Penlan Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Is out now - or it is in Sainsbury's in Penzance, end of the line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Does it really take 12 months to get all the way down there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmail Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Does it really take 12 months to get all the way down there? Obviously went the "Great Way Round" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted January 13, 2019 Author Share Posted January 13, 2019 Typo error.... Been away a few days - devoid of broadband - in a Bothy.I shall delete this topic (2018) later today, Sunday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 13, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2019 Typo error.... Been away a few days - devoid of broadband - in a Bothy. I shall delete this topic (2018) later today, Sunday. Don't delete it, just edit the title. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Colin_McLeod Posted January 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13, 2019 Why has Railway Modeller got out of sync with the calendar? It's not even half way through January and here we are discussing the February magazine. The January issue contained Christmas greetings for goodness sake. What's wrong with issuing the magazine on or around the 1st of each month? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 (edited) You might be interested in some American magazines. Ours seem to come out 2/3 weeks ahead to the ‘cover month’, theirs seem to get as much as 6 weeks ahead of themselves! Edited January 13, 2019 by Nearholmer 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 Why has Railway Modeller got out of sync with the calendar? It's not even half way through January and here we are discussing the February magazine. The January issue contained Christmas greetings for goodness sake. What's wrong with issuing the magazine on or around the 1st of each month? Railway Modeller traditionally used to come out around the 22nd of the preceding month, I guess partly to give a little leeway if there were any delays with production, and partly because the printers need to stagger their print runs - if every magazine in the country came out on 1st of the month, there wouldn't be sufficient capacity to print them all at once! However the January issue traditionally came out a little earlier, partly I suspect because of different printers' schedules around Christmas, but also to preview the Manchester show which was usually the weekend before Christmas and in the days before Warley, Doncaster, Peterborough etc was one of the big three model shows (the other two being the MRC show and the York show, then both at Easter). Later the release date was changed to third Thursday of the month, as publication dates on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays caused logistical differences. Later still, when Model Rail, BRM and Hornby Magazine arrived on the scene, there started to be an 'arms race' to get the latest news out first (e.g. Hornby's latest announcements) so publication dates crept forwards. I think now there is a gentleman's agreement between the model railway magazines that they all come out on the same date. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheatley Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Railway Modeller and Hornby Mag - second Thursday of the preceding month. There are five Thursdays in January this year, hence it's 'early' appearance. Model Rail - 13 times per year (so nominally 4 weekly). Model Ralway Journal - 8 times per year (ish). Dunno about the others. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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