his
extensive rebuild of the layout
Dungog situated on the North
Coast line in New South Wales

Putting the O into Casterton – Part Fifteen
Scott Whitaker describes his epic layout build

Location to model: Gilmore, NSW
Les Fordham presents Gilmore,
a New South Wales country branchline junction
on the Tumut line

From Toy trains to model railways
Bruce Mumford reflects on his early
childhood memories of modelling
and looks forward with his grandson

Simple easy gearboxes
Robert Kosmider builds simple
gear boxes using hand tools

Building Queensland heritage models in HOn3½
Ian Renshaw describes how Guy Limpus
creates his 3D printed
models of Queensland prototype

Build an inexpensive NSWGR 50ft turntable
Les Fordham kit-bashes an N scale
PECO turntable into a HO scale
representation of a NSWGR 50ft turntable

SGMX Wagon profile
Mitchell Campton outlines
the South Australian Railways
SGMX open wagon

Milang Exhibition Gallery
Keith Pennington presents
a gallery on the Milang Model
Railway Show 2025

For Reader’s Gallery, if you want your layout or modelling project published, email: [email protected]

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